Hey that's MY patient!

[CaLLaCoDe]

So yesterday I'm to be receiving a patient from ED.

I call and ask to get report and am told they will call me back.

Never return my call, so I follow up and hear the secretary tell me...

Sandy on another floor is getting report for My patient???

I tell her I am to receive this patient, not Sandy!!! You know this is true you had me call back, silly!

I call back to talk to the ED shift leader and she tells me they knew where this patient was to go two hours ago.

I tell her she is not telling me the truth, I KNOW better! She asks for my name, silly creature she is!!!

Bottom line: So another floor swindled our floor out of a patient, too much! What has the world come to!

Senses has been low, but this is a low blow!!!

[alandas]

Did you take the matter up with your manager?

If not, then don't expect it diferently next time.

My principle is: I don't worry over stuff that I can't influence or change, because worrying or complaining in itself doesn't make things better.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

Since admissions generate a great deal of stress and anxiety for me, I would have been pleased to see the newly-admitted patient received by another unit.

[Jokerhill]

Actually, I work in a PICU and when census is low in the NICU, sometimes they'll take a patient that was supposed to come to us. Bit them in the butt recently when the kid ended up being RSV +.

I bet that did, the entire unit in isolation is more work than they wanted I'll bet. RSV is not to be messed around with, they should have known that it is the season for RSV. We had a baby almost ready to go home that died a few years ago, the mom tested RSV positive and came in with a cold. An infection like that turns the unit upside down, so like you said that is more work than they wanted.