No She/he Did Not!!!

meluhn · Nov 29, 2009

no she did not come to clinical at 7 AM on a thursday still drunk from the Phillies game the night before, and get caught by her instructor sleeping on her patients chair, and reeking of alcohol.... and did not get kicked out of the program!! (definately not me! im still trying to figure out how she is still in..)
no he did not tell his clinical instructor to "f" off and walk out of clinical, never to return again!
just a couple that happened recently in my class....

Sounds like the nursing school I used to teach at. But hey, at 24K a head, the customer is always right. These same students would be promoted and not disciplined at all.

peytonsmom · Nov 30, 2009

well here's MY "I can't believe I just did that"

A nurse asked me if I could help her pull a pt up in bed. I walked in and recognized the pt I had been assigned two weeks ago. She had been in for an infection on her foot. I asked her how her foot was doing and she said "good, it's gone" I replied w/ "Good, i'm glad!" As we were boosting the pt up I realized she didn't mean the INFECTION was gone she meant her FOOT was gone. Yeah...next time, don't ask questions.

May2011Grad · Nov 30, 2009

No she didn't just change a TAH post-op day 2 pt. bed leave it in the highest position and tell her to get back in and told the pt. to try even after the pt. asked for it to be lowered.

Needless to say the pt. requested she not come back in her room that day and the entire group got kicked off the floor that day. (Not my group the following days group though)

Katen · Nov 30, 2009

No she didn't...

Just walk out of lecture, go in the hall and order her take out lunch, giving the guy directions to the room I might add...then when it came, jump up go out and get it and bring it back to class without even a second thought about it.........this was all during lecture :nono:

allnurses Guide · Dec 1, 2009

... find her pt bleeding like crazy with O2 sat of 80-whatever and... when the instructor asked her what her priority was, the student replied, "Change the sheets?"

When the pt was taken care of, the instructor gave the student one last chance to redeem herself (heck, maybe the student was just freaked out and not thinking, but noooo).

The instructor asked her again, "NOW, what was your priority?"

The student replied, "Well, I guess it wasn't changing the sheets."

Said student is no longer in our class.

This was a second year student, BTW.

tothepointeLVN, LVN · Dec 1, 2009

Sounds like the nursing school I used to teach at. But hey, at 24K a head, the customer is always right. These same students would be promoted and not disciplined at all.

OMG this happened with a classmate of mine. I picked her up one day and she brings a plastic cup of wine into my car and plunked it in the cupholder. I didn't know what to say. I spent the whole clinical trying to get my clinical instructor alone. Luckily that instructor ended up being the DON eventually so they got rid of her the key word being eventually

Of course this was after she turned up drunk to theory several times and fled as the instructor tried to get close enough to smell her breath.

To add to the list

No she didn't just me to demonstrate assessment to her to get out of assessing a difficult patient.

Even worse no she did say "Oh the O2 wasn't connected properly" as we are doing postmortum care on said patient.

Nepenthe Sea · Dec 1, 2009

They are trying to say "puss-like". But instead they are writing about a kitty cat... or a profane name for a body part...
ha.

It's just like my medical terminology professor taught us when explaining the usage of the word "purulent": there is NO good way to chart the word "puss - y"!! :jester:

jessica8 · Mar 12, 2010

She did not... when asked by another nurse to get staple remover to remove staples from wound, get a paper staple remover from the nurses' desk. hehehe. We all had a good laugh.

frumpter · Mar 12, 2010

well here's MY "I can't believe I just did that"
A nurse asked me if I could help her pull a pt up in bed. I walked in and recognized the pt I had been assigned two weeks ago. She had been in for an infection on her foot. I asked her how her foot was doing and she said "good, it's gone" I replied w/ "Good, i'm glad!" As we were boosting the pt up I realized she didn't mean the INFECTION was gone she meant her FOOT was gone. Yeah...next time, don't ask questions.

I seriously laughed out loud at that one! :lol2:

nottootoo · Mar 12, 2010

You guys are NOT gonna believe this but seriously...I couldn't make this up.

RN (male) was caught erecting pt member,

Why?

He thought you had to have the member erect in order to do the catheter.

OMG!!

vcurrin02 · Mar 12, 2010

You guys are NOT gonna believe this but seriously...I couldn't make this up.
RN (male) was caught erecting pt member,
Why?
He thought you had to have the member erect in order to do the catheter.
OMG!!

LOL OMG. :eek:

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Mar 12, 2010

So here is the scenario first. We had our first exam today with a new class. In our previous class we had the math problems on the exam and were told to just put the answer on the exam and not our scan tron.

So today we had a math problem and BOLDED it said a reminder of how to round and to write the answer on the back of our scan tron.

So apparently many people didn't do this because they were used to the old way and they didn't read the instructions, the instructor at the end asked how many read and put on the back. A few of us raised our hands. She went on to say the importance of reading directions................

No you did not cut off the teacher and in a snotty tone say "maybe next time you can make sure you highlight that or point it out since we are used to another way" :|