What is the dumbest order you ever read?

[SherRN]

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

[KacyLynnRN]

Two come immediately to mind...

#1. Give pt. lobster dinner tonight (pt. was complaining and MD wanted to shut her up) - yeah, ok..I am sure the cafeteria has tons of lobster available!! LOL

#2. Pt. OOB with RN assist only. (Yeah, because PT, OT, LPN's, etc. are unable to assist pt. OOB! LOL)

[Sabby_NC]

The dumbest ones are the ones I CANNOT READ grrrrrr:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire

[Norni]

1. Supp Dulcolax PO prn.
   
2. IV Rocephine 1000g BD.
   
3. Please give IV abx before blood cultures (what's the use of the blood C/S then ????)
   
4. Change abdo dressing if soaked.

[time4meRN]

The paper that the MA wrote on the post "let loose the nurses of war" post. Now that is something.

[bigmona]

1. lisinopril 40 mg IV bid

2. lopressor 25 mg PO bid

3. toprol 75 mg PO qd

4. lasix (no route/dosage given)

these were all admission orders written for one patient.

[BlearnRN]

Discharge Instructions for a male police officer

Refrain from wearing high heels at work.....

[SUPERNURSE!!!]

I had to sign up for a new account just for this one! Last night we found an order in one of the patient charts for: 0.5 mg po prn for insomnia/sleep. No, not a typo, no med writtent! The scary thing is, it was noted by the unit secretary, charge nurse, pharmacist, and 2 doctors!

[leslymill]

Stools for occult blood x3 Today!!!!- Do by rectal exam (On a patient that had not had a BM in 4 days and not had solid food in 4 days. What do you want to bet (supposing we had followed the order) that by the third "rectal exam", the OB would be positive.

I am from Vegas. Nobody who lives here has any luck when it comes to betting, but I am game.

Positive!!!:balloons:

[banana]

Banana STAT for hypokalemia. (K of 3.3)

[/banana]

Apricots have more.

DC black crap.

The patient was using a coal tar bath solution for psoriasis

Whats that an ethnic slurr??:trout:

[GeminiTwinRN, BSN]

I just had to post a freetext order that a resident ordered on a pt with End stage AIDS and encephalopathy.

We are taking temp rectally, and he has a bear hugger for warming. (this just background info). We have a parameter for calling the MD for rectal temp

Resident order reads:

"Please correlate rectal temp with oral temp."

Holy Mother! Can they not SUBTRACT AND/OR ADD?! WTH!

I laughed out loud when I saw the order!! I had to show it to all who were nearby.

We are not taking this man's temp orally. The resident simply wanted us to do the math for them!

[leslymill]

Appareently not.

So you have to chart you took it rectally at 99F

For him now we all have to do what 99 rectally=98 oral.

sigh.

To just put 98 oral is inappropriate documentation.

[GeminiTwinRN, BSN]

Appareently not.

So you have to chart you took it rectally at 99F

For him now we all have to do what 99 rectally=98 oral.

sigh.

To just put 98 oral is inappropriate documentation.

I just wanted to clarify that our original order is for us to take the temp rectally. period.

Now this new order for the correllation. All our recorded temps have been __ R. I just can't comprehend why the need to also record the -1 degree for oral.

btw, this pt. temp (rectally) ranges from 93-96. yes, I said 93!!

[2shihtzus]

"Pt must have Blue Bell icecream TID."