Re: Strangest thing you've heard a co-worker or patient say?
Needless to say, the charge nurse I work with isn't the brightest. Just a few examples:
1. When filling out a lab slip for a UA C&S, she wrote "UA CNS". It took three people and 20 minutes to explain the difference to her
2. While charting on a resident, she turned to me to ask if ""left foot" was spelled the same as "he turned left"".
3. Another charting episode occurred when a male patient was feeling ill. She was charting his condition and asked me how to spell "pacific". I responded by asking her what she meant; her reply was "Mr. X has no pacific complaints". I replied that Pacific was an ocean, he has no
specific complaints. OMG!
This is a seasoned (20 yrs. or more) LPN and it kinda scares me that she is responsible for 30 odd residents and hands out narcotics.
for the whole thing, and if their prevailing medical status would allow it, the anesthesiologist generally made sure they were heavy sedation (we called it "Big MAC") for the whole thing. Then they'd turn off the Diprivan IV at the end of the case, and the patient was wide awake in a minute or so. 
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It was fun to watch and see what kind of reaction we would get - nobody remembered a thing, and it made the day go a little faster with some humor in it! 
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