MD ORDER: Ignore Nurse Deterioration

MD order: ignore nurse deterioration.

The patient is stable. The nurse is not. The nurse has been showing signs of decompensation since pre-rounds. Heart rate elevated. Affect flat. Coffee intake within normal range for trauma populations. The chart, however, makes no mention. The order, in fact, says continue current care plan. The nurse is left to manage her own arrhythmia between admits. Standard.

What you're getting

• Size. 3" round, kiss-cut. Fits a badge reel, water bottle, charting tablet, or the back of your laptop. Big enough to be read across the nurses' station, small enough to fly under the manager's radar.
• Material. Weatherproof, sanitizer-survivable vinyl. Holds up to 12-hour shifts, full-arm bleach scrubs, and the occasional accidental sleeve-soak in a Code Brown.
• Print. Matte finish, no glare under fluorescent lighting. Reads clean from the foot of the bed and from across a nurses' station. Will not fade after the 47th sanitizer wipe.
• Adhesive. Repositionable for the first 24 hours. After that, it's committed. Like you, in year 7, telling everyone you're going to leave bedside but, somehow, picking up another double next weekend.

Send it to

For the charge nurse who has watched every staff nurse decline in real-time and signed off on it. For the friend who has been crying in supply closets since Thursday. For yourself, mid-deterioration.

Pairs with

Pairs with the matching 20oz Tumbler for the cup-holder energy. Or grab the Shift Sticker Pack if you're going to keep buying singles anyway.

Stick it on the locker. Let the chain of command read it from across the unit.

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