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... which of course is the dreaded Post-Traumatic Call Light Syndrome. And even though some of you (school nurses, for example) may not have call lights, you still experience people who want something All The Time, right?

Well, I have two possible solutions to help the call light situation, and my aides think both are good (but unfortunately, not actually something we can do :^).

1) The Aladdin's Lamp idea: give your patients/residents/kids 3 wishes per day... so you bettah use 'em wisely, people!

or -

2) The Baskin-Robbins method: put up a digital 2-digit display thingie, have patients/residents/kids pull a number, and they have to wait 'til their number comes up. "I'm sorry, _______, but see? Up there? It's on number 41, and yours is 67 - so you gotta wait 'til 67 and then we'll get to you'.

Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

I turned my call light on this time because I was wondering if you would please pumice my calluses?

I turned my call light on this time because I was wondering if you would please pumice my calluses?

"I have time for that!"

Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

Now, don't be like Colonel Angus and rub me the wrong way!

Now, don't be like Colonel Angus and rub me the wrong way!

You have a wrong way?

Specializes in LTC, Rehab.

Ah yes, Colonel Angus, the Civil War hero... I remember him well...

Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
Specializes in ER, Med/Surg.

Give them their call light. Unplug from the wall.

Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.

I personally think call bells should operate like PCAs. Each patient would have a programmed "lock out" time and "max dose." Your more annoying ones would have a much lower four hour max dose and longer lock out time. But your patients who actually ring for things they NEED would have a continuous dose...they could ring whenever.

Personally, I'd like a call light programmed somehow to block out the following: What time is my doctor coming? Can you call and ask him when he's coming? What channel does Wheel of Fortune come on? and the ever-popular Honey, I ain't had a bowel movement since yesterday. I need an enema.

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