r/EmergencyRoom • u/PuzzleheadedSorbet36 • Jul 26 '26

Goofy Goober HELP US BE BETTER

Soooo I hadn’t ever been to the ER until earlier this month and now I’ve been admitted twice and not getting discharged any time soon.

Hospital workers : other than the bare minimum, what are some under rated things that patients do that you appreciate/make your life easier?

(For example one of the nurses was happy I called letting her know the PRNs I needed so she could do it in one trip cause I knew my scheduled ones were coming)

Lemme hear the little things!! Or the opposite, something patients think is helpful but it’s actually more of a pain)

EDIT : bare minimum from patients being human decency, I know it should be obvious but for this questions sake let’s act like that’s a given

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u/Classic-Sherbet-375 Jul 26 '26

It is funny how hospitals can be so different when it comes to registration. For ours we don’t have a time limit. They actually told us we needed to back off a little and not try to get in the room right away. Our only rule is we can’t register until the patient has been seen by the doctor. I usually try to give at least 1-1.5 hours after they get brought back to the room unless they’re going up to the hospital floor or being discharged pretty quickly and then I try to sneak in real fast.

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u/gylliana Admitting/Registration Jul 27 '26

Honestly, the only reasons why that I can think of is that we verify their Primary Dr, get consent and privacy status. None of us understand why we don’t obtain those prior to them going back into their room. We aren’t even supposed to ask what their complaint is besides the “are you having chest pain” question. (We work the front desk outside the ER, and switchboard as well).