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Hi! That was probably the worst part about the night stay at the hospital. All I wanted to do was go home and sleep in my own bed. It was the longest night of my life.


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They're all very nice and professional, but could they please schedule their visits together? All night long it seems like someone is coming in every 45 minutes for something different. How's a guy supposed to sleep?
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Sry about that buddy but I'm a RN n we r required to check on our pts every hour....as a pt ik this but it was still annoying so I feel for yah. [emoji6]


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Right! Seemed like I just be dozing off and KNOCK KNOCK. I know it's their job but it's why I couldn't wait to go home. Plus it's a teaching hospital and I had the weirdest student who just sort of hung around and talked about inappropriate things. Awkward!
Hope you get to go home soon so you can get some rest.

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No kidding, that was pretty annoying but understand it, however, I was freaked out about not walking so I just made a point walk every time they took my vitals! What annoyed me more was all the beeping and flashing lights of the machines!

Didn't get any sleep but I was in only 1 night so not terrible. Glad that's over though :)

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Sorry, dude, but that's how it goes! [smile] The hard-working nurses and ancillary staff (respiratory therapists, etc) have many patients to care for all hours of the night. God bless them.

You'll survive the sleep interruptions and will have plenty of time when your return to your own bed. Better that they check on you as needed (or ordered), instead of leaving you there unattended, and you were having a complication, fever, bleeding, etc.

Be grateful for the process. You'll get more sleep at home. :-)

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The staff wasn't so bad during my stay the night of my surgery I was very groggy and tired but the elderly patients I guess were confused kept setting off bed exit alarms all night it was horrible.

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My RN checked on me every 2 hours. The nurse tech/assistant checked on me every two hours. But as you say...they weren't coordinated. So every hour someone was coming in. At some point the RN came in and I was sound asleep so he decided to let me sleep and came back an hour later when the tech was there too. This was around 5 am. Problem was that I had pills to take every 4 hours when I got home so it was about a week until I finished those and I finally got to sleep a whole night.

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Our hospital requires the nurses and nursing assistants to round on patient hourly from 7am to 11pm and then every 2 hours during the night. They alternate so one hour the NA comes in and the next hour the RN comes in. I was used to it from having the same routine when I was in for the birth of my kids, 4 days with my daughter of this.

Also while I was in I had a roommate the first night and she was having some issues. She had had thyroid surgery and wasn't able to speak and was having breathing issues so they were in all night checking on her, doing tests, having the on-call physician and Respiratory therapist check her, having the speech therapist in and then she had to get breathing treatments every 2 hours. It was awful.

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I had the same complaints. Luckily I had an awesome nurse who I begged to leave me alone for 3 hours to sleep and he coordinated it so all the assistants and such left me alone for 3 glorious hours of sleep.

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I guess I shouldn't have complained, I was fortunate to have a private room and they kept the door shut.

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Hi! That was probably the worst part about the night stay at the hospital. All I wanted to do was go home and sleep in my own bed. It was the longest night of my life.




I couldn't agree more! I was so determined to not stay a second night it was my mission finish my Protein Shake so I could go home to my own bed.


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thats better than i had, i layed in the room 7 hours before i got a sip of Water, then it was hell to get anyone to unhook me to use the restroom, or walk, sometimes waiting 45 minutes after i hit the call button

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thats better than i had, i layed in the room 7 hours before i got a sip of Water, then it was hell to get anyone to unhook me to use the restroom, or walk, sometimes waiting 45 minutes after i hit the call button

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That is not acceptable at all! So sorry you had to go thru that

Ta Rena

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