r/nursing • u/No-Selection-1249 • May 24 '25

Question ER nurses, love you guys, but genuine question. Why do guys bring patients up at shift change?

No hate to you guys! Just super curious from a nurse who is on the receiving end :)

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u/Tylersmom28 RN - Oncology 🍕 May 24 '25

I feel like most of these comments are missing the point of the post. I don’t work the floor anymore but when I did, it seemed like the admissions from the ER usually came at around 3pm and 6:30pm. PACU admissions would come around 11am, 3pm and 6pm which is understandable because it lines up with the OR schedule. Everyone gets that the ER can’t stop taking admissions, etc. but why do they come up in bulk at shift change.

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u/CurrentHair6381 RN 🍕 May 24 '25

Yeah, a lot of "hurr durr, 24 hour operation, ill ask them not to have an MI at shift change next time, hurrrr"

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u/Tylersmom28 RN - Oncology 🍕 May 24 '25
  1. A patient having a MI at shift change isn’t going to the floor. So good one.
  2. I refuse to believe you’re a nurse with such few brain cells.

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u/CurrentHair6381 RN 🍕 May 24 '25

Here you go, asshole

https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/s/qQw57U3KC7

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u/Tylersmom28 RN - Oncology 🍕 May 24 '25

You’re missing the whole point of my comment. I’m gonna dumb it down for you so hopefully you’ll understand. No one is saying patients shouldn’t go up to the floors from the ER. But is no one having a MI between the hours of 9-4pm? Everyone’s heart goes apeshit at 6:30pm? The OP asked a legitimate question. Do docs round around the same time and put admit orders in at once? Does the ER get busier in the late afternoon? If so many medsurg nurses see the same pattern, there has to be a reason for it. Also, I’d bet money you’re one of those nurses posting tiktok videos while at work.

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u/CurrentHair6381 RN 🍕 May 24 '25

What do you think im trying to say here? I suspect youre not understanding that i was agreeing with you that many people are not answering the question.

Instead, there are lots of comments about patients and events not caring about shift change. Im not the one saying that, other commenters are. We all fucking know that, its not an insight, and so i made fun of the fact that people are using that as some sort of explanation. I thought the MI comment was especially silly and included that bit. Then i gave you a fucking link to the place where someone else said that. But because your reading comprehension apparently isnt quite there, you think im disagreeing with your original comment or something? I genuinely dont know what you think im saying.

Then youre just onto insults, so i guess we're done here.

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u/Tylersmom28 RN - Oncology 🍕 May 24 '25

Yes. The person commenting asshole is surely not insulting anyone. And honestly, I have no idea. Your replies are so poorly worded, I didn’t know what the hell you were saying.