[mom23RN]

I had just started working in the ED. Was a brand new nurse that got thrown into it by desperation. I never got a really good orientation, etc.

I was giving a pt. Demerol/Vistaril combination and pushed the Demerol and then started to give the Vistaril IV. I realized what I was doing and stopped (probably had only gotten a very small amount of it). I went to the director of the ED at the time (a very small, little man ) and told him what happened and asked what I should do. He yelled.

"get the crash cart!!!!!!"




While I was passing out, he started to snicker. Of course nothing happened, we filed an incident report, etc. Now that I look back it was hysterical, but at the time all I could think was that I had just killed someone.

[babynurselsa]

We had an incident several years ago where some visitors of one of our ff pts went outside and stole a praying madonna statue on the hospital grounds. In either the process of the loading mary into their tiny little hatchback or security and the police removing it her hands got broken off. One of our quickwitted nurses got ahold of them buried them in a steel basin full of ice and paged down the surgery residents for a BILATERAL HAND AMPUTATION.
We had some really good natured residents who did see the humor even though it was 0330 in the am.

[Dorito]

We had the Med Flight helicopter coming to get a patient and they usually landed in the parking lot and came through our Central supply unit with their cart of equipment. I was in Central supply with the cart to bring out to the helicopter and made the mistake of opening up the door to the outside before the blades had stopped rotating and the wind turned the central supply unit into a huge popcorn popper full of flying packing peanuts, along with foleys and dressing supplies. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry but ended up getting a good laugh and leaving lots of apologies to the department on post it notes

[ERNurse752]

Originally Posted by mom23RN

I had just started working in the ED. Was a brand new nurse that got thrown into it by desperation. I never got a really good orientation, etc.

I was giving a pt. Demerol/Vistaril combination and pushed the Demerol and then started to give the Vistaril IV. I realized what I was doing and stopped (probably had only gotten a very small amount of it). I went to the director of the ED at the time (a very small, little man ) and told him what happened and asked what I should do. He yelled.

"get the crash cart!!!!!!"




While I was passing out, he started to snicker. Of course nothing happened, we filed an incident report, etc. Now that I look back it was hysterical, but at the time all I could think was that I had just killed someone.

Why was an incident report filed? It is ok to give Vistaril IV.

[mom23RN]

Originally Posted by ERNurse752

Why was an incident report filed? It is ok to give Vistaril IV.

Then that must be something new, cause it didn't use to be. When he made me look it up in the PDR all it said was that it "shouldn't" be given IV but it didn't say what would happen.

[mom23RN]

Originally Posted by Dorito

We had the Med Flight helicopter coming to get a patient and they usually landed in the parking lot and came through our Central supply unit with their cart of equipment. I was in Central supply with the cart to bring out to the helicopter and made the mistake of opening up the door to the outside before the blades had stopped rotating and the wind turned the central supply unit into a huge popcorn popper full of flying packing peanuts, along with foleys and dressing supplies. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry but ended up getting a good laugh and leaving lots of apologies to the department on post it notes

OMG!!!!!!!

[ERNurse752]

Originally Posted by mom23RN

Then that must be something new, cause it didn't use to be. When he made me look it up in the PDR all it said was that it "shouldn't" be given IV but it didn't say what would happen.

I gave it IV once and someone gave me a bunch of, uh, stuff about how it's not supposed to be given IV...so I called pharmacy and did some PDR research and found out that it's ok. I'm not sure why it's out there that it shouldn't be.

[babynurselsa]

Depends on facility policy.
I was taught NEVER NEVER EVER give phenergan IV. I know that some places do. If it is against facility policy then it would be a med error.

[ERNurse752]

Originally Posted by babynurselsa

Depends on facility policy.
I was taught NEVER NEVER EVER give phenergan IV. I know that some places do. If it is against facility policy then it would be a med error.

Phenergan or Vistaril?

[estuh]

A patient with an asthmatic attack was to be nebulized with combivent and receive I.v cefuroxime. The nurse gave combivent I.V and started a cefuroxime neb. by the time she realised.....and that was because the combivent was looking darker than usuall!!!!