i carry a pager at work so that anyone can get a hold of me at anytime of the day or night. the following is a list of the pages i received in the 30 hour period from 6am on jan 20 to noon on jan 21. for simplicity, i will note what i was asked to do.
730: order tylenol
735: paged on a patient who was not mine
804: is mr x leaving today?
810: when can mr x leave?
811: is all the paperwork for mr x done? (of note, all these questions were addressed by me at 804)
840: mr x's family wants to talk to you
900: please change diet order
930: you have a new patient in the ED
945: new patient arrives on floor (i had to leave the patient's room to answer this one)
1130: call the hospital operator
1215: you have 2 new ED patients
1259: you have a new patient in the ED
1320: your 2 new patients are on the floor
1400: please put in orders on your 2 new patients so they can eat
1410: please put in orders on your 2 new patients so they can eat
1420: please put in orders on your 2 new patients so they can eat
1445: please put in orders on your 2 new patients so they can eat (i didn't do this earlier because the patient who arrived at 1259 was very sick and had to be transferred to the icu--more important that putting in diet orders)
1523: mr y is agitated
1529: ms d has a blood pressure of 165/69
1630: other medicine team wants to sign-out
1710: 2nd med team wants to sign out.
1810: dinner has arrived. yay!
1900: family of mr z is on the phone and wants to talk to you (i don't know this patient at all)
1950: mrs u is agitated
2020: please renew orders for restraints
2050: patient has a blood pressure of 190/100
2200: your new patient just pooped blood.
2245: ms g wants something to help her sleep
2250: ms g has a bp of 85/44
2300: ms g has a bp of 106/82
2301: can i still give ms g that sleeping pill?
0030: mr s has a heart rate of 200 (this one was serious)
0032: mr s has a bp of 51/19 (this one came while i was going to see this patient)
0100: can mrs h have something for constipation? (while mr s is actively trying to die)
0120: can mr v have something for sleep? (same nurse from above, knowing i was occupied).
0150: mr p is spitting at his roomate and screaming
0205: mr p has a blood sugar of 61
0330: please renew restraint order
0335: are you covering mr b?
0530: are you covering pt x? no!
0630: intern #1 wants sign-out
0645: intern #2 wants sign-out
0700: do you want some coffee?
0750: is mr t your patient?
0755: is mr t your patient?
0915: is mr b going home?
1000: is mrs l going for her CT scan today?
1010: family of mr b wants to see you.
1050: mrs s just had blood in her stool.
1110: mr s just tried to escape.
1140: mr c has a bed in the psych hospital
1205: mr s just tried to escape again. then he tried to punch a nurse--"i'm no longer in the hospital."
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I'm curious. When you get paged to you have to call the operator or does it come up as text. Also, how do you page someone else?
ReplyDeletethe hospital has text paging capabilities, but this isn't utilized too much for reasons i cannot understand. it usually just comes up as a number on my pager, which i call back. to page someone else i dial their number, wait for the beep, dial the number i want them to call back, press pound, hang up, and wait for the call.
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