I was walking through the hallway today and a family member of one of our patient's was talking on their cellphone-- apparently giving an update to someone about the patient. This is what I hear: "Well, no, he's not very awake today. I think they seduced him while they did a procedure."
If I had milk in my mouth at the time, it would have come out my nose!
We do a lot of things in the ICU, but seducing is not one of them!
OK, now it's your turn! What crazy things have you heard?
I hear "prostrate" all the time, worst one though is that one of my nursing instructors in school would ALWAYS say it like this...drove all of us crazy!! Another one that gets me is spelling HIPAA as "HIPPA." Worst for this is that the signs in the hallways at one of the hospitals where we did a clinical rotation had it spelled like this too. How embarrassing!
My husband cannot, for the life of him, pronounce any medication name correctly. So all pain relievers are aspirin. I correct him, but it doesn't help. To top it of, we have never had aspirin in the house in the 14 years we've been living together...I'm too afraid he'll give it to the kids.
Our pre-schooler had diarrhea recently. He's usually very regular, I honestly don't think he's had loose stools since before he was out of diapers. He came running out of his room at 0100, crying that his belly felt strange and there was an alien in it that was going to pop out and eat him. After multiple trips to the bathroom, and even more reassurances, I thought he understood that something he ate made his intestines irritated, and that was why his poop was coming out like that. The last thing he said to me before finally falling asleep, however, was "I hope that alien's done pooping so I can go to sleep." When our other son needed Immodium a few days later, he got indignant that he wasn't given a pill "to kill my alien".
And I thought he didn't remember sneaking out to watch movies with the big kids months ago....
This is funny, but sad because it is not from a lay-person but from a nurse manager I used to work with. We have had several post CABG patients for short-term rehab following their surgery, and this nurse consistently charted that they were "status post CABBAGE" At first I thought it was just a funny spell check oops, but then I saw her hand written notes were the same. Scary!
So I work in PICU and we were getting a NICU baby transferred to our unit. He was on HFOV and so while the nurse that was going to be admitting him was getting report, she asks the NICU nurse about his sedation/paralytics and says "so is he in Roc (rocuronium)?." The NICU nurse replies by saying "No, he's on sheepskin." I almost peed! Do you seriously think I just asked you if the patient was "Laying on rocks"?!?!?!
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I hear "prostrate" all the time, worst one though is that one of my nursing instructors in school would ALWAYS say it like this...drove all of us crazy!! Another one that gets me is spelling HIPAA as "HIPPA." Worst for this is that the signs in the hallways at one of the hospitals where we did a clinical rotation had it spelled like this too. How embarrassing!