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I had to change an IV bag and went in with my instructor to do so. My instructor always made me nervous but I was determined to remain confident and do the task....it wasnt difficult. She proceeded to ask me what was in the bag and I told her normal saline. She told me "ok, go ahead" and stood back to watch. I proceeded to pull out the line to put it into the new bag, but didn't take it off the IV pole before doing so. I received a saline bath with the remaining fluid that was in the bag. My instructor ran to get a towel and we cleaned up the wet floor. She then asked me to step outside the room. I thought I was going to hear it. What I heard was her laughing and telling me that I had to laugh sometimes and "everyohne has a saline bath once and then it never happens again." I still don't believe her but its funny looking back now.

Specializes in OB, critical care, hospice, farm/industr.

Good thing you weren't successful...

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Good thing you weren't successful...

Good thing he was comatose ... !!!!

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To give meds via NG you must crush them (or empty the capsule). Dilantin is available as a sustained release capsule. It is my understanding (though I have actually not yet passed meds) that you should NEVER crush a sustained release medication. Doing so can cause the whole drug to act at once instead of slowly over time. So, if it was a sustained release capsule, then that would be why it was ordered PO.

Right? :chair:

Then the question is.........If the pt can take po meds why are we giving any of them through the NG?

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I had a little blooper....

My patient (who was a retired MD) had an IV and of course the stupid pump was beeping, so I go in and realize I should probably flush it through one of the ports. So, I go and get a saline flush and attach a needle, and proceed to poke the needle through a port and of COURSE I forget that now the IV tubing is all a "needleless port" system and all the NS comes squirting out of the port all over me and the patient who now is cracking up asking me WHY I would attach a needle........you know I never did that again!!!!!

Another blooper, I'm in my patient's room who is VERY hard of hearing. The MD comes in to do his assessment (amazing huh?) and he asks her "if she likes to eat" (assessing her appetite) and she looks at him SO confused and says "DO I WASH MY TEETH?!?!?!?!" Her roomate, the MD, the PATIENT and I were all laughing hysterically.....

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me too!!!!!!!! lol

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This was my first semester in my second year, I had an older lady in for angina and so she was on bedrest, only up to bedside comode, so she asks me to clean her teeth, so I take them out, I'm all gloved and take them in the bathroom, lay the washcloth down in the sink, and prepare to clean these teeth, so they are nice and clean, I then proceed to drop the teeth, they bounce off the side of the sink, out the bathroom door and halfway across the pt's room.

Oh, I'm standing there looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, thinking if I could sneak out the bathroom and out the door without the pt seeing me, I was soooo embarrassed and scared, I swore that she was going to tell my instructor and I was going to get a safety and andd this horrable stuff, so I take a deep breath and slink out and the pt grins at me and says "They giving you a hard time?"

LOL.

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From babysitting I realize that once baby boys are undiapered, they usually pee... So, in the nursery I tried to be careful and cover them ASPA. One night I wasn't so lucky... changing a one boy, I got myself of the forehead. Then... I had to weigh another boy. He had just gone, so I set his little naked body on the scale and I looked up to see a raining stream of pee that went from one bassinette almost them all as he squirmed his little body. Not only did it get other babies... he got my preceptor, too.

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From babysitting I realize that once baby boys are undiapered, they usually pee... So, in the nursery I tried to be careful and cover them ASPA. One night I wasn't so lucky... changing a one boy, I got myself of the forehead. Then... I had to weigh another boy. He had just gone, so I set his little naked body on the scale and I looked up to see a raining stream of pee that went from one bassinette almost them all as he squirmed his little body. Not only did it get other babies... he got my preceptor, too.

You're lucky. During my pediatric rotation, I was assigned an 8 month old premie. Had to change his Diaper. Lets just say that his urine was a very good vintage. Enough said.

Adam

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"They giving you a hard time?"

ROFLMAO!! :rotfl:

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I wrote in a note, "no breath sounds." Forgot that one word....

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I am sorry but I have to ask what was wrong with this? I start cliniclas in the fall and I would have done the same thing. I do not want to make a worng mistake if I can help it so please tell me why if the orders said to take the staples out and she did then why was it wrong? Is there a rule that says only take staples out of a certain part of the body or something?. Eek.

I have no nursing experience, no nursing school...nothing. But, somehow, I think I can figure this one out. Lemme see if I get it right. If you have an incision that has been stapled shut and someone is told to remove half of those staples, I'd assume they mean, remove every other staple. I imagine it's because the incision isn't quite healed enough to remove all the staples. Maybe it's even a "testing the waters" kinda thing.

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My nursing student buddy asked me to help her pull her pt up in bed. The pt was really groggy and was asking why were we pulling him up in bed. I told him "So your feet don't get caught down here at the bottom." We pulled him up, got him all comfortable, and it was then when I realized he was a double above the knee amputee!!!

Me and a fellow student were giving a kind of heavy looking woman a boost in bed. Well, I guess we didn't realize our own strength, or over-estimated her heaviness, because the two of us boosted her up and slammed her head right into the headboard. We felt absolutely terrible.

Pt ok, CT scan negative.:cool:

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