Things you don't want to hear your Aide say

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It was one of those weekends! I had two falls of high risk residents on Saturday night. The Aide had forgotten to set one alarm and just let the other wander away. I lectured her on paying attention and resident safety and that was that. (I don't know what management will do as one required a trip to the ER for some stitches. At any rate, Sunday started well, she was on her game and we were having a great night. I was halfway through my charting when she ran into the nurses station and said the following:

"You are gonna be mad at me, I think she is dead"

It turned out to be a resident who has a tendency to lay down wherever and "play possum" but if I never hear that again it'll be too soon! :jester:

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Specializes in critical care, PACU.

Thank you for cheering me up a bit on a grumpy day. The fact that mistaken deaths for possom-ness cheers me up--lets just not talk about it ;)

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Specializes in LTC.

Been there hate it I dread when an aide says "so and so is on the floor" or " Jane got another skin tear" after you just finished doing a 6 pg incident report and writing tx orders and getting grilled by a family member just recently I had to call one about a skin tear and she asked me what her vs were! The in law is a nurse who has some major mental issues

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Specializes in ICU, telemetry, LTAC.

I don't wanna hear "you better gown up for this one" on a non-isolation patient. I especially don't want to hear "Who's got the vick's" right after that.

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Specializes in critical care, PACU.
I don't wanna hear "you better gown up for this one" on a non-isolation patient. I especially don't want to hear "Who's got the vick's" right after that.

thats terrible. I know one CNA who double masks and gowns for everyone! eek

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Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.

"i was counting the respirations for your patient in room x and i noticed that he is not breathing." actually i am glad i had that aid that day... the others on that particular floor don’t actually count respirations they just write "20" for everyone. so, none of the others would have noticed.

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"i was counting the respirations for your patient in room x and i noticed that he is not breathing." actually i am glad i had that aid that day... the others on that particular floor don't actually count respirations they just write "20" for everyone. so, none of the others would have noticed.

"noticed he was not breathing!" for some reason that just cracks me up, i can just picture it being said with a totally straight face! :lol_hitti

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I had an aid say to my RN friend one day, "Is the baby's footband supposed to match the mother's wristband?"--after the pt.had already nursed the baby! :eek:

It seems the docs switched them in their bassinets after performing a newborn check...

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I had an aid say to my RN friend one day, "Is the baby's footband supposed to match the mother's wristband?"--after the pt.had already nursed the baby! :eek:

It seems the docs switched them in their bassinets after performing a newborn check...

OMG! My heart dropped just thinking about that one!

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Specializes in Ortho, Case Management, blabla.
the others on that particular floor don’t actually count respirations they just write "20" for everyone.

even worse are the ones that write "18"

i'm not stupid, 18 isn't divisible by four. you count for 15 seconds, you get 18, you're a liar!

i work with an aide that apologizes for people's vital signs, like its her fault they're out of wack. it drives me insane.

"the patients glucose is 230. sorry!"

"their bloodpressure is 200/100...sorry!"

"this patient's temp is 101.5...sorry!"

"the patient in that room just had diarrhea all over the place! i'm so sorry."

seriously, anything out of the ordinary with a patient and she apologizes. i told her to stop apologizing but she keeps doing it!

i think some nurse in the past must have given her a lot of crap for reporting stuff.

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Even worse are the ones that write "18"

I'm not stupid, 18 isn't divisible by four. You count for 15 seconds, you get 18, you're a liar!

I work with an aide that apologizes for people's vital signs, like its her fault they're out of wack. It drives me insane.

"the patients glucose is 230. Sorry!"

"Their bloodpressure is 200/100...sorry!"

"this patient's temp is 101.5...SORRY!"

"the patient in that room just had diarrhea ALL OVER THE PLACE! I'm so Sorry."

Seriously, anything out of the ordinary with a patient and she apologizes. I told her to stop apologizing but she keeps doing it!

I think some nurse in the past must have given her a lot of crap for reporting stuff.

at least she still reports it

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Specializes in onc, M/S, hospice, nursing informatics.

I hate it when an aid gives me a VS which is not compatible with life. Like 153/0. Um, hello? When I asked her to fix it in the computer (silly me, I assumed it was a typo), she said "That's what I got." I said "That's not possible." She repeated it. AAACK!

:banghead:

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