Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

[nilepoc]

To start things off, the best and funniest order I have seen on a chart, was in the discharge instructions for a trauma patient. It read simply

Darwin Consult

and was signed by the resident. Well the attending did laugh, but it was not the highpoint of that residents day.

so do you have more?

[grace90, LPN, LVN]

this was actually a telephone order from a general surgeon received a couple days ago by a co-worker, to "consult the new GI doc who's name I can't pronounce"... hee hee hee :chuckle :chuckle :chuckle

[Sapphy, BSN, RN]

"Root beer float q.h.s. prn."

Honest to God. In a hospital. MD said we should make it. At this time, on the med-surg unit, there was one RN, one LPN and one aide for 18 pts. We didn't point out that he left out the route in his order.

OMG I was going to post that exact same order!! It is on one of my patients chart/Kardex as we speak!! I cracked up when I saw it!

[mandrews]

OMG I was going to post that exact same order!! It is on one of my patients chart/Kardex as we speak!! I cracked up when I saw it!

brittle diabetic. bs average 479

strict order vanilla ice cream q hs per familys demand

pepsi bid per familys request

nutrition consult ordered: family would like to understand what they can do to keep blood sugar under control.

I took sugarfree vanilla and diet pepsi that I poured into a styrofoam cup so they could not see it wasn't the real thing. I could not contribute to the delinquency of idiots.

melissa

[elthia]

brittle diabetic. bs average 479

strict order vanilla ice cream q hs per familys demand

pepsi bid per familys request

nutrition consult ordered: family would like to understand what they can do to keep blood sugar under control.

I took sugarfree vanilla and diet pepsi that I poured into a styrofoam cup so they could not see it wasn't the real thing. I could not contribute to the delinquency of idiots.

melissa

I've had scenarios like that more times than I'd like to admit.

[Teachchildren123]

Xanax 1 mg IV Q 2hrs.

This one got his MD papers in a box of Cracker Jack!

[Sapphy, BSN, RN]

We have a Vanilla Milkshake qhs as we speak.,... doc forgot to order the dose and the route though so maybe we should give it rectally?? lol

[muffie, RN]

please weigh pt on a real scale [we just look at the pt and pick a reasonable # ! ]

[jharris71RN]

We Have a very humorus MD that you never know what he will write and we read for fun at times.

He was making rounds and stopped in to see a male patient that had an altered mental status (I forget the reason) but upon entering the room our good doctor discovers his mid aged male patient nude, all linens tossed off the bed and he is holding his IV tubing making a fly fishing cast motion repeatitively. MD asked what he was doing?

HIS NOTE: Visited Mr. Doe this a.m. Patient pleasantly confused sitting in bed stating he was on a fishing trip and caught one at least 2 foot long; upon assessment noted it could not possibly be more than 3 - 4 inches.

[banditrn]

I saw this the other noc - "resident modeling"!!?:rotfl: :rotfl:

Modeling what??

[Thanet]

One more funny progress note: Pt is 84 years old and lives at home with his parents. Huh? And how old are they? 110?

I actually have nursed an 80 year old Alzheimer lady who was regularly visited by her 105 year old mother (Copus mentus too!)

[grace90, LPN, LVN]

"Save a urine for me" - was from a renal doc consulted on a total knee replacement pt that developed post-op acute renal failure from Toradol

[barbyann]

taped report from new nurse.................

Pt went for a colonoscopy and returned with a diagnosis of pneumonia, lower lobe infiltrates seen.

Huh???? How far up did that flexible scope go?

(asked nurse the next day and she clarified that pt had trouble breathing during GI procedure so doc sent him to xray prior to returning to floor)