Running late?, during report stay on topic so I can go home!

[Workitinurfava]

I understand there may be times when us nurses are running late. I get it. Poo Poo happens but don't get off topic in this long rant that has nothing to do with shift report. I need to give you my patients so I can go home. Especially don't say something dumb like, O you could have given report to the charge, you didn't have to wait. I will tell you, I don't operate that way if you are only a few minutes but don't waste my time. I will bring it to your attention that you are wasting my time, meaning I will say excuse me, I need to give you report on so and so. Sorry guys but I just worked 4x12 hour shifts. ? It's amazing what sleep deprivation brings out in a person. ? Please tell me if you nurses have experienced this and what did you do about it?

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On 9/11/2019 at 2:27 PM, Waiting for Retirement said:

No sir she had to get her coffee set up and then find a pen and then write down her assignment in her Special Special Notebook

Ah, the special notebookers with their variety pack of colored pens...

I am all for giving a good handoff, but that does not mean going at a snail's pace if someone wants the info in writing too. It already is in writing; it's called the chart. I wish I would've spoken up more in my earlier nursing days every time someone said "Hold on. Hold on. I haven't finished writing."

My biggest report delaying peeve is nurses who want you to tell them which meds are due during their shift and when. I refuse to read someone an e-MAR. Other than saying when I last gave pertinent PRNs, I don't think it's my job to walk someone through their med passes for the day while they scribble in a special notebook.

[JKL33]

1 hour ago, FacultyRN said:

Ah, the special notebookers with their variety pack of colored pens...

If they don't have a clicker pen they should be ashamed anyway. What a disgrace!

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