What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

[texas_lvn]

What have other peers done intentional/unintentional to freak you out? Good or bad. Happy or sad.

On my FIRST day as an LVN, (LTC) a res was screaming in her room as I was walking out to leave. I went in to see what was going on. She was having an anxiety attack and severe pain (post stroke). I pulled the call light, and no one came. Uggg.

So I peeked out the door and saw my CNA walking down the hall, and told him to come sit with res. I went down to get her a Xanax and a pain pill, well relief nurse was in the restroom, and relief CNA (with call light still going off) was sitting behind nurses station reading a newspaper. I told CNA to tell the nurse to get a Xanax and pain pill for res. She said OK. I go to relieve my CNA. Said goodbye to him, and stayed with res. after 10 minutes, CNA COMES INTO ROOM WITH XANAX AND MORPHINE PILL. She is soooooo shocked to see me still there, she hands me the pills and RUNS to the relief nurse. I could NOT BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW!!!!

(I did immediately call DON and tell what happened. Luckily, my CNA was still checking on another res, and saw the whole thing.--------they got a slap on the wrist! that was it!!!) :madface: :madface:

[rnrae]

That's ABHR cream - Ativan, Benadryl, Haldol and Reglan - Forgot the about the "H".

[Sassybottom]

I like this thread!

[Sassybottom]

Just remembered another

I had a resident on my LTC unit whose husband was in a wheelchair because of a stroke (but who still lived independantly in the community). He was visiting her in the evening around 8 pm. All of a sudden I hearing protests and a scuffle down the hall. Agency HCA was trying to undress him to "get him ready for bed".

OMG!!!!! I am still laughing. I can't stop. Hilarious!!!!!

[Neferet]

Day shift nurse gives report saying she doesn't understand why newly inserted foley isn't draining. I said I'd take a look. Foley did not drain because it was inserted into rectum.

Someone just shoot me...

[DeLana_RN, BSN, RN]

the nurse was observed draining out the urine from the urine bag then drawing the urine up in a syringe and then pushing it IV into the central line.....yes...the patient became very ill .....tachy.....eventhough the urine was thought to be "sterile".....it was not a compatible "substance" with the blood stream...ie it' a by-product of the kidneys...high ammonia, etc....the patient almost died...and prob. would have if not for the observer intervening....ugh.

Wow, this takes the cake. Did this nurse lose her license (in addition to her job) for gross incompetence?! The poor pt may well have lost his life, for urine is most certainly no longer sterile once in the Foley bag - and in addition to his other problems, he undoubtedly got a nice case of sepsis...

Oh, horror! What did happen to the pt (and the nurse)?

DeLana

[lamazeteacher]

Send the ?Nurse to ED for sudden blindness to be treated - or lack of sensation, if patient was male.

Now I've heard it all!

[NursKris82]

I have one that is a little more lighthearted, than the rest.

My NA and myself was assisted a patient in a semi private room, we were behind the curtain. We heard a fellow nurse giving the other patient meds, a pill fell on the floor and the nurse says "should we go by the 5 second rule or get another on" The patients family about went nuts. The patinet and family said please get another one. The nurse then replies " it might take me a while to get it"

I am an aide in LTC, this happens all the time. Most of the time, the reidents will insist it's OK. About half the time, the nurse insists on getting a new pill.

[sticknurse]

A recent grad explained that she needed to go home, "I feel light headed, I got insulin on my arm." I'll never forget that. Oh, and there's the supervisor who slept part of the night and wrote fan (read STALKER) letters to Alec Baldwin in the middle of the night. Before I knew better I asked her to monitor my vents so I could break for a few minutes, then I RAN past her to answer the alarms she was IGNORING on my way back on the unit. She didn't like me much, I was always trying to get more than one nurse for 13 vents (we had no rt at all) and was an upstart i guess.

[Sassybottom]

the nurse was observed draining out the urine from the urine bag then drawing the urine up in a syringe and then pushing it IV into the central line.....yes...the patient became very ill .....tachy.....eventhough the urine was thought to be "sterile".....it was not a compatible "substance" with the blood stream...ie it' a by-product of the kidneys...high ammonia, etc....the patient almost died...and prob. would have if not for the observer intervening....ugh.

Why in the world would someone even think to do that?! There are a lot of steps in between emptying a foley bag then preparing a syringe to pull up some urine then injecting into a patient's central line....

Was this nurse mentally ill?

What would her rationale be for doing this?!

[Sassybottom]

Why in the world would someone even think to do that?! There are a lot of steps in between emptying a foley bag then preparing a syringe to pull up some urine then injecting into a patient's central line....

Was this nurse mentally ill?

What would her rationale be for doing this?!

Never mind, I just read your original post. Now I question how that nurse made it through school.

[bradpittsone]

Revolting!! Ew. Holy crap!

[LilyBlue]

The worst thing I ever heard/saw about was purely accidental, I guess - A nurse ran a Natrecor drip in as an IV piggyback over thirty minutes. Miraculously the patient had no ill effect. The nurse was so upset that she transferred to a desk job, though.