Just this week this happened to me. I answered a call light in our at the moment extremely busy ER. A female in her 50s, dx with a common cold says "where's my nurse, I need to be discharged. This whatever I have isn't going to get better sitting her...
"When I noticed there was more, I had to get my charge nurse. Now, keep in mind this is a very large older woman who was screaming and yelling the entire time. It took 3 of us to get the rest out ( 2 to hold her down, 1 to dig) We got a p-nut butt...
these aren't charting bloopers-- but I work in ER, and working triage quite often, I'd like to type just what the patient tells me.
Examples: 80-ish yr old woman tells me she saw blood in the toilet but she didn't have a bowel movement so she do...
This could be my story, nearly word for word. I started out on day shift for orientation in the ER...then flip flopped back and forth between days, nights, afternoons and my poor body had nooo clue what it was supposed to be doing. I was miserable. I...
Oh wow, this really strikes a chord with me. I can understand exactly how you feel... I work in ER, so my situation may be a little different, but the same types of people still come through there. For example, the "not so sick" want more and more bl...
I hear what you're saying. But we also have to protect the patient from themselves, and protect staff and other patients. There's a lot to be said for your attitude in how you approach patients when searching them. I like to make sure that the patien...