Found this on Facebook and it made me laugh, I am always shushing people who start to stay the "Q" word (quiet), because usually when someone remarks on how quiet it is, suddenly, it's not.
What are some other things that you say/think? Myths, superstitions, "sure signs" that you know of as a nurse?
And yes, this is what is called a "fun thread" so let's not make it all serious and junk lol. (Except: The Q word one is DEAD serious!)
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Worse than the silliness about saying the word, "quiet," is the idea that saying somebody's name will bring them in but their initials are fine.
I actually don't mind playing the game sometimes but some people actually get angry... I mean really angry... when I don't play along.
I thought this was an applied science that we are practicing, not superstition, black magic, and sorcery.
Playing the game is fine but you are right that some folks are adamant that saying "quiet" causes it to get busy. If you break it down, then we have such power over events. We say "quiet" and a car accident happens, a fire starts in a kitchen and a child comes in with burns, a parent abuses a child, a hiker sprains his ankle, a woman has a cardiac arrest, a couple crash their motorcycle . . . . (a memory of a night working ER).
2) If you are brave enough to say the 'Q' word, you get the next admission! Yes, even if you're not "up".
3) If the census has been really low for a looonnngggg time, that's the perfect time for some remodeling/extensive maintenance/renovations-and NOW, the unit is packed!
4) If you agree to a shift swap as a favor, that shift is absolutely gonna suck.
5) And the biggest predictor of how awful my long weekend stretch is gonna be---see which MD is on-call!
I'm not superstitious but I do believe that the "Q" word should be forbidden. In my experience when ever the q word as been said the shift immediately turns into a shift from hell.
Just last week I was coming to work in the night shift nurses and day shift charge said "It is so quiet in here". I told them not to say that and lo and behold we ended up with the shift from nurse. All nurses got hit with admissions and discharges and we were all running like mad women. I didn't get a chance to chart my am assessments until 1600... Everytime I set down to chart a patient called for something.....
I despise the Q word. However, there have been times when I was bored at work and purposely said it was quite. Ofcourse, nothing happened then....
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Worse than the silliness about saying the word, "quiet," is the idea that saying somebody's name will bring them in but their initials are fine.
I actually don't mind playing the game sometimes but some people actually get angry... I mean really angry... when I don't play along.
I thought this was an applied science that we are practicing, not superstition, black magic, and sorcery.