Please Start!

[Pepper The Cat]

Ok. A spin off from the Please Stop thread.

Please start: label the IV lines! I hate coming on and not knowing how long that IV line has been hanging.

Please start coming in on time! I am tired of staying late because you can't get your act together!

please start learning the computer system! We've been sunning this system for years, you have received the exact same training as everyone else, please figure out how to enter your own freaking orders cause I am tired of doing it for you!

Music in my heart,

I will start ordering the 0900 meds. I work nights in a busy ER with loads and loads of boarders sometimes and a pyxis full of nothing but emergency meds. You know, I had never thought about doing it and had never been asked. I can't wait to surprise my day nurses with this =)

The only reason that I'm so cognizant of it is that I, too, work nights but will occasionally hang around in the morning for a few hours and have thus been on the receiving end.

Kudos to you for helping out your phasors... (those folks whose work schedule is 180° out of phase with your own.

Have you gotten any feedback yet?

Yeah that doesn't seem like a very efficient system. If the patient is checked into the ED, why can't pharmacy send the 0900 meds there? Our hospital sends all meds to the ED(emergency and IV antibiotics first of course) and then the routine. If they aren't given in the ED they are transported with the patient to the floor.

Why can't they? They certain *can*, of course. They simply will not.

Their reasoning is that they don't know if the patient will still be in the ED when they prep the meds so they feel it's a waste of their effort. Of course, when we requisition the meds, nobody knows if the patient will still be there.

To me, it seems the common case of pushing things down the line until the very end of the chain... the bedside RN.

Please start... acting like we're all on the same team and working toward the same goals.

[Gooselady, BSN, RN]

What a great thread!

At first I wasn't gonna stop and read, and then I though "what if you are doing something . . ."

My hospital is your hospital is my unit is your unit . . .

[cd365c]

Please start... acting like we're all on the same team and working toward the same goals.

Yeah, i am not a door matt or someone who just does repetitive adls all day, I am an actual human being you can be friends with.