I get it, we on the floor don't see what you see- gunshots, knife cuts, fights, rape victims. But you chose that. Nursing is a wide, varied profession and ER is just a piece of it. So you work with firefighters, paramedics, police. Okay. But you're not a firefighter, paramedic or a police officer. You're a nurse. When you call the floor for report and we say we're too busy right now, we'll call you back, please don't call your boss, or the House Supervisor, and tell them we refused report. Again, I get it. Nobody is as busy as you. But we may have had our hands deep in poop, or in the middle of a dressing change, or with a doctor, or administering chemotherapy. Or we may be already getting report from the offgoing shift. And yes, another nurse is just as busy and can't take the report I would rather get first hand anyway. When we get report from you for a hip fracture patient and you say the BP is 191/92 and she has a history of hypertension, please don't get offended if I ask if you've covered the blood pressure. I know she's being admitted with a hip fracture and not for hypertension. But hypertension is something we're aware of, because it is also bad. If you send the patient up without covering the BP, by the time she's moved from gurney to bed that BP has spiked to over 200 and I have a possible stroke to add to that fracture. Will it kill you to walk over to your MD, the one with whom you enjoy a closer relationship, and ask for some Vasotec? And while you're at it, could you not forget some pain meds before you send the patient to the floor? You see, I have to call the admitting MD, that very MD your doctor just spoke with to admit the patient, and wait until he calls back, before I can give any medications. That can and does take hours. Meanwhile I have an increasingly uncomfortable, unstable patient and a family who is getting very concerned that this new nurse can't help their mother.
I'm sorry for the long post, but I just read another Megalomaniac ER blog slamming floor nurses as stupid and lazy, refusing report, fighting with ER because they're uncomfortable taking unstable patients ER wants to move because they need the beds. There is more than just you, ER.
OK, I googled it. West Side Story, gangs, Jets vs. Sharks. Gottcha.
Thats a chick flik.................why would I know anything about that story?
<_>
>_>
[Quickly goes to DVD collection case, covers up Fever Pitch, You've Got Mail, Sweet Home Alabama, Forget Pais and a few other titles. Moves Terminator, Rambo, Porky's and others in front of them]
It's a classic musical, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet! The music is amazing. Put it on your vacation to-watch list.
It's pretty much assumed that once a room opens up in our hospital, it will quickly be filled. We're often on "no bed" status.
Oh, we were filling up pretty much every night this past winter. Trust me, I can just imagine what ER must have been saying when we had to keep telling them the rooms weren't clean. We've been a little lower census the past few weeks, so it hasn't been as big of an issue.
Well, TBH, I go to a lot of chat sites..................well, three counting this one (Gamfaqs and another gaming site) and this is the only one where "OP" is used, at all. I don't see it in emails, texts, facebook..................no where except here.
So stop laughing at me. I feel like I need to eat worms.
Well, TBH, I go to a lot of chat sites..................well, three counting this one (Gamfaqs and another gaming site) and this is the only one where "OP" is used, at all. I don't see it in emails, texts, facebook..................no where except here.
So stop laughing at me. I feel like I need to eat worms.
haaa!!! LOL. I just see you sitting there, drink in hand, typing with one hand while pouting... "stop laughing at me." Baaaahahahahhhhaaa!!! Sorry.
haaa!!! LOL. I just see you sitting there, drink in hand, typing with one hand while pouting... "stop laughing at me." Baaaahahahahhhhaaa!!! Sorry.
I'm one up on you anyway naaaaaaaa:p
[incase you don't know who I'm talking about: Go to the thread started by me called "My Boys".]
Seems my BFF saw my sorrow and came to the rescue (Hobbes). As I was reading your post, he climbed up behind the computer and watched me, head tilted completely to the side. Then, for no reason at all, he insisted I hold him for a few minutes.
So, nah nah...............my kitty thinks you hurt my feelings and came to my rescue.
Well, TBH, I go to a lot of chat sites..................well, three counting this one (Gamfaqs and another gaming site) and this is the only one where "OP" is used, at all. I don't see it in emails, texts, facebook..................no where except here.
So stop laughing at me. I feel like I need to eat worms.
[incase you don't know who I'm talking about: Go to the thread started by me called "My Boys".]
Seems my BFF saw my sorrow and came to the rescue (Hobbes). As I was reading your post, he climbed up behind the computer and watched me, head tilted completely to the side. Then, for no reason at all, he insisted I hold him for a few minutes.
So, nah nah...............my kitty thinks you hurt my feelings and came to my rescue.
True story.
awww so the putty tat came to your rescue.... how appropriate.
:lol2:
So stop laughing at me. I feel like I need to eat worms.
Do-over, ASN, RN
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Hands off our pumps and channels! Equal swaps only with ER - patient arrives with one pump+one channel, then that is all you get to leave with :)