Snack bar in the ER?

[Trekfan]

Ok All this is something I have never seen before ,I was sent to the ER by doc. and I get there and the place is packed "to bad I did not know at that time that they where on devirt and the wate time was when hell freezes over ":mad: but anyway I go to set down and do I see a snack bar in ER I could not beleave what I was seeing ! They had soda ,candy , cheese buggers , you name it they had it . This seemed so odd to me and 45mins :rolleyes:latter when I was called to trage "does't that wait time just defeat the perpus of tragaeing someone ?" I had already had a soda and gram crackers . as i sat there I watched every one that was not line up for berggers but hay I gess you have to have somthing to do right .

Anyway I ended up leaving after 5 hours of going nowhere when I found out that I had a better shot of hitting the loto then being seem and I was not low on the list. God help the people at the bottom . I would rather fill like c##p at home then siting in a chair in the ER . when I was getting in the car one of the woman I was sitting with yelled out that she was going down the street to get some dinner and them come back as she wanted somthing better then the snack had :) I just found the wole thing so funny .

[TiffyRN, BSN, PhD]

I always love when folks come in with 10/10 abdominal pain, cringing and writhing, and after triage they head to the vending machines and return with Doritos and Mountain Dew. *sigh*

My mother-in-law actually swears by fritos and Dr. Pepper for her nausea. Yea, it doesn't really work for her, but she sticks with it.

[hopefulwhoop]

So, question for the OP, what is your role in the healthcare field? Are you a tech or just a pt who randomly went to the ER and decided to post her experience? Yes, I'm going somewhere with this.

[Roy Fokker, BSN, RN]

This idea totally beats discharge hugs when it comes to increasing patient satisfaction

No. Flipping. Way.

You've got to be joking!