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Announcements that should never be said over the hospital intercom

Posted by valerie on 2007-01-28 11:44

"Announcements (or messages/comments) that should never be said over the hospital intercom"....

"Dr. Nick, please dial 2-2-3-2. Dr. Nick, please dial 2-2-3-2....[pause]....I think your patient just died"
:::[ten seconds later]:::
"Never mind. He was just sleeping."

:)
~valerie

13 comments

Re: Announcements that should never be said over the hospital intercom

Comment posted by amy29 on 2007-01-28 14:39.

DR.Head... your brother dick is on the phone!!!
amy29

Re: Announcements that should never be said over the hospital intercom

Comment posted by tigger_58_ak on 2007-01-28 15:08.

DR.Toby, you need to report to the doctors lounge..

Re: Announcements that should never be said over the hospital intercom

Comment posted by lenora on 2007-01-28 17:14.

Years ago I worked in the ICU of a small hospital which had an operator, but we could also page from the unit. One day we badly needed the male nursing assistant and had been paging him for 45 minutes but he would never answer. Finally the operator had enough and she said over the intercom, Stop paging Mr. P. He's out in the parking lot working on his car! Lenora

Re: Announcements that should never be said over the hospital intercom

Comment posted by cbulifant on 2007-01-28 17:37.

ATTN: We have a code brown in room 14, code brown in room 14...........My wife is an E.R. nurse and she tells me that in her E.R. surroundings, she and her staff will use "code brown" to identify when a patient has gone # 2 and reqiures attention.

Re: Announcements that should never be said over the hospital intercom

Comment posted by valerie on 2007-01-28 20:23.

LOL!
My mom is a nurse and she works at this one clinic here in Anaheim. Anyway, there is this radiologist from Thailand with a VERY heavy accent. He used the intercom and said: "uh...hello...? hello?" then hung up. Then 10 seconds later... "uh....hello...? where's the chart?" then hangs up again. Then 10 seconds later "uh...found it; bye". hahaha.

Re: Announcements that should never be said over the hospital intercom

Comment posted by valerie on 2007-01-28 20:35.

When I was in the CICU this past Christmas, my mom, dad, sister, and brother were there that night and I was really sad that we all had to spend Christmas there. So, my family started talking to me, saying everything was okay:

"Don't worry, as long as we're all together; that's what matters. And besides, it's really not that bad if you think about it. See...you have a call button, a high-tech bed, you can hardly tell we're in a hospital."

Then, exactly at that moment, we hear over the intercom:
"Code Blue. Room 214. Code Blue. Room 214" (I'm in room 213)
And I looked at them with a face that says, "ya, sure it doesnt feel like a hospital". And then we just all started laughing.

~valerie
P.S. the guy in room 214 lived. :)

Re: Announcements that should never be said over the hospital intercom

Comment posted by jessie on 2007-01-28 20:35.

OH MY GOD I WAS LOL ABOUT THAT ONE. I WORKED IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL. JESSE HAHA

Re: Announcements that should never be said over the hospital intercom

Comment posted by lenora on 2007-01-28 21:02.

Nurses don't like to hear any announcement with Code in it or anything that starts out Attention! Attention! We have code blue, code pink, code yellow (patient out of control), code purple (hazardous spill), code orange (bomb threat). Code red means fire alert, which they like to announce just to keep us on our toes, usually when everybody is very busy. Then you get the alarms going off and have to stop whatever you're doing and shut all the doors. Then there's condition gray watch, which means possibility of tornadoes, and condition gray warning, when the sirens are going off. When they call condition gray warning you have to pull all the patients out in the hall and close all curtains and doors. Not too easy to do with ventilators! Code brown is never announced though, it's usually a silent code! Kmart used to freak me out with Attention Attention Shoppers. Lenora

Re: Announcements that should never be said over the hospital intercom

Comment posted by valerie on 2007-01-28 21:20.

ATTENTION LENORA! muahaha, sorry, couldn't resist.

LOL! I hate code red!! I know what you mean about closing all the doors and your frustration.
When I was in the hospital one time, there was like 3 code reds in 2 hours. At first the nurse was like, "Okay, I'm going to close the door. I'll be back." Then, the second code red, she said, "okay, closing the door again," and was trying to be as quiet as possible (as it was like 1am).
The third time, she just came and slammed the door shut! LOL! she didnt even come back to open it, she just kept it closed! LOL!

Re: Announcements that should never be said over the hospital intercom

Comment posted by tigger_58_ak on 2007-01-29 00:51.

This is True : When i had open heart surgery in 0ct of 2002, my hubby was in the wating room, next thing he heard Code Blue operating room what ever I was in, and freak out, I swear On this, Next he heards ooops the nurse actually brush up against the wrong buttom......My husband said he almost had his own heart attack..

Re: Announcements that should never be said over the hospital intercom

Comment posted by tigger_58_ak on 2007-01-29 00:58.

con't then when one of the doctors came out to reassure my husband all is ok, my husband said the intercom came back on and said, code blue again and the other ran in the operating room again and it happen again, apparently it was a new student, and she was getting dizzy over the surgery and kept hitting the buttom........

They finally had to remove her from the room.

Now if that's not someting what is?

Re: Announcements that should never be said over the hospital intercom

Comment posted by valerie on 2007-01-29 18:01.

LOL! poor girl, being removed from the room. I guess some people just take a little longer to get to work around stuff like that, which of course is a natural response.
And your poor husband! I'm not surprised by his reaction; I would be scared to death!

~valerie