[Franemtnurse]

Originally Posted by talaxandra

Jessie, I have exactly the same issue where I work. Really? Sitting UP?! Could you explain how that... oh! To stop them... aspirating, was it? Thank God you came along! That explains why every stroke patient I've ever looked after turned navy and stopped breathing.

Yes, I know there are idiots out there, but we are the stroke unit and having Every Single Step spelled out (down to making sure they're awake and alert) is insulting.

I completely agree

[Franemtnurse]

Originally Posted by Nurse Salt

"Please provide Playstation consul for pt's use"


And I work on an ADULT critical care floor!!! Wonder where the doc expected us to get it from... (We don't have a peds dept.)

Maybe he thought you should do the good samaritan thingy and go buy one just for patient. Sarcasm intended

[Indy]

Originally Posted by NurseRoRo

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A new grad was working with us on nightshift and wasn't aware that one of our docs is, uh, high maintenance. He gave the nurse some telephone orders and asked that she page him at 4:30am for his wake up call.

Yup. The order went on to read, "Call MD at 4:30am to wake him up."

Now with my luck that'd be some (insert all the bad words here) who doesn't answer his pager, won't answer the phone and won't answer the door when you've gotten the police to go knock on his front door, thus making us wonder if he's even alive.

Yeah, I'm still steamed about that one. And when he called me, after I'd woken up every other doc in a 10 mile radius including the medical director, his question was, "are you nurses crazy?" Yes. That must be it.

[cursenurse]

This was not so much funny as it was irritating. The doctor actually (in the ER) wrote an order for a glass of water to be provided to the patient so that she could take her home pill. I'm like "What!" the doctor walks past the water fountain and the cups to log on to the computer and ask the RN to provide water to the pt? I found that to be extremely irritating and lazy.

[JaredCNA]

When I was unit secretary the other night, I transcribed an order that read, "Pt may go downstairs to smoke as often as he chooses."

The patient was POD#1 s/p right lobectomy and with a hx of emphysema, chronic bronchitis and Lung CA.

Then of course, working nights, there's one order you have to laugh at that I see from time to time "Please do not wake pt until 0700 hrs." But then they schedule vitals or IV abx q2h or for 0400.

[alcrab01]

As a nursing student on my first med/surg clinicals, I was reading a patient's history and saw "T&A." I pondered this abbreviation for a long time and could only think of one thing that T&A stands for. I finally asked, "Does this mean breast augmentation and liposuction or something?" The nurses NEVER let me live it down!

[peridotgirl]

Hope I didn't spoil the fun, but what does s/p and T&A mean... ??

Keep em' coming please.

[Jamesdotter]

Originally Posted by peridotgirl

Hope I didn't spoil the fun, but what does s/p and T&A mean... ??

Keep em' coming please.

T&A Tonsilectomy and adnoidectomy
s/p I don't see at a quick glance where that one comes from, but it's probably "Status Post"--like post-op

[Elvish]

s/p = status post

[NiteNurz]

24 hour urine collection on a anuric pt. I just laughed.