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
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
:chuckle:yeah: You got me laughing out loud with that one.
During my clinicials a friend/co-student and I were walking the halls of the nursing home we were at after most of the residents were in bed. We used a restroom on a more closed off section of the home and when we walked out of the bathroom we caught two elderly residents mid-makeout, with the woman up against the wall. They both looked completely surprised and pushed away from each other and we just put our heads down and walked off.
We then asked one of the nurses instructing us if that was okay.. and she said, "They're allowed to have relationships but I'm pretty sure I know which guy you're talking about. Do you know which woman was he with? We have a little love-triangle going on..so we just need to keep an eye on who's with who."
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
did the pca ask her to do something that was outside her job range or something?
It wouldn't matter. That was inappropriate behavior -- even if the PCA had asked her to commit impossible sexual acts upon herself, the housekeeper could have maintained her dignity, refused politely and then reported the PCA.
It wouldn't matter. That was inappropriate behavior -- even if the PCA had asked her to commit impossible sexual acts upon herself, the housekeeper could have maintained her dignity, refused politely and then reported the PCA.
Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.
I worked in the ED of a large inner city hospital in Houston. The county morgue was in the basement under the ED. The place was way too small for all the bodies they had in there, so sometimes they were just stacked up. It was especially bad during the summer when they would find "floaters" and the smell that came up from there was horrible. In any case, a funeral company came one night to pick up a body and could not get the elevator door to the morgue to open. I called the maint. man and he went to have a look. He came back up and told me he could not find anything wrong. So finally I went down there myself and there was an arm caught in the elevator door so it would not close. I had to pull the arm out of the door to get the elevator to work again.
I worked in the ED of a large inner city hospital in Houston. The county morgue was in the basement under the ED. The place was way too small for all the bodies they had in there, so sometimes they were just stacked up. It was especially bad during the summer when they would find "floaters" and the smell that came up from there was horrible. In any case, a funeral company came one night to pick up a body and could not get the elevator door to the morgue to open. I called the maint. man and he went to have a look. He came back up and told me he could not find anything wrong. So finally I went down there myself and there was an arm caught in the elevator door so it would not close. I had to pull the arm out of the door to get the elevator to work again.
Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.
Again working at a large inner city ED. I walked out of my office one night ( I was the charge nurse) and NONE of my unit secretaries could be found anywhere. Just about the time I was going to get security to look for them, they all came back smelling like pot. They had all gone out to the parking garage to get high. I pulled them in the office for a come to Jesus meeting. I told them that I could not send them all home because I needed them but they had better watch out. They never did it again.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
i worked in the ed of a large inner city hospital in houston. the county morgue was in the basement under the ed. the place was way too small for all the bodies they had in there, so sometimes they were just stacked up. it was especially bad during the summer when they would find "floaters" and the smell that came up from there was horrible. in any case, a funeral company came one night to pick up a body and could not get the elevator door to the morgue to open. i called the maint. man and he went to have a look. he came back up and told me he could not find anything wrong. so finally i went down there myself and there was an arm caught in the elevator door so it would not close. i had to pull the arm out of the door to get the elevator to work again.
telling the nurse that his wife just fell, ok? of course you are going to be suspicious, right? But there is no reason to be suspicious, you hear me!!!! You hear me!!! I bet you are going to go over there and tell the cops I tried to kill my wife aren't you! Aren't you! etc...
The other day two orderlies showed up to do some turns on our ward. I told them the lady in rm 4 needs a turn, the guys go, come back and then say "Its dark in there".
Seriously. It was just how he said it, like he was surprised we'd turned the lights off at 10 at night. I replied "Yeah, I know, we dont' have lights on this ward, you're going to have to light a fire and bring a torch in".
Then he replies: "Nah, I mean the light's switched off".
You don't say. The orderlies where I work, holy moly, a couple of P waves short of sinus rthym!
We have a nurse who writes the word "poop" in random places on the unit. Not the charts, of course but on memos hung in the break room, the doctors phone book, ect.
For some reason this is so funny to me. I will be reading the education board and find the word "poop" written in between the lines......
He usually writes it on things that people are upset about in the unit. New paperwork, stupid rules etc. It's very satisfying...
We have a nurse who writes the word "poop" in random places on the unit. Not the charts, of course but on memos hung in the break room, the doctors phone book, ect.
For some reason this is so funny to me. I will be reading the education board and find the word "poop" written in between the lines......
He usually writes it on things that people are upset about in the unit. New paperwork, stupid rules etc. It's very satisfying...
I worked with a nursing assistant that liked to write "poop" in strange places too. I was wondering if I worked with you somewhere else at one point, but the aide that did this on the unit I worked on was a woman.
Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.
We have a unit secretary who just leaves orders undone on the chart. When she gets an order she can't understand, she just leaves it. She wont ask for help or ask anyone what something means. When I get her charts to sign off (I am the charge nurse) I have to go into the computer and verify that all the orders are there. It is a real pain in the A--.
KatieBird
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:chuckle:yeah: You got me laughing out loud with that one.
During my clinicials a friend/co-student and I were walking the halls of the nursing home we were at after most of the residents were in bed. We used a restroom on a more closed off section of the home and when we walked out of the bathroom we caught two elderly residents mid-makeout, with the woman up against the wall. They both looked completely surprised and pushed away from each other and we just put our heads down and walked off.
We then asked one of the nurses instructing us if that was okay.. and she said, "They're allowed to have relationships but I'm pretty sure I know which guy you're talking about. Do you know which woman was he with? We have a little love-triangle going on..so we just need to keep an eye on who's with who."
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