...taking the narc keys home and having to drive back to your hospital an hour later because you left it in your scrub's pocket!I hate that! :angryfire 0 Likes
leslie :-D 11,191 Posts Oct 23, 2004 ...taking the narc keys home and having to drive back to your hospital an hour later because you left it in your scrub's pocket!I hate that! :angryfirehey.....you could've taken the narcs home and left the keys. :chuckle 0 Likes
plumrn, BSN, RN 424 Posts Oct 23, 2004 I did that once years ago, and now my habit is to clean out my pockets before I leave work every night. I was soooo tired that time, all I wanted to do was fall in the bed. I lived a pretty long way from work, and it was a beating having to drive ALL THE WAY BACK, AGAIN! 0 Likes
Tweety, BSN, RN Specializes in Med-Surg, Trauma, Ortho, Neuro, Cardiac. Has 30 years experience. 31,911 Posts Oct 23, 2004 Yep. Did that once. Also took them home once, went to bed and came back the next night to find out they had to reinstall a new lock as they "lost the keys". Opps.... 0 Likes
Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN 11,302 Posts Oct 23, 2004 It has happened to me a couple of times and usually happens to someone at least once or twice a month. Fortunately I live less than a mile from work. Two weeks ago I got home with the keys after getting a ride from a CNA I work with and had no way to get back to work until my son came home from work in his "crummy" which is a filthy dilapidated pickup used out in the woods. steph 0 Likes
nursemaa 259 Posts Oct 23, 2004 Oooh, I hate that. One time, I got home at 1am after working 3-11, kicked off my shoes, got in the lazy boy with the feet up, turned on the TV, reached in my pocket and there they were!! Had to get all bundled up and go back out (in the winter of course) and take them in. Grr... 0 Likes
Dixielee, BSN, RN Specializes in ER. Has 38 years experience. 1,222 Posts Oct 23, 2004 I did that one time when I lived 44 miles from the hospital. What is scariest is going home and finding a 1/2 used vial or Morphine in your pocket! Occasionally, there is only one nurse left to "close" the non acute side of the ER while everyone else goes to the main side. So there is no one to witness you wasting a med. I will label with the patient name sticker and then discard when I get a chance. I didn't realise I still had morphine till I got home. I couldn't wait to get back to have someone watch me waste it! Now I have a plastic "makeup" case from Wal mart that I empty everything into before I leave the building. All those alcohol swabs, pens, scissors, tape, #18 needles and angiocaths go either back to the med room or into my bag. That has saved me a lot of hassle, and keeps me from accumulating 500 alcohol swabs at home! 0 Likes
apaisRN, RN, CRNA 692 Posts Oct 23, 2004 With the Pyxis you don't have so many problems but occasionally someone does take off with the PCA keys. Personally I've never gotten further than the elevator without discovering them. Good reason to empty your pockets before you leave the building! Also I have found a syringe of Ativan or something in my pockets, usually just hold it and waste it the next morning. I work 12s and no way am I going back in at 1945 when I have to be back at work for 0700! 0 Likes
Town & Country 789 Posts Oct 23, 2004 I have never used Pyxis system and am anxious to try it on my new job. 0 Likes
Ari RN, BSN, RN Specializes in PICU, Peds Ambulatory, Peds LTC. Has 7 years experience. 2,029 Posts Oct 23, 2004 Yep. Did that once. Also took them home once, went to bed and came back the next night to find out they had to reinstall a new lock as they "lost the keys". Opps.... Hey Tweety did you confess taking the keys or did you keep that to yourself? :chuckle 0 Likes
lady_dolphin 7 Posts Oct 23, 2004 I did the same thing about 2 months ago. It was the first time I have ever done that. But I work 3-11 and I drive about 40 minutes one way to work. Well I got all the way home and emptied my pockets like I always do and guess what there they was. It wasn't fun. I called work and the nurse didn't need them until 6 in the morning but I am sleeping at that time so I figured do it now while I am wake. :chuckle 0 Likes
Sadie04 204 Posts Oct 23, 2004 So many nurses did it where I work, they had to attach a big plastic bone to the key, now it hardly fits in the pyxis drawer, but at least no one takes it home anymore! :chuckle 0 Likes
