I am part of a internship program as a LVN to RN program.
One of the RNs asked me to verify and sign off on her heparin, when I looked, it was below the 5ml mark which is indicated by a long line. She insisted that the level mark was the "dot" which is located BELOW the long line. I explained that in school we were taught it was the long line that indicated the amount. She looked at me and asked me, "So, are you telling me how to do my job now?". What the heck. I told her that I was just telling her what we learned in school. After a few rounds over what was right and what was wrong, her insisting she was right and I was wrong she left, and I did not sign off on it.
While I was working with a patient she called me out of the room to inform that she verified it with another nurse and that it is to the long line and that she did not want me to learn the "wrong" way. I bit my lip, but what I really wanted to say was, "I did not learn the wrong way." but sometimes it is better not to cause waves.
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Then we had a pt who had cellulitis of the supra pubic region. She told a nurse on the floor that it was because "the patient was dirty and did not wash there". How LAME and cruel.
