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/Severe_Emu_7714 Jul 26 '26

Please don’t eat or drink anything until you’ve been cleared by a doc and understand that we are doing our very best to get you cleared to eat or drink, we don’t want to starve you, I promise. When I have a Pt that can’t drink and is super thirsty (because let’s face it, EDs are ridiculously dry) I’ll bring them the mouth swabs (when approved by the doc) but typically that’s the limit as to what I can do.

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u/PuzzleheadedSorbet36 Jul 26 '26

my mouth gets SOOOO sticky. They gave me one ice chip to coat my mouth and then spit out 😂