Specializes in Telemetry, ICU, Resource Pool, Dialysis.
Oh yeah, The visiting hours don't apply to me!! That's my mom in there!
Getting diarrhea from GoLytely is an allergic reaction
All nurses can intuitively lip read trached patients. Tapping loudly on the bedrail is an effective and endearing way of getting the staff's attention. If, for some reason, that doesn't work, simply kick the foot board whenever you see someone walk by.
If the nurses won't give you water, maybe the xray tech or phlebotomist will. Just ask.
All nurses can intuitively lip read trached patients. Tapping loudly on the bedrail is an effective and endearing way of getting the staff's attention. If, for some reason, that doesn't work, simply kick the foot board whenever you see someone walk by.
Few years back I worked for a neurosurgical group and I had a patient call for a refill and, I sh*t you not, asked for a refill of her "hydro-COCOA-PUFFS". :chuckle
Corollary - failure to transfer a sick patient (like, say, that in rule 3, for example) to ICU is therefore a deliberate and cruel act which, if she dies, will be a cause of action in a law suit
Sigh - which is why she's been readmitted this very evening. Sigh.
If a pt gets coffee instead of tea on his dinner tray, it's the nurse's fault, and it is perfectly acceptable for the pt to express his displeasure by throwing his tray at the nurse.
And I want to take this moment to set forth fab4fan's following theory about pts.:
The amount of nursing care required by a pt is inversely proportional to how critically ill said pt is.
Oh yeah, The visiting hours don't apply to me!! That's my mom in there!
Getting diarrhea from GoLytely is an allergic reaction
We had this whiney woman in the nursing home who had to drink this the night before she went for a colonoscopy. She was hollering from her room and we went in to see she had missed sitting on the bedside commode and was sitting in runny **** that had gone all over the floor. So we had to help her get up, and we were all sliding around in it.
Boy was that nasty. And people wonder why some nurses want out of patient care.
All doctors show up to discuss their patient's care with the SO or family in the morning before visiting hours. Until then, torturing the night nurse for answers will have to do.
The doctor is the one who cures the patient; the nurse just follows his orders.
Corollary: the nurse is the doctor's secretary and will be happy to get your rounding list for you this morning, Dr. Gawd, never mind that you have no patients on our unit.
In any given Code situation, there are six docs to one nurse. Repiratory Therapists don't exist at all and the person intubating the patient of course, is also a doc.
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pricklypear
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Oh yeah, The visiting hours don't apply to me!! That's my mom in there!
Getting diarrhea from GoLytely is an allergic reaction
All nurses can intuitively lip read trached patients. Tapping loudly on the bedrail is an effective and endearing way of getting the staff's attention. If, for some reason, that doesn't work, simply kick the foot board whenever you see someone walk by.
If the nurses won't give you water, maybe the xray tech or phlebotomist will. Just ask.