"Uses call light extremely well"

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Yesterday I was running my tush off with 3 busy patients and no tech on a cardiac care unit. This one woman should go on Jeopordy! I ended up scrambling to finish up my charting after I gave report.

All I could think of to say was "Pt conts to have frequent urination, uses call light very well" "Continues with excellent ability to use call light" "A&O, uses call light extremely well" That's pretty much my shift with her, she didn't really have any issues, other than the fact that she needed her water pitcher topped off or her bed side table slightly moved... :rolleyes: Definately a passive personality.

Specializes in Rehab, Neuro, Travel Nurse, Home Care.

I had wrote down on my personal report sheet every time a certain pt used the call bell. This pt called every 2 mins for the stupidest stuff and then c/o to drs and managemnt about the nurses. I was told not to document it because nursing homes was coming in to interview the pt. Our unit REALLY wanted this pt to go and nobody would accept the pt if the pt looked like a trouble maker. But when I asked the director of pt services about it, she said to doc it, to show the interventions the nurses does.

I ended up not documenting all the call bell episodes, but kinda summed it up in the chart. I gave a copy of my repot sheet to my nurse manager.

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(inserting sarcasm here)Y'all know, if we just did our hourly rounding, we wouldn't have these problems!:p

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(inserting sarcasm here)Y'all know, if we just did our hourly rounding, we wouldn't have these problems!:p

Do you need anything else? I have the time!

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Specializes in Oncology.
I work in a psych unit with, usually, about 8 to 12 patients. We observe the patients constantly and must initial where each patient is every 15 minutes. We always keep them within our sight (they don't stay in their rooms during the day) and we make darn sure we KNOW where they are. Those patients don't get much privacy.

We don't fool around with this.

While doing this may seem tedious, it is not. It is part of the job.

It is actually more a a safety issue for us to have a call light than to not.

Psych is a whole other world.

Okay, that makes sense then.

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Specializes in Rehab, Neuro, Travel Nurse, Home Care.
(inserting sarcasm here)Y'all know, if we just did our hourly rounding, we wouldn't have these problems!:p

I told this one pt (known for loving the call bell and neuro intact) about hourly rounding in the beginning of my shift. She was on the bell like she was playing a video game right after I introduced myself to her. So I copies of the education the nurses received about houring rounding, highlighed what we do every hour, taped it on the her night stand, table, tv (bottom of it),and curtains. She still continued to call me like crazy, until she fell asleep. Then went into her room every hour, I woke her up and asked can I help her with anything. I got on her last nerve. At the end of the shift, I took the papers down. She c/o about not getting enough sleep to doc. I never had a problem with her after that. That night my theme was you bother me with petty stuff, I bother you.

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Specializes in ER, Med/Surg.

I know call lights drive us all crazy. But ours has been broken for over 2 weeks. To remedy this we have been giving all the patients little hand bells to ring. This is fine, except all the bells sound the same, and you have to walk up and down the hall sticking your head in each room and asking if they rang their bell. I'll be SO glad if they get it fixed in the morning like they said it will be....

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I know call lights drive us all crazy. But ours has been broken for over 2 weeks. To remedy this we have been giving all the patients little hand bells to ring. This is fine, except all the bells sound the same, and you have to walk up and down the hall sticking your head in each room and asking if they rang their bell. I'll be SO glad if they get it fixed in the morning like they said it will be....

Maybe y'all should have given out airhorns instead.:)

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Specializes in ER, Med/Surg.

Then we'd just have a slew of MI's to go along with everything else...

Maybe y'all should have given out airhorns instead.:)
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Then we'd just have a slew of MI's to go along with everything else...

:rotfl:

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Specializes in med-surg, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP.
Then we'd just have a slew of MI's to go along with everything else...

Or emergency pants changes. I'd pee myself if someone sounded one of those things behind me. Well, either that or throw whatever I happened to be holding at the time in the air. The latter really has a nice effect when what you're holding is a 150-page chart that has not made it into the binder yet!

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I picture my elder years as me pacing frantically around in a nursing home with dementia, driving the staff crazy, because I think I have to answer the buzzers.

Lord help and bless them in my twilight years!

LOL! I've often said that: one day, I'm going to be a totally demented old bat, sneaking down the halls looking for call bells to answer and IV pumps to reset!! :D

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Do you need anything else? I have the time!

:yeah::chuckle

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