Is anything at your work that puzzles you

[pras]

Is there any things about your that puzzles or confuses you?

[ixchel]

What I don't understand is getting pre-filled SQ arixtra cosigned.

[JustKeepSmiling, ADN, BSN, RN]

I have access to all kinds of narcotics and other drugs, but can't get toilet paper without going through housekeeping!

ROFL!!!! 👏👏👏

[BrandonLPN, LPN]

Why do I need 4 different passwords- all complex, all need to be changed every six months?

My bank account with access to thousands of dollars is protected by the same 4 digit password I've had for years.

Gotta be more people interested in taking my money than charting under my name.

I know, these password requirements just keep getting worse and worse. Next week our passwords will need to be fifteen characters long, have two capital letters, three special characters, and be changed every six weeks because, apparently, Soviet super-spies are trying to find out what sort of stool-softners our LTC residents are taking.

[Guest219794]

I can give a patient drugs that will paralyze and sedate them- no cosigner required. One unit of insulin- cosigned required.

I can over ride for 100 mg of MS, but need a witness for 1 of dilaudud.

And Ketamine is not kept track of any more than levaquin. I can use half a ottle, and just chuck the rest.

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

A nurse got caught diverting narcotics so now they're obsessing over checking people's med carts at the end of their shifts. If I intend to divert, I'm not gonna be storing it in my cart.

[BrandonLPN, LPN]

A nurse got caught diverting narcotics so now they're obsessing over checking people's med carts at the end of their shifts. If I intend to divert, I'm not gonna be storing it in my cart.

I've always felt that management's first mistake in their approach to handling narcotic diversion is that they seem to assume that narcotic diverters are stupid. (I felt the same way way back when I worked retail. The employees robbing them blind were not the stupid ones. This is why checking employees' lunch boxes as they leave wasn't very fruitful.)

[No Stars In My Eyes]

I never understood how, if a person was supposed to be "on-call" (non-nursing person who acts as a CSR) they are not available, especially around shift change.....for call-ins or no-shows.....

We had one who would take Benadryl and go to sleep; then her message-box would get full and you couldn't even contact her or anyone else. Is that just plain stupid or what?!

And yeah, she was reported more than a few times, but there was this little matter of nepotism that protected her job.

BAH!

[amoLucia]

Having meetings about having meetings that were, themselves, about having meetings. The point?

I worked one place that issued a memo on how to write memos.

Am honest about this.

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

I can remove as much narcotic as I want from PYXIS, but it a patient declines the second Percocet, I need a witness to return it.

[No Stars In My Eyes]

I can remove as much narcotic as I want from PYXIS, but it a patient declines the second Percocet, I need a witness to return it.

I guess that is so nobody will sneak 'street drugs' into the PYXIS.....?

[oldandintheway]

One that gets me: in our charting there is a choice for paracetamol overdose, but no choice for acetaminophen or Tylenol overdose. Please understand this is in the USA and our vendor for the program is based in the USA.

[oldandintheway]

I have never heard of acetaminophen referred to paracetamol in this country.