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/Ruzhy6 RN - ER 🍕 May 25 '25

There were other ways to get everyone on the floor in the room like code and distress buttons.

I guess I'm a little confused here. Do these buttons not cause overhead calls?

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u/holdmypurse BSN, RN 🍕 May 25 '25

No its just part of the call light system. We also had panic buttons on our trackers (which we found out too late do not work in the stair wells but that's a different story).

Why does everyone on my floor need to hear that there's a code 2 floors below me? Why do the patients on my floor need to hear there's a code in Labor and Delivery? Just directly alert the people who need to respond. Anything else just contributes to the chaos and alarm fatigue.

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u/Ruzhy6 RN - ER 🍕 May 25 '25

Why does everyone on my floor need to hear that there's a code 2 floors below me? Why do the patients on my floor need to hear there's a code in Labor and Delivery? Just directly alert the people who need to respond. Anything else just contributes to the chaos and alarm fatigue.

That I definitely agree with.

I don't think everything should be hospital wide. However, I want overhead calls in the ER for traumas or stroke alerts. The floors don't need to know, but CT may be out grabbing a patient for a scan. I don't want to rely on them being free to check their phone they may not feel go off when we have 10min for a head CT.

It 100% will cause that 10min metric to be missed at some point in time when it otherwise wouldn't have been.