Teaching the patient to be an employee

[@trashbasket11]

When my nurse taught my mom to silence my iv pump he told her, "you work for me now"

[@Shafas_GachaWorld]

😂❤

[@Unknownhope777]

😂

[@ednaoldebeken3853]

Did she ask about your insurance plans? 😂😂

[@MissJellybean]

As a chronically ill patient I feel seen.

[@Tugglet_2]

I’m chronically ill too! Besties! 💀

[@lisarasche3401]

Oh, yeah!

[@victoriabourne3022]

Same girl, felt!

[@imnoteamplayer]

Absolutely seen.

[@Emeraldwitch30]

The past few months I've been in and out of the hospital twice. I asked to be taught how to stop the frigging beeping! My nurses were so sweet and wrote down all the message amd which ones to call them for. About 85% of the time it was me pinching the IV lol. I knew they were having a hard time with a couple of new patients and I changed my own sheets the last time round. A little exercise is good for you.

[@eep0128]

I LOVE when nurses react like this, but I've also had the ones who have yelled at me, "You're NOT supposed to touch the equipment!" I've been hospitalized a lot due to Ehlers Danlos & Lupus. You learn how everything works pretty quickly, especially if it'll help the staff in any way. 😅

[@GuapoJhimi]

I was an ICU RN for 20 years. My patients could literally allow themselves to die if they silence ANYTHING. This is stupid on its face. I wouldn't let this RN touch me.

[@eep0128]

@@GuapoJhimi I'd never touch anything I don't understand, but when it comes to my IV bag & it's run out of meds, I know how to silence it. I still call the nurse's station to let them know it's run out, but they were the ones who taught me everything bc they know how much I hate the sound. I have misophonia. They know me very well at my hospital.

[@CassidyOfficially]

I have EDS too! I have POTS so I go in for IV's every week and the nurses come in and go "show me where you want it today."🤣 and I always tell them my blood pressure for them and stuff. I wish more nurses were chill

[@annyeong6373]

They have alarms for a reason though, and it’s good to know when something is say, done infusing. Or if something critical like sedation has stopped flowing for some reason. I saw a patients family turn off an occlusion alarm on an intubated patients propofol 🤦🏾

[@dianapennepacker6854]

Man here I am getting trouble at dialysis for silencing the low blood pressure alarm. I have insanely low blood pressure due to end stage liver and kidney disease, on top of having it naturally. So once it goes into the 80s it alarms Every 30 minutes, and I'm in there for four hours. Poor nurses or staff have to stop what they are doing to just silence it. I feel incredibly bad. If you guys know a way to fake raise a blood pressure reading let me know! Tensing doesn't work always. I was told a patient silenced the machine once. Turns out there was a malfunction. Luckily a nurse caught it in time, as the machine could have killed him.

[@svenska81]

It’s 2006 all over again. Kid spent 6 weeks in hospital with a cisternal fistula. I was her in house aid, just trying to give the nurses a break. They were wonderful, so much so that when veins started collapsing we’d name the good ones after whoever got them in one stick!

[@nikkidimick947]

That's such a great idea tho! I named the one in my neck after a life flight doc that came in and got that vein because all the other ones were gone from me being so sick. Bob is a good, reliable vein.

[@pirategirl1588]

I'm a cancer survivor and went in for a check up MRI, within my first year in remission. I was sitting in a phlebotomy room waiting to get an IV for the Gadolinium injection, during the MRI. I have a lot of scar tissue in my hands and arms, so getting an IV or phlebotomy to cooperate can be challenging. I was the first MRI that day and a woman walked in, who was very nervous. Her boss was sitting behind a desk, writing, when the woman came in. The boss told the woman because it was her second day on the job, her first real task would be to give me an IV. The woman turned and looked at me like she crapped her pants. The woman started pulling stuff out of the drawer, while mumbling something. When she came over to me, I realized she was giving herself a pep talk. I looked at my mom in a panic and she turned her head and laughed silently. The woman stuck me and went right through my vein. My arm bruised immediately. The woman cried out, "Oh, God!" And began to tear up. Her boss asked what was wrong. The lady turned to her boss and squeaked, "It didn't work." The lady turned back to me, mumbling, "You can do this. You can do this." She stuck me again. It didn't work. With tears now streaming down her face, the woman said, "I can't do this!" Her boss gets up. Walks over to us. "You have to learn how to do this, if you want to work in this field. You can do this! Just take a few deep breaths!" I'm wondering who the boss was talking to at this point!?! The woman sniffs and puffs a few times and stuck me again. It didn't work... The boss was just short of cheering this woman on with pompoms! After sticking me 4 more times (bringing it to a total of 7 times) The boss sat down, flicked my arms some, stuck me, and got the IV in on the first try. I looked like a drug addict for the following month from all the bruises! We later determined that my veins collapse and if I squeeze something before getting stuck, it helps keep the blood flowing through my arms and hands, which helps keep the veins from collapsing.

[@nikkidimick947]

@pirategirl1588 ugh I'm so sorry you went through that!!! I understand all too well how hard it is to get stuck when I'm sick and with someone new. They shouldn't have done that with her like that and with you. They should have had her training how to run iv's with phlebotomy or something first. At least, you'd think they'd train them properly before releasing her to work with patients already.

[@Pear232]

This is too funny, we've seen the VAT team 9 times this month😂 Jin lasted the longest😂

[@tarshakurz7509]

LOL, I haven't gotten around to naming the veins but I HAVE started to name my bouts of pneumonia after the person who gave it to me. I have to say that family and friends are far more careful now about turning up with that flu that they're over, really, just a bit of a cough left or the cold that can't still be a cold after two weeks and you can't catch pneumonia from a cold anyway... ya think? Ya idiots....

[@carriehollyland3596]

Legit just happened to my memaw the other day. She is currently in the ER due to a hematoma that wouldn't stop bleeding, as well as some heart trouble. So she got put on an IV pump for some medication/blood and another for regular IV fluids. And it every once in a while would start beeping, and the nurse told her which button it is to silence it.

[@Shopgirl1]

And sometimes it silences it till you move your arm the wrong way and it starts beeping again!

[@justjay_09]

I hope your memaw gets to feeling better & recovers quickly!

[@heatherish0588]

I literally am connected to one right now that's beeping. I've called twice for an RN to come shut it off. 🙄

[@vale1002vm]

@@heatherish0588 omg i was the same way a months ago except i was unconscious from dehydration and my mom said it took them forever

[@heatherish0588]

@@vale1002vm I'm so glad you're better now!

[@anneyardley5785]

My son and I learned how to silence the alarms, get rid of extra air and stop the machine when the bag was empty when my husband went through daily treatments for cancer. We also handled at home treatments through his central line and gave home shots and wound care. Even taught some procedures to the staff at our small town hospital staff because they didn't deal with cancer patients. More knowledge than I ever wanted. 😢

[@moniquemannaert3468]

But your husband was lucky to have two capable angels by his side! Hugs. ❤️‍🩹

[@Shafas_GachaWorld]

You guys are amazing!❤

[@anneyardley5785]

@@moniquemannaert3468 Thank you

[@anneyardley5785]

@@Shafas_GachaWorld Thank you

[@Icantbelievethisshit2]

Recently my Mom had Leukemia and then Stem cell transplant. She hated that damn alarm. We definitely learned where the silence button was! It was constantly going off; when she barely moved at times! The nurses on the oncology/transplant floors were wonderful at VCU

[@silverdoe9477]

Went to the ER with a friend. I’m a veterinary nurse & I re-attached his EKG & silenced the alarm throughout the night. They gave me a cookie when I left. 🥰

[@rachbontube]

You got a treat for being the goodest nurse. What a good human.

[@JustGiveUpOnLife]

I got yelled at when I did it for my mother and father.

[@Troublemaker1022-r9c]

" You have to stop bending your arm." " It makes the machine think there's a blockage". " Nurse, I'm TRYING to sleep." " I can't exactly control what my arms do while I'm SLEEPING."

[@cb6651]

Lol in vet med, we also ask the animals to please stretch their legs out, but they rarely listen.

[@SnowieShiba]

@@cb6651My cat did his stretchy-stretch for the vet tech when they asked him to and I laughed when they told me "he listens so well!" I wish he would at home too, but he still tries to eat garbage LOL

[@cb6651]

@@SnowieShiba that's adorable, except for the garbage part lol

[@OKYAH]

@@SnowieShibaHAHHA AWHH❤

[@SmashedPancakes3939]

@@SnowieShibalmao a cat eating garbage is the funniest thing I’ve imagined today

[@ElsaGabrielaMitreLópez]

NICU mom here, silenced monitors, fixed pulse sock, stopped the med drip alarm and rearranged the chest stickies on my baby 😂...

[@moniquemannaert3468]

Good grief.. 😄

[@ElsaGabrielaMitreLópez]

@@moniquemannaert3468 and pumped like a fool only to find out my baby was lactose intolerant and I couldn't donate my milk because it was "a long process"...I'm still trying to process that 😂😂

[@mariaquinones9246]

You are my hero 🦸‍♀️ 😂😂😂

[@ElsaGabrielaMitreLópez]

@@mariaquinones9246 😅😅

[@HeavensAngels1111]

Shame on you 😆😆😆😆😆!

[@OceanMcIntyre]

My nurses always love that I know how to run all of the equipment. Lol

[@GuapoJhimi]

Then that was a shit hospital with shit staff. Also opens up a huge tort risk for the RN and the hospital.

[@mallarieluvsgirls]

@@GuapoJhimiok snowflake.

[@apassionetdesire]

Yup my mom was in the hospital alot when she had breast cancer twice, huge hospital learned alot, nurses loved when my mom was there, she always was smiling, never asked for anything. They told me the second time she got it that they fought over who got to take care of her lol I would stay up all night till the shift changed, one nurse said to me okay you sleep it's my shift lol amazing nurses you all don't get half the credit you deserve, thank you all ❤

[@rdbuckels]

4 months in the hospital in 2010 and they yelled at me for silencing the pumps. Yes plural. I had as many as 3 going at one time and believe me when I say, the three of them going dry at the same time will drive you insane. I have a degree in Electronic Engineering, with 3 majors. Radio, Computer, and Biomedical Equipment. It was my dream to work as a Biomed, but when I got that A.A.S. in 1994, the hospitals weren't hiring, so I ended up in the one discipline I didn't study in a college setting. Semiconductor technology, so an IV pump was not that hard to figure out how to silence. That stay in the hospital was due to a botched surgery and I am permanently disabled because of it, but in an attempt to stay relevant in electronics in case I ever got to go back to work, I got my Batchelors of Science in Biomedical Equipment Engineering in 2016. I did a limited internship at ORMC in Orlando (I got school credit instead of a salary, so I didn't violate my disability status), so I can actually take one apart and put it back together now.

[@moniquemannaert3468]

I hope they figure out a way to undo their damage in the near future. I found a professor in the country nextdoor once, who invented the medical procedures. Asked a fraction of the money too.. Worth it to investigate who is the golden one in your field. All the best to you!

[@rainbowsparkles5304]

I’m fresh off a 12 day hospitalization & feel lucky I only got fluids. But that going off when I bent my arm (they had to put it in my dominant arm due to prior surgery on the other side) & occluded the pumps flow was driving me batty! I can’t imagine 3 going off at once! You have my sympathy there! Until I figured out how to silence my one pump & get it going again, I was very tempted to perform violent percussive maintenance upon it! I was lucky, they actually appreciated me figuring it out. I wish you all the best in the future & hope you get to go to work in your dream job very soon.

[@neldajordan5630]

That and the bed alarms. I am still not sure why they werei even on me. I wasnt moved from my bed until my 8th week, but when my bf cme up and would sit on the bed and either move or get up they would go off loud enough to wake the dead.

[@marlenegold280]

How did you get the id badge to allow one to fix the occlusion. All I could do was press the yellow button… it shuts it up, but the machine was still blocked.

[@rainbowsparkles5304]

@@marlenegold280 the machine I had let you hit silence (lasted 2 minutes), then OK, then Resume to continue infusing. Mine usually beeped because I bent my arm, so there was no air bubbles to clear & no RN needed to clear the line.

[@jenthompson80]

I swear I had to watch this like 12 times LOL 😂 Steve’s facial expressions in this is hilarious!! 🤣🤣

[@solarlass5807]

We scan and pack our groceries, so we may as well learn how to silence those irritating monitors. 😂

[@cactustree505]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rachbontube]

From self check out to self medical care. Then no one needs to work. 😅

[@marieked]

When I got sick 20 years ago, I spent 10 weeks in the hospital and could program the iv pump by the end of my stay lol. Came in handy 18 months later when I started nursing school!

[@GuapoJhimi]

Really. And, if you allow your patients to fiddle with their IV pumps, you should be fired.

[@mallarieluvsgirls]

@@GuapoJhimikeep crying. you wouldn’t get it unless you’ve spent weeks in a hospital.

[@xerofelix7090]

I just got outta the hospital, and I WISH my nurses did this! Every time I turned in my sleep or accidentally linked the line, it would go off for hours, and the nurses never had time to come fix it. Pretty sure if I'm supposed to get iv fluids, the iv stopping for 3 hours while I wait for someone to fix it is an issue.

[@Serene_Haze]

Exactly!! I was in the exact boat! My blood pressure kept soaring every 30 minutes and it would set off the machine! The nurse came in (20 agonizing minutes later) and just silenced it! Why have an alarm if its not important? 😣😖

[@SnowieShiba]

@@Serene_HazeMy O2 kept dropping and the alarm would go off for 20-30mins. Nurses got angry, came in and turned the machine off. Didn't even bother to check why it was going off in the first place. Those alarms are totally useless if they won't even check on them.

[@cactustree505]

understaffed hospital

[@PetitPoneyDuVercors26]

Low blood pressure...damn alarm woke me up in ER and I still had hours to wait for a scanner and with my sleeping disorder I often wake up and do mostly light and dream sleep so for once I reached deep sleep , the nurse was even able to put it on my arm without waking me up...and the damn machine rang and I was a zombie for the day (also, had to told them to let me sleep, and they tried, if not for the machine, cuz if I stay still for hours I can't steuggle againt sleep anyways) I had always low blood pressure 😂 Came in handy when I started stimulant meds, for the neurological sleeping disorder, I have normal blood pressure now with stimulants and caffeine, I can stand up quicly without feeling dizzy now, nice side effect of the meds for me cuz if I had high blood pressure it would be bad x)

[@steveioe]

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[@savvycrazy]

I obtained that skill on my own back in 2019

[@bushtaill]

I had to google the damn manual to do that lmao

[@TheOReport1994]

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

[@mesalily-TeHWoRld]

Can't believe this has happened to so many people😊. I was in the E/R last July and my IV popped out of my arm......it was spinning around like a possessed water hose. Alarms going off all over the place and I seriously couldn't stop laughing- it was like a scene from a bad movie. I did learn a lot after that!!!! I am in awe of E/R nurses. Guess I am lucky because I've never had a bad situation. Nurses are fabulous and I THANK ALL OF YOU❤❤❤

[@GuapoJhimi]

Like a water hose? Really? Try a different hospital next crisis.

[@mesalily-TeHWoRld]

@@GuapoJhimi It's a great hospital, very busy Friday night. My veins are tiny & I was dehydrated. I was afraid to grab an hurt myself. Staff was great but seriously, the only thing that popped in my mind was a crazy water hose all willy-nilly in the room. I was pretty sick. It's a miracle I remember it at all. Bonus entertainment for me

[@Venvaneless]

I even cracked the code for the painkillers pump once. Nurses, be careful leaving finger spots on the screen

[@baileygranger7956]

I got to do something like that in my hospital stay. I spent 10 weeks in the emergency department and only a few weeks in I was getting on so well with the regular staff, they kept joking how they needed to give me some scrubs and make me get to work (was in on MH so I was physically able, just unable to leave). I really miss those nurses and other staff there, we used to joke so much, it was amazing, they really helped me out becoming a homeless kid, having xmas, new years and my 18th birthday in there, finding out shocking family information, then a 24 hr notice that I was moving to a placement in an area I had no clue about. Thank you A&E staff ❤

[@GuapoJhimi]

Ten weeks in the ER? Bullshit. I don't know WHERE you were, but it wasn't the ER.

[@RachelE.-ux5eb]

As a mom with babies in the NICU, this made me feel better lol. It's always nice when nurses teach me something new so I can feel helpful to my babies in the ways I can. When I saw this I thought of when they showed me how to turn off their feed pump so it doesn't continue to beep forever. 😆 Thank you. 😊

[@camm5245]

I keep coming back to this video because of how well you do the facial expressions for this audio. It's just too perfect

[@downtoearthliz]

I need this guy to have a sibling in veterinary medicine. Lol

[@GuapoJhimi]

This guy should be in veterinary medicine.

[@justcallmejessz3712]

Every TPN, hydration, or other pump requiring chronic patient just became a tiny bit less invisible! 😂😂❤❤

[@zukanator3555]

I just had to spend a week in the hospital and I never understood how much the nursing staff did and how overburden they are and yet they still try to do their best to provide care❤😂 one of the girls was so overworked and stressed I started handling the alarm and even knew how to restart my IV pump

[@donnaleeah5075]

PICC line 2016. Yup! I learned.

[@KristinaMetheny]

Nah I can’t unhear Blitzø 💀

[@shelliebrown7795]

I learned really fast how to shut those up.

[@GuapoJhimi]

So smart.

[@raychel945]

No, I taught myself to do that, when no one else would. You're my employee now.

[@ravendarling4227]

i love this audio for you 🤣💀

[@isabeljanus]

Once I learned how to do this when I was in the hospital for two months it was a relief when I was trying to sleep 😂

[@scarlettefoxx5585]

The law: "only you or one of your employees can touch the equipment" The nurse: "Hey kid want a job?"

[@TALKINGtac0]

When you're on the scene of a cardiac arrest and the security guard who found the pt says he knows CPR

[@unlimitedpossibilitiesstud1345]

this actually happened to me while in the hospital lol

[@jeskac209]

Ive masterd it being at the ER regularly with my family. Down to retrieve wheel chairs for emergency patients when there is no one at the desk. 💕

[@rainbowsnbubbles]

I do volunteer medical advocacy companionship for inpatients through church and community, and I'm ALWAYS grateful when a nurse authorizes me to do this!

[@HemlockSky1991]

As a parent of a NICU baby, I knew I was “promoted” when they allowed me to come in and do a majority of the care of my baby without too much oversight. If an alarm went off (most of the time due to sensor positioning), I just adjusted it without involving them. I did his every 3 hour care routine, I handled his food (except loading the machine for his tube feeds), I picked him up and cared for him for hours without doctors or nurses interfering. It was nice and made it feel ever so slightly more like I was the one caring for him, not all the machines.

[@BreannaNelms]

Me showing my resident how to shut off their own call light when they accidentally set it off lol

[@PetitPoneyDuVercors26]

Where I worked they couldn't do that themselves (strong magnet needed), and they were so sorry when it came ringing cuz they were just moving the arm (it was a necklace bell, always stuck in the arm pits that's hell, after some times I always did knots on arrival to get it to the good size for them so the head pass easily, and you can pull to undo the clip anyway if you're strangled, and the alarm don't rang for nothing, cuz some stopped wearing them and that's dangerous if they fall) For some we hang them on the beds barriers if they had the two sides, so they could reach the string and call if needed, cuz these patients with two barriers and with all their heads were the always rolling while sleeping type so it always rang for nothing and we woke them up for nothing)

[@BreannaNelms]

A lot of our calls are armpit calls too. Or they’ll lean against a table and it’ll hit just right to go off, then they don’t even realize they’ve set it off lol. When I come they always joke they just wanted to say hi 😆

[@ChronicallyCrafty_ASMR]

Omg every single time I'd bend my arm and the machine would screeeeeam😂😂😂😂

[@ednafisher8127]

He has the best sense of humor ! 😅

[@piegirl8263]

I would've loved to know how to do that when I had appendicitis lol

[@lyndascrivner383]

I really wanted to know how to do that so I didn't have to bother the nurse

[@forg5580]

I CAN'T EXPRESS HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS LMFAOO

[@quartxxiv767]

And I feel such pride, too 😂

[@valeriaswanne]

After listening to it beep for 80hrs straight, I just started pushing buttons 😂😅

[@RebaDarby]

Dude this hits home! I spent most of Sept and Oct, all of Nov, part of December and part of January and Feb in hospital for Osteomyelitis in my collar bone (and it looks like I'll be back in again in March as I can't seem to keep it away...even with antibiotics at home) and my veins are fucked because of being used so much so IVs are tricky with me, and many times all I would do is move my arm and that damn occlusion alarm would go off....we are talking like an average of 10+ times an hour....so they showed me how to fix it and stop the alarm. I was soooo grateful cause that alarm is annoying as all hell, and I would have to hit my call bell and let them know, and depending on how busy everyone was, I might have to wait 1 minute or I could be waiting up to an HOUR! So yeah, knowing how to fix it is a GODSEND!

[@wonderquartz]

Lmao I've been there. Such a sad yet proud moment as a patient. 😂

[@macke2879]

You *nailed* the facial expressions!

[@michelecurtis887]

As someone who spent a lot of time in the hospital, I love it when the nurse does this❤❤❤❤

[@forg5580]

He acts this out so perfectly

[@The_Real_Mier]

As a ‘regular’ I can definitely relate to this. It gets scary when you as a patient know BETTER how the pump works than an actual NURSE! And sadly enough, this is NOT a rarely experienced incident….😮 (Have had this happen in several different hospitals) And yes: the ones who didn’t have a clue and who came in my room and who were pressing ALL the buttons in their desperate attempts to make the pump go quiet, WERE usually the ones who would react NEGATIVELY when I, carefully and as friendly as possible, pointed out the way they SHOULD make it stop. Those ignorant nurses are ALSO the ones who are ONLY bothered with getting the sound to stop AND OFTEN NEGLECT TO CHECK WHY(!) IT IS BEEPING! ….I have had nurses come in when the pump was beeping, not saying a word to me, frantically pressing buttons until it finally stopped beeping AND THEN THEY WOULD SIMPLY WALK OUT….. …..WHILE THE IV BAG WAS EMPTY!!! Which was the reason the pump was noisy in the first place! 😡

[@JoShua0]

I learned it WITHOUT them teaching I WATCHED 😂

[@tamaravsthevoid]

My kid is a frequent visitor and I’ve become an honorary nurse 😂😂😂

[@elisabethivey5615]

When my Dad was in ICU one of our nurses asked if my sister and I were nurses!😂😂 Greatest compliment of my LIFE!

[@SquirrelThis]

Omg I was Sooooooo grateful when one of the nurses finally did this for me. I then showered all the new room mates who then came in later with the same problem!! ❤❤

[@evelynyang5296]

I learned how to attach my own vital monitors so my 24 hr nurses pretty much just sat there and ordered food for me

[@leighmassengill5762]

Nurses showed us how to silence the alarm on my daughters IV so we could walk in the garden in peace. Bless them for that and much more❤

[@OddSocksandSpontaneity]

I remember this flex as a nicu mum. After 6 weeks in there, I had learnt a lot to make the nurses lives easier.

[@kingsworeer5376]

I can do that one night my nurse i had was so busy the poor darling she showed me what to do cause my machine just kept going off i asked her do you wanna show me what to do so you dont have to keep running back in her to fix she was actually grateful that i asked her it helped her and saved her so much time running back and forth ever 5 minutes she was so over worked and under staffed. I have the most respect for all nurses drs ambulance people even the tech people they work so hard so understaffed underpaid but yet still get up after a long shift short sleep and get back there and most of them not all but most come back and help us when we need them they got all my respect and prayers 😊

[@gooober69420]

"BEEP BEEP. BEEP BEEP. BEEP BEEP. BEEP BEEP. BEEP BEEP. BEEP BEEP. BEEP BEEP. BEEP BEEP. BEEP BEEP. BEEP BEEP. BEEP BEEP." - my IV pole at 2am while im trying to sleep

[@forgetfulstranger]

Me teaching my patient how to flush his own pigtail 😂😂

[@aintgonnatolerateit2314]

Happy to help 😂

[@Corinne-ck1gt]

My nurse told me this when I was in the ER for surgery, and I feel joy remembering that during such a crazy time

[@alimeow7719]

I love knowing this !

[@abbymurdock1685]

45 days in the n/p/cicu when my son was born and i was on those monitors in my SLEEP lol. Wake up, check baby’s stats and baby, silence and tell the nurse he’s okay, just has hiccups 😂😂

[@MyCharleyhorse]

During my chemo-therapy infusion treatments I find the periodic alarms sort of soothing. One can grow accustomed to anything after weeks and weeks of treatments.

[@SomethingAboutBeautee]

I’m a Palliative Care Nurse in a Nursing Home but I’ve been on sick leave for a little bit and I’ve had 3 open heart surgeries in just under 3 months. When I’d finally get on a ward, the nurses were first confused and then laughed that I could use the pumps and I would tell them why so it gave them a few extra minutes a few times a day and I loved being able to set my own pump and ratios up so they could go sit. It feels nice to do that. ❤

[@horseflower1234]

Lol I'm a top frequent flyer mile in my local hospital. I learned how to do this my 2nd stay in. Those MFS go off every few seconds it seems I HAD to learn for the sake of MY SANITY 😂😂😂😂. Plus it saved my nurses a few million trips. They appreciated the help

[@shellbymustang]

I’ve spent a lot of time in hospital and this is one of the first things I learnt 😂

[@elliehamsammy7755]

Was literally the most freeing experience ever being able to turn that off

[@yourlocalidiot69420]

The little ✨ clap 😁👏 ✨ at the end

[@marilyne4324]

One time, my daughter was hooked up to 6 pumps. My understanding was they were running between 20-35 antibiotics at any given time, and in a 24 hour period, she had over a 150 antibiotics. And yes, they taught me how to silence them and how to get a nurse them when we went into day two. It was kind of empowering as a parent, because the beeping would wake her. Even at 1-1, there are times when the nurse isn't in the room. But they saved her life ❤

[@sariefaerie1121]

Thank you!! After almost 30 surgeries, I learned this year's and years ago lol

[@stephgreen3070]

And as a patient you’re always grateful to be workin’ for the man because it means you can get some rest from the infernal beeping!

[@LindseyHunley]

I'm a frequent flyer and I felt this in my soul 😂

[@elizabethochoa7436]

Lol one of the best things I was taught. That and turning off the alarm on the bed.

[@scraidywolf7081]

😂😂 yup! It helps both patient and nurse

[@MichelleSK6]

Man I had to learn myself when I was in the hospital for two weeks 😭😂

[@One-Eyed-Jenn]

I was shown how to restart IV pump after inclusion. I was at end of the hall at hospital last February with infected foot so I had constant fluids running. I can’t be still and constantly interrupted the IV flow. I knew how to silence and restart. The beeps can definitely drive a patient insane.

[@elishasteed28]

I did this when my 13 yr old was in the picu... drove me nuts!! I still heard the sounds months later. Was stuck in my head!!

[@r.j.9822]

Fr now I get praised by the other nurses when I end up in the hospital 🤣

[@lilykep]

Me two days into my week in the hospital.

[@EmmQ34]

That’s what we did when I was sick with leukemia. I would have medications on drip in the night and they would finish at like 3 in the morning. So we learned to silence them too. We also slept with a sound machine

[@EllySwanson-t1e]

When that happens you've been in the hospital too damn long... Go HOME!!! Lol

[@sarahstanton49]

There's a good chance they want to.

[@Whatisthis438]

When you’ve been to the hospital for over 500 times so you basically know how to do everything:

[@silvermoonarrow]

Me everytime im in the hospital lol

[@SatinyClinic00]

I feel so called out lol

[@Jay-rf3kj]

Why do I have to get sick to hear those words?😢❤❤❤😂😂😂

[@nutanpatel7505]

Love you.

[@robynwilliams5928]

Yep they taught me to do the same thing and then ring for the nurse. It’s helps them immensely. 1 nurse to 6 patients or more during a shift with different conditions.

[@blindingsilence0409]

Learned how to do this, and it saved my ears lol

[@FREE_PALESTINE.S..]

When your patient is impatient

[@JadeAkelaONeal]

If i ever get hospitalized again I'm going to immediately beg to be taught this 😅

[@Tyleya]

My favorite meme!! YOU ARE ONE OF MY ELITE EMPLOYEES!!!!!

[@trans23gayteen]

I have learned this skill on my own. I just press the silence button over and over

[@noivern5588]

No one taught me how, but I always end up doing it because I'm trying to sleep.

[@kori1218]

my nurse after my 3rd day in the hospital lol

[@jesterjams9094]

I love this stuff

[@Zabora1]

Thats what the 99 cent store manager told me when I put some milk away 😂😂😂😂