Residents say the funniest things

[dspring, RN]

I had a Resident write on the chart today for a pt with a humerous fx, No weight bearing rt upper extremity. This was for a young person, so it is not like they used a walker or anything. Just struck my co workers and myself as funny. Lets hear your funny stories.

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[bill4745, RN]

"Colace 100mg PO STAT"

[Captain Tripps]

We had a rollover MVA, female in the back seat was trapped and had no sensation/movement belly button down. After careful extrication and getting her boarded she regained some sensation and movement. By the time we arrived at the ED she had really amazing neuros, considering.

We get to the ED and turn her over to the trauma team. About 5 minutes later a resident comes out and starts reaming me out for not giving Mannitol. He goes on about a five minute tirade about how incompetent I am and how Mannitol was indicated. A point I did not argue with one bit. I just stood there and took it, the attending was sitting a couple of feet away with a little smirk on his face.

Finally it came to the macho point of the resident saying "so can you explain to me why you didn't give Mannitol?" My answer was short and sweet, "Dr we don't carry Mannitol on our units." The attending smiled at me, reached over the counter grabbed our protocol book (county wide protocols) gave it to the resident and sent him to the back to refresh himself on EMS protocols.

Appearantly after we left there was quite a reaming. Sorry I missed it.

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

I had a baby on ECMO once who started putting out espresso-colored fluid from her NG tube. Not coffee-ground, but straight up black. The intern explained to me (slowly, condescendingly) that if she had a minor GI bleed (as often happens on ECMO) then it would turn black as it passed through the colon.

I called the fellow and asked if she would explain to the intern that if the baby's NG output had passed through her colon, we had a very serious problem on our hands.