Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

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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?

That reminds me of the Gomer Scale

http://www.lambert.net.au/med/gomerscale.pdf

I read it but didn't quite get its purpose.. what is the Gorner's scale?:D:yeah::):nurse:

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Funniest order I have ever seen written….

We had a real fighter in our pediatric bone marrow transplant unit. A 5 year old full of hell’s fire. (BTW, 10 years later and she is still doing fine!) Everything was a battle with her.

One day, after a particularly grueling physical exam, the muttering doctor walked out of the room and wrote on the order sheet: “NO TV FOR 24 hours!!!” About 10 minutes later, after he had cooled off a bit, he walked back in, picked up the chart and wrote: “May reduce to 2 hours with good behavior.”

We all got a good laugh out of that.

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Funniest order I have ever seen written....

We had a real fighter in our pediatric bone marrow transplant unit. A 5 year old full of hell's fire. (BTW, 10 years later and she is still doing fine!) Everything was a battle with her.

One day, after a particularly grueling physical exam, the muttering doctor walked out of the room and wrote on the order sheet: "NO TV FOR 24 hours!!!" About 10 minutes later, after he had cooled off a bit, he walked back in, picked up the chart and wrote: "May reduce to 2 hours with good behavior."

We all got a good laugh out of that.

lol..he is like a parent.

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Specializes in ICU.

The Gomer Scale is something that is done tongue in cheek. A bit like completing a Sopra or Tiss form or whatever you use to evaluae pt activity. Each thing the pt does earns them more points. The more points, the worse they are. Think it originated as G O M E R (get out of my emergency room)

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Specializes in OR, ICU, Tele, Psych, LTC, Palliative.
On inpatient order sheet:

CTBKLO

... of course I had to ask!

Coffin to bediside, keep lid open

OMG! That's hilarious! Thanks for the belly laugh - I needed it today! :bowingpur

My funniest dx was when we sent a very much older lady to hospital for "Failure to thrive" I think she must have been 96 if she was a day. Well, no family, no DNR so we had to send her. She came back later that night with a written diagnosis of "Old".

Whodathunk? Ha!:p

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My funniest dx was when we sent a very much older lady to hospital for "Failure to thrive" I think she must have been 96 if she was a day. Well, no family, no DNR so we had to send her. She came back later that night with a written diagnosis of "Old".

Whodathunk? Ha!:p

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I am an amateur geneaologist, I know many times I have found a cause of death listed simply as "old age.":o

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Specializes in Peds.

These are too funny!

I've seen orders written by a first year resident, who didn't take time to go SEE the pt, for a pregnancy test STAT to rule out ectopic pregancy for severe stomach cramps, pt was a male!

My favorite was ""Vital Signs with pulse ox Q4 hours, NO EXCEPTIONS."

The order by the same doctor immediately under that was, " Do NOT wake pt if sleeping"

He got mad at us when we didn't get vitals at midnight cause she was asleep. CRAZY:banghead::uhoh3:

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Specializes in L&D, infertility, Level 2 nursery.

Yeah, we have a midwife that likes to order warm milk and molasses enemas. We make her do them because we certainly didn't do that in nursing school! She'll cook it up in the microwave and it smells like someone is baking cookies!

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Yeah, we have a midwife that likes to order warm milk and molasses enemas. We make her do them because we certainly didn't do that in nursing school! She'll cook it up in the microwave and it smells like someone is baking cookies!

micmac, really she would actually oder an enema like that?? LOL! wow... r u j/k or are there differnt types of enemas (other than the usual) that are prescribed? :D:yeah::twocents::confused::nurse:

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Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.

Milk warmed and treacle added it smelled SOOOO good!

What's treacle?

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Specializes in ICU.

My favorite order gets written on a certain Doctor's patients all the time. These patients are usually nursing home patients that are bought to the hospital with dehydration, most can't talk, and there really isn't much hope for them....

"Keep TV channel on channel 39 at all times"

Channel 39 is the Food Network channel, she says it stimulates the pt's appettite...:D

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Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.
My favorite order gets written on a certain Doctor's patients all the time. These patients are usually nursing home patients that are bought to the hospital with dehydration, most can't talk, and there really isn't much hope for them....

"Keep TV channel on channel 39 at all times"

Channel 39 is the Food Network channel, she says it stimulates the pt's appettite...:D

Good idea! I'll try to remember that next time I have an LTC pt in with FTT. :loveya:

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