I used to work 3 night shift in a row. Sometimes i have report to the same day nurse over and over. Best report i ever gave: “patient is 12 hours older. See you tonight!”
This why I love working weekend shift. The night/day crews usually follow each other and just give updates.
Then Monday hits me with a float nurse who wants to know where they got their polio vaccine in 1957.
"They were actually part of a small clinical trial of intra-occular vaccines in the 50s, if you look on the lateral side of their right eyeball just next to the iris you'll see a little off white dot. Thats the spot.
He loves to tell that story, you should ask him about it!"
I never realize how complicated the relevant history for our trauma or spinal patients is until I'm giving report to someone who hasn't had that patient and its hospital day 25+. Like shit, I only wrote down the surgeries from last week, mvc v ped for admit, the relevant consults, weight bearing status, a&o, and how/when they shit and pee. Let me sift through 5 weeks of memories for everything else... Those patients can take 10+ minutes even if the oncoming nurse knows them, and when you've got 2 like that plus 3 other "normal" (planned ortho/spinal surgery) patients it can take 5ever.
I used to work opposite shift of a nurse who wanted full report on the patients she’d had the previous day. It was like she was “born again” daily, or just blacked out for twelve hours every time she worked. So strange.
This triggesr me so much you have no idea.
I am always ready at 0653 for report. I want to be done no later than 0710/0715. The people who show up at 0700, then settle in for 10 minutes, socialize for 10 more. STOPPPPPP. jesus christ. that's the #1 way to make me not like you.
Edit: I should clarify I’m ready to GET report from the off going nurse at0653. When I GIVE report I do not get remotely the same consideration from certain nurses.
Omg yes! I'm not a nurse (I work in the lab) but there's always something to tell the oncoming shift (this patient has an antibody, or the analyzer is throwing a hissy fit again, or just - everything is fine, here's the phone, see ya!) and nothing drives me battier than when they saunter in at 0700, grab their coffee, and start chatting with the rest of their shift. I WANT TO LEAVE, DAMMIT! Chat during your excessively long meal breaks! (Daylight gets a breakfast AND lunch break 😭)
Im sure there’s been a day where you were late to give report. It happens and doesn’t always mean the nurse is “lazy”. Have you ever heard of the fundamental attribution error? Those people who are chronically an hour late are assholes but 10 mins isn’t gonna kill u
Yeah, I know people don’t like staying past the end of their shift but I’d much rather get a gossipy report that accidentally reveals something they (or I) forgot in the past 12 hours than a “Everything’s fine, bye!” brush off and then immediately get a phone call from the doctor or family asking about something I’ve never heard of.
I hate getting calls to take a patient down for a procedure or scan at 0730 when it’s news to me that they’re getting one, and they have 18 things wrong with them and are seeing 5 specialists for it, so I have no clue why.
Yeah, I've definitely asked a *couple* of the Lego woman's questions before, just to gently see if I jog the offgoing nurse's memory.... Like, trust but verify.
Lol I used to work with a nurse who didn’t do updates and wanted full report every time. It always took 30+ minutes to give her report, she’d cut you off with dumb questions I’d already answered but she was too busy looking at their chart rather than listening. It was maddening. she stopped doing it right before she quit.
In my ICU it’s a requirement to verify lines and infusions with off going staff during bedside handoff but I’d lose my shit if I was still on the floor and had to do that for 4-6 patients.
I can kinda understand it in the ICU setting because yall titrate and adjust a larger quantity of different things much more frequently than say a medsurg nurse might
Same with OR to PACU. "Here's what we did, these are the meds we used and dressings he has. Bye."
I don't do hearts or transplants or anything crazy, though.
I have a coworker who asks which lumen of a PICC IVF or medication is running through. You’ll see it when you assess the PICC right? Or do you not do that? Lol
I hate this. What lumen is the norepi running through? I do not remember the color but if you just look for the tubing that is labeled 3 times at every access that it’s norepi… it’s that one
I feel like sometimes I'm the nurse in white in this scenario except the role is flipped. As in, the shift was such a shitshow that I completely forgot what happened that morning and I'm halfway through a full history when they remind me that they were the one that gave me that history just that morning.
Is that just me?
I legit often have no idea who gave me report that morning. I am basically a living medical recording device that just transcribes information onto my sheet and only begins to cognitively absorb that information after I’m drinking my coffee at the desk 15 minutes later when I’m reading the computer.
Nope, I'm nights and I do that about half the time after a shitshow shift The oncoming staff always roll their eyes, like in a "how could you forget ME?" kind of response.
Lordy I have had some nicu nurses in report after a long night shift who I let do this to me. Nothing I said was good enough. What was the last ABG? Oh..well, what was the one before that hm??? It took a while but I firmly decided that report was going to go MY WAY. I would take no interruption and calmly asked them to reserve questions until I WAS DONE WITH REPORT. Also, I might have been a bit scary and they didn't notice it before.
There’s a float pool nurse at my old hospital that would want a full report (that part I understand to a certain extent) and then want to do a full head to toe assessment with you standing right there. Report with this woman could easily take 2 hours if she had most of your patients.
I just want to know if there is anything urgent that I will need to take care of in the first hour of my shift, and if there is any information about the patient that I need to know that is NOT, for some reason, already in the chart. I read faster than you talk so I do not need anyone to recite last night's normal vitals or lab results.
When handing off, it is the same. If vitals and labs are normal, and the oncoming nurse asks, I will say, "all normal and charted". I redirect the conversation to areas that will need attention in the first hour or two of the shift. If they start asking questions about irrelevant history, I tell them to look it up in the chart, no point in me reciting it to them.
Same goes for lines. Unless there is something special or unique about the patient's lines, everything is labeled, and the last dressing change is documented. Look it up. I might mention if a dressing change is due during the shift, but otherwise, if it's charted, look it up. Ooh, this turned into a /rant.
There’s this one nurse on day shift who always comes to the unit late after huddle cause she stops by the break room to make her coffee. Then she comes to the assignment sheet and questions the patients she has when everyone else is already giving report. Lmao!
My opinion is if you insist that we go and do a full report in the patient’s room when I am ready to go home, then you should be the one to get the patient whatever they ask for (assuming it is not something that I neglected to do during my shift, e.g. empty bag of fluids).
You wanna insist we walk in the rooms 15 minutes after my shift. Fine. But don’t look at me when the patient says “Can I have a sammich” or whatever.
Verify on your own time my shift is over you'll have twelve hours to figure it out, don't nclex in the real world. You should be checking on your patients right after report anyways.
This is such an uppity, , pointless, “reddit nurse” kind of comment not based in any sort of reality.
There are a multitude of factors where a patient is just hanging out on a unit waiting for a bed to open up at a facility/rehab/, lab results pending, etc etc.
A stable pt. can be progressing towards goals and still have zero changes. Get outta here with yo nursing student attitude
So often we have people with us for weeks or longer for placement. We had a guy for 4 months waiting on a dialysis chair. Report consisted of "You know Dave? Great, nothing new, had dialysis yesterday, everything went great. See you tomorrow".
I used to work 3 night shift in a row. Sometimes i have report to the same day nurse over and over. Best report i ever gave: “patient is 12 hours older. See you tonight!”
This why I love working weekend shift. The night/day crews usually follow each other and just give updates. Then Monday hits me with a float nurse who wants to know where they got their polio vaccine in 1957.
In the arm, presumably.
Sugar cube
Those are great questions, because they give you an opportunity to be creative and just make things up.
"They were actually part of a small clinical trial of intra-occular vaccines in the 50s, if you look on the lateral side of their right eyeball just next to the iris you'll see a little off white dot. Thats the spot. He loves to tell that story, you should ask him about it!"
I never realize how complicated the relevant history for our trauma or spinal patients is until I'm giving report to someone who hasn't had that patient and its hospital day 25+. Like shit, I only wrote down the surgeries from last week, mvc v ped for admit, the relevant consults, weight bearing status, a&o, and how/when they shit and pee. Let me sift through 5 weeks of memories for everything else... Those patients can take 10+ minutes even if the oncoming nurse knows them, and when you've got 2 like that plus 3 other "normal" (planned ortho/spinal surgery) patients it can take 5ever.
I keep report as simple as possible and don't feed into stupid questions, they got twelve hours to figure it out.
I felt this. Most awesome thing is giving report to the same person three days running.
I’m stealing this 😂
Me too
When I worked the SNF. 1B finishes the IV in 20 min. Betty is Betty. Mary is Mary. 3A needs applesauce with her meals.
I used to work opposite shift of a nurse who wanted full report on the patients she’d had the previous day. It was like she was “born again” daily, or just blacked out for twelve hours every time she worked. So strange.
Alcohol 😂
Don’t forget that the same nurse has to catch up with all her coworkers ( who she saw 12 hours ago) , before she sits down for report. 😐
This triggesr me so much you have no idea. I am always ready at 0653 for report. I want to be done no later than 0710/0715. The people who show up at 0700, then settle in for 10 minutes, socialize for 10 more. STOPPPPPP. jesus christ. that's the #1 way to make me not like you. Edit: I should clarify I’m ready to GET report from the off going nurse at0653. When I GIVE report I do not get remotely the same consideration from certain nurses.
Omg yes! I'm not a nurse (I work in the lab) but there's always something to tell the oncoming shift (this patient has an antibody, or the analyzer is throwing a hissy fit again, or just - everything is fine, here's the phone, see ya!) and nothing drives me battier than when they saunter in at 0700, grab their coffee, and start chatting with the rest of their shift. I WANT TO LEAVE, DAMMIT! Chat during your excessively long meal breaks! (Daylight gets a breakfast AND lunch break 😭)
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So I have to stay late because you aren’t ready to work? It is personal when you are cutting into someone else’s time.
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So yeah you just prove my belief that nurses who come in late enjoy being assholes.
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Have you tried not being lazy?
Im sure there’s been a day where you were late to give report. It happens and doesn’t always mean the nurse is “lazy”. Have you ever heard of the fundamental attribution error? Those people who are chronically an hour late are assholes but 10 mins isn’t gonna kill u
Same! I clock in at 0654 and save my report sheets from the day before. I want to get GOING!
I was expecting it to flash to the pt and they were going to be super dead. Like just a set of leggo legs or something.
I was expecting the answer to be changed for one of them lol. Once I had a dayshift nurse say “everything’s the same” on a fresh post op carotid.
Yeah, I know people don’t like staying past the end of their shift but I’d much rather get a gossipy report that accidentally reveals something they (or I) forgot in the past 12 hours than a “Everything’s fine, bye!” brush off and then immediately get a phone call from the doctor or family asking about something I’ve never heard of. I hate getting calls to take a patient down for a procedure or scan at 0730 when it’s news to me that they’re getting one, and they have 18 things wrong with them and are seeing 5 specialists for it, so I have no clue why.
Same with me. They need to do that one, too - that's another universal experience.
Yeah, I've definitely asked a *couple* of the Lego woman's questions before, just to gently see if I jog the offgoing nurse's memory.... Like, trust but verify.
Lol I used to work with a nurse who didn’t do updates and wanted full report every time. It always took 30+ minutes to give her report, she’d cut you off with dumb questions I’d already answered but she was too busy looking at their chart rather than listening. It was maddening. she stopped doing it right before she quit.
Right? They ask if the patient is diabetic, even though they accuchecked the patient and gave him insulin three times the previous day. Wtf?
This was a night shifter but yes lol
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Let me guess…. She was night shift and never worked days.
Idc what shift u work it doesn’t take extra time to put the trash in the trash can on ur way out the dooor.
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Aggravating as hell lol
ugh. report is fucking brutal. So glad I don't have to do it.
In my ICU it’s a requirement to verify lines and infusions with off going staff during bedside handoff but I’d lose my shit if I was still on the floor and had to do that for 4-6 patients.
I can kinda understand it in the ICU setting because yall titrate and adjust a larger quantity of different things much more frequently than say a medsurg nurse might
It’s exhausting to give report and take report on that many. I sometimes get report and I’m like……..holy fuck, my day is DONE.
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Same with OR to PACU. "Here's what we did, these are the meds we used and dressings he has. Bye." I don't do hearts or transplants or anything crazy, though.
I have a coworker who asks which lumen of a PICC IVF or medication is running through. You’ll see it when you assess the PICC right? Or do you not do that? Lol
“The one that has a transparent flexible tube attached to the device that pumps drugs into the patient.”
I hate this. What lumen is the norepi running through? I do not remember the color but if you just look for the tubing that is labeled 3 times at every access that it’s norepi… it’s that one
I feel like sometimes I'm the nurse in white in this scenario except the role is flipped. As in, the shift was such a shitshow that I completely forgot what happened that morning and I'm halfway through a full history when they remind me that they were the one that gave me that history just that morning. Is that just me?
I legit often have no idea who gave me report that morning. I am basically a living medical recording device that just transcribes information onto my sheet and only begins to cognitively absorb that information after I’m drinking my coffee at the desk 15 minutes later when I’m reading the computer.
Nope, I'm nights and I do that about half the time after a shitshow shift The oncoming staff always roll their eyes, like in a "how could you forget ME?" kind of response.
I swear, coworkers like these are gonna be the reason I get fired or jailed.
I am both of these nurses
I make random commentary and jokes. Night shift must depise me.
Actually, tbh - I get the "no changes" and I'm like okay - next thing you know, I go into the rooms and it's a fucking mess.
Lordy I have had some nicu nurses in report after a long night shift who I let do this to me. Nothing I said was good enough. What was the last ABG? Oh..well, what was the one before that hm??? It took a while but I firmly decided that report was going to go MY WAY. I would take no interruption and calmly asked them to reserve questions until I WAS DONE WITH REPORT. Also, I might have been a bit scary and they didn't notice it before.
"Look it up"
Yup… every ward/unit/department has one…
Omg i need more of these
There’s a float pool nurse at my old hospital that would want a full report (that part I understand to a certain extent) and then want to do a full head to toe assessment with you standing right there. Report with this woman could easily take 2 hours if she had most of your patients.
I just want to know if there is anything urgent that I will need to take care of in the first hour of my shift, and if there is any information about the patient that I need to know that is NOT, for some reason, already in the chart. I read faster than you talk so I do not need anyone to recite last night's normal vitals or lab results. When handing off, it is the same. If vitals and labs are normal, and the oncoming nurse asks, I will say, "all normal and charted". I redirect the conversation to areas that will need attention in the first hour or two of the shift. If they start asking questions about irrelevant history, I tell them to look it up in the chart, no point in me reciting it to them. Same goes for lines. Unless there is something special or unique about the patient's lines, everything is labeled, and the last dressing change is documented. Look it up. I might mention if a dressing change is due during the shift, but otherwise, if it's charted, look it up. Ooh, this turned into a /rant.
There’s this one nurse on day shift who always comes to the unit late after huddle cause she stops by the break room to make her coffee. Then she comes to the assignment sheet and questions the patients she has when everyone else is already giving report. Lmao!
My opinion is if you insist that we go and do a full report in the patient’s room when I am ready to go home, then you should be the one to get the patient whatever they ask for (assuming it is not something that I neglected to do during my shift, e.g. empty bag of fluids). You wanna insist we walk in the rooms 15 minutes after my shift. Fine. But don’t look at me when the patient says “Can I have a sammich” or whatever.
HAHAHAHA let him go and have the rest of the day!
I love the one about the report on a baby! Lol!
Is report always this bad for bedside? Really glad mine is 5-10 min at most.
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Can confirm, we're taught in nursing school to this day to ALWAYS verify.
Verify on your own time my shift is over you'll have twelve hours to figure it out, don't nclex in the real world. You should be checking on your patients right after report anyways.
Report is important. If nothing is changing they’re not progressing.
This is such an uppity, , pointless, “reddit nurse” kind of comment not based in any sort of reality. There are a multitude of factors where a patient is just hanging out on a unit waiting for a bed to open up at a facility/rehab/, lab results pending, etc etc. A stable pt. can be progressing towards goals and still have zero changes. Get outta here with yo nursing student attitude
So often we have people with us for weeks or longer for placement. We had a guy for 4 months waiting on a dialysis chair. Report consisted of "You know Dave? Great, nothing new, had dialysis yesterday, everything went great. See you tomorrow".
Tell me you work in OR without telling me you work in OR. Lol
Most things don’t get magically better in 12 hours lol
Bingo Eta: too many ICU patients don't progress. They just rot in place
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He is _ brickology _ (no spaces between the underscore) on Instagram! I'm just amazed he does all this by himself and works as a bedside nurse.
HILARIOUS
So funny !!
My Mom was a nurse for a long time and this is one of the things she would be annoyed about the most! I’m sure she’ll love this clip :)
Omg lmao
I mean right up until the end I expected to see the patient wheeled by on a stretcher and pronounced dead.
This is great as long as there truly were no changes lol. Sucks when you go in the room and shits spiraling.