I have this pet peeve at work when I am in the triage area. We have 9 gurneys in the area and when I come into work most of the time the pillows are missing and I have to go on a start of shift pillow hunt!!! The other morning I gave report to the oncoming shift. The triage area was completely empty (not too often does that happen out here!) and EVERY gurney had a pillow. I instructed the nurses that I expected them to leave it the same as I had left it for them when I came back in 12 hours. Well, they got me good when I came back in. I was just coming out of the dressing room when they called out and told me to hurry in. The triage area had every curtain pulled, charts were everywhere, the nurses were scrambling around calling out for a emergency C/S on a patient that I could hear that the heart rate was in the 60's. They were prepping IV's and telling me to call the charge nurse to open the OR. It looked like a mad house and of course I was unamused with the chaos! I pulled open the curtain on the "patient" with the heart rate of 60 and there was one of the nurses laying in the bed with the baby heart monitor over her own heart! I couldn't believe how good that they played it off! They were so serious and they had even made up fake charts and scattered them everywhere to make it look like the place was hopping. Needless to say, the triage area was indeed the way I left it without any patients and all of my pillows were there with the exception that they decided to make a patient out of them. We got one of the other nurses from labor and delivery pretty good when we told her she had an admission and she better hurry because she was 8 centimeters and wanting to push. She was pretty surprised to open the curtain and find pillow woman in the bed! Now the big joke between night shift and day shift is that they better bring the gurneys back with a pillow or Lori is going to make them go find one. Hey, is it too much to ask that my patients be comfortable with a pillow while they are visiting me????
Notice that they even put the monitors on and the blood cuff on the pillow patient! They even stuffed those wonderful hospital booties and put them there too! Apparently they had way too much time on their hands that afternoon!
Breathe! Breathe! Lori comforts the poor pillow patient in her time of need.
3 comments:
LOL! That is great! Man, they must have planned that prank for some time. At least you guys have some fun at work. I'm sure with all the stress, you need time to just goof off.
Yeah, it must of been at least an hour without any patients in there to plan that one. That group is always good at playing pranks on people. One of the nurses actually said she was stressed out at the end of the shift because she was missing a pillow and had to go and hunt one down before I got there! Hah! got them trained well!!
OMG Lori - that's too funny! I guess they had a rare day with not enough work to keep them busy - haha!
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