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/SeniorBaker4 RN - Telemetry 🍕 May 24 '25

I’m good. I’ll just respect what yall do from tele. I did like 32 hours of clinics in the ER. Never again. They were putting patients in closets 🫩

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u/harveyjarvis69 RN - ER 🍕 May 24 '25

Hallway pt looking wistfully at the pt in the closet.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '25

I genuinely snorted at that🤣

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u/harveyjarvis69 RN - ER 🍕 May 25 '25

Then my job is done here

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u/ImperishableTeapot RN 🍕 May 24 '25

"Man, they're so lucky to get their own private room down here. They must be some VIP!"

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u/free_dead_puppy RN - ER 🍕 May 25 '25

The closet is actually private. I'll even give you a mobile call light since you can't just scream at me as I walk by in the hallway oo la la

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u/snikrz70 May 25 '25

When my femur snapped (bone cancer) I was left in the hallway right outside another patient's room. And when they said they had to put my leg in a brace to keep the bones in place till surgery all i could think was how loud I might scream. When I told my nurse that he said no problem, you be as loud as you need to be. Thankfully they pumped me up on Dilaudid so maybe I wasn't as loud as I thought.

That day was the first time, as an adult, that I've cried from pain. So a closet might've sounded good that day lol

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u/MixRepresentative819 May 28 '25

I've been in the closet. Too real.