Signs That It’s Going To Be A Bad Shift

[ratel]

Signs That It’s Going To Be A Bad Shift

1. The ER stretchers are bloody and sticking out in the hallway.

2. The crash cart is covered in EKG paper and empty syringes, and all the drawers are open.

3. You meet a city or county cop in the elevator who asks for directions to your unit.

4. A nurse is filling out 3 incident reports and 5 med error sheets.

5. Bloody sheets and pillows are flowing out into the hallway from a patient’s room.

6. The Charge Nurse is yelling “Does anyone want overtime??!!”

7. The ambulances are double parked in front of the ED

8. On your way in, an agency nurse storms out and says “I’m never gonna work HERE again!!!!!!”

9. During report, the off going nurse reports that we are out of Pavulon and COFFEE!!!!!!

10. You walk into the trauma room, and the physician is actually doing something, like, with his hands and that could be taken as actual patient care.

[Pierrot_Le_Fou]

Or How about 5 of the 6 rigs being used dont work and you have three crews on.

[harleymedic]

How about the off going crew walking out the door laughing saying "Have fun!!"

[emt757]

I like it whenever you finally for once show up for work early and they just make you start working an hour before shift start because they are so busy... Or whenever you get called to dispatch and they are actually nice to you.. Then you know something is up lol

[mrmeaner]

When the crew calls you an hour before your shift to see if you could come in a little early, like NOW.

[rdelisle]

The police are at your base handing out riot gear and "strongly suggesting" that you wear it till told otherwise.

[rcadmedic]

or when you are just walking in the door, and you catch a non-breather. and it is actually not your shift yet but you get it anyway.

[Richard B the EMT]

Let me try an EMS style revamp of "it's going to be a bad day when..." jokes:

You know it's going to be a bad day, when:

1) You look out the front door to the station, and see a "60 Minutes" news crew setting up it's cameras, and Katie Couric looking at you while checking her clipboard.

2) You turn on the TV, and they are showing evacuation routes out of your city.

3) You report to your station, no private cars are in the lot, and all the ambulances, engines, ladder companies, and supervisors vehicles are not there, and your station is not on the mayor's list of facilities to be closed.

4) You note the bus depot across the street from your station is also empty of personnel, as well as private and company vehicles.

5) There's nobody in the streets, at mid day, on a Thursday, traditionally the busiest day for the mall in the next block.

[Just Plain Ruff]

or you get called in early to work and your first call is a bloody GI Bleed Code Blue followed by a 5 hour psych transfer to the only facility in the four state area that will consider taking this guy.

[SSG G-man]

You walk in and the previous crew is using almost the entire recent delivery of supplies to stock the box and they are replacing the on board O2 and all the portable O2 bottles on the box.