Call bells

[Pepper The Cat]

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!

Oy.

Some days, this job is so not worth it.

Thanks for letting me vent.

[ActualNurse]

We have chaplains that we can call 24/7 to come and talk with pts

Excellent suggestion. thanks for sharing.

[xoCrash]

Had a code blue this afternoon. While rushing to the room with a crash cart, the neighboring resident came screaming in my face about how no one was paying attention to her. She didn't even use her bell nor did she actually need anything. She literally just wanted attention.

Had another situation with a resident a few months ago livid (filed a grievance against the nurse I followed and everything) because he didn't get a prn pain pill the second he asked for it because she was in a code. He proceeded to call bell every 15 min for the remainder of his stay wanting us to do ridiculous things, like temp his food.

Isn't this what this thread started as? A place to vent about people who abuse the call bells/make absurd requests to nurses? Let's bring it back to that :)

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

Closed for review.

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[kbrn2002, ADN, RN]

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Well this is odd...first time I've seen a thread closed for review that I was able to respond to. Did you miss a step somehow? Not sure how you close a thread, but something obviously didn't work here.

[Farawyn]

Well this is odd...first time I've seen a thread closed for review that I was able to respond to. Did you miss a step somehow? Not sure how you close a thread, but something obviously didn't work here.

Shhhhhhhhh!

[sirI, MSN, APRN, NP]

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