(Short) feeling terrible. New nurse. Made such a dumb mistake.

[Jaellys]

Basically I called wrong doc during the night and got an order from them, they weren't supposed to be taking call until 7 am. I am still feeling so bad about it.

[Farawyn]

Here's the 'win' in the situation: Whoever you woke up has no CLUE who you are!! #nightshiftrocks

"Words of wisdom, Lloyd. Words. Of. Wisdom."

[ScrappytheCoco]

If this is the worst thing you do in your career you'll be better than a lot of us

[Twinmom06, ASN, APN]

the first night I was on call (I do acute care dialysis), I got a call from "the service" at 0330 to come in to dialyze an OD patient. Since it was my first night on call I had no idea that "the service" was the service for my company, and not the renal group that has 80% of our patients - so I woke up the doc on call, only to see one of the independent docs walking by at the same time. Fortunately he has a pretty good sense of humor....defecation happens sometimes.

[nurseinthezoo]

Nothing to lose sleep over and you got what you needed.

[~PedsRN~, BSN, RN]

That's why they get paid the big bucks. :)

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

Here's the 'win' in the situation: Whoever you woke up has no CLUE who you are!! #nightshiftrocks

Here is the "LOSE" in the situation..whoever got woken up...has no clue who the PATIENT is. Yet.. gave orders.

[Angelicpurl]

Maybe....maybe not....

I woke up the Chief Medical Officer one night. A surgeon....he wasn't on call and my patient had a different surgeon on his case (fresh from ER) & hadn't been seen yet by on call surgeon.

Not only did I get orders, he came IN! Did surgery, AND gave all of us commendations that he sent to the Chief Nursing Office....

I found out he wasn't on call the next night. The secretary mentioned it when I paged for surgeon on call for someone else.

Did I mention he bought us pizza??? No, not day shift, but my floor, the same people who worked that night!!!

I also noted his sticker was on outside of chart the next time patient was on our floor (he went to ICU after surgery).

The next time I saw the surgeon, I apologizedon't for my mistake. He said not only was he glad I did, but the patient needed more advanced care surgically than his ER Doctor had thought. He needed a procedure that only he could do & I saved the patient's life! He didn't have to wait until the other surgeon realized the need for more help....which would have been catastrophic.