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 LTC, med/surg, hospice.

-You get there and the assignment hasn't been made because the charge nurse is too busy.

-There is a collection of charts with new orders that haven't been noted waiting on you.

-You see a revolving door of family going in and out of one of your patient's room.

-Report starts off with "Well you got 3 with lap belts on..."

Specializes in med/surg.

...You see your new admission coming up wih two security guards holding her down and she's screaming at the top of her lungs :uhoh3:

Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.
-You get there and the assignment hasn't been made because the charge nurse is too busy.

-There is a collection of charts with new orders that haven't been noted waiting on you.

-You see a revolving door of family going in and out of one of your patient's room.

-Report starts off with "Well you got 3 with lap belts on..."

LilMmamma - what's a lap belt? Is this used in psych?

Specializes in LTC.

You know its going to be a rough shift when your outgoing nurse says " You should have a QUIET shift" I had the Q word. When ever I hear it I knock on wood.

Specializes in LTC.
Specializes in Oncology, LTC.

When you arrive on the floor from the elevator and the entire nurses station looks like a train went through it, and no nurses in sight. And then after you get ready and look up your patients and the station is still abandoned...

Specializes in obstetrics.

When you get a call before you even leave your house w/ a frantic voice at the other end of the phone " Ummm.. we need you NOW!" and you walk into L&D full, post-partum full... preemie getting ready to get shipped b/c you don't have a nicu & the baby has to be bagged the whole time your waiting on the transport team... BAD DAY!.... VERY BAD DAY.

Specializes in CCU MICU Rapid Response.

When theres a crash cart pulled into one of the rooms, and noone is to be seen. Orders are flagged, and charts untouched, and all of the wheeled chairs have kind of conglomerated in the middle of the station...like its a black leather chair herd. Someone runs into the station harried and breathless, and you automatically assume that theyve been in the room with the bright red cart. No she says, "Ive been in such and such room pt has been bad all day, we are getting ready to start nimbex and put in a line for CVVH. Why? Whats going on in the room with the cart??" LOL.

Specializes in drug seekers and the incurably insane..

When it's chili night.....

When your new admit's diagnosis is altered mental status and you don't find out till he gets to the floor that he held his family at gunpoint and set fire to his car. Brought to the ED by the police.

Specializes in Medicine.

You walk onto the floor to find out there will be 9 discharges/admissions....:(

Specializes in Critical Care.
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.

when the dayshift charge nurse can't count, downstaffed you 2 RN's, you've got almost everyone vented, on CRRT, too many VAD's to count, the fresh post-op rolling in early is bleeding out..and oh, by the way....someone is now starting to code. And all the dayshift charge says: "oops, oh well!" I kid you not. Dante's inferno has had NOTHING on us!

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