Why does the craziest stuff always happen on nightshift?

tallaght01

I've just been on nights for the last few weeks, and I was wondering why all the craziest stuff in a hospital always happen on nightshift. On my last 3 nightshifts I've just had the following:

1) a baby with a hypoplastic left heart-undiagnosed antenatally

2) a baby with a severe diaphragmatic hernia-undiagnosed antenatally

3) Twins born out of the blue at 24 weeks gestation

One of those things happened every night for the last 3 nights.

These kiddies have no idea of the stresses they cause me, the little swines :P

Dr Galen

i hear you on this one......
i did a lovely week of nights few months back.

6 of the 7 nights were grand, finished early and all the patients slept great.

Monday morning while having a cuppa and a fag in the unit garden all hell broke loose.

At 5am one gent suffered what turned out to be a massive heart attack, while at 0515, another client had a very nasty stroke.

one to ccu one to icu all by 0600.............

Wishbone Ash

tallaght01 wrote:

why all the craziest stuff in a hospital always happen on nightshift

Full moon.

tallaght01

It really bugs me the way more and more people are calling our patients "clients". Not having a go at you at all, Baz, as that's what you get told to call them during training. I just think it sounds artificial. It's an attempt by certain people to make themselves feel more professional (ie layers and accountants have clients, so we should too). I think the patients prefer the term "patients", but I could be wrong. What does the panel think? Most ppl probably won't care what we call them as long as they come out the other end in one piece, but it would be interesting to hear others' views.

I've hijacked me own thread here lol, I'll mebbe start another one on this topic tomorrow, coz I'm hittin the sack now :P

simu

tallaght01 wrote:

It really bugs me the way more and more people are calling our patients "clients". Not having a go at you at all, Baz, as that's what you get told to call them during training. I just think it sounds artificial. It's an attempt by certain people to make themselves feel more professional (ie layers and accountants have clients, so we should too). I think the patients prefer the term "patients", but I could be wrong. What does the panel think? Most ppl probably won't care what we call them as long as they come out the other end in one piece, but it would be interesting to hear others' views.

"Patients" sounds more caring imo. "Clients" make it sound like they're trying to squeeze the last eurodolla out of you.

Wishbone Ash

tallaght01 wrote:

It really bugs me the way more and more people are calling our patients "clients"

'Patients' who are not physically sick are usually referred to as 'clients'. But I agree, it's an awful word but it's not as bad as 'service users'. :eek:

Dr Galen

ha ha
the only reason i used clients there was because i have this OCD type thing about the same words being underneath each other on the screen. u get me?

i agree i don't like it either, they're patients to me in the normal course of things

AnnaStezia

Most clients/patients/service users are also known as VOTERS.

I hope that they all remember this in a few months time and use that piece of power in preference to belly-aching about medical services for another five years until the next election. Grrrrrrrrrr........:)