Funny Mistakes

Ha! Nothing ever with a patient, but I have been known to panic because I can't find my kid in bed, only to find they are sleeping head to the foot of the bed. LOL!

I was priiming the feeding pump one night, just kind of on auto-pilot / in the zone

Priming......priming......priming.... all down my leg! Blech- Pregestimil!

Flushing my patient's GT and thinking she was urinating simultaneously (which is typical for her)... not realizing the GT became detached. Duh. My excuse is that it was dark!

Not funny to ME - but my kiddo is on one of those (I hate them) fixed-sided cribs. I'm really short and the side hits me just under my voluptuousness, if you get my drift. The family just moved into this house, and there's no overhead light in the room.

So of COURSE he decannulated himself (Bivona hyperflex) just as I had every other trach he owns boiling on the stove. I grabbed an obturator out of the boiling water and tried to put the one he was wearing back in - by flashlight - all the while trying to keep my boobs ABOVE the crib railing so I could reach him. Kiddo is not only OK, but highly amused by this. :)

Not really a mistake per se, but I do have an amazing propensity for tripping over my patient's feeding pump pole.

Sitting beside my kiddo thinking how nice his feeding is running......until I realize it's running down my leg.

When I worked PDN I would some times try to give the medication via gtube when it was still clamped. The medication would come shooting back at me. Yuck!

PDN is my second job- (I work at a pediatric hospital in PICU). I was at my PDN job one night, got my kid's sildenafil out of the refrigerator, and just about tore the kitchen up looking for the bar code scanner.....

put AFO on wrong side, wondering what the problem was

forgot to turn stove off after placing bivona in boiling water

(they do melt)

wondering why tooth paste (A&D ointment) looked funny

fortunately didn't make it in the mouth

Three months into my 1st extended care case as a new Lpn I was on nights and my quad 5year old was fussing and whining in bed. I took her out(being ever so carefull of her feed that still had over 150cc left to infuse I lay her across my chest with her head on my shoulder to rock her in the easy chair. She finally falls asleep and I decide not to disturb her untill the pump starts beeping "complete" . Comfy n cozy and hour later I take her off and lay her back in her bed only to find her MIC extension came off of feeding line and I had a huge abd size mess of congealed formula and half digested stomach contents on my shirt! It was so gross !!!!! I never felt it because the warmth of our bodies. And to make matters worse she didn't get her complete feed. I always keep extra scrubs in my car even 6 year later !