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  1. R/O psych first??

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      They are all nuts!!
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      They are all nuts..Well except for that guy with chest pain who is turning grey over there..
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      Its about 50/50..half are sick, the other half are nuts
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      They are not nuts..they really are sick

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This is all meant in good fun, no flames please!

Do you share my view?? :chuckle :chuckle

All ER patient complaints are of psych origin until proven otherwise (especially abdominal pain and syncope)

:D

marchman acts are when the cops come in with these poor people from the streets that were just sleeping and their alcohol level is "too high" to stay at jail >300.

Baker acts are the patients that are a threat to themselves or others...mostly others when we tell them they are going to be staying at the psych hospital for 48 hours..

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marchman acts are when the cops come in with these poor people from the streets that were just sleeping and their alcohol level is "too high" to stay at jail >300.

Baker acts are the patients that are a threat to themselves or others...mostly others when we tell them they are going to be staying at the psych hospital for 48 hours..

ETOH >300...most of our drunks walk around with clear speech at 200 every day of the week!!! I think if they got any lower they would seize!!!

:rotfl: :rotfl:

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Specializes in Emergency Room/corrections.

I work at a hospital with the only psych floor in a 75 mi radius. We get them all. They all seem to know the routine, you get triaged, then put in a room, then you want something to eat, and you have to go to the bathroom, but FIRST and foremost... you HAVE to have a cigarette!!! :rolleyes:

we have recently been declared a smoke-free campus. Yes! we deny them the "right" to leave the ED and have a cigarette and they often go AMA. duh.... :angryfire

It is a vicious circle, we are scounging for rooms to put sick people in and we have 5 psych pts all in rooms (if they stay in their rooms). What do you do? It takes on the average of 6 hours for them to become pre-certed by their insurance companies, so they wait.

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...but FIRST and foremost... you HAVE to have a cigarette!!! :rolleyes:

we have recently been declared a smoke-free campus. Yes! we deny them the "right" to leave the ED and have a cigarette and they often go AMA. duh.... :angryfire

here's something fun. in our er, if they are suicidal or homicidal, they are certed and can't smoke or sign out ama! :devil: :devil: :devil:

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here's something fun. in our er, if they are suicidal or homicidal, they are certed and can't smoke or sign out ama! :devil: :devil: :devil:

Yes...but can you put the homicidal pt NEXT to the psych who is making YOU crazy for his smoke?!!!?

Just for a little while.

With a loaded gun.

Alone.

I'm just askin'?!!?

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Yes...but can you put the homicidal pt NEXT to the psych who is making YOU crazy for his smoke?!!!?

Just for a little while.

With a loaded gun.

Alone.

I'm just askin'?!!?

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well, i guess you could. but if the smoke psych is really pissing me off, i will take out my pack rrrreeeaaall slow, go out and smoke, come back in and take his vital signs! this way, no blood, no foul!

i guess i'm just plain bad!!!!!!!! :smokin: :devil: :smokin:

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well, i guess you could. but if the smoke psych is really pissing me off, i will take out my pack rrrreeeaaall slow, go out and smoke, come back in and take his vital signs! this way, no blood, no foul!

i guess i'm just plain bad!!!!!!!! :smokin: :devil: :smokin:

:angryfire :rotfl:

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Specializes in Emergency Room/corrections.

RNin92, I think you may have something there! So, if we do some..."creative" room placements then maybe we can handle some of these patients with "peer treatment"? LOLOL Great idea!!

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RNin92, I think you may have something there! So, if we do some..."creative" room placements then maybe we can handle some of these patients with "peer treatment"? LOLOL Great idea!!

Yeah, we can put the 2 "Jesus's" together and let them fight it out, ect...

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