Ok so it's after 3am and I get ready to get narcotics that need to be sent back to the pharmacy & find 3 different ones out in the open in the locked cabinet. The count sheets are nowhere to be found. The locked box that they shouldve been in is intact with other narcs inside. To send these back you have to match all the lot numbers 3x on different sheets and verify that the amounts you have are right. I put them in the box & passed on to the next shift that they were found not double locked with no sheets and that til I had original count sheets they'd stay there because I'm not signing anything and have it come back to bite me.
Narc records are by law kept on file for at least 5 years.
Found out later that the nurse that knows all and never does her work put them there and says she didn't know narcs have to be locked!!!!!
Ummmm.... That's why med carts have locked narc drawers! Pathetic. This isn't a new nurse just a lazy one they've got doing care plans pt which lpns are not supposed to do in my state.
I call her a halfway nurse cuz she only halfway does anything. I just thought this was absurd!
What kind of idiotic things like this have you guys encountered on the job?
I once wrote orders for the wrong name. I wrote the doctors name instead of the pt. But hey in all fairness, the doctors name was john doe and the pt's name was doe john. (didn't use the real names but you get the drift) they were spelled exactly the same and since you usually put the pt's last name first...well lets just say it confused the heck out of me. Sigh, figured it out 5 pages into the t.o.s and had to rewrite them. 2 craziest things I ever heard a cna say? 1. No that patient never turns...not even if the doctor orders it. 2. Mr. John Doe has completely painted his entire upper body and face with feces, do I really have to give him a shower or can I just use wipes to clean him up?
Just last night a nurse who was fed up with a resident and her family, made the statement "I wish she would just die, STAT." I was shocked. I have only been working there 1 week and a lot of the nurses make comments that I feel are awful.
MaryAnn_RN
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A Dr once suggested I hang the other end of a rectal tube out the window to drain.