C.diff Aint Sexy

Omg these stories are crazy. You have a book on your hands! Also, based on your stories alone, the males seem to get away with berthing.

You bring up a great point about the timeliness of the transfer. I thought report had already been given when we were getting ready to go to ICU. I asked to confirm, and my colleague said he was calling. When he wasn’t able to make contact, he left for the day, and my supervisor backed him by saying it was okay to give report at the bedside. In hindsight, I should have waited until I saw that he followed through. At my facility, ICU patients bypass recovery and go straight to ICU, but we still give report before transferring the patient. This way, we’re all on the same page when the patient arrives. To me, it’s not only considerate, but also ensures patient safety for the incoming patient, and the nurse’s other patient(s). The people who are making these decisions have no bedside experience and aren’t nurses (it pains me to say). I hope to enlighten them so we can prevent harm to patients. Thank you all for your input!!! It’s been truly invaluable to me!!!!

Hi all, Why do we call report to nurses receiving patients, before we transfer them? Is it okay to give a bedside report when we transfer patients, without first calling the nurse? Here's the background: I work in a procedural area. We always call report before transferring a patient back to their room. Recently we had an outpatient develop complications and require a transfer to ICU. The person who was monitoring the procedure called the nurse to give report, while I transferred the patient to ICU. When I got there, it took awhile for the nurse to come to the room. She told me she didn't know anything about the patient, and didn't know she was getting a patient until that moment. I gave her a bedside report (from what I remembered about the procedure and patient). When I followed up with my colleague, he said he tried to call twice and couldn't get a hold of the nurse because she was in another patient room, so the nurse would get bedside report when the patient arrived. I became frustrated because I feel the nurse should be notified and receive some kind of report before the patient arrives to their room. When I brought it up to my supervisor, she said my coworker attempted to call a couple of times, but couldn't reach the nurse. She then said there shouldn't be a problem with giving bedside report, instead of report over the phone. (My supervisor is not an RN). I trained in ICU and never got patients without getting some kind of notification over the phone -i.e. rapid response, or pacu....is it just me? Is it okay to get the first report about a patient, as they're wheeling them into the room? I'm just confused. It feels wrong, but I don't know if it's just my perspective.