Is it Friday yet?? (a cautionary tale about locked nurse room doors)

[jnemartin]

So... the front desk receptionist just unlocked my locked door (with the sign up that says Nurse Office Closed), and brought a student in... while I was pumping (breast pump) at my desk.

The best part... what was the emergency? The kid needed a snack.

During lunch break.

I want to die. I'm just praying he didn't see too much.

[TriciaJ, RN]

Wait - your door has a keypad? Time for the code to be changed and for way fewer people to have access.

[amoLucia]

Won't last for long.

You KNOW how every body snoopy-snoops everyone else's business. Well, keycode will become gen'l knowledge quickly. Everyone thinks they're way too important to be excluded. And they'll finagle the keycode from someone because their issue is 'critically urgent' and it 'must have been a mistake' to have been excluded.

[amoLucia]

Funny, when I first read the title of this post, I was thinking it would be about a nurse (or some teacher) who was cornered in an office (with a self-locking door) by some irate, violent parent or student or coworker.

That would be a quite BELIEVIBLE occurance considering all the grief you SNs face in your everyday practice.

While this post was on a different topic, it still bespeaks of all the craziness that happens to you.

Kudos to y'all.

[jnemartin, BSN, RN]

Another Update: I spoke with HR and she said I'm allowed to pump in my room and that the lady who keeps coming in will need to call for me to phone triage. This seems all to reasonable, so we'll see.....