Dodo Birds We all Know and Work With

[Vito Andolini]

ke dcs fr t 0400?

What do you do with a security guard who's too gung ho for the job? He's total stickler for parking permits, parking within the lines, and the like. He lets some hings go but not much. He really needs to chill out.

What do you do with Maintenance when they won't fix stuff after repeated requests?

How about with Upper Managers who won't back you up when you need stuff fixed for safety reasons?:devil:

What about nurses who follow you but won't call the doctor when it gets to be a human hour to call and take care of routine matters that you don't want to wake them for at 0400? :argue:

To err is human but if these same dodo birds do it again, I"m going to sic Maxine on them. She'll give 'em what for, huh?:chuckle

[Spritenurse1210, BSN, RN]

I have another one. You really can't make this stuff up. after 3 urine samples were sent to our lab, one was lost, the other 2 came up as having UTIs the oncoming nurse insisted that the lab had to have contaminated the client's urine.

[Virgo_RN, BSN, RN]

The discussion changed, as online discussions will, to a questioning of the possibility of STDs in the digestive tract.

You changed the discussion, you mean.:wink2:

[LifelongDream]

Once when my friend was working as a pharm tech, a nurse called requesting her patient's B12 injection. My friend informed her that they were out of B12. The nurse responded, "Well, would it be okay to give two B6's? Duh....

[Vito Andolini]

Of course, I've heard more than one senior nurse (MSN, even) and nursing instructor say that they don't believe in the germ theory.

Well, OK, then. So much for evidence-based practice.

Well, now, recall that many things that are accepted as truth, many even scientific "everybody knows it is so" facts turn out to be not so true upon further investigation. Could the germ theory be incorrect? Some truly say it could be incorrect.

All of these responses are eye-opening and very interesting. Thanks to all who have responded. Dodo's seem to be everywhere!

[EarthChild1130]

This happened today...a secretary, after reading the list of diagnoses on a progress note, asked me, "What are those letters in front of the diagnosis for?" I said "Um, those are Roman numerals..." She said "Well how do you put them there? I don't have Roman numerals on my computer keyboard...":lol_hitti

So this was me all day----------->:roll

[sharpeimom]

this happened today...a secretary, after reading the list of diagnoses on a progress note, asked me, "what are those letters in front of the diagnosis for?" i said "um, those are roman numerals..." she said "well how do you put them there? i don't have roman numerals on my computer keyboard...":lol_hitti

so this was me all day----------->:roll

thanks for sharing this story! it made me laugh at the very end of a hectic l-o-n-g day!:hehe:

kathy

sharpeimom:paw::paw:

[Moogie]

how about the dodo RN i work with who refuses to wear gloves while assisting during endoscopic procedures and has done so for 25 years... and the dodo doctors and dodo nurse manager who don't say anything to her!

her reasoning... "i haven't gotten anything bad yet". i gave her a whole bunch of literature on MRSA, VRE, the hepatitis family, HIV/AIDS, C-diff and STD's. she laughed at me and said gloves are impersonal.

sorry but i think anyone who graduated with a bachelor's in science from the university of north carolina should have the sense to wear gloves while handling specimens that came out of the human digestive tract.

Twenty-five, thirty years ago that was the thinking. Gloves were for wusses and not even worn when giving enemas.

And the idea of gloves being impersonal---oh, yeah, I remember that, too. At the hospital at which I worked at the time, we weren't permitted to even wear gloves when applying topicals because it was thought we might make our dermatology patients, particularly the psoriatics, feel bad about their diseases or "untouchable".

That whole mindset seems bizarre to me now. However, old habits die hard and it sounds like this veteran nurse isn't going to pay attention to the new (and safest!) way to do things until she catches something nasty.

[belgarion]

Some years back, my wife and a coworker reported to the LTC facility where they worked for the evening shift. The asked the offgoing nurse how one particularly noisy patient had been doing that day. He told them she was great and every time he had looked in on her she was sleeping in her chair. They immediately went to the room and found out why the patient was so quiet. In case you haven't guessed, she had been dead for at least 10 hours.