sorefeet

I was in a hurry one night to set up a pelvic exam because the Dr. was ready and standing outside the door. Asked the pt. to move down to the end of the bed, dropped the end of the bed down, pulled one of the stirrups out but when I tried the other it was stuck. I put my foot up as leverage on the bed and the d*** thing gave way all the sudden. I fell right on my a** and hit my head on the cabinet--rung my bell pretty good. When I looked up I see the pt. sitting up looking over her draped knee's. "Are you alright" she says---I started laughing because I was so mortified but so did the pt. We laughed so hard we had tears running down our cheeks---I guess it goes without saying the the Dr. was pretty suprised when he walked into the room. Didn't live that one down for quit some time.

I was just wondering how many of you have to take admitting orders from the admitting MD (via phone) for the floor and if you do---what is your process.

We are doing this at our facility also. It is time consuming--but what are you going to do! It becomes difficult when you have so many patient can't remember the name of their meds or do not know the doses---we try to do as "complete" a list as possible. We have a comment area available and make sure and write a comment such as: meds from pt list, list from pt memory, pt cant remember doses, list from medics names but not doses given, etc....

I work in a very busy ED. When all 50 rooms are full (not including the hall beds), medic after medic is coming in, triage is holding pt that need acute rooms, and there is 30 patients waiting in the lobby (then the ****hits the fan) I thank my lucky stars when ICU, PCU can finally take one of my pt and continue their care. At my hospital we have a great working relationship with ICU and PCU. We do our part and they do their's with respect. I think we all feel the same when it comes to working short all the time and being paperworked to death. Just my thoughts!