Call bells! I am beginning to think call bells are the worst invention in the world.
Ring, ring ,ring.
Today, the call bells were crazy. Our secretary kept track. We had 97 call bells in 2 1/2 hours from 26 pts. Several retreat offenders. You know the ones. They ring, you tell them you will be there shorty, 30 secs later, they ring again, and again and again. Look lady, my kegs are short, I simply cannot get from the nursing station to you in 30 secs.
One pt keeps ringing because he's lonely. One just puts her finger and the button and holds it until her nurse gets there.
One pt rang to have her table cleaned off.
Good thing I wasn't playing the drinking game, one drink for every call bell. I wouldn't sober up until Xmas!
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
Lol it'll be important one day a few years from now when you figure out that all of the education you received was for you to be a well educated maid that happens to know how to save them if they go bad. Oh and you can pass meds and stuff lol no really.
You were so fond of this inane post that you posted it twice?
Well yes but what about the nurses who leave beaming overhead lights on - who forget to draw the curtains and make the area claustrophobic who put the water out of reach - ridiculous to have to ring the bell to get a glass of water.. when the patient is immobile these things mean a lot. And can nurses stop walking and talking too much to ask them to stop and talk these days.
Well yes but what about the nurses who leave beaming overhead lights on - who forget to draw the curtains and make the area claustrophobic who put the water out of reach - ridiculous to have to ring the bell to get a glass of water.. when the patient is immobile these things mean a lot. And can nurses stop walking and talking too much to ask them to stop and talk these days.
Those things should be addressed during the hourly rounding. And that would explain one or two calls. Not a call q15 mins, or a call while the nurse is still in the damned room. Having the pillow on the wrong side of your bed does not warrant screaming at the top of one's lungs.
As for your last sentence, I don't even know what you're trying to say
blah blah blah. Same schtick you always pull. I pity any nurses who have to deal with you and your family - since clearly everyone is incompetent and uncaring compared to you.
If I really wanted to, and if I didn't respect the terms of service, I could make nasty comments about your posts, and say nasty things about what I think about you when I don't like your posts, or disagree with them. However, I just choose to skip over your posts, or don't bother to read them. I suggest you do the same with mine.
I don't know, we don't seem to have such an issue with call bells at my place on med surg. I find the ones that use the call bell the most are the ones who want their pain meds every hour or two. Yes we do have that occasional or more than occasional patient who sits on the light, but really it's not that big of a deal. It's part of our job answering call lights. It can get annoying at times, but I agree it's the patients lifeline while they are in that room.
Before I was a nurse, when my family members were hospitalized we would often go outside the room to ask for something we needed, honestly we thought it was more rude to use a call light than to ask in person. So some people just maybe don't know.
Well yes but what about the nurses who leave beaming overhead lights on - who forget to draw the curtains and make the area claustrophobic who put the water out of reach - ridiculous to have to ring the bell to get a glass of water.. when the patient is immobile these things mean a lot. And can nurses stop walking and talking too much to ask them to stop and talk these days.
The thread is not about these valid reasons to put on one's call bell. It is about those who ring incessantly when their physical needs have been met. i say physical needs because I do believe that patients who are on the light non-stop do have unmet psychological needs which nurses fail to address. It is not rocket science. Get a psych consult. Can't be that hard to do but it seems like it is for many nurses. And nurses do not have time to sit and chat with patients. Thanks to wacko managers who have cut staff to bare bones levels, that is all patients get is bare bones care. I think maybe the managers who hide out in their offices all day might like to go to the patient rooms and chat with them. But that would never do. They might get their suits dirty. What if a patient vomited on them? I recall being a patient and I could not reach the emesis basin. By the time the nurse came, I could not hold back anymore and I vomited on her shoes. Not intentionally. I actually felt really bad, but you would think a nurse would know to leave an emesis basin within reach of a postop patient, but apparently the nurses on the ward didn't know that basic bit of patient care.
Lol it'll be important one day a few years from now when you figure out that all of the education you received was for you to be a well educated maid that happens to know how to save them if they go bad. Oh and you can pass meds and stuff lol no really.
It sounds like that is what happened to you. You figured that out after a number of years. Well better late than never.
I don't know, we don't seem to have such an issue with call bells at my place on med surg. I find the ones that use the call bell the most are the ones who want their pain meds every hour or two. Yes we do have that occasional or more than occasional patient who sits on the light, but really it's not that big of a deal. It's part of our job answering call lights. It can get annoying at times, but I agree it's the patients lifeline while they are in that room.
Before I was a nurse, when my family members were hospitalized we would often go outside the room to ask for something we needed, honestly we thought it was more rude to use a call light than to ask in person. So some people just maybe don't know.
But did you follow the staff around going into other patients' rooms? That is a whole other issue.
At both of my positions, we were given the option of have our first names and either our last name or initial on our badges. 99% of my coworkers opted for the latter. I will NOT tell you my last name when I work the floor and as charge, I will NOT tell you the last names of staff. If that ruffles your feathers, so be it. I guess you'd better only allow your loved ones to be admitted to YOUR hospital and only be under YOUR care, since you clearly feel that no other nurse is good enough.
An added bonus? You won't have to stalk anyone for pillow fluffing, a fresh soda or more toilet paper---you'll be right there to tend to their every need.[
QUOTE=Susie2310;8803871]I don't blame you for wanting to try to sanitize the implications of this thread. However, trying to use the right language to mollify is sadly ineffectual. Having had a family member post-op who could not reposition themself, was unable to breathe, and relied on the call bell to summon help, I find some of these posts rather appalling. In future, when my family members are hospitalized, as a precautionary measure I will make a point of asking the nurse for their first and last name at the beginning of the shift, and if they decline to provide that information I will ask for the charge nurse or manager to help me obtain this information. So, all this thread has done for me, and I am an RN, is to show me some nurses real sentiments, and convince me that my family member needs protection from some nurses when they are in the hospital.
At both of my positions, we were given the option of have our first names and either our last name or initial on our badges. 99% of my coworkers opted for the latter. I will NOT tell you my last name when I work the floor and as charge, I will NOT tell you the last names of staff. If that ruffles your feathers, so be it. I guess you'd better only allow your loved ones to be admitted to YOUR hospital and only be under YOUR care, since you clearly feel that no other nurse is good enough.
An added bonus? You won't have to stalk anyone for pillow fluffing, a fresh soda or more toilet paper---you'll be right there to tend to their every need.[quote
Patients have the legal right to know the first and last name of the nurse caring for them, just as they have the legal right to know the full name of the physician caring for them. They have the right to look up the details of a nurse's licensure at their State Board of Nursing. The public have the right to file a complaint against an RN with the State Board of Registered Nursing. This is part of consumer protection. If I had reason to ask for a nurse's first and last name, and they refused, and their Charge Nurse refused, then I would ask for the manager in order to obtain this information. If I had reason to contact my State Board of Nursing, I would inform them that the nurse and their Charge Nurse, both of whose names I would find out from the manager, or from medical records, had refused to provide me with the name of the licensed nurse caring for me/my family member. As a last resort, I can easily obtain the full name of any nurse caring for me or my family members from medical records.
You'll have to go above me, because I would not provide them to you. Hell, I don't even KNOW the last names of some of my coworkers and I would not ask on your behalf. Your posts here make me say that unequivocally
At both of my positions, we were given the option of have our first names and either our last name or initial on our badges. 99% of my coworkers opted for the latter. I will NOT tell you my last name when I work the floor and as charge, I will NOT tell you the last names of staff. If that ruffles your feathers, so be it. I guess you'd better only allow your loved ones to be admitted to YOUR hospital and only be under YOUR care, since you clearly feel that no other nurse is good enough.
An added bonus? You won't have to stalk anyone for pillow fluffing, a fresh soda or more toilet paper---you'll be right there to tend to their every need.[quote
Patients have the legal right to know the first and last name of the nurse caring for them, just as they have the legal right to know the full name of the physician caring for them. They have the right to look up the details of a nurse's licensure at their State Board of Nursing. This is part of consumer protection. If I had reason to ask for a nurse's first and last name, and they refused, and their Charge Nurse refused, then I would ask for the manager in order to obtain this information. If I had reason to contact my State Board of Nursing, I would inform them that the nurse and their Charge Nurse, both of whose names I would find out from the manager, or from medical records, had refused to provide me with the name of the licensed nurse caring for me/my family member. As a last resort, I can easily obtain the full name of any nurse caring for me or my family members from medical records.
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You were so fond of this inane post that you posted it twice?