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| No. 190 | 
Jan 15, 2008, 08:03 AM
 Re: Nursing School Bloopers Originally Posted by elizabells  Just be glad it wasn't TPN. The dextrose makes it incredibly sticky and the MVI makes it stinky. I've had to scrub that off the floor a couple of times, and the smell doesn't really come off your skin too well. Blech.
I'll never forget when I was a new grad and one of the more uppity new grads spiked a bag of PRBCs wrong and literally got a blood bath.  I was sorry that it happened, but sooooo glad that it didn't happen to me!
(I have done the TPN thing. Ugh. It's like baby formula with 10 packs of sugar added.)
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Jan 20, 2008, 01:50 PM
Re: Nursing School Bloopers
I had an awful "poop" experience during a clinical. PT asked me to help her get a patient up (I knew nothing about the patient) and I went to assist her. The patient had a fecal management system in (apparently not something PT knew about). As we assisted her to a standing position, the FMS was pulled out and the trail of liquid stool flew across my uniform and shoes. Well, the unit secretary called down to get me some scrub pants. Little did they know, my school required us to wear dresses, so the pants weren't enough. I had to stand outside the patient's room covered in nearly orange poop waiting for someone to get me a complete set of scrubs. All the docs made a point to come check on the "poor little nursing student covered in poop" I was mortified to come back ever again!! I did not throw away my shoes or the uniform though. Dresses are expensive--I bleached the heck out of it.
| | No. 196 |
Jan 22, 2008, 01:05 PM
Re: Nursing School Bloopers Originally Posted by dani_girl Ok.. I can not spell.. at all.. but I usually catch my mistakes.. my last CI, who I think is amazing, told me I was going to make a great nurse, I got all excited, then she goes.. "Your one real weakness is spelling, you might want to work on that." When I just looked at her like what, she explained that on all my care plans I had written "ASSES the pt" instead of assess.. she said that might look funny if I ever had to go to court  everyone still teases me about it.. asking if I have grabbed my pt butt today..
I have made the same spelling error myself on a care plan. The instructor circled it in red, and it took me a while to figure it out.
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Jan 22, 2008, 07:55 PM
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Jan 22, 2008 at 10:10 PM by Elvish
| | No. 198 |
Jun 01, 2008, 11:27 AM
 Re: Nursing School Bloopers Originally Posted by KibbsRNstudent I am sorry but I have to ask what was wrong with this? I start cliniclas in the fall and I would have done the same thing. I do not want to make a worng mistake if I can help it so please tell me why if the orders said to take the staples out and she did then why was it wrong? Is there a rule that says only take staples out of a certain part of the body or something?. Eek.
If you take 1/2 of the staples out, you must take out every other staple. If you take out the "top half" or "bottom half" you could cause the wound to reopen  , which it definately not a good thing.
| | No. 199 |
Jun 01, 2008, 06:47 PM
Re: Nursing School Bloopers Originally Posted by dani_girl Ok.. I can not spell.. at all.. but I usually catch my mistakes.. my last CI, who I think is amazing, told me I was going to make a great nurse, I got all excited, then she goes.. "Your one real weakness is spelling, you might want to work on that." When I just looked at her like what, she explained that on all my care plans I had written "ASSES the pt" instead of assess.. she said that might look funny if I ever had to go to court everyone still teases me about it.. asking if I have grabbed my pt butt today..
Due to a typo by the administrative assistant, one of my classmates' e-mail address showed up on the roster as "asscrapper@whatever"...she was upset that it was spelled wrong but couldn't understand why we were all laughing...and kept trying to explain that it was "ascrapper, you know, A SCRAPPER? Scrapbooking?" She was about to blow her top when someone said to her, "we know, but right now it says @ss cr@pper!" and then she fell over laughing.
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