Imagine my suprise this weekend when I get to work and find out that new policy is that the RN's will make toast for the pt trays!!!!
Yes, that's right, dietary will only send bread up and we are expected to toast it in the toasters provided to the unit. So now, I have to pick up the tray when it is dropped at the desk, take it to the pts room, take the bread all the way back to the convienetly located toaster (NOT) and bring it back.
I work in AICU, anyone think I really have the time for this malarkey??? I was really frustrated over this one and I told the charge nurse they better get some techs up here if this is what they expect. I can only hear the complaints now..."The nurse didnt make my toast right!"
Unbelievable... But nothing should surprise me anymore.
A bit off topic but along the same lines - I recently interviewed for an ED position. Along with being told that you are not 'allowed' to call in sick, (you have to find your own replacement), I was told that when the paramedics bring patients in, the nurse is to go to the break room and bring the paramedics drinks and snacks. (Gotta keep them happy so they keep steering their ambulance towards this hospital). I got the job, but I didn't take it.
Unbelievable... But nothing should surprise me anymore.
A bit off topic but along the same lines - I recently interviewed for an ED position. Along with being told that you are not 'allowed' to call in sick, (you have to find your own replacement), I was told that when the paramedics bring patients in, the nurse is to go to the break room and bring the paramedics drinks and snacks. (Gotta keep them happy so they keep steering their ambulance towards this hospital). I got the job, but I didn't take it.
Wearing one of those sexy old-fashioned nurse uniforms ?
I was told that when the paramedics bring patients in, the nurse is to go to the break room and bring the paramedics drinks and snacks. (Gotta keep them happy so they keep steering their ambulance towards this hospital). I got the job, but I didn't take it.
I thought those days were long gone and that was one of the reasons some Paramedics couldn't be trusted to determine which hospital to take the patients. Although, I believe there have been some headlines lately where hospitals and ambulances are steering patients for reasons other than medical.
On the other hand, by you getting their snacks, it keeps them out of your break room. If you have 10 ambulance crews plus firefighters occupying the space you use for a few minutes of relaxation, it gets crowded.
Wearing one of those sexy old-fashioned nurse uniforms ?
Or perhaps a negligee...?
Isn't that a little sexist? Many Paramedics and FFs are female. Not all nurses are female. Not all Paramedics and FFs would want to see a nurse, male or female, in a negligee.
I see your vision: The tall tower pyxis containing IVFs has numerous shelves and a glass door... it could easily double as a Subway-type oven for making fresh bread
Ah, but do you see my vision to its fullest extent???
From bread dough it is but a short step to....PIZZA DOUGH!
Forget the toasters folks! PIZZA OVENS!!!! :yeah:
One on EVERY FLOOR!!! (Bring your own toppings!)
Then all we need is a wine cellar in the basement...
Isn't that a little sexist? Many Paramedics and FFs are female. Not all nurses are female. Not all Paramedics and FFs would want to see a nurse, male or female, in a negligee.
I'm all for equality, a personable young gentleman in short shorts, bare chested except for a bow tie around his neck...
I work in AICU, anyone think I really have the time for this malarkey???
A little clarification please.
Is this now a policy for the whole hospital or just your area? Does this include the SNF or med-surg floors also?
I take AICU to be Adult or Advanced ICU. What is the acuity? Do you take ventilator patients or others who are seriously ill? Or, is this more like a 23 hour observations ICU?
We don't allow Dietary to deliver trays to the patients' rooms in the ICUs and sometimes there is a delay getting the trays passed. Usually the patients will have to eat cold food and sometimes just a piece of toast can make up for cold oatmeal and eggs. For chemo or other harsh therapy a patient could be rec'g, if toast is what they want, we'll try to get it for them and hopefully while it is still warm.
On the other hand, by you getting their snacks, it keeps them out of your break room. If you have 10 ambulance crews plus firefighters occupying the space you use for a few minutes of relaxation, it gets crowded.
We don't allow paramedics or FF's in our break room. What business do they have being there when they're not even staff? That's what the cafeteria or coffee shop is for - they can buy their own coffee and snacks.
The physicians have their own prime piece of real estate for R&R and I doubt any non-md (staff or otherwise) is allowed to invade their space. Nurses' break rooms are for nursing staff only.
Wow!!! Just.....wow! I honestly don't even know what to say to that!!
I agree and I would think having a RN make toast is just not good infection control practices I know here in Washington any dietary staff that is making toast has to wear gloves and change them between resident portions.. Where is a nurse supposed to keep these gloves?,do all that and do her nursing duties only management could think up something %^*& like that. Why dont they get off their butts and butter toast. I know I live in a land of magical thinking but I know here in Washington the DOH would have a fit .
We don't allow paramedics or FF's in our break room. What business do they have being there when they're not even staff? That's what the cafeteria or coffee shop is for - they can buy their own coffee and snacks.
The physicians have their own prime piece of real estate for R&R and I doubt any non-md (staff or otherwise) is allowed to invade their space. Nurses' break rooms are for nursing staff only.
Several units in my hospital have staff candy jars at the nursing station. You know which EMTs get offered candy? The polite ones.
Firemen? Last seen when the smoke detector went nuts over a toaster...
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Crumbs! is the Great Toast Controversy still rumbling on? I thought you lot would be browned off with it my now having had a few crusty posts....
Seriously though when I trained back in the Dark Ages when Florence Nightingale was a student one of the jobs on nights was to make the porridge and boil the eggs for the patients breakfast.
I'm all for the wine cellar idea. Might make some of the crabby ones mellow out, man. But the visitors would complain because they didn't get any. And then the patients would want hor d'oeuvres to go with the wine. Prolly gripe about the wine list too.
:yeah:
one of the jobs on nights was to make the porridge and boil the eggs for the patients breakfast.
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Unbelievable... But nothing should surprise me anymore.
A bit off topic but along the same lines - I recently interviewed for an ED position. Along with being told that you are not 'allowed' to call in sick, (you have to find your own replacement), I was told that when the paramedics bring patients in, the nurse is to go to the break room and bring the paramedics drinks and snacks. (Gotta keep them happy so they keep steering their ambulance towards this hospital). I got the job, but I didn't take it.