Charting Bloopers

[AHarri66]

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."

[SaraO'Hara]

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.

[Sable's mom]

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

[Adam D. RN2005]

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.

[JWaldron]

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

[Anernurse2b]

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?

[JWaldron]

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

[Wen83]

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 

[Angie O'Plasty]

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...

[emeraldjay]

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.

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

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

[jollygreenRN]

How about this one?

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

[liljsmom02]

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"