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No. 260
from jlmb214rn
Old Aug 09, 2008, 12:29 PM

Default Re: What is the dumbest order you ever read?
Chapstick prn.

Do not allow this triple lumen to be accidentally pulled out.

Keep the penis elevated. (hmmmm)

Open drapes at 0600.

Do not put sticky notes on the front of my charts. (an actual order on a chart)

Thin this chart.

On the same page of orders:
Time = 2000

*Vital signs q4.
*Flagyl 250mg po q8 hours. First dose now.
*CBC, CMP in am (our docs want labs drawn at 0500 so results are in
when they round at 0600)
*Please allow patient to sleep between the hours of 0000 and 0600.
(So which do we follow doc?? VS at 2, Flagyl at 4, labs at 5? Or let her sleep?)

We had a doc that would only order mineral oil in juice po for constipation. Yuck.

Mountain Dew po with meals.

Doc orders morphine for a patient with a pulled muscle in her back. I call back to see if we can maybe get her a muscle relaxer as the Morphine is not working.... He says "Sure, do whatever you want." Was serious, not sarcastic. I was like "So ummmm, what med?" "What do you think?" he says. I pause... "Ummmm, maybe Flexaril 10mg po q8prn??" "Good, we'll go with that!" he says. "Thanks!" he says.
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No. 261
Old Aug 09, 2008, 12:33 PM

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This was the order I had a few days ago:

"No new orders"

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No. 262
Old Aug 10, 2008, 09:04 AM

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Give beta blocker when pulse is better. Uh, well, better than 30 could be broadly construed. How about some actual numbers, Doc? And how about get him off that bb totally?
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No. 263
Old Aug 10, 2008, 09:06 AM

Default Re: What is the dumbest order you ever read?
Originally Posted by jlmb214rn View Post
Chapstick prn.

Do not allow this triple lumen to be accidentally pulled out.

Keep the penis elevated. (hmmmm)

Open drapes at 0600.

Do not put sticky notes on the front of my charts. (an actual order on a chart)

Thin this chart.

On the same page of orders:
Time = 2000

*Vital signs q4.
*Flagyl 250mg po q8 hours. First dose now.
*CBC, CMP in am (our docs want labs drawn at 0500 so results are in
when they round at 0600)
*Please allow patient to sleep between the hours of 0000 and 0600.
(So which do we follow doc?? VS at 2, Flagyl at 4, labs at 5? Or let her sleep?)

We had a doc that would only order mineral oil in juice po for constipation. Yuck.

Mountain Dew po with meals.

Doc orders morphine for a patient with a pulled muscle in her back. I call back to see if we can maybe get her a muscle relaxer as the Morphine is not working.... He says "Sure, do whatever you want." Was serious, not sarcastic. I was like "So ummmm, what med?" "What do you think?" he says. I pause... "Ummmm, maybe Flexaril 10mg po q8prn??" "Good, we'll go with that!" he says. "Thanks!" he says.
I can't drink oil to save my soul. I'd be sending someone out to the drug store to get me an enema kit.

Doctors like to have nurses do the ordering when they don't know what to order, don't you know?
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No. 264
from Elvish
Old Aug 10, 2008, 09:16 AM

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I love it when I'm in the nursery and the pediatrician comes in on his/her morning rounds and asks me, "Is Baby Jones (or whatever) going home today?"

"Well, Doc, that's kind of your call to make."
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No. 265
Old Aug 10, 2008, 09:27 AM

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"Lasix 20mg IV PRN"

Uhm, prn for what? When she asks for it?
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No. 266
from k-la
Old Aug 10, 2008, 09:21 PM

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Some of the nurses at work were just talking about this at work yesterday. One that made me laugh was "If no BM in p.m. give MOM in a.m."
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No. 267
Old Aug 10, 2008, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by RainDreamer View Post
This was the order I had a few days ago:

"No new orders"

at least it let you know he was there and looked at the chart if you did not see him
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No. 268
from loricatus
Old Aug 10, 2008, 11:56 PM

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"Redo pts eye makeup before discharge"
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No. 269
Old Aug 11, 2008, 07:18 AM

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Last week: "Call RMO for different chest pain" on a Pt who had spent three days in coronary care before admitting to our ward and then having chest/epigastric pain.
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