One to one monitoring is a term used in the hospital when confused patients require a babysitter to sit in their room all night long and make sure they don't pull out their IV or their feeding tubes or their telemetry cardiac monitoring leads.
I was standing outside a confused patient's room the other that had a one to one sitter. All of the sudden the guy opened up his eyes, looked at the sitter and said:
Are you staring at me?
I guess he doesn't need a sitter any more. That's just good hospital humor right there.
