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?

Foley to dependant drainage. What do they think we'll do, hook it up to wall suction?!!

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Specializes in Hospice.

How about "FAT" as a DX?

We have a doc that writes that all the time......Fat, smoker, alcoholic...........just whatever he wants........

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We had a child come in with a bead in his ear. After we removed it; the discharge order read "don't do that again."

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Originally posted by Darlene K.

We had a child come in with a bead in his ear. After we removed it; the discharge order read "don't do that again."

BWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

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Specializes in Operating Room,, Plastic Surgery.
:eek: :roll when I was in the navy, stationed in the Phillippines, I had a filipino doc ask me for some Bondage scissors ???:confused:
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Originally posted by dv8rn

Foley to dependant drainage. What do they think we'll do, hook it up to wall suction?!!

Oh, yes. I got an order, when I worked med/surg, for "foley cath, low continuous suction"

on a 26 yo guy! It was pretty obvious the doc left out part of the order, like "NG tube" but if carried out w/o clarification.....

Savvy

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Saw this in a chart this weekend, and the 4 of us on all agreed we were reading the same thing:

T*ts with vital signs

:rotfl:

It was written by one of the pulmonary docs. :chuckle

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While doing Critical Care Medevac's

"Risks of transfer: Stretcher crash.":confused:

Hey I guess if that's you biggest worry when you going to be flown 400 miles at 20,000 feet through Interior Alaska, Rock On:)

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Specializes in Hospice, Critical Care.

Doc couldn't find the patient's weight on the chart. Order....

"Write patient's daily weight on door."

Ummm, yeah, HIPPA's gonna love that one.

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I had a co-worker telling us about her work at a small hospital that had only a house doc, no intensivist in house. Pt having seizures, house doc wanted no part of him. She called intensivist at home at 2AM, only to be hung up on several times, then the doc left the phone off the hook. She sent the sheriff to his house, and received a phone call back from the doc with the order to "give ativan till patient stops seizing or stops breathing."

Gadzooks!

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I have also had a resident renew IVF on a patient he'd just pronounced. Hmmmm, some kind of new autopsy in the works here, doc??

Same resident ordered IV Murine for post op pain following eye surgery. Asked him if meant morphine, and he said, "no, shouldn't we use EYE drops for EYE pain, nurse?" DUH!!!

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Wow! those are some Dillies!!!

here's a recent one: For a pt who had a recent GT insertion:

"All po meds via GT"

oh really?? the Nystatin Swish & Swallow po 5 cc qid too??? :chuckle

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