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I am fairly new to Nursing I'm a sophomore in a BSN program currently on winter break and spent most of my vacation working at an Acute Rehab Hospital in my town it's fairly new well brand new opened in 2014 it's all one floor rooms start at 101 but it goes from room 112 to room 114, do most hospitals skip room 13? I have heard of Hotels skipping an entire 13 floor

We don't. When I worked the floor there was not a room 13 on any of the units I worked on (I floated to nearly every unit at one job, then two med surg units). We don't have an OR 13. That's just asking for trouble... Most of us (me and my coworkers) are pretty superstitious. Belief that certain individuals have "clouds" (or are crap magnets)... Or the belief that certain words should not be said "calm", "quiet", etc...

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If I am having a bad shift, I will never wear the same underwear to work again. I don't know why but I blame my bad luck on my underwear. It hasn't worked well for me because there are only about 3 pairs I feel I can wear to work and have a decent shift in.

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I don't mean to be rude, I've seen a few posts regarding catholic hospitals. A little ironic to be working for a clinic or hospital where you have to care for the sick and your facility has to have respect for patients whose rooms aren't 666 or 4 or whatever. We learned in microbiology that HIV exists and is very good at evading treatments yet we still have to live in fear over numbers. Well, if I have to work for a hospital, I can respect these fears cause it keeps us having a job, but I'll quit if I have to pray before a surgery or something. Speaking of which, what hospital was it that had a group of surgeons and techs in a circle praying in an OR room? Do hospitals really do that? Sounds a bit opposite of the job you're paid to do, don't you guys think?

If my comment angered anyone, I'm VERY sorry...but sometimes you kinda wonder...

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Now I see the other irony of why people dislike math so much. Fear of numbers. Numbers are probably more feared than terrorists.

Fear of increase in dosage equation(RN got the math wrong)

Fear of spending too much in politics(National deficit)

Fear of a grade in math class or in nursing school(didn't get a 100% on dosage calculation quiz that you were supposed to get)

Fear of the number of patients a hospital could lose because families(the customer) feel the facility is inadequate in some area.

Fear of your credit score.

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I don't think I've ever worked in a hospital that didn't skip room 13 in the numbers (ie room 512 is next to 514, there is no 513), and I've worked with nurses that never titrate anything to 13, they go from 14mg/hr to 12mg/hr, never 13mg/hr, one titrated from 14 to 12.9 to 12.

My hospital has rooms that end in thirteen but it is fairly new. Maybe that's why.

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If I am having a bad shift, I will never wear the same underwear to work again. I don't know why but I blame my bad luck on my underwear. It hasn't worked well for me because there are only about 3 pairs I feel I can wear to work and have a decent shift in.

Spit soda on my computer screen! :D

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I don't mean to be rude, I've seen a few posts regarding catholic hospitals. A little ironic to be working for a clinic or hospital where you have to care for the sick and your facility has to have respect for patients whose rooms aren't 666 or 4 or whatever. We learned in microbiology that HIV exists and is very good at evading treatments yet we still have to live in fear over numbers. Well, if I have to work for a hospital, I can respect these fears cause it keeps us having a job, but I'll quit if I have to pray before a surgery or something. Speaking of which, what hospital was it that had a group of surgeons and techs in a circle praying in an OR room? Do hospitals really do that? Sounds a bit opposite of the job you're paid to do, don't you guys think?

If my comment angered anyone, I'm VERY sorry...but sometimes you kinda wonder...

I've learned to take positive energy where I find it. I used to work in a Catholic hospital and even though I'm not Christian, I used to look forward to evening prayer. At 2100 every evening one of the chaplains would read something over the hospital PA system. It was usually pretty generic (or ecumenical). But on a busy evening when I'd had nonstop postops and no break of any kind, I'd try to duck into an alcove and just listen when it came on.

It was a nice 5 minute breather and then I'd jump back on the hamster wheel.

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If I am having a bad shift, I will never wear the same underwear to work again. I don't know why but I blame my bad luck on my underwear. It hasn't worked well for me because there are only about 3 pairs I feel I can wear to work and have a decent shift in.

Did you mean "shift"? I think you added an extra "f" to the word. :cheeky:

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My hospital has rooms that end in thirteen but it is fairly new. Maybe that's why.

Same here. We had "room 13" on my unit as well as room numbers that ended in 13 on other units (e.g. 1113). It was never an issue to my knowledge.

Now, some staff did get a little weird about room 9 for a while after a string of weird patient deaths in that room, and ended up asking the hospital chaplains to come bless the room.

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