Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

[nilepoc]

To start things off, the best and funniest order I have seen on a chart, was in the discharge instructions for a trauma patient. It read simply

Darwin Consult

and was signed by the resident. Well the attending did laugh, but it was not the highpoint of that residents day.

so do you have more?

[Allaroundnurse]

Worked on the OB/GYN unit and one of our frequent flyers would ask for Juice if it wasn't time for her pain meds. The doc wrote an order for Juice and Wheelchair rides PRN because that seemed to work as well as the pain med.

[Allaroundnurse]

FLK is an approved nursery diagnosis (Funny Looking Kid) but one doc wrote FLK from FLP (Funny Looking Parents) not an approved diagnosis.

[howie122832]

Originally posted by rebeccajs

A teaching hospital where I worked, one of the foriegn residents wrote "eyes and nose q shift". We all laughed for days over that one.

Now thats funny..... I had to read it out loud to get it!! I'm still laughing! :chuckle :chuckle

[ayemmeff]

Originally posted by Allaroundnurse

FLK is an approved nursery diagnosis (Funny Looking Kid) but one doc wrote FLK from FLP (Funny Looking Parents) not an approved diagnosis.

Can I ask... approved by whom? Not trying to be argumentative or anything but doesn't *sound* like a diagnosis,much less an approved one. JMO

Thank you.

[kiki5451]

My favorite order is the VO "Just watch it" when the pt is swirling the drain and the doc doesn't want to do anything....I want to say..."I was watching it when I called..." or I will write "Just watch it" in the chart.":devil:

[ShandyLynnRN, BSN, RN]

Originally posted by ayemmeff

Can I ask... approved by whom? Not trying to be argumentative or anything but doesn't *sound* like a diagnosis,much less an approved one. JMO

Thank you.

I agree. I have never heard of this as an approved dx. I mean, I think all of the docs use the term from time to time, but I have never seen it in a chart.

Can anyone else back up this? Is FLK really approved?

[Retired Nurse]

Yes, I have heard and seen the "FLK" diagnosis. I loved the "Funny Looking Parents" one. That's a new one.

[Orca, ADN, ASN, RN]

I had three patients in a LTC facility who had PRN orders (usually at HS) for various alcoholic beverages. However, I declined a request from one to get her "shot" to use as a chaser for her Lortab and Oxycontin.

One order I saw in a chart was DC black crap. The patient was using a coal tar preparation for psoriasis, and the treatment was not working. The doctor could not remember exactly what he had prescribed.

One psychiatrist I worked with was tiring of one patient constantly bugging him for anxiety medication (this patient just liked the buzz she got from benzos), so he wrote the following instructions to the pharmacy:

Big, ugly placebo PO q6h PRN anxiety

You should have seen the concoction the pharmacy put together to comply with this order.

[donormom]

We once had an MD who would write:

Feed and water pt.

Of course this was for pt's unable to feed themself, so we would chuckle and go on with our work.

Then, he wrote the order on his grandmother's chart!!!!!

Karen:chuckle

[sandman]

I had a resident write an order for Nystatin powder to groin and under wiener!!!

[caroladybelle, BSN, RN]

If Pt's girlfriend leaves drunk-have her arrested if she tries to drive.

Yeah, this is my job.

[ShandyLynnRN, BSN, RN]

Originally posted by sandman

I had a resident write an order for Nystatin powder to groin and under wiener!!!

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