Does it seem like it is usually the same ...

NO!!!

no been a nurse for 21 years and have never heard of that happening

nurses on your floor who have patients code, die, or fall?

Wow, tough bunch online tonight huh,,,lol. Are you asking if we have seen a pattern with certain nurse? Like the cloud of death that follows some? Others have code syndrome,,,codes greet them in unusual high numbers. I am thinking you have a serious concern about something?

No... I have had a string of patients here lately that code within minutes of getting to me though. I work in an ICU and the codes and deaths are pretty even between all of us. I had 2 patients about a month apart that coded immediately... the first one they brought through the doors and he was gray and gasping for breath, he started officially coding 5 minutes later despite everything we are doing. Then about a month later I went to a code and we got her back, so I brought her back upstairs with me. She started coding again as we were coming through the doors of the ICU.

The only time there is a pattern with codes/deaths where I work is if we continue to give the same nurses the most critical patients.

I'm guessing that you are having an issue with certain nurses on your floor that are maybe not taking the best care of their patients?

Usually with codes and deaths it is really just the "luck" of the draw.

However, I have witnessed falling trends with certain nurses. This often has little to do with luck and more to do with ignoring a PA, not rounding on patients, not answering call bells, etc.

It's certainly true that often we are just unlucky - our patients can die or get hurt, regardless of what we do. However, if you ignore warnings and don't use adequate safety measures, your patients are going to fall more.

Actually yes, we had a RN that would take her sweet time seeing her patients and checking the vitals signs the CNA's took. Her patients always crashed at around 1 a.m. (mind you we all work 12 hour shifts).

Heck no. Are you gathering material for the next medical psychothriller novel?

The codes always seem to be evenly divided until you have 3 or 4 in a week. Then you take a look to see if its you or just a fluke. That is a good nurse looking at her own statistics. You make a summation that it is just fate then ask for support of your peers. That is also a mentally healthy nurse.

If you have an issue with a nurse or two where you work, you need to take this up with your charge nurse or nurse manager.

There are some nurses who cause these things on purpose, for whatever sick reason - like Munchhausen's Syndrome. If you are thinking that there is something weird or "off" happening, report it right away so it can be investigated.

The same nurses on my floor always seem to have to call the Rapid response team, but it seems that some certain lucky nurse always get the more critical patients. In a way it's a compliment, but then again when you are that nurse it gets tiring to always have to juggle one that really possibly should be in the ICU and all your other pt's.

As a per diem nurse I tend to be assigned the less sick patients, and I work very part time. As a result, I have not had a patient die on me in many years. I work in a large level 1 SICU.

The more senior nurses are assigned the sickest patients, and have more codes.