Got To Vent! I really hate Cell phones!

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Please I have to let this out! I had the night from hell! Patient Y is on the monitor.....everything is fine......Heart Rate-80 SR-SB with an elevated T wave. Okay no biggie...has a history of an MI, but nothing else.

All of a sudden, Heart rate jump to 178 from 80. Okay, down the hall I go in a run....hip is sore from lifiting and positioning patients for the last few weeks.....get down to the room to see what is going on....MA is cleaning her up...listen to her heart rate and it is 80.

Go back to the monitors and look at others...all of them are showing weird rates! Some of them look like the stock market graph......what in the world?? The Telley Clerk says...security has told the family in room 666 not to use their cell phones and the family in room 333 were told the same thing!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR I told the family in room 333 cell phone were not to be used on the floor! Whoever it was that used the cell phone last night on the floor, just cause this lady to have chest Xrays, EKGs and blood test! Can I prove anything..nope, but when I left this morning everything had come back normal....GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Thanks for letting me vent!

Cyberkat, i see you are in maryland......were you in maryland when no one would make a cell phone call for you?

That is so inhuman ! I don't want to be in whichever state that was....ever !!

What rude and awful people !!

You just come on down south and have them car problems or whatever....

we will call the cops for you, the tow truck, let you use our cell-

phones to call your family

and, ......... our men will probably have you up & runnin before you get off the phone.!

Why are yankees so hatefful and callous???

I to have a cell phone and could live without it, but wont.

I turn mine off in church and other inappropriate places. I also use the vibrator mode in most places. I am a working mother of two school aged children and am a full time student. How and when do I make important appointments?

I WANT my childrens school to be able to get ahold of me WHEREVER I am. I believe this is extrememly important. When we leave them w/ the babysitter, I put my phone on vibrate when we are at dinner or a movie. DO I ANSWER IN THE THEATER? No, I look who's calling (I sit on the end of the row) and LEAVE to go answer.

With the job's my DH works and my hectic schedule, this is one way we can keep in touch, and I feel NO guilt.

I too would like to know how talking on a Cell in a resteraunt is rude? Do you talk to your table companions? Is a conversation with someone on the phone is rude, I dont see how.

I have talked on the cell in the grocery store. Who cares, and how is this rude? I dont get it. Usually its my DH calling to remind me to buy something. How do other people know your in the groc store?

I believe if the place is inappropriate, put it on vibrate, or shut the thing off.

OH; someone mentioned why doesnt everyone use Vibrate. Some phone batteries are not equipped with the feature, and the batteries are somewhat spendy for one. And another reason is sometimes you simply can not feel it vibrate. Believe it or not.

Sorry if I made some of you mad by my response, but in this busy busy world where we all multitask all day, they are needed.

I also need to say that our Hospital has a NO CELL PHONES ALOUD, thats fine and understandable. As I stated above. I have no probs turning mine off, or leaving the area to use it if necessary.

I have a phone.

I have a bill for that phone.

Bad bill.

Bad phone.

Phone gone in two weeks.

Silence to follow.

Sigh...... beautiful.......

Specializes in ICU.

Hand free or not the accident rate is higher if you are using a cell phone - we have a big ad campaign over here about it and we just got the warning - teh police are about to do a BIG crackdown on cell phone usage while driving.

Apparently mobile analog phones do not cause the problem that mobile digital phones do so the cordless phones are OK. We don't see to have a lot of problem with visirtors using mobile phones touch wood!!!:chair:

Cell phones also interfere with labor and delivery monitors. Cell phones are banned on the L/D and Postpartum floor for this reason. However, MD's ignore the rule, and family members are never asked to turn them off, even though there are signs all over the unit forbidding cell phone use. So, the sign is really only adhered to by nurses.

I bring students to the unit, and you wouldn't believe how incredibly difficult it is to get them to leave their cell phones in their cars, and not even bring them onto the unit. I have heard every possible excuse. I, too, am tired of cell phone use that is distracting to others.

SteeltownRN

Let's face it. People are simply rude.

It's way beyond rude.

It's our American culture. Or lack of culture.

To be honest, we simply do not give a damn if the folks

around us don't like it. Period.

Isn't the prevailing attitude.......... "If YOU don't like it.......

TOUGH !! "

Okay I am now three weeks into Hospice nursing! Love the job and hate cell phones even more now! Why??? OMG I have to carry one! I look forward to my day out of town because my phone will not reach from Memphis to Ripley,TN...which is 47 miles away!

I have already told the office I do not talk and drive. One thing I do good walking and chewing gum. Can you imagine me trying to drive a car, shift gears (I have a standard transmission on my 1973 VW Thing), answer a phone and talk??

When I go into LTCF I make sure my phone is off! Why??? Because of my experince on the floor and the signs posted at the door say, "NO CELL PHONE-TURN OFF!

Well there goes the pager ending here!

ok, I agree that we Americans can be a rude lot of flesh.. :)

I too hate it when people are mentally unable to turn the phone off.

WHY are students allowed to bring cell phones in during clinical?

Even though I have one and dont plan on getting rid of mine, I HAVE NEVER EVER allowed it to ring during class, or left class to make a call. I cant imagin being at the hospital and then using it.

As far as "electric leashes" go, mine doesn't ring off the hook. If it did (due to work or whatever) it would drive me crazy too!

Cell phones are my BIGGEST pet peeve on the tele floor i work on....sometimes i just want to tell the patients family members, "Can you NOT read the 20 "Do NOT USE CELL PHONES" signs that are strategically posted everywhere on this unit!!! :(

My boyfriend and I recently found a way to quiet those people who feel the need to speak loudly into their cell phones......join them in their conversation! They may look at you badly but I guarentee that they will lower their tone of voice!

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