Yesterday was my first Clinical at the hospital and I was in the OB triage department. There was a patient who had come in for a labor check. They had her there pretty much all day from mid-morning, and she was still there when I left. I don’t know the patients circumstances but she was alone and had to use the phone in triage to call her loved ones. She made many attempts to contact them but couldn’t get a hold of them. I overheard her nurse say that the patient was a hot mess and I got the feeling from the nurse that she was kind of over taking care of that patient. I could tell that the patient was a little off, I can’t put my finger on it but I could just tell from her mannerisms and how she talked. The patient was having a hard time walking
