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I'm a vet tech but yeah, the euthanasia room is my peace and quiet room of choice... 😅 (Theres a couch, theres Hershey kisses, the light has a dimmer...)
When I was working with a hip tear, before my surgery, I would go there multiple times a day for 15mins breaks.
This also makes me realize I may be a chronic patient in the ER setting but in 34 years of existing I don't remember using the call button for anything other than "I have to pee can you unhook my iv?" so bless your heart. I understand needing to get away!!
Most IV poles have wheels, and depending on where they are disconnected (from your body?) the risk of a serious infection increases exponentially every time you disconnect and reconnect.
The staff bathroom 🚻
We have 3 staff bathrooms on the floor. I just need 10 mins 😩
I cannot tell you how often I do this. I have hid in patient rooms, the closet, the bathroom, you name it. We don't get breaks around here so that is the only way to give yourself a breather.
One office I worked in had a basement too! I would just stand on the steps and close the door for a few minutes.
I remember those constant call bells as a bad, distant memory. Might be time to look around for a different nursing job. There are lots of good nursing jobs out there that you might enjoy where you will never hear that call bell again. :)
I was severely injured by a POS driver back in March of 2024 and became handicapped so my hospital fired me. I have learned that I am okay with never working as a floor nurse again. Now to just find ANY nursing job...I only had 4 years of experience, 1 in psych, 3 in MS. I was board certified but it has expired and can't renew since I haven't worked in 2 years. I miss nursing so much, but I don't miss the abuse one bit and after being t-boned by a guy who was trying to achieve liftoff in his car I MUST be kinder to my body than the hospitals allow for in their nursing staff. I have a spinal cord injury now.
YES! Supply rooms, dictation rooms, chapels, bathrooms, with the patients who are on isolation and really appreciate a good long visit and chat with another human being, with the patients suffering from advanced dementia who benefit from someone holding their hand/speaking kindly with them/and some calming music. And yes you CAN have good and fulfilling conversations that remain calm with your patients who are in the end stages of dementia sometimes. Other times they will simply enjoy listening to a kind voice talking to them like an important person. All too often these patients are treated like they are choosing their behavior rather than experiencing their brain aging in reverse (they look like an adult, and by glob you better treat them like an adult, but their brain is losing all the wrinkles that they worked so hard to earn during life. At the end they are losing their toddler and baby brain wrinkles). So treated them as gently as a newborn. Whenever I needed a break from the harsh realities of hospital nursing, I would try to "hide" with a patient in their room and give them a break from the soul crushing loneliness of being sick and stuck in the hospital alone .
Im the only receptionist for a large providers mental health office and I handle every aspect of the office. I honestly dislike the sounds of phones and the buzzing of the front door.
That is your opinion but I am one receptionist in a large mental health office and thats not even the department I got hired for. The employee left for lunch and never came back so I was told I had to work in the department. Not to mention im only a few weeks into the company. I am one person for answering phones, check in and check out, we have a urgent care walkin site, I do calendar booking for rooms for classes and meeting, I have to buzz people in the building, I manage the company vehicles and log book, I take the UA samples for new medication patients, I have to go through in coming and out going mail, review and send out faxes so please dont come for me about a ringing phone. This is constant non stop except for 1 hour at lunch. So NO I am not going to answer every phone call!!
just fyi in behavioral health and detox theres no call bells or anything with a cord. We also get paid consistently $10 mor per hour than the floor nurse. The hospital will do their own training. Most parents are no trouble when you give the PRN meds with their scheduled ones. Midnights gets even more per hour and no management on your shoulders. Get the chores done chart and mostly just monitoring the unit making sure nobody goes in a neighbors room or tries to elope. Adolescent units are not easy but mostly adults are no trouble usually.
I started in psych. Made $24 an hour more when I moved to MS. and before the POS crashed into me I had a job lined up at a federal prison that was going to be a 45k a year bump in pay. And I already have 13 years of federal service, so I would have been so close to retirement.
Even as an office manager, I find hiding spots to avoid hearing my name called just one more time! And it's not usually the restroom! LOL!