I Never Remember....

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

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!

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!!

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.

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.

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!!

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

...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.

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!!!

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!

Where in the lot I put my car when I rushed in the AM!