i got the idea for this thread from another thread, and rather than hijack the thread about "financial damage at work" i thought i'd start a new one. i suspect we all have funny stories about destroying some piece of equipment.
i accidently raised a bed until the attached iv pole went through the flourescent light, which exploded, shattering glass everywhere. the manager peed her pants laughing.
while i was at lunch, a surgical resident (r-1) decided to suction out my patient's chest tubes, and the nurse who was covering was new enough that she didn't understand me when i mentioned that she needed to "supervise the resident" any time he was in the room. the resident didn't realize that he needed a suction cannister -- sucked bloody yuk up into the wall where it clogged up the system. the entire room was closed down for weeks while they took apart the suction system and cleaned it out then repaired it!
years ago, we had a confused patient in a geri-chair (anyone remember those?) who used to wander. the brakes on those chairs weren't the best, and john had perfected the art of getting his tippy toes through the crack between the chair and the foot board and propelling himself down the hallway. usually, we were able to catch him before he went too far (circular unit -- he'd just go around the circle over and over) but one time a medical student held the door to the stair way open for him -- with predictable results. when john came back to our floor in a full body cast (once again tied into his geri chair) i determined that he wasn't going down the stairs again on my shift. i tied the geri chair to the handrail in the hall.
i was sneaking into a patient's room doing my hourly "sheet checks" (where you make sure the sheet is rising and falling appropriately) when i heard a horrible crash and a yell. then the wall of the room i was in collapsed!
seems that john had pulled so hard on the geri chair that he pulled the hand rail down. the handrail was attached only to dry wall, not to a stud, so the dry wall came down!
Physical Therapy bought a new copier and gave my unit the old one. It was one of those huge ones the size of a volkswagen (j/k). A night nurse decided she wanted to photocopy her.....".gluteus area" so she sat on the glass screen........and.........the ........screen.......couldn't hndle the weight and..........it.....
A night nurse decided she wanted to photocopy her.....".gluteus area" so she sat on the glass screen........and.........the ........screen.......couldn't hndle the weight and..........it.....
I fell on a patient.. patient was sleeping, I went in a 7:30 AM, tripped over my own two feet and fell face first across her legs and lower abdomen.. She woke up very surpirsed to see her nurse laying on her...
We use portable phones -- SpectraLink --- Dropped one in the bathroom when the clip came off my scrubs... $800 down the toilet... Had to be replaced... No charge phone...
Dropped an empty evacuated 1 L container in the utility room... The vacumn causes a HUGE BANG like a bomb and I was showered with tiny bits of glass, and every staff member thinking the sky was falling on them from the explosion...
I also spiked through IV bags.. and worst of all... an expensive TPN bag and the pharmacy has to make up a new bag pronto....
Oh...I forgot the employee incident report I had to fill out..... Chair was angled wrong for computer work and I could not get lever under seat to work.. I got up, stood in front of the chair, leaned down and pulled the lever.. The chair flew forward and hit me in the head causing me to go down to the floor, and have a massive headache, dizziness and a very large goose egg... 2 days later I had raccoon eyes from the injury... How do you write that up?? The employee health coordiantor was trying not to laugh too hard when she called me.....
Specializes in ER,ICU and Progressive Care Unit,Peds.
Speaking of spiking through bags...almost forgot about that one...I was hanging blood on one of my CA kids and I spiked through the side of the bag. Blood every where...and needless to say a whole unit of blood wasted. I felt like such a DA!
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
oh...i forgot the employee incident report i had to fill out..... chair was angled wrong for computer work and i could not get lever under seat to work.. i got up, stood in front of the chair, leaned down and pulled the lever.. the chair flew forward and hit me in the head causing me to go down to the floor, and have a massive headache, dizziness and a very large goose egg... 2 days later i had raccoon eyes from the injury... how do you write that up?? the employee health coordiantor was trying not to laugh too hard when she called me.....
omg! this post should have had a beverage alert! i laughed so hard i spewed coke at my screen!
P_RN, ADN, RN
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Oh my goodness I recall a copier incident!!!
Physical Therapy bought a new copier and gave my unit the old one. It was one of those huge ones the size of a volkswagen (j/k). A night nurse decided she wanted to photocopy her.....".gluteus area" so she sat on the glass screen........and.........the ........screen.......couldn't hndle the weight and..........it.....
BROKE!! How does one write that incident report?