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:

[sharpeimom]

i work with a nurse who refuses to auscultate lung sounds. she says she never learned it 30 years ago because lpns didn't do it back then, and so she just doesn't understand and won't do them. i have come in more than once in the morning to a person with a cough, listened to their lungs , ordered chest x ray and lo and behold they have pneumonia!

reminds me of when i was a brand new rn and worked with a much much much (read a contemporary of betsy ross ...) nurse who absolutely did not catheterize men, because, "it just wasn't quite nice" and was simply scandalized when i finally offered to do it for her. for as long as i worked on that floor, she went around clucking and murmuring that i had seemed like such a sweet child. oh well ...

sharpeimom:paw::paw:

[squeakykitty]

As for the companion who didn't report the chest pain--

I would report that one soooo fast.........

And I wouldn't react too well to the one who shushed me.

[SamiRN]

Working agency in LTC facility,,,the RN i charge got caught.....licking duragesic patches that were on peoples body!!!! I know many of you have prob heard this done before but I was so grossed out!!!! now most places I go, they have to be felt, identified to make sure they are intact....ewwwwwwww

[southernbeegirl, BSN, RN]

after this thread, i dont think im ever going to eat again...

[pca_85]

Ok, I'm only on page 18 but must add a few of my own. Don gave me a shot with no gloves on. Nurse took drugs patient refused because shed lready marked them off and "they're five bucks a pill on the street!" Pt. was having trouble breathing(blue) and spoke Chinese, nurse stood over her asking if she preferred the cannula or the mask. This ones my fault:I asked a very airheaded nurse for tylenol while she was passing meds-she never WASN'T passing meds. Long story short, she mixed up my pill cup with a gentlemans who was receiving haldol. Guess who had an interesting allergic reaction to Haldol The one that takes the cake, I''ve posted this in the CNA forum, but it is horrendous:doing post mortem care, the employee of the month turned the deceaed lady into a puppet(moving arms and legs and a number of voices, moving the jaw, etc.)Wow.

[JenPen2332]

Well, once my preceptor wore the same gloves all day in each patient's room. For "cleanliness" reasons...???Um, Ok.

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

I pulled a dosey- started a blood transfusion without connecting the tubing to the patient. Didn't catch it when I went to do 15 min check. Patient called around 25 min and I walked in to see bed covered in blood. Made it worse by saying, "OMG, you pulled your central line out?!?!?"

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

Tonight, a Companion asked me if my resident's oral morphine was flavored. How am I supposed to know that without tasting it?

I''ve posted this in the CNA forum, but it is horrendous:doing post mortem care, the employee of the month turned the deceaed lady into a puppet(moving arms and legs and a number of voices, moving the jaw, etc.)Wow.

Oh. My. God.

[morte, LPN, LVN]

I work with a nurse who refuses to auscultate lung sounds. She says she never learned it 30 years ago because LPNs didn't do it back then, and so she just doesn't understand and won't do them. I have come in more than once in the morning to a person with a cough, listened to their lungs , ordered chest xray and lo and behold they have pneumonia!

i find that a little hard to believe...therefore i would wonder if her hearing was going and she didnt want to admit it?

[I_LOVE_TRAUMA, RN]

Had a fellow RN tell me that he went into a room to check a vent alarm in the ICU and found the RN with the wire cutters in her hand about to snip open the wires on a patients jaw ex-fix, wired shut mouth-when he said what are you doing, she replied, "I was gonna do mouth care."!!!

[cherrybreeze, ADN, RN]

thats a valid prescription we have 1g paracetamol iv (tylenol to the north americans.

That's NOT a valid prescription here, though......without looking I assume this was written IN North America (as it was called Tylenol) and while you may have an IV version, we do not and never have. The fact that a similar drug is available on the other side of an ocean in IV form doesn't make it ok to write that here, as it doesn't and never has existed! In fact it makes it the fact that it was written worse, IMO!

[lisamc1RN, LPN]

i find that a little hard to believe...therefore i would wonder if her hearing was going and she didnt want to admit it?

I hadn't thought of that, but it certainly could be the case.