No She/he Did Not!!!

Jen2 · May 23, 2005

No she didn't just chart pulsed +2 x's 4 on a patient with bilateral BKA's.

No she didn't just chart incision intact, staples well approximated.

No she didn't just d/c a foley without deflating the balloon (she failed out thank goodness.)

No he didn't just stand on a COPD pt's O2 tubing for 10 minutes while doing a head to toe assessment and run for a nurse when pulse ox was 86% on 2 liters.

No he didn't just come up to me and say, "My patients complaining of SOB and chest pain, what should I do?", during last semester clinicals on a patient post MVA with bilateral chest tubes. Then when asked about a pulse ox and vitals he replied, "I haven't done that yet."

Ahhh! Nursing school memories.

mtymom · May 23, 2005

No he didn't ask the instructor if you dig out an impaction with a spoon.

(This was told to us by one of our instructors; this was 2 weeks into the year. He never lived that one down) :rotfl:

cherokeesummer · May 24, 2005

No she did not give 60 units of regular insulin when it was suppose to be 6 units, even after her instructor told her to recheck. This happened to a classmate of mine.

Oh my gosh! Was the patient ok? Dextrose drip for safety? YIKES! I'm diabetic, that much insulin scares even me! :):):):)

cherokeesummer · May 24, 2005

but....thats how i do it. granted i hold their wrist, count their pulses first then continue to hold their wrist and look at the clock every so often while watching their chest rise and fall.
you do count people's respirations by holding the pt's wrists and looking at the clock. alot of health care professionals do it that way. its so that the patient doesnt know youre counting their respirations and change their breathing pattern.
pretty slick, eh?

Yeppers, that's how I do it. LOL - even when the IVAC gives pulse too, I still check the pulse and then just keep on holding the wrist while I check the respirations and nonchalantly look at their chest LOL. ;)

KRVRN, BSN, RN · May 24, 2005

Yeppers, that's how I do it. LOL - even when the IVAC gives pulse too, I still check the pulse and then just keep on holding the wrist while I check the respirations and nonchalantly look at their chest LOL. ;)

...and now that I know this little trick, NO medical professional will EVER get an accurate RR on me again unless I'm asleep or unconscious!

Bobbye · May 25, 2005

Oh no she didn't just pat her self on the back after announcing, " To graduate top of the class, you may have to give up a little sex, no biggy."

Amazing huh!!!!!!

twinmommy+2, ADN, BSN, MSN · May 26, 2005

Oh no she didn't spill a bottle of urine all over her head while in clinical with a very tough professor.

A class mate of mine did. Poor thing was having such a rough time during this rotaion. And I was so proud of her when she came back the next clinical day with her head held high and a smile on her face!

soontobe_RN · May 26, 2005

Great posts, everyone!!!

Although, after reading all of them, I am a little freeked out to be starting clinical this fall!! LOL :chuckle

Jen

Danianne · May 27, 2005

No she did not trip over a patients shoe in the semi dark with a full commode bowl in her hand and proceed to drop it giving herself a nice ot so solid waste shower

No she did not tug so hard on her PT I.V. tubing trying to get rid of the little bubbles and snap the line spilling all 1000ml NS :)

LydiaNN · May 27, 2005

And I was so proud of her when she came back the next clinical day with her head held high and a smile on her face!

And the cleanest head of hair in the hospital, having probably shampooed it ten times the night before, "just to be sure" she had removed all the urine. :rotfl:

unknown99, BSN, RN · May 28, 2005

...take the water pitcher from a respiratory isolation room up to the ice machine to fill it!!! One of the nurses I work with did this. The macine had to be emptied and disinfected, etc... It was a big mess!!

christvs, DNP, RN, NP · May 30, 2005

No she did not just say to a newly diagnosed diabetic patient "Oh my gosh you have diabetes?! I would just DIE if I found out I had diabetes!" How insensitive can you get? :uhoh21: