What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

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What have other peers done intentional/unintentional to freak you out? Good or bad. Happy or sad.

On my FIRST day as an LVN, (LTC) a res was screaming in her room as I was walking out to leave. I went in to see what was going on. She was having an anxiety attack and severe pain (post stroke). I pulled the call light, and no one came. Uggg.

So I peeked out the door and saw my CNA walking down the hall, and told him to come sit with res. I went down to get her a Xanax and a pain pill, well relief nurse was in the restroom, and relief CNA (with call light still going off) was sitting behind nurses station reading a newspaper. I told CNA to tell the nurse to get a Xanax and pain pill for res. She said OK. I go to relieve my CNA. Said goodbye to him, and stayed with res. after 10 minutes, CNA COMES INTO ROOM WITH XANAX AND MORPHINE PILL. She is soooooo shocked to see me still there, she hands me the pills and RUNS to the relief nurse. I could NOT BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW!!!!

(I did immediately call DON and tell what happened. Luckily, my CNA was still checking on another res, and saw the whole thing.--------they got a slap on the wrist! that was it!!!):madface: :madface: :madface: :madface:

Specializes in MR Peds, geris, psych, DON,ADON,SSD.

I was an LPN with deep respect for RNs. My "supervisor" checked an O2 tank by lighting her lighter next to it to see how full it was OMG I ran out of the room so fast and called the DON.

Different RN (still an LPN) tried to open a g-tube stoma with a pair of bandage scissors before inserting the g-tube. OMG another call to the DON. Needless to say I HAD to go to RN school so I didnt have to work with supervisors who had no clue what was going on. I'm sure I'll think of more later.

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
I was an LPN with deep respect for RNs. My "supervisor" checked an O2 tank by lighting her lighter next to it to see how full it was OMG I ran out of the room so fast and called the DON.

Different RN (still an LPN) tried to open a g-tube stoma with a pair of bandage scissors before inserting the g-tube. OMG another call to the DON. Needless to say I HAD to go to RN school so I didnt have to work with supervisors who had no clue what was going on. I'm sure I'll think of more later.

LIT HER LIGHTER NEXT TO THE OXYGEN TANK?????? OMG...now THAT takes the CAKE!!!! Now, she wants to kill the whole freaking hospital! THAT 'nurse' should be placed UNDER the grave!!!

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i'm a cna in ltc. i would never ever put my hands on a medication, especially a narcotic. it is out of a cna's scope of practice. what nurse would put herself at risk like that? sheesh. and obviously, in this situation, they did have the time to sit with the resident for 10 minutes, since the cna was chilling at the station with the newspaper.

as far as things that freak me out, i'm sure most of you have seen this, but i work with a nurse who, for the past 30 years, has recapped needles with her teeth. i shudder.

whatttttt???????? with her teeth?--- i laughed to keep from crying.

Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
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whatttttt???????? with her teeth?--- i laughed to keep from crying.

i have to surrender to the fact that people in the health care profession are simply crazy. i thought that i have seen some stuff, but reading these posts lets me know that i have been beat out by the best regarding witnessing horrors! this is a great thread! i run to my computer every few hours to see what else creeps up here!!

Specializes in Med/Surg, ER and ICU!!!.
I was an LPN with deep respect for RNs. My "supervisor" checked an O2 tank by lighting her lighter next to it to see how full it was OMG I ran out of the room so fast and called the DON.

Different RN (still an LPN) tried to open a g-tube stoma with a pair of bandage scissors before inserting the g-tube. OMG another call to the DON. Needless to say I HAD to go to RN school so I didnt have to work with supervisors who had no clue what was going on. I'm sure I'll think of more later.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, or in your case go to school. LOL. Congrats on the RN:mortarboard:

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ER and ICU!!!.
I have to surrender to the fact that people in the health care profession are simply crazy. I run to my computer every few hours to see what else creeps up here!!

You have no idea how many times I have came to this thread. I am greatful to learn from their mistakes, but goodness it can be funnnnnny.

check out the thread "my worst mistake". Nurses here have discussed mistakes they have made. I read the entire thread and with one exception, every nurse was devasted by the mistake they made even when no harm was done by the mistake. But some of the things described on this thread boggle the mind.

Here's a BIG problem. The nurses in the other thread "REALIZED" their mistakes & will likely learn from them. What about the seemingly "clueless" nurses in this thread. Were they corrected? I hope that they were led to the "light", but I'm sure some of the ones who "do no wrong" probably think there way was ok. SCARY....SCARY.....:chair:

True story: One of my buddies told me a story that still is hard to believe. As he's coming in for the evening shift at a civilian hospital, he sees a nurse taking scissors to several IVPB bags (antibiotics). He asks her what she's doing, and she says, "I didn't have time to give these" as she's pouring them down the drain - I don't know whether to laugh or cry everytime I hear the story.

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Specializes in pediatric critical care.
i work in a ltc facility on day shift. on another shift there was a nurse that was upbeat, chatty and laughed a lot. well apparently she got on another nurses nerves so the other nurse took it upon herself to pour some liquid medicine, i can't remember what it was, into that nurses tea!!! to calm her down!! that nurse didn't find out til the next night because one of the cna's heard her talking about it. thank goodness she had no ill effects and made it home safe. the other nurse got fired after that.

this reminded me of a very scary, very vindictive nurse i once worked with while i was a nursing assistant in a nursing home. we had gotten donuts during our night shift, and she had ordered a few extra to take home to her family in the am. well, when dayshift came in, they saw 4 donuts left in the big donut box, assumed they were leftovers, and ate them. now i would've been a little miffed too, but instead of telling them "hey, those were mine for my kids" or something, she was quiet about it during report. the next shift she worked, she ordered more creamsticks, and according to her (she was in the med room for an hour, so no one actually witnessed this) she took the cream out of the donuts, mixed it with milk of magnesia and sugar, then put the cream back in the donuts! she promptly offered these to the dayshift nurses at report in the am, and they ate them! now we have one staff bathroom in that unit, and the dayshift nursing asst told me those poor girls were fighting over it all afternoon. only the good lord knows what she really did to those donuts, and thankfully no one had any serious after affects, but still! thank goodness she was fired shortly after, she had a history of doing vindictive stuff all the time, and even a few patients had accused her!

Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

seeing green nasal cavity material on the wall of the staff washroom!!!!!!!

yuck

Specializes in med surg.

The few posts here about nurses slipping drugs into other nurses food really gets me. I would never have thought about doing that--or to think that someone would do it to me. Nursing is a very trusting profession...nurses have to be able to trust each other too! What a horrible thing!

Specializes in pediatric critical care.
seeing green nasal cavity material on the wall of the staff washroom!!!!!!!

yuck

God bless America, that's just nasty.

How about our poor hosekeeper had to put a sign in the employee restroom to remind the ladies to wrap up used feminine products and place the in the proper recepticle. Apparently someone has just been tossing them UNWRAPPED AND UNFOLDED right onto the trash can for the dirty paper towels!

:confused:

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