We've all heard it: nurses can't watch medical shows without getting annoyed about how inaccurate they are. Lately, I'm finding that the most ridiculous medical mistakes happen on police procedural dramas (Law and Order, Criminal Minds, etc.); at least the medical shows have people with medical backgrounds advising them.
Anybody have some funny tv medical mistakes to share??
Last week I was watching a rerun of Criminal Minds. The victim had been drugged with haldol by her kidnapper. When the police rushed in to save her, the EMS gave her a bolus of narcan and she magically awoke. It was a flipping miracle!! ?
Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
Ooh, ooh, I remember one! Trapper John! One time their ER nurse was having boyfriend problems and not really attentive at work. So Trap and his sidekick decided they would transfer her to a medical floor where she wouldn't need her wits about her (!). Apparently there was no nursing administration in that hospital. Next scene: the ER nurse is rolling a med cart room to room with her head in the clouds.
Again, back to Seinfeld. George loses the Master of My Domain contest watching the behind the bed curtains silhouettes of the super hot nurse giving a super hot patient a bed bath.
I don't get it. What would be the purpose of a tube in the nose like that? (Obviously that's how it landed in this thread, but still!)
Because of the small size, a Dobhoff tube can be left in longer (I want to say like 6 weeks, but don't quote me), and it causes less irritation than a honkin' big NG hose. It's passed farther than a regular NG tube (into the duodenum, I think) to help prevent reflux and aspiration, it has a weighted end to help it "drop", and it has a guidewire because it's so flexible.
The ones I remember were pink like this one, and also this small.
TriciaJ, RN
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Ooh, ooh, I remember one! Trapper John! One time their ER nurse was having boyfriend problems and not really attentive at work. So Trap and his sidekick decided they would transfer her to a medical floor where she wouldn't need her wits about her (!). Apparently there was no nursing administration in that hospital. Next scene: the ER nurse is rolling a med cart room to room with her head in the clouds.