*Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

Nurses General Nursing

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Specializes in ER/Trauma.

Imagine my suprise this weekend when I get to work and find out that new policy is that the RN's will make toast for the pt trays!!!!

Yes, that's right, dietary will only send bread up and we are expected to toast it in the toasters provided to the unit. So now, I have to pick up the tray when it is dropped at the desk, take it to the pts room, take the bread all the way back to the convienetly located toaster (NOT) and bring it back.

I work in AICU, anyone think I really have the time for this malarkey??? I was really frustrated over this one and I told the charge nurse they better get some techs up here if this is what they expect. I can only hear the complaints now..."The nurse didnt make my toast right!"

Sorry, just had to get this one off my chest!

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Wow!!! Just.....wow! I honestly don't even know what to say to that!!

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.

Let me share an experience with you.

When I was a tech, I worked in a Same Day Surgery unit, and the nursing staff was to prepare the patients' breakfast trays according to their tastes.

It really didn't bother me because I had been a waitress in a past life, but it did become rather annoying (especially when patients complained about the food that I prepared early in the morning while my fellow nursing students were still passed out from partying!)

Well, after a few months or so, the practice was abandoned. So perhaps it can be abandoned for you as well? I'm sure all it will take will be the aroma of overdone toast before this gets handed back to the experts (I don't know nothing 'bout toasting no bread. Mz Scarlett...)

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What will they have you doing next, changing lightbulbs?

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Yeah, I am sorry, that is clearly a job for dietary...why is this nursing's responsibility?

Oh, that's right, it's nursing. EVERYTHING is the responsibility of the nursing department.

Reminded me of a thread awhile back, how, after you become a nurse, it will "all be your fault."

so true. So obnoxiously true!

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That is ridamnediculous.

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Specializes in Developmental Disabilites,.

wow! Why can't dietary toast it on the floor. I would find this insulting.

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What will they have you doing next, changing lightbulbs?

I was asked to change a light bulb in the home of a wealthy home health client. I let him know that it was against policy for insurance purposes, as I climbed on the step ladder to take care of the matter. I am certain my statement gave him cause to complain.

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How many patients on your floor get breakfast every morning? I would assume we have about 15 patients getting toast every morning. One toaster. How would this possibly work?

Crazy. I don't mind making toast during the noc for someone for a snack, but I guess that our day shift nurses do not have time to be toasting everyone's bread in addition to passing am meds, obtaining CBGs and giving insulin, completing am assessments, and getting everyone up to the chair for breakfast.

I predict one of two things. Either your unit will routinely smell of burnt toast....or a lot of bread is going to find it's way into the trash, and toast will become something that is not offered for breakfast any longer.

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Specializes in Plastics. General Surgery. ITU. Oncology.

Gracious Heavens! RN's making toast! Man the barricades :rolleyes:

My ward has been doing this for many years. So far there have been no fatalities.

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We had been making toast for patients (and staff) for many years...until they took the toaster away from us and stated it was a fire hazard. Not many of our patients can even have toast so it wasn't much of an issue. Diets also change as the patients are taken off NPO or full to a regular diet in the early rounds. It was quicker to make the toast than to take all the complaints about cold, soggy toast, waste time calling dietary and going down 10 floors on a slow elevator to pick it up. Now all the time is spent on the phone and in the elevator. Definitely miss the toaster.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
I was asked to change a light bulb in the home of a wealthy home health client. I let him know that it was against policy for insurance purposes, as I climbed on the step ladder to take care of the matter. I am certain my statement gave him cause to complain.

A little slip here a little fall there.....I'm suprised they asked you too climb anything...............$$$ but.....

Make toast? Really? I mean really? I am speachless.......:eek:

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