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I tried to set myself up to see the humor in this clip. I was able to see the ironic portions of this recorded message but what I took away from it is what I have been pushing administration and my fellow co-workers is the importance of communication with our patients. I do not believe we should lie. I do however tell my c/o abd pain to expect an extended visit d/t testing. I will offer warm blanket, turn down lights, inform them of NPO status ahead of time and explain reasoning behind this. We are moving toward reimbursement based on pt satisfaction and not pt out come. Every bit of communication counts. I then document. Major waste of resource but at this time it is what it is. I know from the pt end of it....I am more satisfied if I have a face blowing out words at me ever so often giving me a heads up on what to expect even if it means I keep waiting.This is much better than just waiting and waiting and waiting wondering if there is a live body giving one bit of crap about you.

Back in the bad old days we were moving more. Not flipping through 200 tv channels and cruising the world wide web. We had to open a door ourselves instead of having an electronic eye see movement and open it for us. Shoot I admit I use the elevator to go up one flight of stairs.

We staff 1 tech for 20 pts. With 3 to 4 nurses on the floor I do not receive report from them. My primary responsabilities are vs ( at least 2 per pt ) all blood draws ( I work 7p-7a, so lots of morning labs ) wts and accu checks. Of course while I am setting up glucometer machine I am letting the charge nurse or nurse assigned to that pt what is happening...what pt is doing and that I going to check pts blood sugar. There have been times that I would ? pts behavior and steal a drop of blood from the blood I had drawn from them and do an accu check. If I can go to the nurse and say pt X was acting like this and their BS is 42, it will make their job easier then saying pt X is doing such and such...and it turns out they are just tired because we are bothering them at 4 in the morning. If you read my previous post carefully you would see that it is about me informing the nurse about changes in the pts conditions. I do not take it upon my self to decided what course of action needs to take play...but accu checks are in my scope of practice. See I dont treat the BS but I do report it.

That is so gross...yet so funny. I am so tempted to pull this little trick on some of our new hires.

Too true and funny too.

I am a CNA that works in a hospital as a PCT. I do not receive a report from the nurses. I get all of my info from paper. First I use the kardex for orders, code status, age, weight, admission date and the Dr(they all have their own way of doing things) I will look @ H&P, only for medical history. Reason being is that some Dr's order ambulate on all their pts...Good for me to know that this pt is a quad. One Dr doesnt order accu checks on pts who are diabetic, and are taking oral meds...Good to know when I find them unresponsive and diaphoretic. First thing I am going to do with that guy is check his blood sugar. We have a computer wide system for charting and I will look at pt notes to find out if they are using 1 or 2 assist, bedrest and incont. You can call me nosey...I call it having knowledge. The more I know about my pts the better I can help the nurse. I am able to use this info and relate to the nurses the things I see going on with pt. They are then able to take that info and use it as they need to care for the pts. THAT SOUNDS LIKE TEAMWORK..........

I had another co-worker tell me that nights was doing me good. I think because I look nicer. I did 7a-7p for 4 yrs and I would always have my cloths ready before I went to bed. I would wake up at the last minute ( love the snooze button ). Shower, pull my hair back, no make-up and off to work I was. Getting there @ 2 minutes to 7. Now I sleep until 5:30p. I do my hair and make-up. I also get to work about a half hour early. Actually I get more sleep when I work now then I did on days. I sleep from 9ish to 5ish now. Where before I was up until midnight and slept til 6a

This was actually my fault in the first place. I had been sent to er for a short bit. I would go back to my own floor with the next admission. I dropped pt off and took the stretcher back to er. I realized that my cigarettes were not in my pocket. I look around even though I was sure I had put them there before going up with the pt. Went into pt room to start admission vitals and she is complaining of her back being uncomfortable.....well you can guess what was bothering her, my cigarettes

Hi and Good Luck to you......