Nights on ortho. Room 14 has been empty for three days. Call light went off at 2:47 two nights in a row. Maintenance says nothing's wrong with it. Tonight it went off at 2:47 again and our tech refused to go answer it alone so we went in a group of four like idiots holding flashlights.
Nothing there obviously. Charge nurse just said "whoever you are we're full, try 6 north" and it hasn't gone off since.
Every night shift has one room like this right? Which one is yours and what does it do?
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Post replyWrite down the exact times and dates and give it to facilities in writing. 'It's haunted' gets ignored but a log showing 0247 three nights straight gets someone to actually pull the system logs. Also your charge nurse is a legend.
Ours is the clean utility door that swings open by itself around 0300. Every unit has one.
Did anyone pass in 14 recently? Asking for very scientific reasons.
Old MICU, room 9. We had a long-term patient there for almost four months who used to tap the side rail when she wanted someone. After she passed we kept hearing tapping from that room on quiet nights. Biomed checked everything twice. Eventually one of the older nurses started saying 'we hear you, Miss Dot' every time, and it stopped. I don't believe in this stuff and I still said it too.
Meanwhile I have six patients and real call lights going off every four minutes and nobody's forming a group of four with flashlights to answer those.
Not to ruin the fun, but 2:47 every night sounds like something on a timer. Ask maintenance whether the nurse call system runs a nightly test or reboot around then. Ours did exactly this for a month after a software update.