[anonymurse]

Originally Posted by santhony44

Generally, that's a signal that you might as well pull up a chair, you're going to be a while.

Nothing creates more slack in my schedule than pulling up a chair with my pts as early as possible in the shift. OTOH, if things are so bad I can't, the negative slack skyrockets.

[aeauooo]

Originally Posted by anonymurse

Nothing creates more slack in my schedule than pulling up a chair with my pts as early as possible in the shift. OTOH, if things are so bad I can't, the negative slack skyrockets.

True. We had this woman on our unit once who was considered a PITA by most of the staff. Another nurse and I found out that if we just spent a couple of minutes at the beginning of the shift talking to her she was a peach for the rest of the shift.

A couple of nurses complained that I had 'spoiled' her, but don't you know she called back after she had been discharged to let us know how she was doing and to thank us.

[Diary/Dairy]

I just had one of those "One more thing" patient this week. And he was 23 - "Can you throw away my pizza box?"

Ummmm, no - This is the 18th request...... AND you walked down to get something from the vending machine before.

GRRRRR!!!!