Tonight one of the clerks informed me, "It's okay to give the risperidol you paged about". What??? It turns out she had taken a verbal order!!!!!!! Of course the doctor thought he was speaking to a nurse on the phone.
This clerk is a new employee, but still, I was shocked at that.
Anyone else witness odd things by other (non nurse/MD) employees? transporters, housekeeping, dietary, etc???
Oh ya, I informed the clerk that her role doesn't involve taking verbals
Specializes in Trauma ICU, Surgical ICU, Medical ICU.
I work in a critical care area at a major hospital and had only been working as a nurse for 4 months, anyway, the patient spiked a temp and they wanted me to culture him but he was going to be withdrawn from life support the next day. He was FULL of fluid and finding a vein to culture him with my inexperience was going to be a nightmare so I asked the charge nurse if it was really necessary, well she obviously thought not and walked right up to the MD and said "so if you find anything what are you gonna do, sprinkle antibiotics on his grave? This is f'ing stupid!" I almost lost it! I hope I have cahones like that one day lol
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
i worked on the hematology floor of a large midwestern teaching hospital a few decades ago. we had an exam room at the far end of the floor, and if the exam room door were open at the same time as the double doors leading into our unit, everyone in the elevator lobby could have a good look . . . .
i was told to set up the exam room for a pelvic on my patient. so i dutifully went off to set up the exam room. i whipped the door open, turned on the lights, and to my horror saw the naked hairy orifice of a man who turned out to be the medical director of the er and beyond and below him, the pale, stricken face of our director of nurses, both of whom were married to other people. i was so shocked i just stood there with my mouth (and the door) hanging open. at that precise moment, the double doors (automatic doors) swung open, just as an elevator was dispersing a large crowd of people!
i worked on the hematology floor of a large midwestern teaching hospital a few decades ago. we had an exam room at the far end of the floor, and if the exam room door were open at the same time as the double doors leading into our unit, everyone in the elevator lobby could have a good look . . . .
i was told to set up the exam room for a pelvic on my patient. so i dutifully went off to set up the exam room. i whipped the door open, turned on the lights, and to my horror saw the naked hairy orifice of a man who turned out to be the medical director of the er and beyond and below him, the pale, stricken face of our director of nurses, both of whom were married to other people. i was so shocked i just stood there with my mouth (and the door) hanging open. at that precise moment, the double doors (automatic doors) swung open, just as an elevator was dispersing a large crowd of people!
he kept his job; she didn't.
o.........m........g!!!:imbar:imbar
it had to be said, lol. and how unfair is it that he kept his job and she didn't!!
Being asked, in all seriousness, if we can add a CBC and INR to a blood culture drawn earlier in the day. When told "NO!", then being asked " so, does that mean we have to stick the patient again?" The ward clerk who asked me this was a former nurse!
This story is about a funny thing done by the doctor who was the Medical Director Of Cardiology on my cardiac floor. Our Medical Director was well known for his sense of humor, and he had done some witty things while making previous rounds on our floor.
One day our BALDING Medical Director stopped by the nursing station and one nurse teased him saying that she was SUDDENLY BLINDED by the reflection of bright light from the ceiling florescent lights SHINING ONTO THE TOP OF HIS BALD HEAD! In response to her teasing, our witty Medical Director smiled, pulled his white handkerchief out of his pocket, unfolded it, placed it on the top of his head, and proceeded to walk down the hall to continue his rounds! He was really a funny and smart guy!
This happened to me while I was a patient. I went to the ER one evening, with severe abdominal pain and vomiting. One of my friends (a guy) had to take me because I seriously couldn't drive due to vomiting. Also, my family lives about 4 hrs away, so there was no one to take me. Well, when I was there, they asked me if there was any way I was pregnant. I understood why they asked this, and told them no, there was no way. (ER nurses, I'm sure you hear that a lot, but seriously, wasn't pregnant). Well, they do a pregnancy test, and sure enough, it was negative. Anyway, they wanted to do a procedure the next morning. So my friend drives me the next day. They still couldn't figure out what was wrong. The ER doc comes in, looks at me and very rudely says, "So your pregnancy test came back negative last night." Turns looks at my friend and asks him, "Is there anything that went on last night that could have changed that?"
Specializes in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medical.
During my shift in the delivery room, the resident doctor did episioraphy several times that day and everything turned out well until she accidentally pricked her hand with the needle while doing episioraphy on a Hepa + patient.
I work in a critical care area at a major hospital and had only been working as a nurse for 4 months, anyway, the patient spiked a temp and they wanted me to culture him but he was going to be withdrawn from life support the next day. He was FULL of fluid and finding a vein to culture him with my inexperience was going to be a nightmare so I asked the charge nurse if it was really necessary, well she obviously thought not and walked right up to the MD and said "so if you find anything what are you gonna do, sprinkle antibiotics on his grave? This is f'ing stupid!" I almost lost it! I hope I have cahones like that one day lol
I can so see one of the charge nurses I work with doing that! She has no sympathy for those who order unneeded or painful tests for our patients when ulitmately, it's not going to make a difference.
When I still worked as an ICU charge nurse, we had a resident who was well known for "making his rounds" through all of the nursing units. (Still not sure how he remained so popular since all of the women he bedded knew his reputation, and per one of his conquests his endowment and abilities were... as she put it..definitely nothing memorable). He's on Night call and finishes rounds then says.. I don't want to be disturbed unless it's important. One of my fellow nurses sees him go into the Resident on-call room followed by one of his "groupies" who was off duty. Since we knew what was about to transpire, we gave them about 10 minutes to get comfy and paged him to the room used by our research fellow since the phone extension wasn't published, he wouldn't know the call came from the ICU. We page him and one of my cohorts gets a great voice and says that he is the morgue attendant and that he's got a body down there that nobody has pronounced and he needs to get his **** *ss down there now and sign off this corpse. 2 minutes later.. he comes out of the call room and starts off to the morgue which was on the opposite side of the hospital in the sub-basement.. he comes back about 30 minutes later looknig really agitated.... we give him another 10 minutes to get comfy again and repeat the same thing .. he says he was there so my partner in crime sarcastically says something to the effect of " Oh ya.. I'm gonna hear those pathetic little paws you got tapping on the door when I am in the back room with a bone saw running.. then spends another 2 minutes berating him and asks if he should just call the senior resident at home to come in and sign the death certificate since he's too lazy to. Again.. the trip is repeated.... and again.. 30 minutes later he comes back up.. lookin REALLY ticked... about this time we actually needed him for a septic patient that was going south on us... so, WE kept him in the unit about 2 hours....
His "date" came in and said she was going home... (she was a CCU nurse) ... it was so hard not to laugh ... but, at least we destroyed his plans for the night.
Side note? He ended up fathering 2 children out of his daliances... demanded paternity tests on both.. and is now paying child support for both... THERE IS JUSTICE in this world... albeit delayed...:chuckle:D
Specializes in Cardiology, Oncology, Hospice,IV Therapy.
There was a very lazy housekeeper working on our unit one day and one of our PCAs asked her to do something. The housekeeper proceeded to get very angry and in front of other people threatened to kill the PCA and screamed at her. The housekeeping supervisor had to come up and get involved. The best part- the housekeeper never got in trouble for it!!
There was a very lazy housekeeper working on our unit one day and one of our PCAs asked her to do something. The housekeeper proceeded to get very angry and in front of other people threatened to kill the PCA and screamed at her. The housekeeping supervisor had to come up and get involved. The best part- the housekeeper never got in trouble for it!!
did the pca ask her to do something that was outside her job range or something?
:chuckle:D
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I work in a critical care area at a major hospital and had only been working as a nurse for 4 months, anyway, the patient spiked a temp and they wanted me to culture him but he was going to be withdrawn from life support the next day. He was FULL of fluid and finding a vein to culture him with my inexperience was going to be a nightmare so I asked the charge nurse if it was really necessary, well she obviously thought not and walked right up to the MD and said "so if you find anything what are you gonna do, sprinkle antibiotics on his grave? This is f'ing stupid!" I almost lost it! I hope I have cahones like that one day lol