Re: Things you don't want to hear your Aide say
Yesterday we had some teenage volunteers playing games with the residents and one of them comes to me and says "The guy in room 221 is bleeding from his hand" I'm a little concerned, but figure it's just a simple skin tear so go get the tx cart and head down to the room. What he didn't mention was that the resident had fallen and was laying on the floor and bleeding from his hand!
Other things I hate to heard them say is:
"I hope you didn't give so and so a laxative"
"Can you come here quickly? And bring gloves!"
The next time I take respirations I will have to say "Sorry Mr. X, your respiratory rate was 9, your body is lying to me and my nurse will call me a liar if I report that number. Your respirations have to be even and divisible by 2 if I count for 30 seconds or 4 if I count for 15 seconds, if they are not, I will be lying." 
Don't take things so literally. But I guess when you look at a report sheet and every single respiration of every patient every night is 18 or 20 you start to get wary of certain numbers but I suppose you wouldn't know anything about that since you're not a nurse. 18 may be "normal" but you have no idea what kind of job I do nor the patients that I normally deal with so what may be "normal" in your textbook may indeed not be normal for what I deal with on a nightly basis obviously if someone is in the hospital they are probably abnormal to some extent. I've actually only worked with that aide twice and she behaved the same way both times, But thank you for that fantastic post.
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