Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

Published

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?

Specializes in ICU.

Or over easy, so you can 'dip' the toast in the egg yolk. Presumably the order was written to get around the policy many places have against serving undercooked eggs.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Level 2 and 3 NICU, outpt peds.

The bad old days.....we would give shots of liquor (po) to prevent the dt's, nothing like going into a pt's room to find them in full dt's 'cause no one knew they were drinkers. My first was a ery pale sweet little old lady who had an IVP, for some unknown reason she was the general blue-green color of the IVP dye, and was seeing snake, spiders, crocs, etc in the swamp on her room floor. Still can't get that color out of my mind!!!!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Cath Lab, OR, CPHN/SN, ER.
i hate these ones. "elevate HOB to eat", "only feed when pt is fully awake", "wash hair", "trim beard and hair today", "elevate scrotum" ....

It's kind of like the warning labels on some household items: Do not use hairdryer while in shower, etc...

Someone, somewhere, won a Darwin award for doing something brilliant (insert sarcastic look here). Same thing with the above- someone tried to feed grandma her mashed potatoes while she was in trendelenburg or half asleep...

Up Vote Up Vote ×

did so it said root LOL

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Wash wound with soup and water QD

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Staff nurse.
Wash wound with soup and water QD

Does it matter what type of soup: cream, broth, consumme?

How about flavor/spice? LOL, good one!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

just saw it yesterday....

"scd's to suction"

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in er, neuro trauma/icu, hospice, tele,.

"squeeze balls at beside, prn"

patient was meant to have those little sand filled balloons for hand exercises

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Trauma ICU, Peds ICU.

The university I went to for nursing school also offers a DPM (podiatry) program. One of the fourth year podiatry students was told by his preceptor to go write "Strict Is & Os" in the chart and instead wrote "Strict Eyes and Nose."

Evidently it was posted in the nurses' breakroom for months.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in OB, ER, ICU, Supervision, SANE.

A few years ago was working in a small community ER. Doc wrote order on pt with sore throat "ask patient if she's given oral sex to anyone other than her boyfriend"(who was in the room). Turns out pt was a stripper, and in front of her boyfriend admitted to it. Did the culture but didnt wait for the result, just started her on abx and sent her on her merry little way :smokin:

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in skilled nursing LTC.

"send urine for a UA/CNS"

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in PICU, surgical post-op.

I'm not sure what they even said, but one of our docs decided to write his orders in French today. He's from Spain, and I'll grant him the fact that we're docked in a French-speaking country, but the working language of this ship is definitely English.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Join the Discussion