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?

Specializes in Pediatrics.

"Activity" order for a 6 month old post-op patient, "please ambulate TID"

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Specializes in Cardiac/Neuro Stepdown.
I just love these! I have a few to add myself

DSS - Dying Swan Syndrome

SAS - Subacute Stupidity Syndrome - usually results in CODS

Savvy

RATTWABBB - Rat A Tat Tat With A BaseBall Bat!

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I just love these! I have a few to add myself

DSS - Dying Swan Syndrome

SAS - Subacute Stupidity Syndrome - usually results in CODS

Savvy

God love the military...no need to worry about lawyers looking over your charts LOL

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Specializes in ob/gyn med /surg.

ducolox suppository,, place one in each nostril.... :lol2:

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Specializes in ER/Trauma, ICU.

Critical Care resident on a 56 yo pneumonia pt w/ NO other problems/history....NS @ 1300cc/hr. When asked *** he ment he replied " I think he go in rhabdo soon. need to flush the kidneys.

later that night .... same pt he orders DNR. The primary nurse asks resident " is he a DNR?" Resident replies "I have no clue."

as scary as that is sometimes his stupidity is great for the nurses, such as the night he ordered " sedation as per nursing staff"

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Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

on a psych pt.'s chart: "sleeping pill (i forget which one) may be given with 1800 meds if pt. being too annoying.":uhoh3::lol2::eek:

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
"Activity" order for a 6 month old post-op patient, "please ambulate TID"
:eek:Now I wonder how that was managed. :D
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For a chronic ex-preemie now almost 8 mos old, blind, trached, frequently agitated. Mom had discovered that the smell of cherry chapstick helped to calm him down so the nurse, joking around with the resident said "I think i'll need an order for that" and the resident writes an order

"Cherry chapstick, PRN, agitation"

:smackingf

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Specializes in ED, Trauma.

Chart from a critical care pt for my ER pt, all written at the same time with other admit orders in between--not after pt reactions:

---- "Dilaudid 2mg IV stat"

---- "stop dilaudid"

---- "Dilaudid 1mg stat"

---- "change Dilaudid to 1mg prn"

---- "hold Dilaudid"

---- "Dilaudid 1mg IV stat"

---- " narcan 0.4 mg IV"

---- "hold narcan"

---- "Dilaudid prn"

What???!!!

Seen in chart: " Dx: pneumocephalitis " for a pt who was unusually ditzy

" Reassure pt q hr " reassure them about what??!

"acute percomorphodilaudodanemia"

We frequently use:

T2T Teeth-2-Tats ratio

FOS Full of S**T

DSP Day shift problem (usually in the half hour before shift change, lol

NPI New-parent-itis (for perfectly healthy newborns with extremely anxious parents)

DSJ Drug-seeking jerk

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"Glycerin suppository, PRN" for a baby with an Ostomy! :uhoh3:

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Specializes in Rehab, LTC, Peds, Hospice.

You can give a suppository via a colostomy and you can get constipated with a colostomy.

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You can give a suppository via a colostomy and you can get constipated with a colostomy.

well I guess in the nicu we don't do that, anyways turns out the resident had written orders under the wrong pt

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