You know it's gonna be a bad day at the home when

[DixieRedHead]

You know it's gonna be a bad day at the home when: someone walks up to the nurse's station on Mothers Day and asks what room Mama is in and Mama has been there six months.

You just know that Mama is going to need to go to the bathroom in less than three minutes, need something to eat, be cold (hot), look like she hasn't been bathed in three weeks, need pain meds, be constipated. Oh and did I forget Mama hasn't said a word without being questioned since she got there?

[VioletKaliLPN, LPN]

Or...when your at a NH/SNF/rehab combo as part of your hospice work, and one of the nurses runs up, says, "You work in ICU at your hospital, right? Can you come look at my patient.?"

Oh....rats.

A PE in a non-hospital setting is not a good thing.

Hmmm, that same thing happened in my facility. A PE. Small world! You never know, we may work at the same facility.

[Kittypower123, BSN, RN]

You know it's gonna be a bad day when you walk in and see L's family, M's family and A's family ALL at the nurses station - oh boy!

You know it's gonna be a bad day when walk in and find out you're short a nurse and have three admissions.

[anjoba]

You know it's going to be a bad day when you clock in on Friday the 13th (yea, yesterday's), on your third day on the floor orientating as a newly licensed nurse, and spill water for the med pass ON the med book. Yea me!

Sheeshizle pete

[LaterAlligator]

You know it's gonna be a bad day when you arrive, find out you're short-staffed, and then can't make it all the way through report without interruption because there's a fall on one hall and a resident-to-resident altercation on the other. And you still have 10 more hours left in your shift. Sigh.

[akita_mommy]

You know it's going to be a bad day in The home when the first thing you hear when walking into charting room after clocking in is the nurse you are relieving on the phone reading back a verbal order for IM Geodon STAT!!!

[NamasteNurse, BSN, RN]

...When you follow the ambulance the last mile to work, and once inside the screams are coming from your unit... bad day

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

....when you walk in and your administrator says "We're f&@(-d" on the way to a budget meeting with the CEO.

[gymrat33, LPN]

You know it's a bad day when you walk in at 3pm and a new admission has arrived at 11am and they left it for you and a second one is coming in and you are the only nurse and you are short a cna.

[SRK77]

You know it's going to be a bad day when the outgoing nurse has her bag packed and is standing at the med cart with the keys in her hand.