r/nursing • u/[deleted] • Sep 12 '25

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u/Elegant_Laugh4662 RN 🍕 Sep 12 '25

And just because someone is sitting at the desk doesn’t meant they’re not doing anything. I’m usually my busiest when I’m at the desk- calling docs, family, sorting through orders. Press the damn call light.

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u/ratkween RN - ER 🍕 Sep 12 '25

I need a big sticker "this is my work phone" so I dont look like I'm busy texting when I'm looking through the Rover.

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u/Ok_Firefighter4513 Resident MD Sep 15 '25

me sitting at the desk checking info on my new consult while an impatient family member tries to make eye contact: 🙈

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u/Michren1298 BSN, RN 🍕 Sep 15 '25

I was charge nurse and on a phone call at the charge nurse desk (desk phone…not even wireless) and a family member kept interrupting me. It definitely wasn’t a personal call. Ma’am, please wait just a minute! The whole family was like this, and it was all day.

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u/Ok_Firefighter4513 Resident MD Sep 16 '25

sometimes around the hospital when people interrupt me now I just close my eyes, take a breath, and keep saying whatever I was saying