1st is ICU, 2nd is ICU, 3rd is ICU, 4th is floor material with bilateral chest tubes (one hemo/one for pneumo-thorax), and your partners report sounds about the same
2 techs called off... and at the same time 8 psychs have been holding crap up (not rooms) for over 15 hours + 6 new IVC's waiting for their Psych screening.
The rest of the department looks to be the same, and
LOL. WOWWWWWW- I am just literally AMAZED that people think it's ok to talk to Nurses this way...or heck, just any human being in general. Are they effin' serious?!?! I guess I'm in for a ride .
When there's no report from the previous RN so I don't know why my patient's BP is 35/14 and his HR is 12 and there's not a doc in sight.
So as not to panic the new nurses out there, this is the dream I had last night! Really! Things are not this bad in practice. But it can get pretty scary inside my dreams. :wink2:
Have you ever walked onto the floor and just had that strange uncomfortable feeling right off the bat
that is is gonna be "one of those nights (or days)". Seriously, , this happened to me just last night, and
true to the theory, all bedlam broke out right off the bat. My first patients room that I walked into, a
woman asked me where her bell for room service was. She wanted me to help her rearrange her winter
wardrobe and replace it with all the clothes that her and her daughter had went on a shopping spree
to Kohl's and had 8 bags of clothing that all needed untagged, labeled, hung up. Explained her that
this is what volunteers and family members were for. She told me that her daughter had a very
important job at the post office and had to work all weekend, so I would have to do it. Excuse me???
When I told her that I had med passes, vitals, treatments, and charting to do for 24 others, she pulled
her wig off her head, threw it at me and told me to get the hell outta her room if I was just going to
treat her like that:flamesonb
Sorry about the bad shift, but the wig throwing would have had me LMAO. Honestly, it is moments like these that make my day. Thanks for sharing.
When I was working in the hospital, I knew it was going to be a bad day when I assessed my first pt and I was calling the rapid response team within the first couple of minutes. Talk about blowing your whole day to heck.
Now I know my day is going to be bad when the 3rd shift nurse is going "Thank God you are here." before I even get my coat off.
Also, it ruins a perfectly good day when the higher ups decide to come out of their office to tell my how easy my job is and how we do not even need the staff that we have now to do the job. However, you never see their butts passing pills or doing an assessment.
I've told the uncoming day nurse that he should turn around and get back inside his car when I had no CNAs and had left everyone in bed. Our DON had instituted a night shift gets residents up policy and it was not working, along with other problems.
Well yesterday, before I even had time to sit down and get report, I had to run to ICU to get a central line insertion kit for my pt who needed some blood ASAP.
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Have not read any of this yet, but...
Take report, and:
1st is ICU, 2nd is ICU, 3rd is ICU, 4th is floor material with bilateral chest tubes (one hemo/one for pneumo-thorax), and your partners report sounds about the same
2 techs called off... and at the same time 8 psychs have been holding crap up (not rooms) for over 15 hours + 6 new IVC's waiting for their Psych screening.
The rest of the department looks to be the same, and
TRIAGE!
Do not get me started...