What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

[texas_lvn]

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:

[angelcharm]

that is just freaking sick. i worked with an aide once that did peri care for a resident without gloves, (he had been incontinent), didn't wash her hands, then went to the nurses' station and ate a donut.

lol.. she must have had a temporary amnesia after seeing the donut..

[texas_lvn]

PRBC'S hanging with D5........ :eek: :eek: :eek:

[nursejohio, ASN, RN]

"why do trach pts have more phlem than the rest of us?:trout: :trout: :trout:

I didn't have the heart to tell her her goes directly into her tummy.

Didn't have the heart to tell her what goes directly to the tummy? Must been a really rough surgery if the trach is ending in the esophagus

[tvccrn, ASN, RN]

PRBC'S hanging with D5........ :eek: :eek: :eek:

Why is that such a bad thing? Now the standard is NS, but quite a few years ago, you wouldn't have heard of blood hung with anything EXCEPT D5.

[perfectbluebuildings, BSN, RN]

Didn't have the heart to tell her what goes directly to the tummy? Must been a really rough surgery if the trach is ending in the esophagus

I think she meant that people w/o trachs, usually swallow most of their mucus/phlegm.

[hollya5334, LPN]

Didn't have the heart to tell her what goes directly to the tummy? Must been a really rough surgery if the trach is ending in the esophagus

Phrediom, I *think* what she meant was the people without trachs swallow most of our phlem. Took me a minute, too

[MS._Jen_RN, ASN, RN]

PRBC'S hanging with D5........ :eek: :eek: :eek:

One of the former RN's on our unit did this. The "double checker" found it. It was the last straw in a not so stellar tenure there. She was fired. Thank God.

~Jen

[Spritenurse1210, BSN, RN]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROFLMAO

[texas_lvn]

I think she meant that people w/o trachs, usually swallow most of their mucus/phlegm.

:yeahthat:

[exnavygirl-RN]

We had a new nurse that was on orientation for 6 weeks! He was an older man and thought he knew everything. One night he had a patient that had O2 sats of 70%. We recommended that he put her on some O2. He said "the patients says that percentage is normal for her at home". How many people have pulse oximeters at home? Anyway, that was pretty much icing on the cake. He was terminated.

[angeRN6297, RN]

we had a CNA that I was sure was faking vital signs in the computer...it took several alert and oriented patients to confirm this two nights in a row to get her fired....I know she probably had been doing this for months....She would take 1-2 peoples then come and log in twelve patients vs!! we have a lot of post op pts who could be having issues....I would go behind her a recheck all my people!! I feel much better now not having to worry about that , but I keep my eyes open to make sure I see my CNA's doing them.......

[grace90, LPN, LVN]

Working med/surg the other night a fellow nurse looked at me and asked "why do trach pts have more phlem than the rest of us?:trout: :trout: :trout:

I didn't have the heart to tell her her goes directly into her tummy. She would have vomited.

Although I have known that fact for years, it still never ceases to make me gag when I think about it, hence I try *not* to think of "sputum" and "my tummy" in the same sentence.

Here's my stupid stories from my 7p-7a last night.

#1- I don't give Mucomyst much. Last night I had to, po q4h. It came up from pharmacy in glass vials. I didn't know the rubber top popped off. I popped out a syringe and needle, and proceeded to push air into the bottle before drawing out the liquid, only... I uhm pushed a wee bit too hard and the little glass bottle of Mucomyst went POOF and burst and the smell of sour rotten eggs quickly spread through the room and the hallway. I called pharmacy, told 'em what I did, and they sent it up in a nice plastic bottle.

#2- I titrated a heparin drip wrong last night. The LPN I was covering caught it, thank God. I HATE heparin drips. She questioned it, and I thought I was right but listened to her and decided I better double check myself and sure enough, she was right. I thanked her and had to call the doc, etc. *always listen to the LPN's!!!!* From now on, whenever I titrate a drip (we only do heparin and insulin drips on our m/s floors) I WILL have another RN check it with me. I still get the shivers when I think about it.