Lost in the sharps box

1. Have you ever or do you know of anyone who has retrieved a tubex from a sharps box with hemostats?
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   Feb 11, '07

   Occupation: RN Specialty: 20 year(s) of experience in ICU, PICC Nurse, Nursing Supervisor ; From: TX, US ; Joined: Apr '04; Posts: 5,001; Likes: 1,902

   If it's in the sharps box then it stays in there...Unless of course it is a big diamond..lol
   
   
   
   

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   Have you ever or do you know of anyone who has retrieved a tubex from a sharps box with hemostats?
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   Feb 11, '07

   Occupation: Operating Room Nurse Specialty: 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER ; From: US ; Joined: Jun '03; Posts: 17,036; Likes: 1,008

   Someone dropped a retractor in one of our big sharps boxes once and we fished it out with an atraumatic grasper (laparoscopic instrument that's about 2 ft long.)
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   Feb 11, '07

   Occupation: ER Specialty: 13 year(s) of experience in ICU,PCU ECF, Agency ; Joined: Feb '07; Posts: 9

   Quote from txspadequeen921

   If it's in the sharps box then it stays in there...Unless of course it is a big diamond..lol

   What would you do if you lost your big diamond in the sharps?
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   Feb 12, '07

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   If I lost my big diamond in the sharps box I would probably wake up because only in a dream would I have a big diamond.
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   Feb 12, '07

   Occupation: RN Specialty: 20 year(s) of experience in ICU, PICC Nurse, Nursing Supervisor ; From: TX, US ; Joined: Apr '04; Posts: 5,001; Likes: 1,902

   well you have to have a big diamond to lose first....lol
   
   

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   what would you do if you lost your big diamond in the sharps?
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   Feb 13, '07

   Occupation: RN Specialty: Spinal Rehab (2yr), neuro,currently ICU ; Joined: Jan '07; Posts: 52; Likes: 8

   Quote from jill48

   If I lost my big diamond in the sharps box I would probably wake up because only in a dream would I have a big diamond.

   
   :chuckle
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   Feb 13, '07

   Joined: Feb '02; Posts: 660; Likes: 98

   Um, is a tubex worth getting stuck with a dirty needle? Not even with hemostats.
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    Feb 13, '07

    Joined: Oct '04; Posts: 2,334; Likes: 3,476

    Is there some point to the question?
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    Feb 20, '07

    Joined: Feb '07; Posts: 43; Likes: 11

    I've dropped the morphine tubexes a couple times when I was throwing away other thing and absentmindedly threw that with everything else. Sign it out as wasted, dropped and get another.
    
    I imagine that is the point to the question. It's not hard to figure out if it's happened to you.
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    Mar 12, '07

    Occupation: Orthopedic RN Specialty: 30 year(s) of experience ; From: US ; Joined: Jul '06; Posts: 77; Likes: 25

    I have retrieved a hospital cell phone from a needle box. Here is the story. A worker that replaces code carts was pushing a new one down the hall while talking on her phone. The phone slipped out from under her ear and straight into the needle box. After swearing her to secrecy (and in a secluded hallway), I placed a disposable chux on the floor and shook the contents onto it. Luckily, it wasn't that full. She got her phone back and I used hemostats to replace all of the sharps.

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