The Med Room: An inner sanctum where Angels of Mercy bare their souls...

[FireStarterRN, BSN, RN]

I have a feeling that if patients heard what is said in the inner sanctuary of the med room, that our rankings in the Gallup polls might slip a few notches...

Does anyone else use the med room as an opportunity to vent about your less lovable patients to your co-workers? I know I do. Then, when I leave it, I transform into a caring Angel of Mercy , full of compassion and dedication, with a single minded mission to care for the sick and suffering souls, tending to them with my loving hands. :tinkbll:

But, back in the med room, I turn into

[cursenurse]

Sometimes we don't even make it into the med room.

[Virgo_RN, BSN, RN]

I'm usually too busy in the med room for venting.

[JoshuaAdamsRN]

At my first ER, the med room was definitely the place to vent. Now I work in a facility where the med station is at the nurses' station, right around the corner from where many of our hall patients lie. So the dirty utility room is where the proverbial and literal feces hit the fan.

[MedicalLPN, LPN]

Ah if the pyxis machine in our med room could talk... everyone on my unit would be fired

[shellsgogreen]

our med room is getting too small for all of us that need to vent:banghead:

[nitenurse02]

HaHa so funny that this was brought up. Our med room has been a place to vent and share life stories. The only time i really get to see my friends that work day shift is that 30 min overlap. So when I count with them it can take up to 30 min. because one or the other of us is venting. about work or life, it doesn't matter. we have shared news about the unit, the men in our lives, the babies in our lives, and have just plain gossiped. when one nurse moved away a year and a half ago, the thing she would miss the most was all the med room conversations!!!!!!

we used to have a very tiny med room. me and the other nurse had to coordinate who went in first because there just wasn't much room. when we opened a new unit, we had a med room that you could put a pt's bed into ~sshhhh don't tell my hospital that, they haven't tried that one yet ~

to make a long story short, yes if our med room walls could talk, we would all be looking for new jobs!!

[Coach]

This is so true. What would we do without our med room. Sometimes there are so many nurses in there it looks like we are having a staff meeting. If the walls could talk, we'd all be fired. Ha ha.