How to make the nurse's day.

Rough night? :loveya::loveya::kiss

How did you guess?

While demanding ice, new gowns and other realy important things for your loved one, instruct them to lay there and not move. Even though there is no physical reason apart from habitating a hospital bed, ensure you loved one requires a pan, (and a wipe afterwards) and continue this to the point that the NS feel the need to perform 3/24 pressure area care. Once you have reached this pinnacle of making the NS happy, abuse us with threats to sue when your loved one acquires pneumonia from not moving. We realy like that!

One of my personal favorites. Can you pull their covers up? They are cold.

yah right, like you do not know how to pull a cover up? Okay I get it, a ploy to watch someone walk in the room, as something else might be bothering you. Please next time, tell me why you really want me in there. I am not really a mind reader, or maybe you really don't know how to pull a cover up.

We had a family member not too long ago like this. Every single time we would leave the nurse's station, there she'd be. And if we were (god forbid) sitting down for a few minutes at the nurse's station, she would stand right outside the door and look in the window. Gotta love it!

Didn't you hear? Chafing is one of those "never" events per JCAHO. You can't send people home with fabric marks on their hind ends- it interferes with the comfortable flow of hot pink thongs.

Never mind, you obviously don't understand what he's been through.

Heh heh... :chuckle

Strip the newly made bed because "Mother doesn't like the blue bedspread". Insist that the bed be re-made RIGHT NOW!. When the nurse informs you that the only bedspreads available are blue, insist that she go to other units and find a "pretty pink to put on". Pout when she tells you its a blue one or nothing. Pout more when Mom says she likes the blue one.

Oh, and please make sure that the chair you are sleeping in is right next to the bed so the nurse has to trip or walk around it to get to your loved one. It would actually be better if you were standing right next to the bed, so you could guide us to know exactly how he wants his pillows fluffed.

And please, make sure you put your requests in too! A more comfy chair, an extra blanket because you are cold? A fluffier pillow? Oh! A cup of coffee, 2 creams and 1 splenda. We live to serve!

LMAO, you guys just made my day.

You all are just so inconsiderate and rude. Perhaps that pink comforter was the highlight of that woman's day, and you all were too lazy to take the TWO MINUTES to go to another floor.

What if she was colorblind- would that make you just a little more COMPASSIONATE!!! I was in the hospital once, and all they had was white sheets- I was practically snowblind- had to wear sunglasses as they wheeled me out I had such a headache. Darn nurse wouldn't even let me stay an extra 15 mintutes so I could get another dose of my Percocet.

Wait til that Press Ganey comes...

By all means, come in the ER with c/o "diarrhea for 4 days" when all you want is a work excuse, and then sit and stare holes through everyone because the very thorough NP student who was astute enough to take you at your word that you have had the splats and no food ordered a CMP and discovered your liver enzymes were elevated, so she then ordered a lipase. Pardon her for making sure you did not have pancreatitis.