Well, Isn't This Special

Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN · Jun 6, 2015

^^^ Exactly why "911" dialed from hospital now rings our hospital security, and not the local PD. Too many people who WERE actually on holds calling 911 to say they were being held against their will.

Farawyn · Jun 6, 2015

Jerome Stone RN said:

I just went to the iTunes store and wrote a...rather undiplomatic review of this app. I would encourage everyone to do the same. This just perpetuates peoples' beliefs that nurses are too busy sitting on our derriere, drinking coffee and eating pastries. OMG!

Large iced with half and half not too light 2 splenda and a chocolate chip muffin please, thanks.

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jun 6, 2015

Meriwhen said:

Real or not, it's things like this that make me happy I work in an environment WITHOUT call bells.

An EXCELLENT reason for my having moved on and out ?

lindarn · Jun 6, 2015

We had a patient once, who called the police, and told them that there was a man standing outside of her room with a gun. The police called the unit, to either confirm or deny this statement.

Went into her room to check on her, because she had not been confused up until that point. When I went into her room, she was wide eyed, staring at the door, mumbling something. She did start to say, something about a man. I redirected her, and went back to the desk, to inform the police that they did not need to send the SWAT to the hospital, and apologized for his time.

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN (ret)

Somewhere in the PACNW

Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN · Jun 6, 2015

An EXCELLENT reason for my having moved on and out :)

And an excellent selling point for working in psych as well. Only the med-psych patients have call bells, and that's a small fraction of the patients. Everyone else has to come to the nurses' station or wait until someone comes by on the q15 rounds if they want something.

We also don't bend straws, the television is communal, and it's actually therapeutic for them to fluff their own pillow :)

Mind you, we do get quite a few 911 dialers...fortunately calls from the psych units have to go through the operator first, so we can intervene before emergency services are actually contacted.

Horseshoe, BSN, RN · Jun 6, 2015

Jerome Stone RN said:

I just went to the iTunes store and wrote a...rather undiplomatic review of this app. I would encourage everyone to do the same. This just perpetuates peoples' beliefs that nurses are too busy sitting on our derriere, drinking coffee and eating pastries. OMG!

That's so stupid. Everybody knows that if you want to find your nurse, just go to the hospital cafeteria, where it ALL happens. Haven't these people seen General Hospital or As the World Turns?

Ruby Vee, BSN · Jun 6, 2015

Horseshoe said:

That's so stupid. Everybody knows that if you want to find your nurse, just go to the hospital cafeteria, where it ALL happens. Haven't these people seen General Hospital or As the World Turns?

Maybe on "As the World Turns," but on General Hospital, it all happens either at the nurse's station or at the Metro Court, where Liz spends her "breaks". In a cocktail dress and with a glass of wine or a martini.

Horseshoe, BSN, RN · Jun 7, 2015

lindarn said:

We had a patient once, who called the police, and told them that there was a man standing outside of her room with a gun. The police called the unit, to either confirm or deny this statement.
Went into her room to check on her, because she had not been confused up until that point. When I went into her room, she was wide eyed, staring at the door, mumbling something. She did start to say, something about a man. I redirected her, and went back to the desk, to inform the police that they did not need to send the SWAT to the hospital, and apologized for his time.

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN (ret)

Somewhere in the PACNW

When my mom had a big stroke, she kept insisting to the nurses that there was a leprechaun under her bed who wanted to steal her cigarettes (she had quit smoking long ago).

Later, when she was doing much better, I told her about this, and she just about died laughing.

Those poor, patient nurses.

applewhitern, BSN, RN · Jun 7, 2015

Thank God I am fairly close to retirement. Over my career I have seen the registered nurse go from "right under the doctor" to "right under housekeeping and everybody else."

Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN · Jun 7, 2015

Ruby Vee said:

Maybe on "As the World Turns," but on General Hospital, it all happens either at the nurse's station or at the Metro Court, where Liz spends her "breaks". In a cocktail dress and with a glass of wine or a martini.

That's the kind of break room I want to have ?

martymoose, BSN, RN · Jun 9, 2015

applewhitern said:

Thank God I am fairly close to retirement. Over my career I have seen the registered nurse go from "right under the doctor" to "right under housekeeping and everybody else."

Yep. Right under the rug. Not even the doormat.Or under the bus too..

DLS_PMHNP, MSN, RN, NP · Jun 14, 2015

Hospital administration is partly to blame for this nonsense. It all started to go downhill when hospitals began to refer to patients as "customers." They are successfully turning the healthcare industry into "customer service" industry, and we all know the slogan, "the customer is always right." UGH.... I truly believe we (healthcare workers) have lost respect from the general population because of this.

Unfortunately, I'm not at all surprised to see this nonsense app created.