Virgin Vent

[Tait]

I don't do this often, but this really twirked my chicken this morning.

I have come to the understanding that a lot of nurses don't care about the psych/soc aspects I pass on about my patients. Ok I get it Nurse A, you don't care if my patient is having second thoughts about the 20 percocet she ate last week...

but when you are receiving report on a difficult patient and midstream the CNA comes over to tell you he has pulled out a subclavian cath and then NOC nurse (me) runs off to assess the patient would you just sit there and have a conversation with another nurse about a purse you bought?

Sometimes I feel like I am the only one with a sense of urgency...and then, when someone else doesn't react I wonder if I am being crazy.

Vent off.

Thanks for listening,

Crazy Taitter:sasq:

[RainDreamer, BSN, RN]

Wow, at first I thought you were going to be venting ABOUT virgins, which would have been pretty interesting.

Me too! Glad I wasn't the only one thinking that! Hahahaha!

I totally hear you though, that really irks me too. If they're anything like our day RNs/RTs, they are more preoccupied with going and getting breakfast

[RainDreamer, BSN, RN]

Had a nurse giving me report once on a group of patients and when she got to the last one (a 'walkie/talkie' 5th or 6th one down the line), she told me about his diet and activity and so on (pretty much read me the kardex... I hate that). Anywho, after talking about him for a few minutes, just happens to mention that his last BP is something like 50 systolic.

I leaped out of my seat and went straight to his room. As I was headed out the door, she was yelling "HEY! I'M NOT FINISHED WITH REPORT!" My answer was "Yes you are!!"

He didn't make it

HOLY CRAP!!!!!

I can't imagine she's still working as a nurse .....?! Dang, that's so scary!

[Tait, MSN, RN]

Had a nurse giving me report once on a group of patients and when she got to the last one (a 'walkie/talkie' 5th or 6th one down the line), she told me about his diet and activity and so on (pretty much read me the kardex... I hate that). Anywho, after talking about him for a few minutes, just happens to mention that his last BP is something like 50 systolic.

I leaped out of my seat and went straight to his room. As I was headed out the door, she was yelling "HEY! I'M NOT FINISHED WITH REPORT!" My answer was "Yes you are!!"

He didn't make it

You know I had that happen with a GN at my last job. I was scanning over the BP's and noticed not only as he a QS vital (after a colonoscopy which scares me because of the bleed possibility) his BP had dropped from like 130's to 90's between the two checks! I ran in there and he was in the 80's/40's!

Luckily it wasn't a bleed, just over-responsive to BP meds, but I think that GN will never look at BP's the same after she saw me going tearing off down the hallway.

[EmmaG, RN]

HOLY CRAP!!!!!

I can't imagine she's still working as a nurse .....?! Dang, that's so scary!

She was a very intelligent but task-oriented person, and rather anal too; however she had not a lick of common sense--- much less critical thinking skills. You could depend on her to get all her dressing changes and IV restarts and meds done and her charting was a thing of beauty. At 6:45 on the dot she'd have all her ducks in a row and it didn't matter what was happening to her patients or the floor in general, she was sitting patiently waiting to give report and she would go down the line in order of room number. You could not get her to deviate from this system (as is obvious from the above post). There were many examples of us finding patients in dire straits while she remained clueless, but that was the most extreme and the only one I know of who actually died as a result.

[Tait, MSN, RN]

She was a very intelligent but task-oriented person, and rather anal too; however she had not a lick of common sense--- much less critical thinking skills. You could depend on her to get all her dressing changes and IV restarts and meds done and her charting was a thing of beauty. At 6:45 on the dot she'd have all her ducks in a row and it didn't matter what was happening to her patients or the floor in general, she was sitting patiently waiting to give report and she would go down the line in order of room number. You could not get her to deviate from this system (as is obvious from the above post).

Oye

:smackingf

[siggie13]

I would have done exactly what you did along with a parting, "Little help here,please" to that nurse. But, it takes all kinds and not all nurses are good nurses. You are and I hope you stay that way...really is the only way to fly!!!:w00t: