Dear night time nursing team: thank you for making my last CCU call one of my bitterest. Special thanks go out to...
... the 4am page by the CCU RN who was "just thinking about planning ahead" which nurse was going to babysit which patient in the morning, and wondering if there were any plans for transferring a patient that I was just cross-covering on out of the unit? "Not at 4am." Dude, unlike you who is paid a six figure salary to babysit and blame all your unpleasant or alarming discoveries on me ("Egad! Blood pressure of 65/42 after I gave the metoprolol outside of holding parameters! Quickly document 'MD Intern for Life notified. No new orders given.' Then page the intern and hand off the baton of liability ASAP! Whew that was a close one.") within an 8-12hr shift, I am working 30 hour shifts in 80 hour weeks, with no special protected "lunch" or "break" times. So please THINK before you page with inanities at 4am!!!
...4:30 am page from floor nurse on another patient I was cross-covering: "I noticed that this patient's sputum culture was contaminated from the other day. Do you want to get an induced sputum sample by RT?" "NOT AT 4:30 IN THE MORNING. It's a good idea for a normal time in the day though, please tell the day shift nurse so they can coordinate with the primary team."
Thus the whole night went with pages approximately every 20-30 minutes. Yay cross-covering, yay.
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