Charting Bloopers

I work with some people that just flat out can't spell... One used to continuously write: pt poisoned in bed, pt poisoned in WC etc. She meant positioned, well at least I hope she did...

"Reason for visit: Cabbage"

I had a sick resident who was very somnolent and difficult to arouse even with a firm sternal rub. He also happened to be four days w/o a BM, so I administered a suppository. Even the administration of the suppository failed to wake him up.

So, in my note, I wrote "suppository did not arouse resident"..... yeah, probably could have worded that better....

another one:

a foreign RN I work with documented "resident has pusy drainage from member"

But... she hasn't yet mastered English spelling, and the word "pusy" had an extra 's'....

Almost wrote. In bed playing with himself. Caught it. Sigh. Playing quitely.

Progress note: "the wound be healed"

Psyche dr once wrote an order to send pt back to guatemala...lmao

While doing home med rec my finger it the p and the o when typing prn. So it said Media. Fortunately I caught it before it saved!

I'm a psych nurse. Last night when attempting to do a reassessment on a borderline patient, she flipped me off and walked away. So I charted the following:

"When this RN attempted to initiate a conversation for reassessment, the pt displayed the dorsal aspect of the second digit of her right hand in an erect fashion and walked away, refusing to speak." 

bossfrog said:

I'm a psych nurse. Last night when attempting to do a reassessment on a borderline patient, she flipped me off and walked away. So I charted the following:

"When this RN attempted to initiate a conversation for reassessment, the pt displayed the dorsal aspect of the second digit of her right hand in an erect fashion and walked away, refusing to speak." 

That's awesome!

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