What nursing or medical pet peeves drive you bonkers in movies or on TV?
I find myself yelling at the tv and huffing about how wrong they got everything.
For example, when people rip out their IV's but don't bleed. Or ETT that are not taped down. AT ALL. Or when they shock a flatline. Or when nurses and doctors run for even the most minor things. Code patients who wake up looking refreshed and alert/oriented. Oh! And when doctors do things like start IVs or clean up vomit (yeah, right).
Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
I think it was Chicago Hope when the nurse dropped the donor heart which skidded across the floor and they just picked it up, rinsed it off and transplanted it anyway. Probably the ER doc who also did neuro surgery!
We've actually done that with a cranial bone flap. We literally picked it up off the floor, soaked it in betadine, then rinsed it in bacitracin irrigation, and put it back in place.
There was an ER episode once where they were taking a pedi patient on the elevator somewhere (can't remember where they were going) and all of a sudden, the resident shouts "O2 sat is 89%! Prepare to intubate!!!" Yeah, I'll pay attention if the sat starts dropping, but come ON.
I think the last one was when I was watching "Night Shift" and there was a chemo patient who had some "peritoneal abscess" that was found immediately on CT (because the doctor takes them to and from radiology in this ER and reads the CT as its being performed), and they were just going to drain this abscess in the dirty ER room...on a chemo patient. I really wanted to like this show and used to love watching ER but I can't watch this stuff anymore.
Specializes in ER, ICU/CCU, Open Heart OR Recovery, Etc.
I don't watch medical shows, but when I used to some of my pet peeves were the lack of gloves on hands and showing doctors doing things they never do in real practice.
A surgeon and I walked into a patients room one day and the doc looked up at the TV and said, "Oh it's grey's anatomy. You know I did my residency there and I sure don't recall having that much fun. Heck I was too tired to be getting laid all the time." Me and the patient just died out laughing.
how about when you hear Code Blue Seventh Floor on the overhead page? cause we all know that there is only one room on 7th floor, right? all anyone has to do is get off the elevator at the 7th floor and there's the code lol. I hear that one alot.
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speaking of CPR...ah yes I love seeing the bent elbows during compression.