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.

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Specializes in OR,ER,med/surg,SCU.

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The pt.will need serial examination of her liver function tests, amylase and lipase to look for spontaneous lady partsl stones.

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A favorite Dr., when contacted for a resident we nurses had just about had it with----v.o. "Guess you'll have to use the Tobas method." (Of course we had to ask.) "Take out back and shoot!":chuckle

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Change sheets on patient's bed q day

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Originally posted by cwazycwissyRN

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The pt.will need serial examination of her liver function tests, amylase and lipase to look for spontaneous lady partsl stones.

:rotfl: i don't even wanna tell you the image that this gem evoked :rotfl:

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Specializes in pre hospital, ED, Cath Lab, Case Manager.

In the ER on a gyn/abd pain, UNDRESS PATIENT

I about threw that chart across the room. How about looking at the patient before you write stupid orders.

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We have a doctor who writes all his orders STAT, thinking that the nurses will respond quicker. His order today - Dulcolax 2 tabs PO STAT!:D

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We had a physician write an order on a patient who was in for an extended period of time, longer than origianlly planned, and who was becoming depressed with her progress. This physician wrote "patient must view comedy tape for 1 hour three times a day to help her laugh."

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"Milk and molasses enema- may repeat if patient likes"

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Originally posted by Tim-GNP

"Milk and molasses enema- may repeat if patient likes"

ahaha....the ole Brown Cow.....

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ambulance pulls up outside A&E (ER) paramedic comes rushing in screamng for a doc we were expecting a DOA ( guy had put his head on a train line decapitated) paramedic was convinced he could feel a femoral pulse this on a guy with no head!

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first day on the floor i was a student nurse. Doctor asks me to draw up morphine to be given IV stat. I explain that I can't do this as I am a student and need everything double checked signed etc. He says i forgot your a slug. of course i'm mad and hurt. report to my clinical instructor who of course is now having kittens. I'm more upset. when she finally gets control of herself I learn that slug is student learning under guidance. funny now not then

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JUst another RN story.....

I did home care fopr 11 years and pt. education is a large part of being a visiting nurse. I heard that a new gead who was a RN had told a pt on ATB to PREVENT YEAST INFECTION

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