It's been getting on my nerves lately. Our ER is supposed to be the second busiest ER in all of Southern California. I've also floated to ERs at other hospitals and I know the chaos that ensues.
I recently had a coworker complaining about how the patients never come up with central lines when they are septic. Seriously? How do you expect the ER nurse to do that when she's got to get Blood/Urine cultures, put in IV lines, get ABT stat going on this patient, and probably start a pressor quickly so she can get em up to us? While managing at least 3 other patients?
I always thought it was our job to take the mess and "organize it" including getting the lines in. I'm not saying we aren't busy, but I'm just saying that it seems if the nurse wanted the patient perfect before coming to her, well, she's not going to have much left to do, and eventually her job is not going to exist.
It's something that's been happening more lately with the complaining. I try to stick up for you guys, because it's a ridiculous complaint.
Or that they want the patient stable before the patient arrives. LOL, isn't that the point of ICU, to stabilize them? Ok, vent done. I think I need to get out of ICU.