Agreed. I'm fairly new to the ED, and have worked for years on the wards. I discovered once I arrived in the ED that it's the ER DOCTORS that determine when the pt will go up...The Pt can't go up...
juljube94 replied to Jessiedog's topic in Nursing Humor
Oh I am laughing so hard here. 20 years ago, I was just a l'il baby nurse. A patient who had just been admitted to our floor was going sour, and I needed to call the Doc for orders. Quickly looking...
"Regarding expletives, when quoting a patient, I always use their exact words. I don't use asterisks or blanks because the patient did not state "B- asterisk- asterisk- asterisk- asterisk." I do it...
We do our patients no favours when we enable them like that. I always ask "who does this for you when you get home?" From the moment they step into the hospital, our focus is how to get them home....