Man, a lot of my patients have been dying lately. It seems like every shift I work, at least one of the people under my watch either crumps, codes or dies outright. It’s gotten bad: nurses jokingly shun me and other RTs jest that perhaps I should be assigned the patients who refuse to die.
But I didn’t realize how bad my reputation had gotten until this morning. I was standing in one of our RT offices sipping a cup of coffee when one of our RT students walked in. We hire RT students to do inventory and gopher work for us, and this one student has a reputation for being extremely quiet. Not so this morning. She walked into the office, flipped me a sweet smile, and then said…
“So…killed any of your patients yet today?”
You know it’s bad when even the students know. Maybe I’ll start putting notches in my stethoscope every time someone goes on my shift…if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!
Man, a lot of my patients have been dying lately. It seems like every shift I work, at least one of the people under my watch either crumps, codes or dies outright. It’s gotten bad: nurses jokingly shun me and other RTs jest that perhaps I should be assigned the patients who refuse to die.
But I didn’t realize how bad my reputation had gotten until this morning. I was standing in one of our RT offices sipping a cup of coffee when one of our RT students walked in. We hire RT students to do inventory and gopher work for us, and this one student has a reputation for being extremely quiet. Not so this morning. She walked into the office, flipped me a sweet smile, and then said…
“So…killed any of your patients yet today?”
You know it’s bad when even the students know. Maybe I’ll start putting notches in my stethoscope every time someone goes on my shift…if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!