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oklahoma city hospital offers treat as a reward

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buzz up!

by susan simpson

published: october 10, 2009

cookie monster would feel right at home at community hospital in southwest oklahoma city.

that’s because patients are offered fresh-baked treats each evening, as the smell of chocolate chip cookies wafts through the halls.

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Specializes in Acute Care Cardiac, Education, Prof Practice.
Here's the video, folks ... from the hospital's website.

http://communityhospitalokc.com/

Wait for the features in the middle of the screen to scroll to the cookie video.

That's one hospital from which I would never seek care ... let alone seek employment.

I don't even have appropriate comments to make.

Tait

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I hope that as a future nurse, I'm not expected to bake cookies while first assisting the surgeon in the OR. Talk about awkward.

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I don't even have appropriate comments to make.

Tait

OMG, not cookies!

I don't know about you guys, but I'd love to see the Pilsbury Doughboy in nursing scrubs. Let's see if he giggle when an angry patient pokes him in the belly!

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I'm sure any NPO patients would love to smell chocolate chip cookies... (They're already cranky enough as it is when the breakfast trays are getting passed)

When I'm stressed - I go home and bake chocolate chip cookies...something tells me that it wouldn't be as therapeutic if it was part of my job!

As if I didn't need another reason to not study for Wednesday's quiz...ugh.

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Specializes in ED/trauma.

There are no words to describe my anger here!!Does anyone have to question anymore why we are not viewed as professionals?HOW DEGRADING! Personally I would rather be viewed with the 'naughty nurse' stigma than thisWhat about our push for healthy eating, what about the diabetics, what about the npo and liq patients, or the many admitted with chronic nausea? Do they get a complimentary full body massage?Do we have to make them for the doctors as well?Makes me wanna puke, I would tell them to kiss my ***, & where to stick their cookies as I left their for good.We all spent all these years (& are still going to school constantly), spent all of this money for thiswelcome to our future!

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ED.

One Otis Spunkmeyer chocolate chip cookie has 4g saturated fat and 27g carbohydrates.

http://www.spunkmeyer.com/products/products.aspx?mID=9&itcd=58320

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Specializes in home health, dialysis, others.

Hahahaha!! "Well , Ms Diabetic, if you really want a cookie, I'll need to take your blood sugar first and then give you a shot based on your current BS AND the additional 27g carbohydrates." Your call.....the additional time for the nurse to pass this ONE cookie - 20 minutes. Very efficient use of our time.....

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Specializes in Ortho, Neuro, Detox, Tele.

anyone else notice during that video...that both patients had surgery that are usually related to being overweight? Back and knee? That's fine at home...but what of the patients on NCS diets...what of the patients nauseated/NPO? what about the dying patient's family? "Sorry I couldn't get here on time to change your loved one's PCA/give them pain meds/ because the cookie oven overheated and burned the cookies and I had to take another 15 minutes and remake the floor's batch, and pass them to all my patients...oh, would u like one....okay, 2?.....you want a dozen?"

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Here's the video, folks ... from the hospital's website.

http://communityhospitalokc.com/

Wait for the features in the middle of the screen to scroll to the cookie video.

That's one hospital from which I would never seek care ... let alone seek employment.

I'm sorry, but watching those mindlessly smiling nurses baking, bagging and delivering cookies to the two featured obviously overweight patients (what a BAD call that was!), made me want to barf. Customer satisfaction my fanny! Once those women get home, they'll have the perfect subjective excuse to chow on baked goods: "They gave us cookies in the hospital, so it must be okay."

This is an outrageous turn of events. There is no reasonable patient care-centered explanation for the current customer service focus of health care. It is misleading to patients, and mystifying for staff who may actually find themselves impeded from giving appropriate care due to the risk of alienating someone. Patients are hospitalized for one reason and it is NOT to get their asses kissed at every turn.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ED.

Would a component of postop care for an obese patient who has just had knee surgery include patient teaching regarding healthy eating habits? And then to serve them a cookie with little nutritional value and 180 calories? How is that in the best interest of the patient?

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Specializes in critical care, home health, med/surg, UM.
I'm so sorry to say but I got serious cookie craving! LOL! I'm looking to see if I can make some (my fiancee has never cooked em before...neither have I but it should be fun and smell good)! Come on....doesn't everyone like chocolate chip cookies? I do know houses sell better when they have bread (key to a man's heart) baking. Some crazy study but there must be something to it!

Seriously, would you like a little cdiff w/ that cookie??? Beyond gross! Let's just pass those germs around, on a silver platter! :barf01:

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Specializes in ER, Med/Surg.
Seriously, would you like a little cdiff w/ that cookie??? Beyond gross! Let's just pass those germs around, on a silver platter! :barf01:

Don't you know ANYTHING? Silver kills germs.....

;)

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