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No. 40
Old Nov 06, 2009, 08:40 PM

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"I hope you didn't give so and so a laxative"

Ohhhhhh.....cold shivers!
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No. 41
from JB2007
Old Nov 06, 2009, 09:05 PM

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Anytime one of the aides yell "JB get in here now!" I know it will be bad. Also I dread hearing "JB, I have looked all over the place and I can't find (insert name of confused resident that sould be in the lock down unit but is not) anywhere." I can feel my shift going down the toilet right then. BTW great thread.
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No. 42
from sharpeimom
Old Nov 06, 2009, 09:38 PM

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State inspectors are swarming the grounds and our building, reading charts, poking into everything, asking many questions about absolutely everything possible, and suddenly I hear a quiet "psssst" from the newest psych aide. I excuse myself and we go into the meds room. He tells me that he thinks ____ might have followed the last person out the door. It was a locked department. Later, the patient was found having a beer at a bar about half a mile off grounds. AARRRUUUGGGHHHH!


Kathy
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No. 43
from Key_
Old Nov 07, 2009, 03:22 AM

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Ahaha yea try asking a few people who report 18 how long they count for I guarantee they'll say 15 seconds. And yea I really call them liars (I do in my head) 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 [COLOR=green! important][COLOR=green! important]hospital[/color][/color] 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.
Did you have a mean doctor yell at you today?
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No. 44
from sharpeimom
Old Nov 07, 2009, 08:59 AM

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The psych aide comes and tells me ____ threw up again and is saying he'll keep doing it again and again until the hospital releases him.

Pt. is a young man who is a college student who doesn't cope with stress well. His solution is vomiting and clawing and biting his skin wherever he can reach. So very bright but sooo sad.

Kathy
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No. 45
from sharpeimom
Old Nov 07, 2009, 09:20 AM

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As a grad student, I worked in a shelter for victims of domestic violence and their children. I had two wonderful, compassionate, warm, and caring aides working with me.
One was so calm that I think the roof could have collapsed and she would have matter-of-factly remarked, "Oh, by the way, the roof just fell in" and go about her duties. The other was equally loving, nurturing etc. but her panic level was low and she had quite a dramatic flair.

One Saturday evening, we were at maximum capacity, and I was taking advantage of a lull and doing paperwork, when suddenly the second aide came rushing in breathless.
"____'s husband and brother-in-law are on the porch and they're about seven feet tall."

Me: "Did you hit the panic button? (alerts nearby police) Did you tell everyone to go
to their rooms?"

Aide: "No, why?"

Me: "Remember our emergency plan?"


I think every time that aide opened her mouth, she spoke as though everything were
an emergency. Nice lady, but her brain simply was unable to prioritize.


Kathy
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No. 46
from jnrsmommy
Old Nov 07, 2009, 11:50 AM

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"Wow, it sure is quiet tonight."

I never ever ever ever want to hear those words when I'm working.
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No. 47
Old Nov 07, 2009, 07:10 PM

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Words that strike me cold with dread:

"So-and-so's got blood in his BM"

"Mrs. B. is on the floor again"

"You might wanna take a look at this"

"Marla, I need you in 305 NOW"

and the worst: "Uhhhh......what does it mean when someone's hands and feet are all purple-y and they look like they're dead?"
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No. 48
Old Nov 08, 2009, 07:56 PM

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an aide documted that a residents pulse was 43 !!! Ofcourse she was wayyy off.
I hate " so and so fell" sometimes I think they set me up but no way to prove it.
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No. 49
from Key_
Old Nov 08, 2009, 08:20 PM

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an aide documted that a residents pulse was 43 !!! Ofcourse she was wayyy off.
I wouldn't be so quick to say "of course she was way off"

I work on a Tele floor and I had a patient once that was waiting for a med/surg bed. She was there for asthma exacerbation, and considered non tele so we didn't have her on the monitor. When I looked at the vitals the aide had recorded her pulse as 40. I called her over and asked what her pulse really was and looked at her paper and said 40. I ran in there, took her pulse, and it was in the 40s. She had just bought herself an extended stay on our floor and a monitor. (This also goes back to my earlier post about aide reporting abnormal vitals right away, not waiting a hour, this of course was at least a hour later)
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