SarahJ0811

This is mainly just a vent, but I dread hearing in report that the patients has a sitter at bedside. Not because that means the patient is confused, but because 9/10 the sitter is crazier than the patient, completely useless, and like having a 2nd p...

I have no problem telling a patient that they are being rude or out of line when it is called for. I'll let a patient vent and listen to them. But if they verbally attack me, I will not stand for it and I will nip it in the bud. I'm naturally a qu...

I had to stop watching all hospital related shows. The patient doesn't have any bed rails up? Don't think so. A doctor pushing a patient to X-ray? Yeah right. The doctor the first one to a patient's room during an emergency? Nope! And hooking up with...

I'm sure there are good sitters out there somewhere, but I have yet to come across one.

We're supposedly going to transition to that... But for now were getting sitters from outside companies

I was stuck with a needle that hadn't been capped and was sticking out of the sharps box that was too full. There was no way of knowing what pt that needle was in. So I was sent to our ER while at work as was started on combivier and having blood wor...