Ask Me - by Dr. Edwin Leap
"‘Ask me’. It’s a question being posed by a little badge now worn by nurses around the country. It seems harmless enough. At our little hospital, it means ‘Ask me if I’ve washed my hands’. Seems like a reasonable and harmless question. Some places, it probably means ‘Ask me if I have done my time-out,’ or some other little administrative caution. It’s one more little reminder to ‘do the right thing.’ We get a lot of those these days (...)
I was thinking. Maybe, as we do our time-outs and scrub our hands red, as we smile and get cups of ice and endure abuse with a smile, we could create our own ‘Ask Me’ buttons. But let’s ask some questions with a twist. How about some buttons that ask the things clinicians want to ask everyone else?"
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- Dr. Edwin Leap
(via 911 doc)
I was thinking. Maybe, as we do our time-outs and scrub our hands red, as we smile and get cups of ice and endure abuse with a smile, we could create our own ‘Ask Me’ buttons. But let’s ask some questions with a twist. How about some buttons that ask the things clinicians want to ask everyone else?"
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- Dr. Edwin Leap
(via 911 doc)
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posted by scalpel at 4:41 AM
6 Comments:
It's a lovely and quite moving post - thanks for the link.
Oh Lord....if I had to wear a button like that, somebody would have to sew my lips shut because it would almost be an involuntary reflex for me to reply: "...if I give a shit". (I can't help it, it's just the first thing that pops into my mind when I hear the phrase "Ask me".)
(When I was married to the biker, he used to wear a T-shirt on which was written "dilligaf"....)
Greetings, Scalpel:
This doesn't have anything to do with your post, but I couldn't find your email address.
You have been tagged/awarded the Thinking Blogger Award.
A very unusual meme!
Check it out at http://nurse-ratcheds.blogspot.com/2007/03/whatcha-thinking-about.html
Congratulations!
Mother Jones, RN
Thank you for the link to Dr. Leap!
Ask me if I want to punch another rude drug seeking asshole in the mouth..
Ask me if I need to see another abusive teenager..
Canadian ER doc
Wonderful!
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