Strangest thing taken from ER

[cookienay]

I thought this would be a fun thread...

What is the strangest thing you have ever seen stolen from the ED??

for me- a buttload of those KY packets with some hemocult developer. Rectal exam, anyone??

And we had to stop keeping ambu bags at the head of every bed. they were being stolen for "huffing". go figure.

[jayne109, RN]

Our department upgraded and bought this fancy new spectulum lights that slide right into the spectulum. Every single light disappeared from the gyn rooms within about 2 weeks.

I just can't fathom what people are doing with those lights at home.

Our ER found that they make wonderful under car and in engine lights! we even had someone call and ask where they could get replacement light bulbs for them! Stupid people!

[MEEPPEEP]

Not ER here but was outside my hospital going in to work and saw a pt with his gown on, getting on a city bus with his IV pump and pole. I'm surprised they let him on, but they did.

:chuckleNow that is funny!! Wonder what was in that IV bag that was so important? Usually they just pull them out and take off!

[Valerie Salva, BSN, RN]

The log book off of the crash cart. Who knows? Also our ortho room seems to be a pretty popular room for browsing and shopping. I once had a family that I caught stuffing their pockets with kling and 4x4's. We do room assignments and stock our own rooms. You better believe I took inventory when they left and charged them for every bit of the supplies they stole. I also had to call security on a crazy lady that insisted on taking the multi-use pack of adult wipes for her 12 y/o daughter that had one episode of diarrhea last week "just in case she had an accident in the car" PUULEEASE. If her diarrhea is that bad lady, those wipes aint gonna take that smell out of your seat fabric.

Yeah, but I doubt they paid their bill. Probably we (taxpaters) paid it for them.

[JBudd, MSN]

I caught a lady with a huge cardboard box, packing up all the linens and everything else in the room to take home. It got unpacked before she left.

Fellow ER nurse caught a fellow stuffing the oxygen tank and the wheelchair it was attached to, into his trunk. His response "I thought they gave that to me, you mean it wasn't to take home?".

[back2bRN]

One crutch, not one pair, a single crutch!!! How they got it past the nurses desk, triage desk, security I will never know. Also the venous doppler attachment, not the whole doppler, just the attachment. Hmmm I guess they had the doppler at home.

[Pat_Pat RN]

Had a lady TRY to steal a sharps box off the wall. She gave it a couple of good tugs, but when we walked in to see what the noise was, she just looked around.....