Nurses General Nursing
Published Apr 23, 2007
You are reading page 2 of Crazy stuff can happen
navynurse06
325 Posts
I didn't do this (thank goodness) but here's one for you:
Hep Locking a Gtube...yes hep lock a gtube...someone put heprain in the gtube to "lock" it like you would an IV.
scary:no:
Tabbycoley
37 Posts
how about a pca giving you a bp not once but 3 times. you get an order for vasotech IV hang the med and one hour later the pca says that's not the pt with the high bp!!!!f but it's ok I put it in the computer under the right pt (which was not my pt at all) Wait it' gets worse (pt was fine) but I totally flipped out and cursed her out at the top of my lungs screaming profanities in front of my manger (after she lied and said that she told me it was the other pt who was again not my pt! :flamesonb
ShayRN
1,046 Posts
Put a patient in the whirlpool at work. He was coming out of the water when LO AND BEHOLD his toenail came off:barf01: Granted, not as gross as a toe or a member falling off, but still, ick.
BJLynn
97 Posts
I disconnected a catheter to irrigate and confirm placement because there was blood in the bag and very little urine. A blood clot was clogging the tube. It was about 4 foot long. Bloodiest cath change I've ever done.
Then there is the various tunneling decubs, broken bones, dislocated joints, and one of my favorites, the lady with her scalp split open to the bone.
debthern
156 Posts
In nursing school one of the other students got a huge Carafate tablet stuck in the gtube, it said per gtube and she didn't know you were supposed to make a slushy of it first,
gt4everpn, BSN, RN
724 Posts
When I worked L & D we had a young patient having her first baby who, last time she was checked, was just 4-5 cm dilated. Her OB had the habit of calling his patients himself in their rooms so he can see how they were handling things. He liked to give personal attention, I guess. There she was, sitting in her bed, talking to the doc, her friend sitting in the room with her. He asked her how she was doing and she says "I think I just had the baby." We get a call from the frantic doc saying "go check on so-and-so". Lo and behold, a baby girl was laying there between her legs and the young mother was sitting there looking kind of surprised. She didn't have an epidural. We couldn't believe it. She hadn't made a sound. The baby was alright, thank goodness.
She didn't call for help or anything?, how unusual, wish I can have a baby so effortlessly, this story is unbelievable!, really
As a new grad, I worked on a unit and was doing 6:30 AM rounds and pulled the covers down and a man's gangrenous member fell off in the covers. Talk about wondering why I became a nurse!!!!!!
I definetly wished I didn't read that, did this really happen? I'm a new grad, hopefully I never see this in my career:uhoh21: How did it fall off anyway what happened to it, I know the parts of the body can become gangrenous, but there, please explain how if u can!
Ruby Vee, BSN
17 Articles; 14,030 Posts
patient (comatose) with necrotic bowel -- we were changing his bed and i swear to the diety that he passed 20 feet of dead bowel. i was vomiting in the corner while my manager and the md finished changing the bed. (they were both really nice about it.)
Indy, LPN, LVN
1,444 Posts
Oh, well that'll teach me to eat while reading allnurses.
megananne7
274 Posts
i can handle seeing pictures of car accidents where someone was decapitated but i think if i were in that situation.... i'd be vomiting in the corner, too.
oh, :barf01: how incredibly nauseating, 20 ft wow, thats alot, did he survive?
jamminworld
55 Posts
I had a male pt sent LR with pitocin