Use your call light - Wisely

19 Dear patients,

Your call-light is like the magical lamp in the Disney movie Aladdin ....you only get three wishes. In this case you only get 3 times to use the call light per 12-hour nurse's shift. Please choose your times appropriately and for real serious issues only. In an effort to maintain the mental sanity of the nurse caring for you, your call light might need to be removed if you abuse the right of having one.

If only life could work like that, hehehehe!
I think a call light should be like a PCA pump. Use it too often and you are frozen for a period of time.

As if call light abuse isn't bad enough, for a while, our department head was making us write our phone's direct extension on the patient's whiteboard so they could call us directly whenever they wanted.Who THINKS of these things?

Yikes! I hope you wrote your department head's extension on a few whiteboards!

oy with the call bells. its almost like they know its change of shift. never fails. everyones bowel and bladder are syncd with change of shift

Call light more than 3 times per hour sounds like a request to go home to me.

oh in a perfect world....A selective call bell system..for example,when thecall bell rings, theyhave an automated choice.... Enter 1 if you are calling to say you have to crapAGAIN.Enter 2 if you are calling to say you have alreadys**t (this a totallydifferent problem).Enter 3 if youare a drug seeking a$$hole and arerequesting morphine.Enter 4 if your crazy family is here and they wantto speak with me.Enter 5 if you feel like complaining and think Igive a damn.Enter 6 if you dropped your tissue box again andthink I am coming inanytime soon to pick it up.Enter 7 if you think I am a damn waitress andwill get you the meal youactually ordered.Enter 8 if your IV is beeping again becauseyou just can't seem to remember to keep your******* arm straight no matterhow many times we tell you.Enter 9 if you think Nurses walk on water, youhaven't calledsince you have come in,you hate to bother me, yourfamily is normal, youARE having crushing chest pain and think you aregoing to die....I'll be rightthere.Do not hit 9 when you meant to hit 2. You willwish you did die!

The call bell is now attached to a taser. Any abuse of it, calling for the nurse when you need an aid or calling out for pillow fluffing..... Will result in electric shocks.... Anyone needing clarification as to the call bell working......press the call bell

Quote from abbakingDear patients,Your call-light is like the magical lamp in the Disney movie Aladdin ....you only get three wishes. In this case you only get 3 times to use the call light per 12-hour nurse's shift. Please choose your times appropriately and for real serious issues only. In an effort to maintain the mental sanity of the nurse caring for you, your call light might need to be removed if you abuse the right of having one. If only life could work like that, hehehehe!

This one of the few (ok many) reasons why I love working NICU vs Med-Surg Still have nightmares from call bell abuse though........lol

@ vashtee...the people that do not have to answer the call light. hehehee

Do you ever come home and hear the call bells echoing in your head, while in the shower? Do you actually stop to listen and think, who the heck is ringing this time? I do...

I would MUCH rather they use their call light than send family/friends to the desk, however. THAT un-nerves me a bit.