Crazy stuff can happen

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navynurse06

325 Posts

Specializes in ER,ICU and Progressive Care Unit,Peds.

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

Specializes in Ophthalmology ASC.

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) :banghead: 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

Specializes in Corrections, Cardiac, Hospice.

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

Specializes in DD, Geriatrics, Neuro.

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

Specializes in NICU, PACU, Pediatrics.

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,

Specializes in Licensed Practical Nurse.
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

Specializes in Licensed Practical Nurse.
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

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

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

Specializes in ICU, telemetry, LTAC.

Oh, well that'll teach me to eat while reading allnurses.

megananne7

274 Posts

Specializes in Assisted Living, Med-Surg/CVA specialty.
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.)

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.

Specializes in Licensed Practical Nurse.
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.)

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

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