cdm.rn2006

I had one little old lady ask me if myself and the male nursing assistant were married and if we were going to bed in the room next door. This was after she asked another nurse (female) if I was her life partner. The little old lady in the bed next to her was just as confused and funny. It made for an amusing night. We had another little old lady that was with us for 4 months. The thing she liked most was her sleep. She did not like to be woken up. She told one nurse that woke her that if she did that again, she was going "to put her f*****g head through the f*****g wall." She was about 4'11" and weighed 68 lbs.

That is completely the opposite of where I work. I work nights and we are always there early and get report starting promptly at 7 pm. When we give our morning meds, we always ask if there is anything else that we can do, such as pain meds, bed pans, etc., so we won't have all the bells going off during report. Now the next morning, the day shift comes in at 7 am or later, gets their coffee first, chit chat with each other, write the patients names down on their sheet, check to see if their kid got on the bus alright, etc. Report in the morning rarely starts at 7 am for us and we are rarely out before 8 am. It is what it is.

My hospital recently went from the ER nurse calling to give the floor report, to faxed reports. There have been numerous problems since this change. From missing information to the ER missing stat orders to the patient being admitted since the evening, and the floor getting the pt. at 3 because the nurse went home then to the floor not knowing the report was faxed and the patient rolling onto the floor without any knowledge of them. Needless to say it has been a nightmare. We are now revamping the report sheet to see if it could be made better, so the ER and the floors are happy. So I guess I have 2 questions. How do you get report from the ER? And if it's via a faxed report, what makes the report sheet work for your hospital? Thanks.

I swear, Pbelle, that story sounds like the family that I'm dealing with. I wonder if we work in the same hospital. That's our favorite phrase..."Do they know that they're in Hospital not the Hilton?"

We have a family on my floor right now that is completely overbearing. They come up to the desk every 15 minutes, follow the nurse and/or nursing asst. into other patient's rooms, and are completely inconsiderate of the patient in the next bed. They want a private room that we can't offer and private care that we also can't offer. Although the patient is one of 8 in the district of heavy orthopedic patients, the family wants her treated as the only one. The family also writes everything down that we do and questions us whether or not we know what we are doing constantly. The patient has 2 broken legs but nothing wrong with her upper body. The family refuses to let her do anything on her own...eat, take a drink, blow her nose. The patient is lovely...the family....UGH! She's been with us for approx. 3 weeks and will be with us for the foreseeable future.

I always run. I work on the night shift of an ortho unit and we always have people who are trying to get out of bed on their own when they shouldn't be. So the night shift ladies always run. The day shift, that's another story. Once at change of shift, a bed alarm went off and the entire night shift got up to run. When we returned the day shift just looked at all of us and said, "isn't that cute?".

We have given Toradol to post-op joints in my hospital but it's usually just a one time dose.

I was going to say sleeping but that is pretty good Jennie. :chuckle

On a good day I have 6 where I work but most of the time is 8. Personally, I think it's way too much especially on a big post-op day.

I took my boards a few weeks ago and passed. It shut off for me after 75 questions.