What is the most incompetent thing you seen a fellow nurse do?

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There were two patients in a double room on a 38 bed tele floor. One was an old fart with a sick heart an the other was a 35 year old male who was in an MVA being observed for a myocardial contusion. The old fart coded and died. During the code, the CNAs moved the 35 y/o to a private room. The charge nurse, thinking she was calling the wife of the old fart, mixed up the names and called the wife of the 35 year old gentlemen. She passed on the news that her spouse passed away and that she needed to come in. The wife had to be brought in by neighbors and brought to the floor by a wheel chair because she was too histarical to walk. She was wheeled into the room only to find some dead old guy she never met. She came out of the room yelling "That's not my husband!" "Where the #$%# is my husband? (!)" She found him in a private room down the hall watching Sunday football. She had to be restrained by her neighbors and the male CNAs and male Nurses from beating the crap out of the charge nurse.

:eek: Most incomptetant thing I ever saw a nurse do was to lick an IV catheter like it was a sewing needle before inserting it into a vein. I swear!!!
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EWWWH!!!

Nick

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Originally posted by outbackannie

:eek: Most incomptetant thing I ever saw a nurse do was to lick an IV catheter like it was a sewing needle before inserting it into a vein. I swear!!!

Yeah, but the REAL question is did she lick again AFTER???

:chuckle Just trying to REALLY gross Nick out!

Heather

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Specializes in Everything except surgery.

LICK??? LICK???

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GAG!!!! [passes out on the floor] lol

Nick

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this one's for you, Nick

ok..what's the difference b/t an oral and a rectal thermometer?

the taste!!!!

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yuck, this is one of the reasons i did not go into medicine lol.

nick

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working with a new nurse that had to give rocephin im... needless to say she gave it mixed with 10cc of sterile water, with an 18 gauge needle in the arm.... this girl was an rn and is now an instructor...the incident happened about a year ago

alittle nerve racking for me consdering she was covering me.....

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Specializes in Community Health Nurse.

The most incompetent thing I've ever seen a nurse do is to sit on her/his butt and ignore the staff's need for her/his help. :rolleyes:

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Yeah that would definitely qualify and incompetent.

Would not explaining a procedure (or just talking to) to a 12 or 15 yr old patient who is going in for surgery also qualify as incompentent?

Nick

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Specializes in Geriatrics/Oncology/Psych/College Health.

OK - y'all are giving me fits here!

These posts evidence why I lived in deathly fear my first year of nursing. Our hospital units were grouped into clusters, and you were expected to float within your group. ICU was in our cluster, and I knew I'd have to refuse the assignment if they asked me to float there. I didn't even GET half the references the critical care nurses were making in this thread. It was like having people telling jokes in some foreign language lol.

Luckily, I don't fear looking stupid by asking questions. Repeatedly.

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