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Feb 09, 2008 12:50 AM

Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????

Updated Feb 09, 2008 at 01:06 AM by jessi1106

Tonight one of the clerks informed me, "It's okay to give the risperidol you paged about". What??? It turns out she had taken a verbal order!!!!!!! Of course the doctor thought he was speaking to a nurse on the phone.

This clerk is a new employee, but still, I was shocked at that.

Anyone else witness odd things by other (non nurse/MD) employees? transporters, housekeeping, dietary, etc???

Oh ya, I informed the clerk that her role doesn't involve taking verbals


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Old Feb 15, 2008, 07:30 AM

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Our unit secretary and a dietary worker literally rolling down the front hall of the hospital's main floor, fighting tooth and nail over the attentions of one of our male housekeepers.

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Old Feb 15, 2008, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Emmanuel Goldstein View Post
Our unit secretary and a dietary worker literally rolling down the front hall of the hospital's main floor, fighting tooth and nail over the attentions of one of our male housekeepers.

What did he look like?
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Old Feb 15, 2008, 04:41 PM

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Very short, very skinny, missing a few teeth.

Seriously.
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Old Feb 15, 2008, 11:09 PM

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Being asked, in all seriousness, if we can add a CBC and INR to a blood culture drawn earlier in the day. When told "NO!", then being asked " so, does that mean we have to stick the patient again?" The ward clerk who asked me this was a former nurse!
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from Jessiedog
Old Feb 19, 2008, 06:32 AM

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Thank the Lord I dindn't witness this one, I would have made a formal complaint! One of our orderlies, nick-named 'monkey-man' becuase his fondness for weight-lifting caused him to walk with his arms like a gorilla, decided to show how macho he was to the young grad nurse. It ended up that he 'flashed his tackle' in front of an elderly female patient who was blind, with the nurse and another male orderly as witness. As far as I'm concerned, this is totally unacceptable, whether the patient is blind or not. They ALL deserve to be treated with respect. :madf ace:
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Old Feb 19, 2008, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Jessiedog View Post
Thank the Lord I dindn't witness this one, I would have made a formal complaint! One of our orderlies, nick-named 'monkey-man' becuase his fondness for weight-lifting caused him to walk with his arms like a gorilla, decided to show how macho he was to the young grad nurse. It ended up that he 'flashed his tackle' in front of an elderly female patient who was blind, with the nurse and another male orderly as witness. As far as I'm concerned, this is totally unacceptable, whether the patient is blind or not. They ALL deserve to be treated with respect. :madf ace:
Sounds like he has a 'roid brain to go along with his gorilla arms!
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Old Feb 19, 2008, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Emmanuel Goldstein View Post
Very short, very skinny, missing a few teeth.

Seriously.
He must have had some very good "attributes".
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Old Feb 19, 2008, 12:59 PM

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He must have had some very good "attributes".
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Old Feb 22, 2008, 01:27 PM

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I was a float aide at a small pediatric hospital, my base was in security.

We had a security officer that was Ahemm--popular with the support staff. I was talking to him one evening (about security--of all things) and I actually had a housekeeper threaten me and state "That's my man!"

I was too dumbfounded to respond, but my first thoughts were 1. Gross 2. He's not your man, honey, he's half the support staff's man.

I had to be escorted to my car for a week.

At this same hospital, one of my duties as a float aide and secretary was to be transporter after the transport staff left at 5pm. Our hospital was very old and the morgue was in the old chapel (no kidding) in the basement. It was horribly creepy to see a small room, set up like a church with white/green carts everywhere (you know which kind of cart I'm talking about).

Security had to escort me to unlock the door. Some nights, I would page them and they would unlock it and then lock it later after I had left. This particular night I was transporting a body and the door was unlocked. I opened it, someone sat up on a stretcher, and moaned. I screamed, peed my pants, and slammed the door.

It was one of the security guards! I just about slapped him! Luckily, we were in the basement, so no one heard me scream but linens (and its a good thing too, because I needed a new pair of scrubs)

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