Superstitious

My SNF has a room 13. It doesn't seem to be unlucky in any way. But room 48, now that's a different matter. Pretty sure that one's haunted.

I do not care who you are, NEVER tell me it is a slow night. NOPE... You better hush up. I am 34 for reference, so young and not considered "old school". (IMHO)

I do not care who you are, NEVER tell me it is a slow night. NOPE... You better hush up. I am 34 for reference, so young and not considered "old school". (IMHO)

Did you notice how even in a thread about superstition the "Q" word hasn't been mentioned? Saying it's slow is bad enough, but heaven help the poor soul that pronounces "it's been a quiet night."

Did you notice how even in a thread about superstition the "Q" word hasn't been mentioned? Saying it's slow is bad enough, but heaven help the poor soul that pronounces "it's been a quiet night."

I used the word "Slow" rather than quiet because it is understood to mean the same thing, but easier on the eyes and ears on a forum.

BOTH should be refrained from on my shift

Yes I've seen this often. In the hospital in which I trained we went from floor 12 to floor 14. There was a hidden floor between 5 and 6 that housed all the maintenance pipes etc which I thought was pretty cool, but floor 13 did not exist. We didn't have a room 13 either on any floor. It was also an unspoken rule back in the olden days that you shouldn't wear black scrubs in case a patient woke up in a drug-induced haze and thought you were the Grim Reaper. True story.

I was working at an inner city hospital in the era of white uniforms. I walked into a "ward room" of 4 patients with little light in the middle of the night. My AA gentleman aged in his high 80's awoke with a scream. He apologized saying that a black man of his age is mighty scared with a white man in white over him. I totally got it, no need to apologize. (for those of you who don't get it, he grew up in the heyday of the KKK)

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.

We don't have many tall buildings here in CA.

I will say I've never heard about a nurse titrating something and skipping 13. Never.

So odd. That a random number or word holds any real power.

I played baseball up through college, so skipping the number 13 seems pretty mild as far as superstitious behavior goes.

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...