Reply #159: Another one: "Charging Room". A Canadian RN at a health care convention I

[K Gardner]

attended in Sacramento said when she rounded in an American hospital, one nurse asked her if she'd been shown the charging room. This is the room where supplies are kept, scanned and charged to the patient in American hospitals. (some use stickers or check marks beside items, but same difference).

She said she thought it must be a place where people could charge their cell phones or IV pumps or other electrical items and was surprised to see it was a room where patients were charged for everything from cotton balls to alcohol preps to high ticket items like central line kits, etc.

In the ER where I now work, if a patient gets hungry they get a boxed, cold turkey sandwich with wilted lettuce and an 8 oz juice. Cost to pt: $80.00.

GO CANADA !