Funniest Write Up You have Every Recieved?!

[nursebrandie28, BSN, RN]

hey my fellow nurses,

i have been written up for many things in my nursing career and most things i can see fault of my own and learn from that mistake. however, we just got a new nurse manager and i was written up. guess what for?

-not putting periods at the end of my sentences when charting

i cannot believe she pulled me away from patient care, to tell me i forgot 2 periods at the end of 2 sentences.

really, out of all the things she could have gotten on to me about??

any comments? have you ever been in trouble/written up/ talked too about something, that was silly? please share!!

brandie marie:trout:

[TraumaICURN]

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[muffie, RN]

that is absolutely ridiculous

[Blackcat99]

That's unbelievable!!!!! I once got a verbal reprimand from 3 different nurses about the same exact thing!!!!!!:angryfire Each nurse at the LTC told me that I had to crush meds for a particular patient. I said yes, I know and have been doing so from day one. Nobody believed me!!!! Anyway, I eventually gave my 2 week notice. On my last day of work, I noticed one of the nurses giving that particular patient her meds uncrushed!!!!! Finally I had discovered which nurse was doing it.

[teal]

I am a brand new nurse, so no write ups yet. But I talked to my boss on the phone this week and this is what she said, "You did great your first weekend off of orientation. I only heard good things about you. But don't be surprised to get a call on a Monday morning saying you need to come in so we can talk." I don't expect that I will never get a write up, but that was a little odd to me. Praise me and then tell me that I will screw up eventually. What do you guys think?

[NurseBranch]

I am not a nurse, yet, but when I was in clinical this past Wednesday my instructor told me I charted too specifically. I put that the pts wound was on "the right side of his abdomen."

[RGN1]

What????

[RosesAreBlue]

I've been wrote up for hugging a long-time friend's grandmother when she bacame a patient. I didn't see any sense in it. Nana would have been crushed if I simply ignored her calling me over for a hug. But then when a family member of another family hit on me sexually and I ran him out off my hall like a wild demon, right under her nose, my boss didn't do anything. THAT'S something I should have been wrote up for, not hugging my friend's grandma.

[NPinWCH]

When I was a CNA in LTC I was written up for not having my barely shoulder length hair up. OK, so that policy isn't too unusual, I have since seen similar dress codes. My only problem was the policy seperated male dress from female dress, and ONLY the female dress code included the hair up/out of the face/off the collar. I worked with 2 men on my shift both of them had hair hanging half way down their backs and neither of them tied it back. Neither of them ever were written up.

At that same place, right before I left, I was written up for taking my breaks in the resident TV lounge rather than the employee lounge. Well, excuse me for wanting to breathe clean air and not go home smelling like an ashtray.

[matchstickxx]

I once had a visitor go to administration to complain to the DON about me. My transgression...I could not tell her when a particular patient had gone home. It was my first day back from vacation and I was not familiar with this patient. Nothing I said would appease her.

Fortunately, one of the administrators was on the unit when this woman made her scene and the administrator actually backed me up and said I acted appropriately and the visitor was being unreasonable.

[cvicugirl, BSN, RN]

Hmm... Let's see, I have been written up for using a blue pen to document, Elastoplasting a woman's FUPA up so I could see what I was doing when I was pulling a femoral sheath, hanging up on a physician who was verbally abusive, and kissing a doctor in the parking lot. (The latter was my husband!) We actually have the write-up in a frame in our office. :)

[Gromit]

Was written up in school once for not cutting my hair (my hair runs down to the middle of my back -in a pony-tail, and during school and clinicals, I always pulled it up, so it never touched the collar of my shirt) -the instructor said that it was 'unseemly for a man to have long hair'. Huhwhat? But then this is the same instructor who once started to chastise me for riding my motorcycle to clinicals (at which point she and I had a uh, "heart to heart" talk. We kind of tolerated each other until the end of the semester). I considder myself to be an easygoing guy, I certainly don't look for trouble, nor do I try to make trouble.

At work, I was written up by a family member -each of our rooms (single-patient rooms only. The patients are hard-wired telemetry, usually trached etc etc. there are signs EVERYWHERE telling family members to NOT use the patients' restrooms, but to use the public one in the hall. We rarely have enough staffing, and generally no techs or CNAs -so we do our own I&Os -including emptying foleys, drains, whatever. It was getting about an hour to the end of the shift, so I went and drained this patients' drains and foley (marking down the numbers and marking the atrium of the chest-tube, etc etc), opened the bathroom door (they are ALWAYS kept closed) and the woman (mother of the 30something male patient) about shrieked. I closed the door. She immediately ran to the manager to gripe -I was called into the managers' office (woman had left by then) and written up for not knocking on the door first (it was after visiting hours anyway, and as I said -nobody was supposed to be in there PERIOD. ) -I pointed this out (per floor policy yadda yadda yadda) and was told not to worry about the write-up (if its no big deal, then why do it??) -in any case, if thats the worst thing that happens, I'm doing just fine! :)