Inquiring Minds Want To Know: Outrageous Orders!

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IVE RECENTLY HEARD SOME FUNNY AND SOMETIMES DISTURBING STORIES IN REGARDS TO PHYSICIANS ORDERS.SO I WAS JUST WONDERING:

WHATS THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS MD ORDER YOU EVER HAD TO TAKE OFF OR WERE EXPECTED TO IMPLEMENT? AND WHEN YOU REFUSED TO IMPLEMENT OR TAKE THESE ORDERS OFF,WHAT WERE THE CONSEQUENCES?

INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW,THANK YOU.

MLL, be my guest! And Peter, did anyone think to give that patient the phone number of that doctor's wife????? And/or his girlfriend??? That'd fix his wagon!

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Originally posted by efiebke

Give #@$%@ Q #$% hours via @#$@

Bad handwriting!:(

May not be "outrageous orders" but bad unreadable orders still piss me off.

Most outrageous order. . . has to be the classic

Patient is a DNR/DNI and comfort care, but may give cardiac meds. :stone

Ted

DNR DOES NOT (and I would like to stress) DOES NOT mean do not treat. All DNR means is if you find them without VS do not code. It is a major concern of mine as my staff feel the same way you do. Sorry to get off on a rant here but....

Ya'll go back to having fun!!!! I'll shut up now!;)

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

My little contribution seems teeeeny compared to these.

Tired Resident after 48hours up wrote:

P.D.R prn.

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Originally posted by fedupnurse

Hey Scrappy! You know what I would've said to that one get some lips and kiss my a$$!!!!!

ROFLMAO:D

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I work in OB, Midwife called doc about a pt with PIH who was 39 weeks. His orders Mag and Just get her delivered. Like we were going to let her stay pregnant with bp of 160/100

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"D/C from breast by the time the patient goes to college." This is what doc dictated after trying to convince the mom to wean her 4 year old daughter who was, by the way, a failure to thrive, and introduce more solid foods.

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The first time a Swiss MD ordered to put EOSINE and phoen of a stage 2 ulcer on a coccyx my mouth dropped.. Seeing as Eosine is mercurocrom and a pheon is a HAIRDRYER!!...

So theres me dowsing someones already sore backisde in Eosine then proceeding to apply a hairdryer ( set to low..) QUITE THE EXPERIENCE! (I havent got a scientific answer to this practice either... Despite my questioning!!!)

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A friend received the following admission order from a cardiologist: "Write whatever the hell you want." So, she did--2 pages. Then she copied everything and made an incident report.

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Originally posted by Marj Griggs

Order on a CHF pt: (The unit had about 30 pts and 1 RN, 1 SN and an aid) "Watch Patient" My colleague said "I watched him---run down the hall, out the door and down the street", dressed only in a hospital gown. Security caught up with him about 3 blocks away.

I had a "watch him" order on a patient in SVT heart rate 160's. We had that order given to about 4 different nurses who called about him. The assistant nurse manager and I "watched him" until he went into V-tach. After initiating the code, we called the cardiologist and said "he's in v-tach, can we stop watching him now?" He was a little upset with us. Thank God the patient lived.

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New one....'Turn left". received at 2 am from a sleepy resident when asked for a diet order. :rolleyes:

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"D/C from breast by the time the patient goes to college."
Bwah ha ha ha haa! Boobaby, that is hilarious. Was that really written in the chart?

l.rae, your story reminded me of the time I had to call a surgical intern in the middle of the night. Spent about 10 minutes going over vitals and labs and he gave me some orders, then asked me what patient we were talking about again. So I went through it again, confirmed the orders and hung up. 30 minutes later he wandered into the ICU all rumpled and sleepy and sheepishly asked who he'd just been talking to and whether the orders he'd given made any sense! LOL! I think he thought he'd dreamed the whole thing.

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Specializes in Hospice, ER, Telemetry.

Originally posted by kaknurse

I once had an order for 30cc Black Velvet q6hrs prn. Pt was an alcoholic. I know the doc wanted to prevent DT's but there are other ways to do that.

I have seen a similar order. We cared for the town drunk when I was working at a small rural hospital. The doc dried him out but he turned into a gork, so the doc gave up and ordered his whiskey for him.......I think it was Wild Turkey. The poor old guy was never the same again. We kept the booze locked up and counted it jusst like the narcs!!

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