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1) Caffeinated beverages (for the patients and visitors, of course). I'm so tired of people drinking a liter of Dr. Pepper and then complaining that they can't sleep. Conversely, the people that request a sleeping pill and then an hour later request a coke or cup of coffee.
2) Cable television. Instead, I think there should be a health care version of pay per view that forces people to watch documentaries about their respective primary issues and comorbidities.
Any other ideas?
LouisVRN, RN
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Wow! Yeah our patients definitely like the "hospitality" my hospital enforces. You want a PB&J sandwhich at 2 am? Umm...well I guess I can go down get security to let me in to the kitchen and make you one myself since there is no one else here...Wait...Seriously? You want me to do that /trudge trudge trudge. Pt takes one bite and falls asleep
I would ban being rude to hospital staff, thinking that everything will be done by the time you want to go to bed, because you always go to bed at 7pm at home, calling more than 2 times in 5 minutes if you are not dying/on the floor/bleeding out, children in isolation rooms.