Discharge orders you'd LIKE to write!!!

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Hey, this quote from MLOS was in the middle of another thread:

"Maybe this is better suited to an ER thread, but here's a brief list of discharge instructions I would love to give some days:

1) ATVs & ETOH are bad.

2) Stop drinking a fifth of liquor each day - it's bad for you.

3) If you insist on OD-ing on your Klonopin, just take them all, DO NOT crush them & shoot them up w/your heroin.

4) If you go looking for a fight in a bar, you WILL find one.

:smackingf I could go on and on ..."

I think this is a great idea for a thread! I'd love to hear the responses from our ER nurses!!! :)

Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

"Bathe whole body qd with soap and water." Soap bar provided.

I've seen it written before, which is probably why i'm laughing as i write this.

The next time you decide to stick a shotgun in your mouth use a toe to push the trigger or get a shorter gun. Using your thumb, again, will only blow the implanted muscle off where your face used to be.

The gf or the bf? Cause there is no way in the world I'd let my hubby grow something that big on his body without me going after him with something to pop it. Refer to the pimple popping, sunburn peeling threads- I'm one of those. :chuckle

Goodness, I'm with you... I see something growing on my husband's back and I'm after it.

I can see how something can get so big w/o noticing. She may not have wanted to bring attention to it.

When my husband and I were first dating, I would give him a neck rub (he's a software engineer and at the computer all day). I noticed one day that he had what I thought was an ingrown hair the size of a mosquito bite on the back of his neck. I thought that he knew about it and didn't mention it.

This thing kept getting bigger and bigger. One day I got concerned about it (it was to the size of half dollar on the surface). I told him about it and he said that he knew nothing of it until I mentioned it. I got scared because it was quite large.

Long story short, on that Monday we went into the office to have a cyst exised from the back of his neck. It was just so huge, it was encapsulated, but the surface was the tip of the iceberg because it was very huge. He still has a small spot where the doc said he couldn't get it all.

Anyhow, I can understand how something can be so big and no one notice.

Specializes in Cardiac/Telemetry.
Want to read a hilarious essay from an ER nurse? Check this Best of Craigslist entry out. It had me howling!

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/por/67309047.html

Couldn't really read it all. Too many curse words. She's one ANGRY :angryfire chick!!!!

Specializes in Cath Lab, OR, CPHN/SN, ER.
Goodness, I'm with you... I see something growing on my husband's back and I'm after it.

I can see how something can get so big w/o noticing. She may not have wanted to bring attention to it.

When my husband and I were first dating, I would give him a neck rub (he's a software engineer and at the computer all day). I noticed one day that he had what I thought was an ingrown hair the size of a mosquito bite on the back of his neck. I thought that he knew about it and didn't mention it.

This thing kept getting bigger and bigger. One day I got concerned about it (it was to the size of half dollar on the surface). I told him about it and he said that he knew nothing of it until I mentioned it. I got scared because it was quite large.

Long story short, on that Monday we went into the office to have a cyst exised from the back of his neck. It was just so huge, it was encapsulated, but the surface was the tip of the iceberg because it was very huge. He still has a small spot where the doc said he couldn't get it all.

Anyhow, I can understand how something can be so big and no one notice.

:rotfl: My DH has one of those scars on his back too!!! :rotfl: He had his mom bring home some lido and a scapel and she did it. There is NO WAY!

Specializes in med/surg, rural, ER.

Had a doc give me this verbal order yesterday...

Call the Wizard of Oz and order a brain for that patient!

Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.
"Bathe whole body qd with soap and water." Soap bar provided.

I've seen it written before, which is probably why i'm laughing as i write this.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

dc orders I've been tempted to write:

1. Always be looking over your shoulder. After verbally abusing me and my co-workers for the last (fill-in-the-blank) hours, and suggesting what we may do to enhance your sexual pleasure, you can be assured that I will get you, some day, somewhere,:rotfl: and in some very nasty way.

Specializes in Pediatric ER.

1. consider iq testing before you decide to reproduce. it's not fair to kids to have stupid parents.

2. keep your toddler away from your horses' back hooves.

3. cough x 3 (yes, the child coughed three times :eek: ) is not an emergency!!!

4. get a job.

5. take a bath. :barf01:

6. ambulances are not intended for c/o fever (can you believe people do this??? then they act dumbfounded when we try to explain what is not only an emergency, but one that requires an ambulance!). :deadhorse

7. if your child has been bitten by a dog, logic would tell you to keep them apart, rather than letting your kid stick its' face to the dog's mouth again. hmm, wonder what happened? :idea:

8. telling us you fell on a cucumber while making a salad doesn't convince us your foreign body is accidental!!! ;)

9. it's called an emergency center, not a clinic. :nono:

10. there are these things called over the counter medications. you should try them!

Specializes in Hospice.

You know though, all the individuals that the previous posts are directed toward serve as great job security for ER and EMS personnel.

Then it's just hilarous!!! :rotfl:

had a guy who had swallowed a large piece of meat that became lodged in his esophagus, needed an endoscopy to get it down. D/c instructions included "Chew Food":chuckle

I could think of some very not nice ones. Sometimes I just can't help but believe in Darwinism. :stone

1. Do not let your 14 year old self medicate with Tylenol for a "fever" until she ends up in hosp. on mucomyst protocol. :angryfire

2. Temp of 37.2 is not sepsis

3. Alcohol causes your pancreatitis- STOP drinking.

4. You can not live here, If you had to pay for it you would go home.

You know though, all the individuals that the previous posts are directed toward serve as great job security for ER and EMS personnel.

Absolutely right!!!

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