The Hunger Games and Nursing

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

Game time! Post an example of why you know Nursing Practice today to be similar to The Hunger Games :)

I'll start: Some days you just have to survive, nothing more heroic than that!

C'mon....you know you want to...!

[ixchel]

Scene: my step down unit.

Every potty and food break enters our names another time into being a contestant on the nursing hunger games.

At bonus time, we all fight to the bloody death, forced to use only the resources available to us on the unit.

Some use violence.

Some use wit.

Some use patient satisfaction scores.

Me? Imma take your @$$ out with a vial of insulin.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

[Farawyn]

I want arrows. Can we use arrows?

I will use them to get the mockingjays (gossips)

[Farawyn]

Racking my brain leads me to the realization that I have to re read The Hunger Games.

I can do Harry Potter. Lord of the Rings?

[Red Kryptonite]

How about when you go beyond the barbed wire in search of food? Sneaking into other districts to swipe their turkey sandwiches and Sprite because yours ran out?

[ixchel]

How about when you go beyond the barbed wire in search of food? Sneaking into other districts to swipe their turkey sandwiches and Sprite because yours ran out?

That's cause for instant death, in my eyes.

[caroladybelle, BSN, RN]

At the beginning of shift, everyone runs to to get the supplies that you need - blood gets shed, and there are many immediate losers. You got to fight for the good dynamap machine that prints.

Your every movement is tracked and observed.

You are not merely in danger from nurses or patients. Management creates and inserts other staffers guarantee to annoy you and waste your time and resources.

You never know when you will next be able to eat, drink or pee. And disaster will probably strike then.

At every hour of the clock, a new frightening task awaits you.

The very old or the very young are often easy targets.

If someone in pumps, pearls, high hair and lots of makeup comes to your unit, and calls your name, you know that you are screwed.

[ixchel]

Racking my brain leads me to the realization that I have to re read The Hunger Games.

I can do Harry Potter. Lord of the Rings?

Every time we report one of our portable computers as broken, they take it away without replacement. They want us to use the computers in the rooms, but usually they don't work. Soon we will be reduced to the one computer to rule them all.

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

We have badges that track our every movement. Hiding is futile.

[akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P]

We have badges... they currently are used for timecard purposes and they can track when you enter (but not leave) certain areas. They just don't have longer-range prox card readers that could be used to track you as you enter/exit specific rooms.

[Farawyn]

The patients, (or districts) are those we are fighting for.

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

At the beginning of shift, everyone runs to to get the supplies that you need - blood gets shed, and there are many immediate losers. You got to fight for the good dynamap machine that prints.

Your every movement is tracked and observed.

You are not merely in danger from nurses or patients. Management creates and inserts other staffers guarantee to annoy you and waste your time and resources.

You never know when you will next be able to eat, drink or pee. And disaster will probably strike then.

At every hour of the clock, a new frightening task awaits you.

The very old or the very young are often easy targets.

If someone in pumps, pearls, high hair and lots of makeup comes to your unit, and calls your name, you know that you are screwed.

My LORD you are good at this game!!