What not to say / do while you are in the ER...

[ER-RN2]

If you come in to be treated for a STD, don't hit on the nurse

[MassED, BSN, RN]

I love that!:chuckle I have had i.v.'s in my hand and they try many times as my veins roll and believe me the try and try and try... they even go to the other hand if they can't get one in the original hand. I usually have really large bruises on my hands(both) when I leave the hospital. :rotfl:

it's called anchor those rollaways.

[MassED, BSN, RN]

Giving you an order to treat their pt first? Who do these stupid docs think they are? :angryfire

that's when you say, mmm hmmmm ok

[MassED, BSN, RN]

My DON handed me a complaint to respond to. A "respected member of the community" had come in as an outpatient for a couple of units of blood. I escorted her and her entourage to the only available room, got them all drinks, and a fan because it was a hot day. I started the I.V., gave the blood as ordered and monitored her per protocol. Her statement said "I was taken to some room all the way down the hall by some slovenly orderly (I am an R.N. and she was told this and although scrubs aren't all that flattering, I have never been called slovenly!) Anyway, she went on to say that she was ignored way down there at the end of the hall. Did she not notice all of the other patients on her way down there?

oh isn't that nice that the DON handed that to you? Couldn't the documentation speak for itself - or is it that this person provides to the hospital so you must eat crow... hate politics! Slovenly! That's horrible.