GETTING WRITTEN UP: What is the most ridiculous thing you have been written up for?

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One night the Don of the LTC place where I worked handed over last month's MAR's and TX sheets and asked me to go through and find the "holes'' and fill them in. I filled out missing blood pressures, weights and accu-checks that I searched through Nurses Notes for and left the rest blank.

I can't believe I got busted for not forging paperwork. :uhoh3:

A nurse in our ER got written up by an ICU nurse because she did not weigh a pt before starting them on heparin. The pt was having an acute MI! The pt guestimated his weight @ 95kg, when they weighed him on the bed in the CCU he weighed 96.5kg. Our ER stretchers are 15 years old and they do NOT weigh pts. Also, the difference in weight did NOT change the heparin gtt or bolus dose. Uh, you want me to walk an acute MI to a scale to weigh him ? I'll take the write up over the v-tach.

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I was written up as a dental assistant because I called in sick too soon before my shift. Hmmmm, next time I'm in a car accident I'll make the ambulance stop at the office to let you know I won't be in today.

I was talking to the office manager the next day and told her I would be in the hospital one more day. I quit when she said "oh, so I guess this means you aren't going to make it in today" I also turned them into the CDA because she was cleaning teeth and wasn't a hygenist. This was my intern site.

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I worked at a facility where we used the "charting by exception".

I got written up on one pt who stroked in the night because I charted by exception. HUH? My manager told me I should have charted the normals on this patient because he went bad. EXCUSE ME? Don't we chart by exception here?

Manager said "well normally yes, but you should chart all normals if you know a pt is going to go bad"

What? I'm now not only an RN but also supposed to be a psychic to tell when a pt is magically going to stroke out when they are in for an arm injury.

I fought that one all the way to VP of nursing services and got it dropped. Then my manager ended up getting written up for writing a false report. YIPPEE!

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And they wonder why nurses are leaving in droves???????????

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And they wonder why nurses are leaving in droves???????????

A coworker of mine was written up for hanging an IVPB of the correct drug on a patient. She had 2 patients receiving Rocephin, exact same dose, same times...and accidentally hung one on the other. The name labels were simply interchanged for one dose. We have one nurse who is the write up queen with no common sense (doesn't every facility have one like this?)and loved to major in minors..and she had a field day with this one. Actually got my coworker in trouble..... :rolleyes:

Now mind you this is a facility where pharmacy frequently tells us 'scratch out XXXX's name and borrow it for YYYYY....my stock is frozen and I can't get to it right now.' So its not like we are clueless.

This nurse is gone now and we are soooo glad. Some just live to stab others in the back. :uhoh3:

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I got written up for refusing to do an EKG when I wasn't on duty. I am a volunteer paramedic and I was there picking up a patient for transport. The charge nurse handed me a package of electrodes and told me to go do an EKG in room 314. I told here I was there with the ambulance and would be happy to do the EKG if we weren't getting ready to load our patient. My nurse manager told me that if I am on the floor when I am not on duty, I need to make it very clear that I am not on duty. I guess wearing EMT pants, steel toed boots, and a fire department coat and cap instead of light blue scrubs wasn't clear enough...

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Trauma, Ortho, Neuro, Cardiac.
I fought that one all the way to VP of nursing services and got it dropped. Then my manager ended up getting written up for writing a false report. YIPPEE!

Rock On!!!!

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We have a couple of people who like to write up everyone else for stupid stuff...

I have written up another nurse at the request of a physician, related to a mistake she made before my shift..... I noticed on the MAR that she had given 25MG of *****IV**** Lopressor :uhoh21: .... I thought, certainly not, so I went to the omnicell and looked up this patient's medication history for that day, and sure enough, 5 vials had been removed. I'm sure most of you know that IV lopressor comes in vials of 5mg/5ml.... I called up the doc and he was like, "OMG, is he dead yet?"

Anyway, he asked me to write it up, and I spoke with the nurse before I wrote her up and she agreed that it was a mistake that shouldn't be overlooked.

Sincerely though.... If you have to break the tops off of 5 vials of medication, and draw up 25ML of a medication.... you might want a few red lights to go off in your head.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I got written up once for not giving a medication that was not available, pharmacy did not have it, I notified the doctor to get the order changed and he still wanted it given so pharmacy had to send a currier to another hospital to get it. This idiot nurse manager wrote me up because it wasn't given timely :angryfire What did she want me to do , pull it out of my ear????? Needless to say I did not accept that write up and it was pulled. What a idiot she was. :uhoh3:

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Writing people up works both ways. I did 15 years and out from our county hospital. (I am vested)

There was an out of control amount of write ups for very stupid things. I made copies of some of them and wrote the 24 hour Nurse Manager up for causing unrest in the ranks. Sent them to the Divisional Director with a nasty gram and no one was ever bothered again.

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Believe it or not I got written up for wearing flowered underwear under my white uniform. :imbar Now it is only the granny whites for me

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We were just talking about this this weekend! A colleague was written up for not circling a medication on the PRN MAR with parameters (in other words, "give _____ if sbp> or dbp>"). The patient didn't fall into the parameters, so she didn't give the medication. Yes, they wrote her up! :uhoh21:

I didn't get written up but I did lose points on a chart audit because I didn't write in the BP when I charted that I held the med.

I had a dr. threaten to write me up because when I did admission paper work I wrote down her meds from a previous H&P that was in the computer system (the patient was post op, groggy and without her hearing aids). Anywhooo, she had written up orders from that H&P and some doses had changed since her last visit to her primary care doc. She would have seen the updates had she gone into the computer that morning. I'm not sure I ever got written up, supervisor never said anything about it. I had gotten the heads up from another nurse.

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