You know it's going to be a crazy night at work, when

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they have called at least 4 times begging for help........

Sigh....we are going to get beat up AGAIN tonight. Hoping this is not the new normal.

Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

When you walk out of report and there are 5 security guards outside of one of your rooms.

When EMS rolls up with a pt who is having a stroke.

When you hear over the intercom: "Type A Trauma 5 minutes out" and you are the first scribe for the night.

Specializes in LTC, HH, and Case Mangement.

When you walk onto the unit when the aids come up to you and say these 3 pts wanna see you

10 min after you start your shift you got a whole bunch of family asking a zillion ?s

you start your shift and you have at least 3 to 5 new orders to do

When you are short-staffed...oh wait, that seems to be the norm everywhere.

*sigh*

When you walk in and the ER is calling report on patients and the rooms arent even cleaned yet..

Specializes in insanity control.

When u walk in and all labor rooms are full, all postpartum rooms are full, and there is a bad baby in the nursery. Oh! and you are short staffed

Specializes in ER.

here's my two cents...

you know it's going to be a rough night when you walk into the ER lounge for staff "roundup" and there's free food that hasn't been touched.

Specializes in ER.
When you walk out of report and there are 5 security guards outside of one of your rooms.

When EMS rolls up with a pt who is having a stroke.

When you hear over the intercom: "Type A Trauma 5 minutes out" and you are the first scribe for the night.

"type A" trauma? What is that? Never heard of that.....

and "scribe" ...??

Specializes in ER.
When you walk in and the ER is calling report on patients and the rooms arent even cleaned yet..

that's a bad day? That is what we always do to the floors. The room is assigned, not yet clean, but we are *told* to call report NOW. What you don't see is how we are bottle necked in an ER.... only so many nurses but the patients keep coming.... so what do you think is the best solution??? Sure, management could come in and help during a crisis to relieve some patient congestion in the lobby and take hallway patients or open rooms on the floor...... BAHHHAAHHHHHAAAAA!!!!

When you hear these words in report: You're gonna love this sweet little lady I admitted in 304. She's alert, oriented. Takes herself to the BR. Daughter's really nice too.

Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.

When you walk into a medical ward full of dementia patients to start your shift, and the nurse shakes your hand and says: 'Welcome to Hell'

This happened to me 2 weeks ago and I refused to go back - cos it WAS hell!

"type A" trauma? What is that? Never heard of that.....

and "scribe" ...??

Type A trauma is something like a GSW, Trauma code, fall from 20 feet, etc.

Scribe is the person who is assigned to chart the event.

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