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Rules for the ER Room...just some humor :)
1) If it requires the ambulance team AND entire truck of firefighters
to transport you and safely place you on a hospital stretcher.....it is
time to go on a diet.
2) When you present to the Triage nurse, do NOT tell him/her that your
doctor called ahead. If you survey our waiting area, probably 50% of
the people waiting said the same thing.....and the other 50% use the
ER as their regular doctor.
3) When asked how much you weigh, please do not give the 'deer in the
headlights' look and tell us you don't know. It's a simple question,
simple answer.
4) Just because you have a phone and know how to call 911, we are NOT
impressed by your arrival on an ambulance stretcher. You had BETTER be
sick.
5) If you came escorted via EMS for multiple complaints that started
more than one week ago and your entire family followed the ambulance to
the hospital, you will be labeled a pussy and treated like one. Enjoy
the waiting area with your family.
6) One complaint/ailment per visit, please.
7) Just because you came in an ambulance doesn't mean you're going home
in one. You better start making arrangements now. I am NOT figuring
out how to get you home. Cab vouchers are NOT an option.
If you have one of these four, go to your own doctor in the morning:
A migraine; the Flu; a stomach virus; or a stuffy nose.
9) Do NOT ask us how long it will be. We don't know. I don't know
what is coming through my door 30 seconds from now.....and so I sure as
HELL don't know when you're getting a room.
10) We have priorities. We understand that you have been waiting for
2 hours in the waiting room. If you don't want to wait, make an
appointment with a doctor. The little old lady that just walked in
looking OK to you, is probably having a massive heart attack. THAT
is why she goes first!
11) If your mother is a patient and we ask her a question.....let her
answer it.
12) If your child has a fever, you had DAMN well better give it
Tylenol BEFORE coming in.
13) If you are well enough to complain about the wait.....you are well
enough to go home.
14) Do not utter the words "it is in my chart." I don't have your
chart! And I don't have time to call and get it! Just tell me.
15) We know how many times you've been to an ER. We can usually tell
if you are faking it during the first 5 seconds of talking to you. Do
not lie to us.
16) If you have diabetes and do not control it, you are committing
slow suicide.
17) If you are a female between the ages of 16 and 42 and your last
period was 28-35 days ago.....PLEASE don't waste our time if you are
here for abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding. Guess what???!!!
You got your period again!!!
18) Do NOT bring your entire posse with you. One person at the
bedside is all you need. It is really difficult to get around seven
people in the event that you are actually really sick.
19) Every time I ask you a question, I learn more about what is wrong
with you. I don't care if I asked you what day it is 4 different times!
Just answer the questions.
20) If you want something, be nice. I will go out of my way to piss
off rude people.
21) Our definition of "sick" is not your definition of "sick." If a
member of the ER staff says that someone is sick, it means that they are
in the process of DYING!!! They have had a massive stroke....are
bleeding out....are having a heart attack....or have been shot!
22) We do not consider a kidney stone "sick." Painful, yes.....but
sick, no.
23) At any given time, one nurse has up to 4 patients. One doctor has
up to 15. There is a law (similar to Murphy's Law) in the ER: If you
have 4 patients, one of them will be sick (see above definition)....one
of them will be whining constantly....one of them will be homeless....and
one of them will be a delightful patient. DON'T be the whiner!
Please.
24) If you see someone pushing a big cart down the hall at full speed
and you hear bells/alarms going off.....do NOT ask for a cup of coffee.
Someone is dying, you inconsiderate asshole. Sit down....shut
up....and let us work.
25) If you can bitch about the blood pressure cuff being too tight, or
the IV hurting, you are not in that much pain!
26) Physicians and nurses are NOT waiters. We are NOT customer
service representatives. This is NOT McDonald's, and you very well
may NOT have it your way. Our job is to save your life. If you
want a pillow, two blankets, and the lights dimmed......GO TO THE
RAMADA!!!!!
27) If you have any sort of stomach pain and you ask for something to
eat, you are NOT sick.
28) Do NOT talk shit about the other members of staff I work with.
That doctor that you hate? -- I work with him every day, and I know that he
knows what he is doing. I trust him a LOT more than I trust you. I
am NOT here to be your friend, and neither is he. I will tell him
what you said, and we will laugh about it. If you want a buddy.....go
somewhere else.
29) If you are homeless.....DON'T ask for a bus token or a cab voucher
to get home, it just confuses the staff.
30) PLEASE don't tell us how to do our job. Do we come to your place
of business and tell you how to do your job?
31) Please don't bring in a "show and tell." If you have to fish it
out of the toilet, it's really not necessary to bring it in. We will
take your word for it. If you did fish something out of the
toilet.....you may NOT use my pen.
to transport you and safely place you on a hospital stretcher.....it is
time to go on a diet.
2) When you present to the Triage nurse, do NOT tell him/her that your
doctor called ahead. If you survey our waiting area, probably 50% of
the people waiting said the same thing.....and the other 50% use the
ER as their regular doctor.
3) When asked how much you weigh, please do not give the 'deer in the
headlights' look and tell us you don't know. It's a simple question,
simple answer.
4) Just because you have a phone and know how to call 911, we are NOT
impressed by your arrival on an ambulance stretcher. You had BETTER be
sick.
5) If you came escorted via EMS for multiple complaints that started
more than one week ago and your entire family followed the ambulance to
the hospital, you will be labeled a pussy and treated like one. Enjoy
the waiting area with your family.
6) One complaint/ailment per visit, please.
7) Just because you came in an ambulance doesn't mean you're going home
in one. You better start making arrangements now. I am NOT figuring
out how to get you home. Cab vouchers are NOT an option.
If you have one of these four, go to your own doctor in the morning:
A migraine; the Flu; a stomach virus; or a stuffy nose.
9) Do NOT ask us how long it will be. We don't know. I don't know
what is coming through my door 30 seconds from now.....and so I sure as
HELL don't know when you're getting a room.
10) We have priorities. We understand that you have been waiting for
2 hours in the waiting room. If you don't want to wait, make an
appointment with a doctor. The little old lady that just walked in
looking OK to you, is probably having a massive heart attack. THAT
is why she goes first!
11) If your mother is a patient and we ask her a question.....let her
answer it.
12) If your child has a fever, you had DAMN well better give it
Tylenol BEFORE coming in.
13) If you are well enough to complain about the wait.....you are well
enough to go home.
14) Do not utter the words "it is in my chart." I don't have your
chart! And I don't have time to call and get it! Just tell me.
15) We know how many times you've been to an ER. We can usually tell
if you are faking it during the first 5 seconds of talking to you. Do
not lie to us.
16) If you have diabetes and do not control it, you are committing
slow suicide.
17) If you are a female between the ages of 16 and 42 and your last
period was 28-35 days ago.....PLEASE don't waste our time if you are
here for abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding. Guess what???!!!
You got your period again!!!
18) Do NOT bring your entire posse with you. One person at the
bedside is all you need. It is really difficult to get around seven
people in the event that you are actually really sick.
19) Every time I ask you a question, I learn more about what is wrong
with you. I don't care if I asked you what day it is 4 different times!
Just answer the questions.
20) If you want something, be nice. I will go out of my way to piss
off rude people.
21) Our definition of "sick" is not your definition of "sick." If a
member of the ER staff says that someone is sick, it means that they are
in the process of DYING!!! They have had a massive stroke....are
bleeding out....are having a heart attack....or have been shot!
22) We do not consider a kidney stone "sick." Painful, yes.....but
sick, no.
23) At any given time, one nurse has up to 4 patients. One doctor has
up to 15. There is a law (similar to Murphy's Law) in the ER: If you
have 4 patients, one of them will be sick (see above definition)....one
of them will be whining constantly....one of them will be homeless....and
one of them will be a delightful patient. DON'T be the whiner!
Please.
24) If you see someone pushing a big cart down the hall at full speed
and you hear bells/alarms going off.....do NOT ask for a cup of coffee.
Someone is dying, you inconsiderate asshole. Sit down....shut
up....and let us work.
25) If you can bitch about the blood pressure cuff being too tight, or
the IV hurting, you are not in that much pain!
26) Physicians and nurses are NOT waiters. We are NOT customer
service representatives. This is NOT McDonald's, and you very well
may NOT have it your way. Our job is to save your life. If you
want a pillow, two blankets, and the lights dimmed......GO TO THE
RAMADA!!!!!
27) If you have any sort of stomach pain and you ask for something to
eat, you are NOT sick.
28) Do NOT talk shit about the other members of staff I work with.
That doctor that you hate? -- I work with him every day, and I know that he
knows what he is doing. I trust him a LOT more than I trust you. I
am NOT here to be your friend, and neither is he. I will tell him
what you said, and we will laugh about it. If you want a buddy.....go
somewhere else.
29) If you are homeless.....DON'T ask for a bus token or a cab voucher
to get home, it just confuses the staff.
30) PLEASE don't tell us how to do our job. Do we come to your place
of business and tell you how to do your job?
31) Please don't bring in a "show and tell." If you have to fish it
out of the toilet, it's really not necessary to bring it in. We will
take your word for it. If you did fish something out of the
toilet.....you may NOT use my pen.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by medic69 on
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i love #1!!!!!!!!!!!! had that MANY times and of course we all know the elevator is out and they live on the 6th floor and had one lady who was about 800 pounds saying she was having chest pain and had a turkey on her chest and asked the firefighters to stop at taco bell on the way to the er to get her food for the wait in th ed
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Permalink Reply by Engineco913 on
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What about the 3am walk in's complaining of foot pain who use the "difficuly breathing" to get rushed in? LOL
This has been a funny post
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Permalink Reply by Tim on
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I can definitely relate to #1. There are a few that fit this description in our district. One guy, he actually invested in a engine hoist (he was a regular) and we would hoist him from the chair he eats, sleeps and...( I don't really want to speculate what else he does in that chair) onto the gurney and when he comes home they use it to go from the gurney back to the chair.
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Permalink Reply by Erik on
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Ah, #1... "Tower 7, Engine 71, respond non-emergency to Howard Co. General Hospital for the large patient assist..."
Still, taking the locking brakes and all that off the floor of the ambulance isn't that bad... sure beats having to empty the hose bed lol.
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Permalink Reply by Rebecca on
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Oh yeah can definently relate to this one, I am gonna have to post it on my pages haha. And I thought we were the only ones who bitched about this shit too much. Good to know theres plenty more out there!
Be good be safe!
-Rebecca Mathias
proud ARMY wife of SGT Mathias
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Permalink Reply by Will2745 on
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i know this is just humor, but,,,,,kidney stones are definately not humor,,,having had stones and passed, or had them removed over 50 times in the past 40 some years, i can tell you they are no laughing matter to the oen that suffers from them...and by the way, as bad as i hurt when passing stones,,,i have always treated my caretakers with the utmost respect..and recieve excellent treatment in return,,what comes around goes around..nuff said...lol!!!
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Permalink Reply by paul nunez on
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My wife laughed her ass off!She is an er nurse at our local county hospital and does a lot of triage,how true this is!
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Permalink Reply by Don 5271 on
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The best are when you arrive at their home in your rig to find the ALS patient in some sort of severe distress, sitting out on the steps, suite case in hand, waiting for your arrival. Oh, and there is a storm forcasted for the next day. Got to love them lol
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Permalink Reply by Rescuefrog on
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The one who swears they are throwing up blood (since 17:00) and all they had to eat that day was a sandwich (no ketchup) at lunch it's now midnight. They take an ambulance ride to the hospital as that is their only transportation and after several hrs in the ER let the DR know they ate tomato soup!
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Permalink Reply by Brian Dumser on
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C'mon, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel! LOL
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