What is the dumbest order you ever read?

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I thought I had seen some AH orders but yesterday took the all time win! I had a 97 year old man admitted from ER with impaction and the order said---- "Give oil retention enema and have pt. hold for one hour." I am LMAO as I am thinking "OK where am I going to find a cork.:roll :chuckle

Specializes in LTC, Psych, Hospice.

"Apply Westcort cream to hand B.I.D. and restrict pt. to hand-washing 3 X day." YUCK!

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Specializes in NICU.
"Apply Westcort cream to hand B.I.D. and restrict pt. to hand-washing 3 X day." YUCK!

Seems gross, indeed, but do you really think the average non-nurse really washes their hands more than t.i.d. anyway? I have a sneaking suspicion that they don't.

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Specializes in critical care.

:uhoh3:Thank-you!!! I agree. Not only that but I work in IICU and this doctor wasn't even the intensivist! It is the attending! ugh.....The nurse after me did not believe it, I had to show her the order. I think he is getting called out on it though...

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
who got to define dumb, ugly, attractive? were there any volunteers for the ugly segment? what happened with the mom im? poor stu., patient, everybody.

as far as the mom order, the student and her instructor both disappeared, and it's rumored that they left the program. the doctor is now reputedly head of the cardiology department somewhere in the midwest.

and sadly, i did not get to define dumb, ugly or attractive. i was in my 20s and about 60 pounds lighter -- i was one of the nurses who cared for the vip, but i was not the one he got to sneak him out of the hospital and run away with him.

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Order: Please turn TV on at 3:30 so the patient can watch the Carolina Football Game!!:nono: Pt able to turn TV on himself but he might forget!!

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Peds/O.R./Legal/cardiology.

Lander nurse,

Hmmm...well,.....I personally don't see anything wrong with that order! :lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2:

ebear

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Specializes in SICU, EMS, Home Health, School Nursing.

d/c foley when pt ambulating

That order was written on a comatose paraplegic who no longer even has corneal reflexes... all I could do was laugh when I read that order!

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Specializes in Emergency, Case Management, Informatics.

"Punch holes and file".

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Specializes in Med Surg/Ortho.

These are hilarious!! Goes to show you that even after 8 years of school, not everyone has common sense. I would be scared to be a patient of some of these doc's. :uhoh3:

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Specializes in NICU.
"Punch holes and file".

Oh hell no.

I found one today "pt is to be in room air". Yeah, you know, I was planning on intubating by myself with sats of 99 just because I was bored, but now that you've told me not to... :rolleyes:

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as far as the mom order, the student and her instructor both disappeared, and it's rumored that they left the program. the doctor is now reputedly head of the cardiology department somewhere in the midwest.

and sadly, i did not get to define dumb, ugly or attractive. i was in my 20s and about 60 pounds lighter -- i was one of the nurses who cared for the vip, but i was not the one he got to sneak him out of the hospital and run away with him.

figures.:angryfire:devil::o:angryfire:devil:

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I found one today "pt is to be in room air". Yeah, you know, I was planning on intubating by myself with sats of 99 just because I was bored, but now that you've told me not to... :rolleyes:

In my hospital we continually struggle to keep patients from being put on nasal canula, usually because the CNA taking vitals saw sats of 95% and decided to try to be helpful. I've even gone so far as to steal the oxygen hookup from the room . . .

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