Charting Bloopers

Frequent bowl movements... and silverware and pots and pans!
Dunno about your hubby, but my mom's a retired RN - makes me wonder what she did with her med cart!

pt. refused autopsy

he he he, that's funny

My favorite blooper was for my pre-angiogram patient's H&P. It read, "Patient unable to walk 112 blocks without shortness of breath."

Before i was a nursing student, i worked in the authorizationd department of a busy ortho clinic and had to review the dictations from the physicians in order to request procedures, etc. One note from one of my favorite docs stands out "the patient states she is extremely pleased with the results of her Rt knee arthroscopy. She has moderate to severe dementia". That was six years ago and i still laugh about it

I remember an order "Hamburger Stat!". Also I hate to admit it but when I was in Nursing school..I was also involved with baking bread at home.. In my note i had written "Pt well able to make kneads known." Lucky for me my Instructer had a sence of humor and was aware of my baking hobby.

I heard of someone charting "pt. had CXR of the right knee..."

Just this weekend saw that one of my pts had had a c/s with BLT.

Want some fries with that, sweetie?

On the calendar at the nurse's station we make notations regarding upcoming appts and such for the residents. Today I found this one -

So and so from ******** Hearing Center will be in to make a mold of *****'s R ear. (I knew what it said, 'right ear' but it just got my funny bone - taking a mold of someone's rear )

I was spending a clinical day on a pedi medical floor and was reading through my patient's chart and came across his diagnosis: "short guy syndrome" Me and the other student were stumped as to what this may be so we did a little investigation and it was supposed to be short gut syndrome. We had a good laugh about that one.