Don't you hate......

ADS RN · Oct 23, 2004

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.

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Oct 23, 2004

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.

shay · 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!
:angryfire

Oooooh yeah. BTDT. And after working a night shift from hades, too.

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.

boulergirl, CNA · Oct 26, 2004

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.

missmercy · Oct 26, 2004

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!!

Jamesdotter · Oct 26, 2004

I was about 7 months pregnant and ran out of gas on the way back to the hospital (dh was trying to find out how much the gas gauge was off and hadn't filled up :rolleyes: ). So there I was, on foot. At midnight :angryfire .