This morning, after a long 12 hour shift in the geropsych unit, I was giving report to the next shift. Our patients are in the unit for about 2 weeks, so the day shift knows their behaviors from the day before. For the umpteenth time, as I began giving report on a patient, the day shift nurses interrupted and started telling each other how the patient behaved yesterday. When they do this, I either have to talk over them or wait until they're finished, so I can tell them how the patient is NOW behaving, and what happened last night. This is starting to irritate me so badly I just want to tell them, "Ok, you guys give each other report and I'll go home and get some sleep". Does this happen to any of you? Am I out of line? How would you handle it? Thanks from a grouchy graveyard shift nurse.
