You know it is going to be a bad day in the ER when...

jaimealmostRN · Mar 31, 2005

I love it, TriageRN!!! Especially 14 and 19. :)

Peachy720 · Mar 31, 2005

Thanks so much for that. It made my day!!

I HAVE to know, did you actually have a #14?? What happened and who

won?:rotfl:

EDNURSEANGEL · Apr 8, 2005

1. You know it is going to be a bad night when you are walking in and the ambulance bay is full and the paramedics are encouraging you to call in sick. NOW.

2. One of your favorite ICU residents is walking out saying "Kill me, Kill me now.

3. One of the docs is outside bumming a cig off one of the nurses.

4. The halls are full of patients pulled out of the rooms for more acute patients.

5. You have one sitter watching 5 suicidal psych patients.

6. Your choice of assignments is the intubated head bleed that is coming in by wing or the MI that was retavased in an outlying hospital that is now in cardiogenic shock on Dopamine and still tombstoning on EKG.

Angel :uhoh21:

Kitty-MayRN, BSN, RN · Apr 8, 2005

Funny stuff EDNURSEANGEL!

You can laugh about this now, right? :rolleyes:

Kitty-MayRN

Phoenix56 · Apr 8, 2005

Funny! But I have been there as far as #2 and #20 go. The ED is not real happy after that!

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Apr 8, 2005

When the moon is full.

*LA* · Apr 12, 2005

You Know It's Going To Be A Bad Day In ER When...

1. You show up for work and notice bars have just been installed on all the windows and there is now a metal detector at the hospital entrance.
2. The paramedics in the parking lot are all using mops to clean up their ambulances and the EMTs are using a hose.
3. The off-going shift has a hard time keeping a straight face when giving report, especially about Room 15.
4. Your first patient of the day insists there is no way that she can be pregnant. She's crowning.
5. Your next five patients and their families all scream at you in different languages, none of which you speak.
6. Your next patient screams at you in a language you do understand, but you can't remember hearing that many obscenities strung together at once.
7. The intoxicated 250 Kg. transvestite in Room 15 keeps trying to get your home phone number because you "are just too sweet."
8. Your next patient has maggots but isn't dead.
9. The hospital's attorney wants to talk to you but her secretary won't tell you what it's about.
10. The hospital has a surprise disaster drill. You were the only one who wasn't tipped off.
11. The Department is completely empty and one of the off-going shift says, "It's been that way all night, hope you have a quiet day!"
12. No one remembered to buy coffee.
13. You have writers' cramp and still have 7 hours of the shift left.
14. The psychiatric patient who thinks he is Jesus was placed in the same room as another patient who thinks he is Satan.
15. You get a subpoena for a lawsuit a on a patient that walked out of the department against medical advice two years ago. You can only hope that is what the attorney wants to talk about.
16. The Hospital Administrator left you a cryptic message about a news crew showing up "sometime today to do a little filming, so everyone act natural."
17. In the middle of a disaster drill two real trauma patients present themselves.
18. The paramedics who offered to go out and pick up lunch (and coffee) just advised over the radio they have witnessed a motor vehicle accident involving a transit bus versus a minivan. "Stand by for update."
19. It's the first day for the new medical interns, paramedic and nursing students all at the same time.
20. The paramedics tell you the patient you just received with a closed head injury, flail chest, and positive belly tap is in "much better shape than the one still being cut out of the minivan."
21. You hear there is an influenza epidemic traveling like wild fire through the local convalescent homes.
22. The psychiatric patient's delusions are beginning to make sense.

I dont have anything to add but this stuff is FUNNY !

now anyway ,lol

hello_nurse_mel · Apr 13, 2005

You Know It's Going To Be A Bad Day In ER When...
1. You show up for work and notice bars have just been installed on all the windows and there is now a metal detector at the hospital entrance.
2. The paramedics in the parking lot are all using mops to clean up their ambulances and the EMTs are using a hose.
3. The off-going shift has a hard time keeping a straight face when giving report, especially about Room 15.
4. Your first patient of the day insists there is no way that she can be pregnant. She's crowning.
5. Your next five patients and their families all scream at you in different languages, none of which you speak.
6. Your next patient screams at you in a language you do understand, but you can't remember hearing that many obscenities strung together at once.
7. The intoxicated 250 Kg. transvestite in Room 15 keeps trying to get your home phone number because you "are just too sweet."
8. Your next patient has maggots but isn't dead.
9. The hospital's attorney wants to talk to you but her secretary won't tell you what it's about.
10. The hospital has a surprise disaster drill. You were the only one who wasn't tipped off.
11. The Department is completely empty and one of the off-going shift says, "It's been that way all night, hope you have a quiet day!"
12. No one remembered to buy coffee.
13. You have writers' cramp and still have 7 hours of the shift left.
14. The psychiatric patient who thinks he is Jesus was placed in the same room as another patient who thinks he is Satan.
15. You get a subpoena for a lawsuit a on a patient that walked out of the department against medical advice two years ago. You can only hope that is what the attorney wants to talk about.
16. The Hospital Administrator left you a cryptic message about a news crew showing up "sometime today to do a little filming, so everyone act natural."
17. In the middle of a disaster drill two real trauma patients present themselves.
18. The paramedics who offered to go out and pick up lunch (and coffee) just advised over the radio they have witnessed a motor vehicle accident involving a transit bus versus a minivan. "Stand by for update."
19. It's the first day for the new medical interns, paramedic and nursing students all at the same time.
20. The paramedics tell you the patient you just received with a closed head injury, flail chest, and positive belly tap is in "much better shape than the one still being cut out of the minivan."
21. You hear there is an influenza epidemic traveling like wild fire through the local convalescent homes.
22. The psychiatric patient's delusions are beginning to make sense.

loved them all, experienced 1/2 of them as a student (now work in home health) loved #22 :rotfl:

z's playa · Apr 13, 2005

I'm going to add one that I heard the other day.

You know it's going to be bad day in the ER when the first 5 pts you triage are for migraine.

A bit of a touchy subject for me but I can sympathize objectively. :)

Z