My Xtranormal medical video series continues with my Happy original Hospitalist vs Night Nurse, RN, an interaction between a Hospitalist and an over zealous night nurse in the hospital. Several years ago, this would not surprise me one bit.
With that said that, I would like to take this time to thank all the nurses of Happy's hospital, day and night nurses alike for not being that Night Nurse, RN and for providing the best month ever with regards to appropriate interruption of work flow for communication of clinical issues and for a dramatic improvement in contacting the appropriate physicians caring for the patient, instead of just calling the hospitalist because we are available. We are not just available out of convenience and for many of you, that is rapidly sinking in.
I have noticed a decline of 80-90% in inappropriate and unnecessary pages and work flow interruptions in the last several months. Whether that has anything to do with my constant education regarding what issues need to be called or to whom they should be called, my constant hand written DO NOT CALL parameters, written multiple times a day to over ride ridiculous hospital critical notification calling protocols, my discussions regarding my implementation of my five page call parameter order set or whether there is some sort of covert nursing communication education that is being implemented for the first time in a decade, I don't care. Whatever the reason is, the results are speaking for themselves. I've seen a dramatic improvement in nurses who choose to use their nursing education to think instead of acting like robots and that act alone earns my highest degree of respect.
Thank you for being nurses instead of robots. It has been the best month in seven years. No patients were harmed. You didn't have to stop what you were doing. I didn't have to stop what I was doing, and everything worked out just fine. Let's keep it up. With that said, I hope you enjoy my Xtranormal medical video depicting an over zealous night nurse (who didn't get the memo) communicating with a hospitalist in my Xtranormal medical video Hospitalist vs Night Nurse, RN. If you are a Night Nurse, RN just stop it . You're not welcome 'round these parts.
You can also catch up on these other fine Xtranormal Medical Videos. Some are Happy originals. Some aren't.
