The needy nurse

There are many types of people in this world and it follows that there are many types of nurses.  The first type of nurse I would like to outline is the needy nurse.

This nurse needs help more than any other co-worker, hence, the name.  I know it sounds unbelievable but most of these nurses don't even know that they are needy.  So, in Jeff Foxworthy fashion, I will help you figure out if you are the needy nurse.

• If you go into an isolation room, don't have a saline flush and decide to vocera (a communication device nurses wear) a co-worker on the other side of the unit to get one for you, you might be a needy nurse.
• If you go into an isolation room, don't have an alcohol swab, and decide to vocera a co-worker on the other side of the unit to get one for you, you might be a needy nurse.
• If you page doctors to the unit secretary's line rather than the line you're sitting at, you might be a needy nurse.
• If you page doctors then immediately walk away from the phone you paged them to...
• If you find yourself asking co-workers to fetch you some linens, a gown, some wipes, some lotion...each one at a time, and separately...
• If you never have an easy day....(really, you never have an easy day?)...
• If your co-workers spend more time in your patient rooms than they do in their own...

You might be a needy nurse!

That was the short list.  Please stop being a needy nurse.  I don't mind helping but I have work to do too.  At least try to remember to go into your rooms prepared.  Thank you.