I Never Remember....

[UM Review RN]

where they store the blood tubing.

What is one thing that you just cannot seem to remember?

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

Which colored tube goes to which lab test! I look at the order, then in my head think "I need this color, that color, and one of those colors" and I usually get it right about 2/3 of the time.

Thank goodness for the reference list :)

[Spatialized]

To bring everything I need into the room before I get started...especially true when it's an isolation room....

Why make 1 trip when you can do 3 - 4 ? :smackingf

Tom

[Pedi_needi]

How to find the doc's pager numbers. I work in a teaching hospital with the most complicated, convoluted resident/attending/doctor schedule. The person who signs the orders is almost never the right person to call

DITTO!

Gotta love those Teaching Hospitals!

Its even worse at night!

[RGN1]

Where the air inlets are kept - silly me - they are not in the drawer marked "air inlets" but in one of the drawers on the opposite side of the treatment room - see I have forgotten exactly which one already!!

[WahooRN08]

My patient's name...even after three 12's with the same group, which is rare. I remember room #, d'x, md, and any major medical issues. In report I usually say Mr. 558 or what have you.

Something else I always get screwed up are those combinations for the doors to the supply room and narcotic room.

My accuchek test strips when checking those pesky BGLS at HS,0000,0600.

[jmgrn65, RN]

I work in telemetry have for 15 years plus, I can't remember red and green which goes on left and right. Luckily it is on the box.

[perfectbluebuildings, BSN, RN]

Our isolation protocols... how long on IV antbx for which organism means to standard isolation?? One of our ID doctors gets really upset saying we "over-isolate" our patients too.

And how to administer blood... we hardly ever do so I always have to look it up.

And the preps and NPO guidelines for all those radiology tests... luckily we have a cheat sheet for most!!

[Tiwi]

...where I have put my pen! I swear there is a black hole in that hospital FULL of pens!

[Ann RN]

...my patient's name when I get to the pyxis.

...to do ALL my charge duties when I also have a critical 2-pt assignment.

[nursebrandie28, BSN, RN]

i never remember...

heparin gtts....its 5 to 1 (but i cannot remember what 5 and whats 1)

codes to all doors and phone extensions!!! everything is locked nowadays

when i first graduated i kept forgetting to waste narcs....but thank goodness, i learned!!!

lastly, i always forget that darn medicine reconciliation form!!! the floor nurses hate me!!!

brandie

[nservice]

I always forget which bed is A and which is B. (double occupancy rooms). I cover two different hospitals (same owner) and at each hospital it's different. Kind of unsafe for the nurse that floats between hospitals, huh?

I also always forget the new ACLS algorhythm. My old brain still wants to Shock Shock Shock...Every Body Shock!!!

[nursemike, ASN, RN]

To bring everything I need into the room before I get started...especially true when it's an isolation room....

Why make 1 trip when you can do 3 - 4 ? :smackingf

Tom

I call it aerobinursing!