Charting Bloopers

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Have you seen any charting bloopers?

Found in the History and Physical section of a patient's chart who had experienced visual hallucinations while ill:

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"Patient vehemently denies any auditory, tactile, or old factory hallucinations."
Specializes in LTC, Subacute Rehab.

My mother works as an activities assistant in LTC, but she does have to do charting. Apparently a co-worker of hers managed to chart several people as "awake, alert, and ambulatory" - two were dead, one hadn't spoken or gotten out of bed / wheelchair in three months, and the other slept constantly.

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Specializes in NICU, L&D, OB, Home Health, Management.

Now I snorted iced tea all over my desk. ROTFLMAO!! FECALETTES?!?!?!

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Originally Posted by janine3&5

On an ER flow sheet, "16 Fr foley inserted to pt's L nare." ????????

Actually, this I find believable. When I was doing my intership in ambulatory surgury, I saw a number of ent surguries, we sometimes used straight caths and in one case did use a foley line through the nare.

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I've seen this too - the inflated balloon does a great job of controlling epistaxis. I saw it more when I worked ER than I do now, but I had a pt in RHB a few months ago w/ a gusher, and I wanted to do that in the worst way...it took the doc 2 days before he did it, and it fixed the guy quite well This particular doc doesn't take suggestions at all well. Maybe I should have just taken a Foley in and left it at bedside and said nothing.

Savvy

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Specializes in Neuro/Ortho/Med-Surg ICU.

We had a 3-4 day old brought into triage with jaundice. The pediatrician had the parents bring the child to be evaluated for elevated bilirubin. The EMT triaging wrote for chief complaint: "High Billy Rubin"

Guess what his nick name was for a long, long time?

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We had a 3-4 day old brought into triage with jaundice. The pediatrician had the parents bring the child to be evaluated for elevated bilirubin. The EMT triaging wrote for chief complaint: "High Billy Rubin"

Guess what his nick name was for a long, long time?

Don'tcha just love it? That's as good as our recent RHB admission w/ a baloney amputation!

Savvy

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In postpartum, this poor woman had undergone an emergency hysterectomy due to placenta accreta. Looking at the previous assessment, her fundus was firm, midline at the umbilicus 

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Specializes in acute care.
We had a 3-4 day old brought into triage with jaundice. The pediatrician had the parents bring the child to be evaluated for elevated bilirubin. The EMT triaging wrote for chief complaint: "High Billy Rubin"

Guess what his nick name was for a long, long time?

That is too funny! Especially for someone like me, who appreciates a good (or bad!) pun...

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We have a new pharmacy for our facility and apparently the typist was having a rough day. Order read, "Prevacid 15mg PO twice a day. Do not crush capsule or allow patient to swallow." It's almost change over night, so I'm sure I'll have more.

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.

Some of these are just too funny, love this thread.

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Specializes in Med Surg, House Manager.

How about this one?

"Patient has been living with her mother for the last 15 years, who is deceased."

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last night a secretary put in for frequency under vital sign " q * sh#t one of the nurses aids brought me a set of vs's at an odd hour and said "your pt just had a bm so i took her vital signs"

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