Stupid Things RN's Have Done!!!

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

I know you all have heard some interesting things about what some of your co-Workers have Done...

Leave out Med. Errors... or Nurses Caught Taken their Patient Drugs... Think of the One's that are totally Outrageous...

For Example, and to get things started I have a Few...

-A nurse on my floor ran a Feeding Tube Supplement Thru an IV...

-Another Nurse.. Couldn't Find a Vein So instead of asking someone Else... They used his Dialysis Fistula for the IV... Then Ran a Bag of Heparin thru It..

It's Sad that some nurses Mess up on stuff like this... Hopefully they learn from their Mistakes...

(This Thread is Somewhat Similar to https://allnurses.com/forums/f8/scari...light=scariest)...

But the Thread is Several Years out dated... In fact The Thread was created When I graduated From High School in 2004... So Lets Here some New Stuff...

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There was recently a thread about this subject. However, something rubs me the wrong way about the title of your thread. I know that people can do "stupid" things, but a lot of times errors result from the conditions in which we work. Are you currently working as a nurse? I don't want to assume that you are not because you are listed as being 20 years old, but I am just wondering...

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Why is it so important to you to discuss the "stupid" things other nurses have done?

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I am fully aware that my next question/comment is totally off the subject at hand, but here it is anyhow. Did you really earn a BSN at age 20? Your user profile indicates that you are a 20 year old RN who is also educated at the BSN level.

If you truly are a 20 year old BSN, then I congratulate you on your special achievements. However, I smell a troll.....

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Specializes in Emergency.
There was recently a thread about this subject.

Perhaps this was the thread? Stupid Nurse Tricks

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I don't understand why people are flaming, There was an extremely popular thread some months ago, I think it was titled "Things that co-workers have done that have shocked you"... I think the scariest part was the nurse who crushed up PO meds and put it in an IV line?

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Perhaps this was the thread? Stupid Nurse Tricks

No.. it wasn't that one, I'm still searching though!

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Cardiac, ICU.
I am fully aware that my next question/comment is totally off the subject at hand, but here it is anyhow. Did you really earn a BSN at age 20? Your user profile indicates that you are a 20 year old RN who is also educated at the BSN level.

If you truly are a 20 year old BSN, then I congratulate you on your special achievements. However, I smell a troll.....

I read in a previous post that the OP will graduate in May 2007. So they can't be a staff nurse as the profile says unless they are LPN or something. Who knows.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.
I am fully aware that my next question/comment is totally off the subject at hand, but here it is anyhow. Did you really earn a BSN at age 20? Your user profile indicates that you are a 20 year old RN who is also educated at the BSN level.

If you truly are a 20 year old BSN, then I congratulate you on your special achievements. However, I smell a troll.....

I Grad last yr From ADN... I Have a Couple Months left for My BSN...

I Grad From High School @ 18... Got Accepted Out of High School to the ADN in the Community College... Took 3 Other Classes Each Time with my Nursing Classes... Mostly On liners... Took Most of My Prereq's in High School... Like Micro.. And Anatomy... I also Took Calc... Physics... Chemistry... I had 30 some Credit Hours By the time I graduated From High School...

I only need the Core Classes for the Online BSN program... So That's Why I went ahead and Put down for the RN-BSN...

I work PRN at a hospital Around here... B/c I love living off the Parents Insurance... haha...

I tired Looking for some thread on It... But There were So many... Plus... It may have been a little Out of date...

But I do Apologize For the Word "Stupid"... I didn't mean to Offend anyone... That wasn't My intentions...

My BAD...

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Home Health.

Hey, dont worry about it. I thought it was a good idea for a thread. I dont understand why some are so quick to flame others. And I dont search all the threads on here before posting one, that would take forever and take the fun out of being on here.

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Specializes in Emergency Dept.

Okay . . . story from the other night - and not stupid - following ABC's - but there was enough staff that SOMEONE should have thought to cover the C-Spine. Took a patient up to ICU after bad MVC. Massive head lac and multiple C-spine fractures. As staff is moving her to the ICU bed the patient begins to vomit. They immediately rolled her on her side to keep her from aspirating - but no one grabbed her head / neck to stabilize!?!? C collars are great but they don't do that much when you fling the patient over that quickly. She went for her halo the next day.

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