Nurses Humor
Updated: Feb 15, 2023 Published Jun 12, 2000
Found in the History and Physical section of a patient's chart who had experienced visual hallucinations while ill:
Quote "Patient vehemently denies any auditory, tactile, or old factory hallucinations."
UM Review RN, ASN, RN
1 Article; 5,163 Posts
jollygreenRN said: How about this one? "Patient has been living with her mother for the last 15 years, who is deceased.":eek:
"Patient has been living with her mother for the last 15 years, who is deceased.":eek:
Hmmm...must be one of William Faulkner's relatives.
RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN
8,498 Posts
Yikes! I bet she has been mummified or her ashes are in a box
LOL
grace90, LPN, LVN
763 Posts
A co-worker of mine recently accidentally charted a male patient as having a period, and quite a long time ago charted that an 84 year old lady was pregnant.
During clinicals, writing our notes was a bit nerve racking. we had to write it out and then show our clinical instructor, she would make changes/suggestions and THEN we would put it in the chart...Anywho, I got a little bit distracted while transcribing the note to the chart. I'll never forget when i came in the next day, and the Instructor pointed out what I had wrote. "....Pt breathing." Uhm, here's your sign!
Well, sounds like you understood the ABC's- airway, breathing, circulation! :chuckle :chuckle
I think they should rename go-lytely to go ever so heavily !
Or call it Ever-so-easily-poured-down-the-sink-by-the-noncompliant-abdominal-pain-patient-and-replaced-with-water (enemas til clear, anyone?)
patwil73
261 Posts
I caught this one in a dictated H/P
Pt is married, other medical problems include (with a list)
Still causes me to chuckle to this day.
Pat
elizabells, BSN, RN
2,094 Posts
seen today:
pt ambulatory c/o existence....
dialysisalice
6 Posts
My personal favorite was written by a very prudish LPN that read "Oral peri-care given" I asked her if the patient enjoyed it and then suggested using a comma next time she documented hygiene.
tencat
1,350 Posts
In Med/Surg Clinical someone had written (the physician, I assume) in a chart: Lomotil, diarrhea PO 25 mg....Is 25 mg of diarrhea a standard medication to give? :chuckle :uhoh21:
rpv_rn
167 Posts
I have to pay attention when I chart. If someone is talking, even though i am not consciously hearing, my mind listens to the conversation.
I got called the following day to clarify my charting the evening before because I had charted,
"Patient voiding orange juice."
:chuckle
Indy, LPN, LVN
1,444 Posts
This week we had a transcribed h & p that said the male patient had a history of a Fundal Plication. Well. I wasn't gonna go looking for his fundus! (Fundoplication was his surgery for GERD)
SweetieRN
67 Posts
From the physician's notes about a first-time pregant, newly admitted OB patient: "Patient is a 26-year old primate".:rotfl: