The Messenger

This week in Phillips 3 East I found that a lot of patients tend to mistake me for a Nurse or even a Patient Care Assistant and ask me to do tasks I am not equipped to do. While I am usually out distributing waters on the floor, It seem more as if I was a messenger. I am usually asked to assist a patient or call for someone who can assist them. In this case I must inform the patient that I am not authorized to perform these tasks and will call for their nurse or patient care assistant upon returning to the nurses station. A lot of times I find myself walking back and forth from patient rooms to the Nurses Station to inform the Nurses and PCA's what each patient needs.