y'all ain't going to believe this one!!

Specialties Operating Room

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I have been debating over whether to share this or not. I've been up laughing all night though, and it's 0517! OK, so i put the patient in high stirrups for perirectal abscess. The other nurse helps me position the fellow and then we stare at each other in awe! Some nurse had marked the rectum "yes"...(site verification)

#1). what nimwit nurse would do that?

#2). how many rectums does a person have?

#3). what patient would let her/him?

If I were that patient, I would have at that point walked my absessed butt out of there! Geez! If the doc can't find my rectum he sure as hell won't be doing an I&D on it!!! :lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2:

ebear

Specializes in Operating Room (and a bit of med/surg).

At our hospital the surgeons are supposed to mark the correct site with their initials. We only mark sites where there could possibly be confusion (left/right) not sites where there is only one (eg. we would never mark the orifice). We also do the time out after the patient is prepped and draped (verifying the site, the side, and the surgery, as well as the patient and the surgeon).

You guys are hilarious! :D

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