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...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!
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We don't have a narc key, all our narcs are in Pyxis. But we do have a key for the fridge containing our pharmacy-prepared concentrated electrolytes that resides in a drawer in the Pyxis. I'm waiting for the day that someone locks the key in the fridge! That'll be worth a laugh. I've found the fridge left unlocked a few times... ooh look out, potassium on the loose!
I have been known (rather frequently of late, I'll confess) to leave my stethoscope, my line level, my calculator and my warm up jacket - any permutation of them - in my patient's room. I usually discover my forgetfulness when I'm halfway home, and there's no way in h-e-double toothpicks I'm going back for them. Someone always puts my "valuables" in my mailbox and hangs my warm up on a chair in the staff room.
Oooooh yeah. BTDT. And after working a night shift from hades, too....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!
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Naturally, I'd been at a hospital that used PYXIS for the past 3 years, so I wasn't in the "narc key frame of mind" and went home with them. Aaaaaarrrrrggggggghhhh!!! I promptly grumbled to management and asked them when they were getting off their duffs and getting us PYXIS!!! Grrrrr.
I vaguely remember either I or someone else taking the med keys home a few years ago. Mgmt. had to break into the med room and nearly had to replace the med cart lock--the keys came back just in time.
The pager has gone home with me a few times. It's so easy to forget it when it's hooked on my waist, until I'm driving home and I hear "beep beep beep...beep beep beep..." :uhoh21: Since we have two pagers, I just bring it back next time I come to work. No way am I wasting gas just to return a pager.
A new CNA on night shift took a page of the shift report with her--on purpose. We couldn't find the book, so we thought she'd taken it home (I think this was a HIPAA violation???). Anyway, we found it hidden in the marketing director's office behind some stuff. Don't think she'll be doing that again...mgmt was PO'd.
We had a manager who actually called the police to go to an employee's home to retrieve the narc keys. Count was off -- set of keys gone, couldn't reach the nurse enroute home -- so she was met in the driveway of her home by a squad car and 2 uniformed officers who drove her back to the hospital, waited while the count was rectified and then took her home. NO ONE took keys home with them again for a VERY, VERY long time!!
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When I was a CNA and worked the Sheltered Care side of the LTC,they put the key on a big acrylic rectangle so that you wouldn't take it home, but guess who did it a couple of times.