Starting watch in the navy. Same thing! How was your watch? Pretty quiet mostly people going on liberty. And you just know that you are going to have to deal with a bunch of drunks.
Yeah, but EMS is one of the few examples where "There was nothing to do last shift" doesn't translate to "There was a shitload to do and we didn't do any of it."
as someone who reluctantly worked nightshifts at a nursing home, its a pain cause of all the paperwork and other bs just to give someone an aspirin, most of the stuff just goes "call an ambo and let the hospital deal", one night i made coffee for the paramedics cause of how often we kept calling them back for this ONE person who insisted on needing an ambulance, then refusing the go when they showed up
I've made the dark joke before that geriatric health care is like the world's most morbid game of hot potato. No one wants to be holding them when the timer stops. Also, you are an absolute champ with the coffee thing. That is seriously awesome!
@@atiqahdiyana5665 The joke is that care home nurses often call 911 over things that aren't _technically_ "healthy parameters" but in patients with multiple long term problems (aka "old people"). We respond, tell them that's normal for the patient, they tell us they want it checked out anyway, we transport them to hospital, they have one patient worth of workload less. Works like a charm for them...
Aww man. Same thing happens when I worked in retail and at a Starbucks. Literally as soon as one of our coworkers would say, "Man it's really quiet today" we'd all collectively groan, glare at them and start crossing ourselves and knocking on wood because we knew they just jinxed us and we were about to be kicked in the ass with customers, call offs, and shit going south. Same thing with customers who'd be like, "Wow it's really dead today. It's never this dead. Usually I have to wait in a long line." Thanks lady now we're cursed. Seriously. Don't tempt fate. Just take the moment and enjoy while it lasts. Cause it won't be for long.
My pre-closer said it. And ten minutes later, my one espresso machine shuts itself off. Not rest mode, not cleaning mode… OFF. Weirdly, everyone wanted tea. Or something that didn’t need espresso or anything steamed… I’ll take it!
The nursing home one got me bad. Gotta love the 5 go to responses you get at a nursing home. "I just got here" "This isn't my floor" "That isn't my patient" "They were like that when I got here" "He was fine just a second ago"
“ he’s on hospice so we don’t do vitals “ The one that always drove me berserk was the tone that would drop in the gloaming of the twilight dawn; “Respond to (insert nursing home here) for an unconscious/unresponsive resident.” PMH As the nurse was walking down the hall at oh dark 30 she muttered “good morning“ to an elderly resident who was sound asleep with her hearing aids out, and when they didn’t receive an instant response, they decided that granny gums is unconscious and unresponsive and hit the panic button!
I don't know how to feel about these reports from other countries. On the one hand it let's me know that it isn't just my local area's care homes that are this way, which is comforting - but on the other hand: if it is something that exists in so many countries, then it can't be a simple policy change to fix it, so that's discouraging... :/
Omg the nursing home one. I work at one and cried like a baby when my favorite patient had to be sent out. I had to give his history and everything. The EMS could barely look at me. He passed unfortunately. I swear it took them 30 minutes to intubate him in the parking lot before they drove off. He’ll always be my first and favorite patient ❤
How can that take 30 Minutes thats impossible, its a Single motion that takes 5 seconds if done slowly, and if you fail the second attempt Ur not supposed to retry with a larnyx again so how in the fuck did it take them 30 Minuten im genuinly Wonderring 😂
@@paz1261I have no clue. Maybe the person who told me that had the wrong information. I wonder why else they would sit there for so long before leaving
This is me when I worked as a lifeguard and the rotation before me actually got to eat their lunch. Then I get on "break" and 3 people decide to drown. Classic.
A break is a break. Maybe you need more lifeguards so that you can actually have a break. I guess to create better job conditions you’ll have to let a few people drown. Tough luck.
@@PuresG1ft it doesn't work like that. I'm sure all my fellow first responders can agree. If someone is dying, everybody available needs to help, period. To put it into perspective for you, we need the guard who jumped in stand covered, so that's one break gaurd already sprinting to the stand. If is an unconscious, then we need lifeguards to herd everyone out of the pools and lazy river, and we all know what people are like, so that's gonna take a min. So while about 16 gaurds are working on that, the slide guards are getting the trauma bag and backboard. Which means the two other break guards are jumping in the water to help get the person out safely. The major would be calling EMS to get here and hurry the fuck up and the 2 head guards and pool supervisor would be on crowd control to get people to back the fuck up. To the next step, resue breathing, chest compressions, and CPR can get tiring after about 5-8 mins, so we need people to switch out and also keep track of the steps to report to ems once there get there. That's just an unconscious senrio, now imagine a spinal or head injury in the water. You see what I'm saying? Everyone wants to shit on lifeguards for being efficient, when they have no idea the amount of shit we deal with. Like I'm sry, but if someone is dying, and u think sitting in the guardroom and not helping in some way is acceptable because "your on break" like, get out of here. That is the quickest way to get fired. We have over 100 lifeguards, and every single time it's not enough. Getting more lifeguards isn't the problem, people being stupid and not reading the 12" deep sign, is the problem. Parents not watching there kids is the problem. Getting fucking paid $10 an hour is the god damn problem. Because no body wants to save a kid, just for the parent to scream at your, for 10 an hour.
@@devalation1327 You misunderstood me and I wasn’t shitting on lifeguards or any other first responders. Obviously you’re doing this job because you want to help people and that is amazing but currently you’re all treated and paid like shit and considering the last two or three years especially… that’s really sad because “you” risked your lifes even more for us than you usually do. Something in that needs to change and, maybe, we can’t have “enough” personal but we can atleast treat them better. I’m not working in any related field but so I can’t comment on your numbers game there but I’d rather have 50 well paid guards sitting around than having one person drown or die of whatever. Ofcourse people are “always” going to be a problem but that’s just how we work. My initial comment was merely a dark joke directed at your working conditions but it wasn’t meant to shit on you or any other first responders - quite the opposite. Sorry if it came across differently and thank you for your service.
The week before I gave birth to my son, I went to the delivery ward a few times for checkups (I was past my due date). The midwives were more and more anxious because there were next to no births. And lo and and behold, the next week everyone was popping them like pocorn. 😂
0:10 BIG reason to worry. I've never taken a perfect 120/80 and neither has anyone in a crew that I was working on. If a nursing home reports a 120/80 you know they didn't actually take it and it's usually going to be really high or really low.
At one of my last jobs, all our local hospitals wanted transfer vitals taken on their machine (the ones on the IV type pole on wheels, with NIBP and Pulse Ox and temp and whatnot). Usually as soon as we wheel them in, one will get that while the other talks to the charge nurse. Once the machine spat out a nice 120/80... we took it again and it was still like 118/80 or something like that but still lol
Can confirm, you got that 100% right! I look at any other nurse who gives me that bullshit number with suspicion immediately and go take it again myself... 120/80 my arse, Julie! Just have some balls and tell me you didn't do it, ok? Don't treat me like a moron!
@@simonnachreiner8380they are probably in pain. Give them pain medication, monitor, and then reevaluate. For most elderly, I would be more worried about a BP of 100/60.
Ah those "Frequent Flyers"! I worked at a big medical clinic and one of my duties was to pull all the uploaded reports from the night before from ER/EMS, sort them, put the serious ones on the doctors desktops. There was some super funny shit sometimes about the "Frequent Flyers" Stuff like "We were called out to Mrs. A's home where she said her toaster was spying on her and her son stealing her metamucil. We are well acquainted with Mrs. A as she calls us every night or two. Transported for high blood pressure, delusional behavior."
The medicine Mrs. A gets helps her become smarter eh? No not at all, she can't logically reason her toaster is NOT spying on her and can not logically reason no one would steal her metamucil.
Good for the folks involved to have this awareness of Mrs A's baseline. That way you'll know to be newly concerned if she calls to say her metamucil has stolen her son and is spying on the toaster.
I know someone whose downstairs neighbour called the police because she thought he was opening up the water pipes and putting poison in them. (Just to be clear, he wasn't.)
@@wizardsuth All you have to do is have your pressure slightly higher than the incoming pressure and yes you can poison a city block or more. But the equipment would cost a lot of money.
Ah yes....happens in IT support, too. I distinctly remember one night shift that was unusually calm (avoiding the "Q" word here, lest I invoke Murph's raving psychopath brother....). Only one or two calls, and one of them had dialed the wrong number. So I just put on some music and worked on some tickets that had come in the previous day in but there were not that many. Ended my shift with only a handful that were still on "waiting for cx feedback". So, come shift change I filled out my handover, clocked out and went outside for a chat, a smoke and to finish my coffee before heading home. Seconds later, some dude pokes his head in and half yells at me something to the effect of "What the HELL have you been doing last night?!? The ticket queue is packed to the brim and the phone line just started exploding, and everyone is getting yelled at that nobody was available all night!" Turns out that at some point the previous evening around 10 or 11 (so before my shift started) when things always wind down a little, some system had quietly pooped its pants and quit, leading to emails not being pushed into the ticket queue and callers ending up on permanent hold or being dumped from the phone queue. As soon as the IT admin staff came in that morning, they saw what had happened, rectified the issue and BOOM, all hell broke loose. We were short that morning and so I clocked back in for an hour or so, until the worst was over and reinforcements had arrived. But the rest of the day was still pretty intense from what I heard.
We had a super quiet day once, the quietest anyone could ever recall in the LAN/WAN shop. Even my IA line was quiet. Turned out a 1" water pipe broke, the water ran along the calcium carbonate layer just under the desert sand and it filled the manhole with the main trunk for the telephone system, disabling the entire base's telephone system. When asked about a contingency plan for flooding, I actually blurted out, "Whoinhell has a flooding plan for a Persian Gulf desert nation?!", the General chuckled and agreed. We developed one immediately. Two weeks later, we had to adjust that plan, as a power distribution transformer failed, dropping power to our facility. The building UPS was still down, needed a literal room full of batteries that was never budgeted for, but the standby generator - tested just before the Great Flood - failed. The underground tank was full of water, the diesel happily heading through the sand and back to the wells... Thankfully, Qatar isn't a dry country and I had a liquor license!
I've had a few IT pager shifts were I thought, "It's quiet... too quiet..." but luckily nothing was actually down or I hadn't forgotten to set up for my shift. I'm going to be paranoid next time it's quiet now lol
@@boss9mustang404 That's when someone says: "You know, it's been really q***t around here. Not many calls." That's always shortly followed by tones. Often, lots of them.
I have been told to NEVER tell a first responder/EMT "Hope you have an easy night!" It's like saying "Good Luck" to an actor. You have cursed them in the worst way without even realizing it.
THIS. If the off-going crew tells you they had an unusually chill shift, you just know you’re about to have your shift’s worth of calls plus all the calls they DIDN’T have, and then some.
I'm a paramedic, whenever someone new said "Awfully quiet tonight". Everyone would say: " Oh come on man, don't jinx it". And rightly after we would get a call and move out.
"two beers" is a meme among police too, specified as the exact amount it takes someone to blow a .25, crash into 12 cars, fight six cops, spend three days sobering up in jail and end up getting month and a half suspended sentence.
Most unpopular Public service announcement ever: "please avoid getting drunk or high.. lighten up a little with recreational substances if you must, yet, willfully going off the deep end so strangers have to clean up the mess makes life .. simply, a living hell. If you must throw all caution to the wind, please do so before 8 pm. Thanks." All first responders.
The nurses in our local pediatric monitoring ward (aka "The Kiddy Drunk Tank") have a very ... educational method of caring for underage drunks: They undress them, put them in a diaper and a hospital gown and put them into a bed with rails (is that the correct english term for the saftey things on hospital beds?) - but they do not give them any fluids or meds unless absolutely neccessary. So they usually wake up naked, confused and with a drumming headache in a bed they don't know with rails on both sides. The nurses swear it marks the "okay, that was too much" point for most of them :)
@@MrDSkreet If you've ever been in a hospital gown you know that you are basically naked without being naked. They put them in diapers and a hospital gown (as stated). And trust me - the "immediate medical need" is easily found with 99% of them: The clothes they come with are usually soaked with booze, vomit and god knows what else.
As a current night shifter (and former professional alcoholic, talkin a liter of Jameson daily, around 3 if it was a weekend) its because everyone you care about is asleep. You think that your sins during those hours wont hurt anyone. Right up until the ambo arrival at 5am.
Had a friend who used to date an assisted living nurse, and one time she had to take over for someone in the 'watch them all the time' area, basically one step below being taken to a hospital. When she got there and saw all the regular checks were filled out identically, she knew something was wrong. Sure enough, the patient had been dead for hours and they had just silenced the alarms. At least this was punished. The place was sold to new management who actually enforced rules like this, because this wasn't the only time this had happened.
I’m in Australia (studying to become a paramedic now) But when my dad was a fireman for 30years his face would almost go white when someone would say this because it always I mean always was a rough night that night 🤣🤣🤣😅
I once had to reprimand a nurse in a retirement home for the elderly because she called an urgent ambulance via the 112 (European emergency number) system because regular patient transport took too long for an unplanned ride. her face changed to "karen mode" because I dared to speak to her like that
Yep, SOOOO true. Few shifts back the offgoing shift would say they only ran 1 or none and we were SCREWED!!! A and B shifts would sit around all day and sleep all night and my shift would average 7 to 10 calls. Being a rural dept, each call is almost a guaranteed 2 hour turn around so 10 calls is a bitch to deal with
Blood pressure at a nursing home? That’s cute. Often has not the patient is on hospice and nobody’s checked vitals since before they checked in! Why, you may ask, are we transporting a hospice patient to the hospital? Because the family is all Twitterpated about those funny gasping sounds and the alarming shade of cerulean blue their dearly beloved with an acute case of TMB is turning!
Medsurge nurse here, I get those types of patients sometimes, really moving the patient at all causes so much stress it usually shortens their life to a week or 2. People should really be more comfortable with death in general so theyre more equipped to deal with it when it smacks them in the face inevitably
@@1323GamerTV Now there’s a plain fact. People have become so divorced from death that they have some really bizarre expectations about it, mostly about sanitizing it and making it not emotionally or psychically painful.
Lol I remember doing work at a warehousing company that pushed out Amplifier boards. I’m part of the swing shift. So when morning shift says “Product orders have been slow today”. That translated to “get ready for the rush orders” 😭
Oh god the nursing home is so true XD It's amazing how patients always have exactly 120/80 BP, 80 Pulse, 12 resp, & 99% O2 before they transfer care to you.
0:10 I JUST realized the hilarious visual joke you threw in there along with that BS 120/80 guess-timate! The nursing home a**hole is holding the headset and the chestpiece in two separate parts! LMFAO! Genius, my man!
"his blood pressure was 120/80" is a sentence I never tought could scare anyone, poor first responders. Also HUGE respect for all you first responders out there. Coming from a nurse, I know how hard your job is and that we often don't make it easier aswell, but thank you all for your suffering ❤
@@quinndirks5653 frequent flyers are people who spend a lot of time in the hospital. My sister is a blind dialysis patient and has become a frequent flyer in the last couple of years. There are times when she'll spend close to a week if not longer in the hospital. Sometimes the term can refer homeless people who use the hospital for a warm bed and a meal for the night.
@@thefarmista what's even more fun is having someone confess to having marijuana onboard and having a police officer who happened to be there say "that's okay, we don't judge, any more"
This is why I always make sure to do all the shit that's even like halfway towards needing done. Whole lotta clean rigs, empty garbage, clean toilets and M tank O2 cylinders replaced at 1400PSI when I have a "relaxed" evening.
Yeah, nothing worse than getting on the rig and discovering the heaping mess the previous shift left - after having been told they slept a total of 10 hours. I really like most of my co-workers, even on the other shifts, but in these moments I could kill every single one of them...
Well 2nd Watch coming on today should be relatively safe... We had a building fire call last night ~0200 that turned out to be minor (first in engine and ladder were able to handle, cancelled the rest of the alarm), but then again we only had 1 other medical and 1 lift assist SO.... could go either way. Probably just means our next shift (after the 4 day we just started) will be slammed...
You mean 3am, when grandma needs to go because of her weak bladder but doesn't like to bother the staff, because "they'll surely be sleeping"...? Yeah, I know falls o'clock -.-
@@superbananas7792 Yeah, but 5am are usually the elderly fallers NOT in a home. Because those are grandma and grandpa who still live their pre-war time regiment of breakfast at 6, lunch at 12, dinner at 18, bed after the evening news.
Anytime the other shift told us they didn't "turn a wheel"... the old saying about the longer it's been since your last fire, the closer you are to your next one comes into play.
omg, I love EMS, my neighbor two doors down called and refused them so many times one night, when he wouldn't even open the door the responder yelled, "If you call us one more fkg(!) time tonight, we'll have you arrested!" This was at 2:30am and he'd started calling them at like 6pm. Btw, harassing emergency services or reporting a false emergency would be the charge It's usually not necessary, most FFs just need their medication. I met one while training in the city that had a chronically infected leg amputation (below knee), who called EMS to get his drainage pump cleaned out about once a week. Many are just lonely
If I'm understanding it correctly, frequent fliers are those who are always calling 9-1-1 for an ambulance or some other apparatus. I think they tend to be older people, as well.
ah yes, this applies to every profession I feel. "there was nothing to do last shift" always translates to "prepare for devastation."
Starting watch in the navy. Same thing! How was your watch? Pretty quiet mostly people going on liberty. And you just know that you are going to have to deal with a bunch of drunks.
Bike shop; "previous day's notes, all quiet got through everything, no problems" that day; wall to wall people from open till close.
Yeah, but EMS is one of the few examples where "There was nothing to do last shift" doesn't translate to "There was a shitload to do and we didn't do any of it."
I mean not really.
I mean its shit like Emergency responders and Nurses/docs vs working at Starbucks.
Slightly different levels of devastation there.
@@MurasakiTsukimaru It does happen elsewhere when you don't have lazy coworkers. I've been there.
as someone who reluctantly worked nightshifts at a nursing home, its a pain cause of all the paperwork and other bs just to give someone an aspirin, most of the stuff just goes "call an ambo and let the hospital deal", one night i made coffee for the paramedics cause of how often we kept calling them back for this ONE person who insisted on needing an ambulance, then refusing the go when they showed up
Having worked at an ER I hate you and living next to a nursing home I feel for you.
I've made the dark joke before that geriatric health care is like the world's most morbid game of hot potato. No one wants to be holding them when the timer stops.
Also, you are an absolute champ with the coffee thing. That is seriously awesome!
Call an ambulance, but not for me
ya you never let ANYONE refuse on a night shift
@@Just_Waitin_For_A_Mate Said with a dull and bored tone of voice!
Notice how he said that they slept all night. He never said they didn’t get any calls
Now that's a scary thought 🤣
OH NO IT APPEARS MY RADIO WASN'T WORKING.
This isn’t PD.
😂😂😂😆😆😭
Scp-6587 the sleepy fire station.
He is such great actor.
The drunk: t-t-two beearsss
😂
You mean beers?
his blood pressure is 120/80....oh dear god he's perfectly fine
don't forget the "low grade fever" of 99.3
or the high blood sugar of 185 directly after dinner
so, um...why exactly did you call us????
Right???? I was so confused. Is that just a thing?
@@atiqahdiyana5665 The joke is that care home nurses often call 911 over things that aren't _technically_ "healthy parameters" but in patients with multiple long term problems (aka "old people"). We respond, tell them that's normal for the patient, they tell us they want it checked out anyway, we transport them to hospital, they have one patient worth of workload less. Works like a charm for them...
Aww man. Same thing happens when I worked in retail and at a Starbucks. Literally as soon as one of our coworkers would say, "Man it's really quiet today" we'd all collectively groan, glare at them and start crossing ourselves and knocking on wood because we knew they just jinxed us and we were about to be kicked in the ass with customers, call offs, and shit going south. Same thing with customers who'd be like, "Wow it's really dead today. It's never this dead. Usually I have to wait in a long line." Thanks lady now we're cursed. Seriously. Don't tempt fate. Just take the moment and enjoy while it lasts. Cause it won't be for long.
My pre-closer said it. And ten minutes later, my one espresso machine shuts itself off. Not rest mode, not cleaning mode… OFF.
Weirdly, everyone wanted tea. Or something that didn’t need espresso or anything steamed… I’ll take it!
Genis. Will keep in mind when I open my own restaurant
The nursing home one got me bad. Gotta love the 5 go to responses you get at a nursing home.
"I just got here"
"This isn't my floor"
"That isn't my patient"
"They were like that when I got here"
"He was fine just a second ago"
“ he’s on hospice so we don’t do vitals “
The one that always drove me berserk was the tone that would drop in the gloaming of the twilight dawn; “Respond to (insert nursing home here) for an unconscious/unresponsive resident.” PMH As the nurse was walking down the hall at oh dark 30 she muttered “good morning“ to an elderly resident who was sound asleep with her hearing aids out, and when they didn’t receive an instant response, they decided that granny gums is unconscious and unresponsive and hit the panic button!
So true😭😭😭
I don't know how to feel about these reports from other countries. On the one hand it let's me know that it isn't just my local area's care homes that are this way, which is comforting - but on the other hand: if it is something that exists in so many countries, then it can't be a simple policy change to fix it, so that's discouraging... :/
@@QemeH its amazing how little these places are regulated. It should be the same level as a hospital in terms of how often they are inspected smh...
Just got told a war story in emt school.. instructor got a call at a nursing home for a guy w/ a c/c of foot pain. Dude was dead.
Omg the nursing home one. I work at one and cried like a baby when my favorite patient had to be sent out. I had to give his history and everything. The EMS could barely look at me. He passed unfortunately. I swear it took them 30 minutes to intubate him in the parking lot before they drove off. He’ll always be my first and favorite patient ❤
How can that take 30 Minutes thats impossible, its a Single motion that takes 5 seconds if done slowly, and if you fail the second attempt Ur not supposed to retry with a larnyx again so how in the fuck did it take them 30 Minuten im genuinly Wonderring 😂
@@paz1261I have no clue. Maybe the person who told me that had the wrong information. I wonder why else they would sit there for so long before leaving
This is me when I worked as a lifeguard and the rotation before me actually got to eat their lunch. Then I get on "break" and 3 people decide to drown. Classic.
As a fellow guard, this happens to me a lot during the summer.
where you guys lifeguard
A break is a break. Maybe you need more lifeguards so that you can actually have a break.
I guess to create better job conditions you’ll have to let a few people drown. Tough luck.
@@PuresG1ft it doesn't work like that. I'm sure all my fellow first responders can agree. If someone is dying, everybody available needs to help, period. To put it into perspective for you, we need the guard who jumped in stand covered, so that's one break gaurd already sprinting to the stand. If is an unconscious, then we need lifeguards to herd everyone out of the pools and lazy river, and we all know what people are like, so that's gonna take a min. So while about 16 gaurds are working on that, the slide guards are getting the trauma bag and backboard. Which means the two other break guards are jumping in the water to help get the person out safely. The major would be calling EMS to get here and hurry the fuck up and the 2 head guards and pool supervisor would be on crowd control to get people to back the fuck up.
To the next step, resue breathing, chest compressions, and CPR can get tiring after about 5-8 mins, so we need people to switch out and also keep track of the steps to report to ems once there get there.
That's just an unconscious senrio, now imagine a spinal or head injury in the water. You see what I'm saying? Everyone wants to shit on lifeguards for being efficient, when they have no idea the amount of shit we deal with.
Like I'm sry, but if someone is dying, and u think sitting in the guardroom and not helping in some way is acceptable because "your on break" like, get out of here. That is the quickest way to get fired.
We have over 100 lifeguards, and every single time it's not enough. Getting more lifeguards isn't the problem, people being stupid and not reading the 12" deep sign, is the problem. Parents not watching there kids is the problem. Getting fucking paid $10 an hour is the god damn problem. Because no body wants to save a kid, just for the parent to scream at your, for 10 an hour.
@@devalation1327 You misunderstood me and I wasn’t shitting on lifeguards or any other first responders. Obviously you’re doing this job because you want to help people and that is amazing but currently you’re all treated and paid like shit and considering the last two or three years especially… that’s really sad because “you” risked your lifes even more for us than you usually do.
Something in that needs to change and, maybe, we can’t have “enough” personal but we can atleast treat them better. I’m not working in any related field but so I can’t comment on your numbers game there but I’d rather have 50 well paid guards sitting around than having one person drown or die of whatever.
Ofcourse people are “always” going to be a problem but that’s just how we work.
My initial comment was merely a dark joke directed at your working conditions but it wasn’t meant to shit on you or any other first responders - quite the opposite. Sorry if it came across differently and thank you for your service.
The week before I gave birth to my son, I went to the delivery ward a few times for checkups (I was past my due date). The midwives were more and more anxious because there were next to no births. And lo and and behold, the next week everyone was popping them like pocorn. 😂
0:10 BIG reason to worry. I've never taken a perfect 120/80 and neither has anyone in a crew that I was working on. If a nursing home reports a 120/80 you know they didn't actually take it and it's usually going to be really high or really low.
My blood pressure is almost always 118 - 68 or very close (while NOT under stress.
I have doesn't even matter anyways 120/80 isn't the set perfect.
At one of my last jobs, all our local hospitals wanted transfer vitals taken on their machine (the ones on the IV type pole on wheels, with NIBP and Pulse Ox and temp and whatnot). Usually as soon as we wheel them in, one will get that while the other talks to the charge nurse. Once the machine spat out a nice 120/80... we took it again and it was still like 118/80 or something like that but still lol
Can confirm, you got that 100% right! I look at any other nurse who gives me that bullshit number with suspicion immediately and go take it again myself...
120/80 my arse, Julie! Just have some balls and tell me you didn't do it, ok? Don't treat me like a moron!
I've gotten a few textbook BP readings. Ended up fudging the records by a point either way so people wouldn't accuse me of skipping it.
The Frequent Flyer. Just the unblinking, creepy stare and smile got me. 😂
Nursing homes:
“His blood pressure was 120/80.”
Yeah, that sounds about right…
Like they read it in a book or something
It's not their fault though, they just got on shift and it's not their PT
They really say BP 80/40. And SPo2 is in the 80's... When we get there it's all normal. 120/80 and SPo2 is 100%
To be fair the “normal” BP of OAPs is all over the place. When an old persons normal is 100/60 and they’re reading 120/80 be concerned.
@@simonnachreiner8380they are probably in pain. Give them pain medication, monitor, and then reevaluate.
For most elderly, I would be more worried about a BP of 100/60.
The 2 beers got me dying bro they always say only 2 beers when we know it's 2 multiplied by 4 and usually a few shots to chase it with lol
Ah those "Frequent Flyers"! I worked at a big medical clinic and one of my duties was to pull all the uploaded reports from the night before from ER/EMS, sort them, put the serious ones on the doctors desktops. There was some super funny shit sometimes about the "Frequent Flyers" Stuff like "We were called out to Mrs. A's home where she said her toaster was spying on her and her son stealing her metamucil. We are well acquainted with Mrs. A as she calls us every night or two. Transported for high blood pressure, delusional behavior."
The medicine Mrs. A gets helps her become smarter eh? No not at all, she can't logically reason her toaster is NOT spying on her and can not logically reason no one would steal her metamucil.
Good for the folks involved to have this awareness of Mrs A's baseline. That way you'll know to be newly concerned if she calls to say her metamucil has stolen her son and is spying on the toaster.
@@Catherinzsl "baseline" right. That crack addict was always a crack addict right? Born that way. Just needs another fix to be alright again.
I know someone whose downstairs neighbour called the police because she thought he was opening up the water pipes and putting poison in them. (Just to be clear, he wasn't.)
@@wizardsuth All you have to do is have your pressure slightly higher than the incoming pressure and yes you can poison a city block or more. But the equipment would cost a lot of money.
I love how the nurse from the nursing home didn’t even have the stethoscope connected 😂😂😂
Bro: We didn’t run a single call
Me: Oh dear god
Imagine them saying "Yeah it was REALLY QUIET all shift." Then leaving.
@@Vulkanprimarch That's how one gets a pillow party.
@@tyranidswarmlord9722 Let me guess their are soap bars in the pillows? Or something heavier depending on how pissed off the next shift is?
😂😂 our nursing shift today was EXACTLY like that: "oh it was so calm"... we almost broke down and I am glad it is over. It was insane!!!
Don’t forget about the “just got the labs back, they are way off? When did we draw them? 5 days ago.”
You forgot to include the sound of eyes rolling when you mention the dates at the ED
They had a fall 4 days ago
😂😂👏🏾👏🏾💯
@@victork.8860 4 whole days since the last fall? That's almost a streak!
And they still have us ride code 3 to this, even if the patient hasn't changed.
Went to work the other day and they said it had been crazy busy all morning. Had a hard time not pumping my fist out of excitement.
Ah yes....happens in IT support, too.
I distinctly remember one night shift that was unusually calm (avoiding the "Q" word here, lest I invoke Murph's raving psychopath brother....). Only one or two calls, and one of them had dialed the wrong number. So I just put on some music and worked on some tickets that had come in the previous day in but there were not that many. Ended my shift with only a handful that were still on "waiting for cx feedback". So, come shift change I filled out my handover, clocked out and went outside for a chat, a smoke and to finish my coffee before heading home. Seconds later, some dude pokes his head in and half yells at me something to the effect of "What the HELL have you been doing last night?!? The ticket queue is packed to the brim and the phone line just started exploding, and everyone is getting yelled at that nobody was available all night!"
Turns out that at some point the previous evening around 10 or 11 (so before my shift started) when things always wind down a little, some system had quietly pooped its pants and quit, leading to emails not being pushed into the ticket queue and callers ending up on permanent hold or being dumped from the phone queue. As soon as the IT admin staff came in that morning, they saw what had happened, rectified the issue and BOOM, all hell broke loose.
We were short that morning and so I clocked back in for an hour or so, until the worst was over and reinforcements had arrived. But the rest of the day was still pretty intense from what I heard.
Ah yes, that shit tends to happen. Especially when you are alone on a specific project.
there is a reason why I call your profession "techno voodoo"
We had a super quiet day once, the quietest anyone could ever recall in the LAN/WAN shop. Even my IA line was quiet.
Turned out a 1" water pipe broke, the water ran along the calcium carbonate layer just under the desert sand and it filled the manhole with the main trunk for the telephone system, disabling the entire base's telephone system.
When asked about a contingency plan for flooding, I actually blurted out, "Whoinhell has a flooding plan for a Persian Gulf desert nation?!", the General chuckled and agreed. We developed one immediately.
Two weeks later, we had to adjust that plan, as a power distribution transformer failed, dropping power to our facility. The building UPS was still down, needed a literal room full of batteries that was never budgeted for, but the standby generator - tested just before the Great Flood - failed. The underground tank was full of water, the diesel happily heading through the sand and back to the wells...
Thankfully, Qatar isn't a dry country and I had a liquor license!
I've had a few IT pager shifts were I thought, "It's quiet... too quiet..." but luckily nothing was actually down or I hadn't forgotten to set up for my shift. I'm going to be paranoid next time it's quiet now lol
Reason #748 why I don't work IT..."some system quietly shit itself..."
As a frequent flyer (gods I hate copd) I thank you for still showing up.
That's like when someone uses the "Q" word around me. I just know that the tones are going to drop, soon.
I still don't like the Q word, its been 5 years and I still get tense.
Q word?
@@boss9mustang404 That's when someone says: "You know, it's been really q***t around here. Not many calls." That's always shortly followed by tones. Often, lots of them.
I remember saying it’s really “q***t” and bam 4 calls in my game
@@boss9mustang404 I see a flamethrower in your future.... Quiet is the brother of Murphy ;-)
I have been told to NEVER tell a first responder/EMT "Hope you have an easy night!" It's like saying "Good Luck" to an actor. You have cursed them in the worst way without even realizing it.
THIS. If the off-going crew tells you they had an unusually chill shift, you just know you’re about to have your shift’s worth of calls plus all the calls they DIDN’T have, and then some.
It's always two beers 😂😂😂 I have a theory that they just don't remember the third and consecutive beers because they're just too intoxicated 🤦🏾♀️
The nurse killed me. Still laughing as I type this. 😂
Nurse on a spree.
I'm a paramedic, whenever someone new said "Awfully quiet tonight". Everyone would say: " Oh come on man, don't jinx it". And rightly after we would get a call and move out.
Why is it ALWAYS "two beers", though? 😂💀
Because they never specified the SIZE of those two beers.
😅😅😅😅
Exactly!!!
"two beers" is a meme among police too, specified as the exact amount it takes someone to blow a .25, crash into 12 cars, fight six cops, spend three days sobering up in jail and end up getting month and a half suspended sentence.
Two bears worth, just a little hard to say
Rofl every time i hear "2 beers" i can't help but chuckle internally
Most unpopular Public service announcement ever: "please avoid getting drunk or high.. lighten up a little with recreational substances if you must, yet, willfully going off the deep end so strangers have to clean up the mess makes life .. simply, a living hell. If you must throw all caution to the wind, please do so before 8 pm. Thanks." All first responders.
The nurses in our local pediatric monitoring ward (aka "The Kiddy Drunk Tank") have a very ... educational method of caring for underage drunks: They undress them, put them in a diaper and a hospital gown and put them into a bed with rails (is that the correct english term for the saftey things on hospital beds?) - but they do not give them any fluids or meds unless absolutely neccessary. So they usually wake up naked, confused and with a drumming headache in a bed they don't know with rails on both sides. The nurses swear it marks the "okay, that was too much" point for most of them :)
@@QemeH So are they naked or in diapers? Because stripping a minor without an immediate medical need already sounds like a sex offence..
@@MrDSkreet If you've ever been in a hospital gown you know that you are basically naked without being naked. They put them in diapers and a hospital gown (as stated).
And trust me - the "immediate medical need" is easily found with 99% of them: The clothes they come with are usually soaked with booze, vomit and god knows what else.
"If something you've never done before seems like a good idea when you're drunk, please refrain from doing it."
As a current night shifter (and former professional alcoholic, talkin a liter of Jameson daily, around 3 if it was a weekend) its because everyone you care about is asleep. You think that your sins during those hours wont hurt anyone. Right up until the ambo arrival at 5am.
This is true in the serving industry too. If the previous fee hours were slow....then expect to get totally hammered on your shift
This goes hand in hand with the "the patient was so ice and chill the last shift". When you hear that you just KNOW shit is about to go down
Had a friend who used to date an assisted living nurse, and one time she had to take over for someone in the 'watch them all the time' area, basically one step below being taken to a hospital. When she got there and saw all the regular checks were filled out identically, she knew something was wrong. Sure enough, the patient had been dead for hours and they had just silenced the alarms. At least this was punished. The place was sold to new management who actually enforced rules like this, because this wasn't the only time this had happened.
Hey man. I have wanted to be a fire fighter since I was four, I just want to say thanks for the inspiration and good job. Hopefully I'll make it! 😁👍
I’m in Australia (studying to become a paramedic now) But when my dad was a fireman for 30years his face would almost go white when someone would say this because it always I mean always was a rough night that night 🤣🤣🤣😅
I enjoy listening to Simon because when I'm working alone it gives background sound but he makes so little sense it's not distracting. 💃💃
I once had to reprimand a nurse in a retirement home for the elderly because she called an urgent ambulance via the 112 (European emergency number) system because regular patient transport took too long for an unplanned ride.
her face changed to "karen mode" because I dared to speak to her like that
It's the EMS God that does it for me 😂
In 2019 i worked as an EMT for only one year, but even I felt everything in this video. It it completely accurate.
Just think, just another couple of 2-3 decades until retirement! Good luck brother, you’re gonna need it! (I ‘officially’ started in ‘86)
one year was enough to say "nope, not for me"
When the EMS gets to sleep, the next shift is boutta weep
lol. The old 120/80 blood pressure problem.
God damnit I love this man 😂😂 his facial expressions are the best
I really shouldn’t be laughing this hard at the “2 beers 🍻” but that was great 😂
My favorite one is "hey we left 'em all for you guys"...have a safe shift
Yep, SOOOO true. Few shifts back the offgoing shift would say they only ran 1 or none and we were SCREWED!!! A and B shifts would sit around all day and sleep all night and my shift would average 7 to 10 calls. Being a rural dept, each call is almost a guaranteed 2 hour turn around so 10 calls is a bitch to deal with
This is the most entertaining channel ever. Also i have new respect for Firefighters and other first responders...
Blood pressure at a nursing home? That’s cute. Often has not the patient is on hospice and nobody’s checked vitals since before they checked in! Why, you may ask, are we transporting a hospice patient to the hospital? Because the family is all Twitterpated about those funny gasping sounds and the alarming shade of cerulean blue their dearly beloved with an acute case of TMB is turning!
"They're not my patient"
"This is my first time with them"
"They're altered, they have Alzheimer's but they're more confused today"
“He needs to go to the hospital.”
Noooooo. He needED to go to the hospital hours ago.
*shrugs and walks away*
Medsurge nurse here, I get those types of patients sometimes, really moving the patient at all causes so much stress it usually shortens their life to a week or 2. People should really be more comfortable with death in general so theyre more equipped to deal with it when it smacks them in the face inevitably
@@1323GamerTV Now there’s a plain fact. People have become so divorced from death that they have some really bizarre expectations about it, mostly about sanitizing it and making it not emotionally or psychically painful.
My favorite is only 3 words: "change in status." They're either perfectly fine, or dead/dying. No in-betweens. Ever.
And on behalf of everyone, you saved plus everyone else who didn’t say that’s pretty much everybody on the planet ……………we …love you ……….thank you.
Lol I remember doing work at a warehousing company that pushed out Amplifier boards. I’m part of the swing shift. So when morning shift says “Product orders have been slow today”. That translated to “get ready for the rush orders” 😭
God is with you every day remember that my brother. Stand strong against the chaos. You are the shield that guards the realms of man.
Most dreaded passdown ever "it was a... quiet night" have me wanting to call in after I'm there lol.
I love how you faithfully depict every nuance of station life. We used to get into heated arguments with anyone who violated the gospel of EMS.
"Two beeeers!" 😂
I give all the credit on the world to EMS man. That is a job I could never, would never do.
Reminds me of going out on patrol and the previous patrol had "a nice quiet walk". You just knew.
Oh god the nursing home is so true XD It's amazing how patients always have exactly 120/80 BP, 80 Pulse, 12 resp, & 99% O2 before they transfer care to you.
This just happened to me on Friday. Ran my butt off from 3 PM to 7 AM.
Sick.
Your voice is so soothing.
0:10 I JUST realized the hilarious visual joke you threw in there along with that BS 120/80 guess-timate! The nursing home a**hole is holding the headset and the chestpiece in two separate parts! LMFAO! Genius, my man!
"his blood pressure was 120/80" is a sentence I never tought could scare anyone, poor first responders. Also HUGE respect for all you first responders out there. Coming from a nurse, I know how hard your job is and that we often don't make it easier aswell, but thank you all for your suffering ❤
I love how the frequent flyer has a carryon suitcase with him.
Yeah, I didn't get that one. Is it something a person wouldn't understand if they don't work in emergency situations?
@@quinndirks5653 frequent flyers are people who spend a lot of time in the hospital. My sister is a blind dialysis patient and has become a frequent flyer in the last couple of years. There are times when she'll spend close to a week if not longer in the hospital. Sometimes the term can refer homeless people who use the hospital for a warm bed and a meal for the night.
@@saintlynnie4037 dont understand why either serious illness OR homelessness is funny though.
Tha nursing home part killed me! 🤣 too true
How is he always so accurate😆😂😭😭😭
As a person with gastoparesis and frequent gastritis, I am definitely your frequent flyer that has her bags packed but I appreciate everything you do
Just make sure to wish them a quiet night when your shift ends.
You do such a great job.
I'm learning so much about first responders.
The faces you make for these other characters are amazing..
“You’ll be fine, our deployment here has been awesome”
I love that he was kind enough to not use the Q word.
Never EVER say a shift is "slow", "boring", "quiet", "all clear", etc.
The frequent flyer had me dying lol all ready with his suitcase and crap. 😂🤣😆😅 Like a freaking vacation for these people.
Or maybe they have a serious chronic medical condition?
Like you do know that some medical conditions do cause frequent medical emergencies, right?
I work in an emergency department. we see A LOT of the same people. the frequent flyer exists. @@free2bkittenforever
I always apologize to authorities I call 😂
Another common nursing home saying is "they were fine/alive 15 minutes ago."
I can feel the vibes of “impending doom.”
And you don't just turn around and leave. Ya'll are heroes for just that very rason.
huray the good Shift is on Duty! Now i can hurt myself getting drunk!!!
I Enjoy the knowledge of this Paramedic/EMT❤❤😂😂😅..THANK YOU!! 🤟😂😂!!
Keep the work boots on, don’t make your bed, and put back everything in the freezer that was supposed to be for dinner….just sayin
Don't forget to have a lunchbox or cooler of food in the pull-through cabinet, 3 large water bottles and your blanket.
"TWO BEERS" - does that come from, 'how much have you had to drink tonight, obliterated sir?'
I once heard a crew rolled on a drunk who'd had more than two beers.
Never seen it happen, even as an EMT in Wisconsin it was always 2😏
@@thefarmista rumor has it when the paramedic asked him how much he'd had to drink he said "all of it."
@@kenbrown2808 🤣that's great!
@@thefarmista what's even more fun is having someone confess to having marijuana onboard and having a police officer who happened to be there say "that's okay, we don't judge, any more"
@@kenbrown2808 But if the cops ask, the most popular amount consumed is "a sip."
My uncle was dallas fire for 35 years, your channel is like someone made a show about the stories I've heard over the years lol
This is why I always make sure to do all the shit that's even like halfway towards needing done.
Whole lotta clean rigs, empty garbage, clean toilets and M tank O2 cylinders replaced at 1400PSI when I have a "relaxed" evening.
Yeah, nothing worse than getting on the rig and discovering the heaping mess the previous shift left - after having been told they slept a total of 10 hours. I really like most of my co-workers, even on the other shifts, but in these moments I could kill every single one of them...
This has the same energy as that party bus that pulls in the drive-thru 5 minutes before we close the restaurant
"How was your night?"
"Quiet."
NO
[nurse] the joy in his eyes and the smile on his face lmao excited to make their problem, someone elses problem. savage‼️ lmaoooo 😂😂😂
Well 2nd Watch coming on today should be relatively safe... We had a building fire call last night ~0200 that turned out to be minor (first in engine and ladder were able to handle, cancelled the rest of the alarm), but then again we only had 1 other medical and 1 lift assist SO.... could go either way. Probably just means our next shift (after the 4 day we just started) will be slammed...
"Just had a couple of beers dude". *Blows a .24 on the breathalyser*
Oh and the age old "falls o'clock".
Gotta love em
Or is that more of a UK thing?
You mean 3am, when grandma needs to go because of her weak bladder but doesn't like to bother the staff, because "they'll surely be sleeping"...? Yeah, I know falls o'clock -.-
@@QemeH Yup, or like 5am seems to be.
Bang on 5 ya start getting elderly falls coming into ED.
@@superbananas7792 Yeah, but 5am are usually the elderly fallers NOT in a home. Because those are grandma and grandpa who still live their pre-war time regiment of breakfast at 6, lunch at 12, dinner at 18, bed after the evening news.
I couldn't handle the knowledge of how humanity really is.
Or the night before a big holiday I would imagine...
Full moons are a bitch too
@@shyowl3453 Oof, Werewolves are real
You're a natural performer.
Whats the song name? Sounds kinda epic
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The genuine hatred for the shift before you is beyond words.
Anytime the other shift told us they didn't "turn a wheel"... the old saying about the longer it's been since your last fire, the closer you are to your next one comes into play.
Hope you guys have a quiet shift.
I don't know how you deal with frequent fliers. I have one in my building. He's done up to 3 calls in one day, and up to 8 times in one week. 😡
omg, I love EMS, my neighbor two doors down called and refused them so many times one night, when he wouldn't even open the door the responder yelled, "If you call us one more fkg(!) time tonight, we'll have you arrested!" This was at 2:30am and he'd started calling them at like 6pm. Btw, harassing emergency services or reporting a false emergency would be the charge
It's usually not necessary, most FFs just need their medication. I met one while training in the city that had a chronically infected leg amputation (below knee), who called EMS to get his drainage pump cleaned out about once a week. Many are just lonely
maybe show some compassion for the fact that he's dealing with a chronic health issue
When someone says it was just 2 beers you automatically triple it.
What about frequent fliers?
Increased risk of thrombosis --> Lung Embolism or Stroke
If I'm understanding it correctly, frequent fliers are those who are always calling 9-1-1 for an ambulance or some other apparatus. I think they tend to be older people, as well.
@@beesandwich3366 aa good to know. I am non native in English
@@userunknown2771 to put it in simple terms, they are patients the EMS crew sees often enough to be on a first name basis with.
@@beesandwich3366 No drug abusers, and hypochondriacs
“His blood pressure was 120/80”😈 that killed me 🤣🤣
These videos are so funny and clever! Great acting ❤
God bless you man