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I’m a recent medical graduate working on a inpatient child psych unit as a tech and had an overnight shift with a young nurse.
So shes the ONLY nurse on the unit and a young child wakes up out of bed C/O abdominal pain.
I knock on the door of the break room multiple times. No answer. I open the door and tried to use my voice. No answer. I had to touch her, damn near shake her to wake her up. She wakes startled because I “scared her”.
I tell her about the child, she quickly handles it and goes back to sleep in the break room. Then 10 - 15 minutes later and a female adolescent wakes up C/O of worsening abdominal pain.
I knock on the door twice. Didn’t hear anything and then proceeded to open the door thinking the nurse went back into deep sleep again. This time she opens the door from inside while I was trying to open it.
She handles the teenager and then comes to me and says in a less than friendly tone: “Don’t just open the door after knocking only twice, I’m on break. It’s disrespectful.”
Um what? So are “3 knocks” the magic number? Send help. Is there a certain way to handle this situation moving forward or is she just crazy?
Thanks
So shes the ONLY nurse on the unit and a young child wakes up out of bed C/O abdominal pain.
I knock on the door of the break room multiple times. No answer. I open the door and tried to use my voice. No answer. I had to touch her, damn near shake her to wake her up. She wakes startled because I “scared her”.
I tell her about the child, she quickly handles it and goes back to sleep in the break room. Then 10 - 15 minutes later and a female adolescent wakes up C/O of worsening abdominal pain.
I knock on the door twice. Didn’t hear anything and then proceeded to open the door thinking the nurse went back into deep sleep again. This time she opens the door from inside while I was trying to open it.
She handles the teenager and then comes to me and says in a less than friendly tone: “Don’t just open the door after knocking only twice, I’m on break. It’s disrespectful.”
Um what? So are “3 knocks” the magic number? Send help. Is there a certain way to handle this situation moving forward or is she just crazy?
Thanks
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