What have other peers done intentional/unintentional to freak you out? Good or bad. Happy or sad.
On my FIRST day as an LVN, (LTC) a res was screaming in her room as I was walking out to leave. I went in to see what was going on. She was having an anxiety attack and severe pain (post stroke). I pulled the call light, and no one came. Uggg.
So I peeked out the door and saw my CNA walking down the hall, and told him to come sit with res. I went down to get her a Xanax and a pain pill, well relief nurse was in the restroom, and relief CNA (with call light still going off) was sitting behind nurses station reading a newspaper. I told CNA to tell the nurse to get a Xanax and pain pill for res. She said OK. I go to relieve my CNA. Said goodbye to him, and stayed with res. after 10 minutes, CNA COMES INTO ROOM WITH XANAX AND MORPHINE PILL. She is soooooo shocked to see me still there, she hands me the pills and RUNS to the relief nurse. I could NOT BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW!!!!
(I did immediately call DON and tell what happened. Luckily, my CNA was still checking on another res, and saw the whole thing.--------they got a slap on the wrist! that was it!!!) :madface: :madface:
I was a patient once and early one morning this well meaning agency nurse comes to take my blood pressure - I held my arm out straight for him - only to hear him say "Don't do that!!"
"Do what?" was my puzzled reply
"Stick your arm out like that because I will only get the blood pressure of a stretched muscle!"
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Darn, I just hate it when I get blood pressures of stretched muscles. Our nursing jobs would be so much easier if those stretched muscles would just take their blood pressure pills.
a nurse run Heparin 25,000u/250ml in one hour (she thought it was an antibiotic)
a few months ago a post-op lap chole pt was on a heparin drip and had low blood pressures, so the doc ordered a fluid bolus. the assigned nurse hung the bolus but the pt's condition was rapidly deteriorating so the charge nurse told the RN to turn up the rate on the bolus to 1000 cc/hr (rapid response was also called) and a nurse who was not even assigned to the pt decided to "help" and took it upon herself to turn up the fluid bolus rate, only she turned up the HEPARIN DRIP rate instead, to 999 cc/hour! thank goodness, because the assigned nurse and RRT were in there just a minute or two later, it was caught and dealt with quickly. :uhoh21:
So, what do you guys do when your cow-irkers do this stuff? Is your first inclination to smack them in the head and yell, "What are you thinking?!?", or do you go tell the boss? Seriously, do you feel comfortable stepping up and saying something when a coworker does something they shouldn't? Do you say something immediately, or do you wait?
Specializes in LTC, home health, critical care, pulmonary nursing.
This just happened to me yesterday.... Freaked me out...and then I laughed...
I went to assess my pt who was receiving Packed RBC's....The offgoing nurse told me that she had to put the unit of rbc's in a pressure bag, because he only had a 22g iv access and the previous bag took forever to infuse...he is a bad stick due previous hospitalizations for various gi problems requiring phenergan so his veins suck... she also told me the pt was a&ox3 and she did alot of pt education about the infusion process, why she put it in a pressure bag....etc...
well, apparently the gentleman wanted to go smoke very badly and she told him he could after the last unit infused.... Tells me all of this in report.... Soooo, after report, I go into his room to check the infusion and etc... just as the gentleman is squeezing the bladder on the pressure bag to infuse the blood quicker and....boom!!! the bag explodes and I am drenched in blood, I jump backwards and the meal tray table falls over, making a loud crash noise, my co-workers come running from hearing the commotion and they thought I had been shot in the head and chest....lol...I am grossed out and I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror... I look like I am in a scene from the movie "carrie"... I walk out of the room.... a pt ambulating in the hall swoons at the sight of me, the PT aide catches her, I go to help her and I slip and fall from the urine of the lady who lost her bladder as she swooned....
I then had to go to the staff bathroom and shower and change into scrubs...
Luckily, the nurse Iwas releiving stayed and took care of my patients until i got cleaned up and she kept apologizing....totally not her fault... She is a nonsmoker and had no idea of the lengths a three pack a day smoker will go to when they are jones'ing for a cigerette.
So there you have it.... Just another day in paradise....
So, what do you guys do when your cow-irkers do this stuff? Is your first inclination to smack them in the head and yell, "What are you thinking?!?", or do you go tell the boss? Seriously, do you feel comfortable stepping up and saying something when a coworker does something they shouldn't? Do you say something immediately, or do you wait?
It really depends on the situation, how good management is, and if the person realizes that they had a mishap. I would hope that many of these circumstances, the nurses learned a lesson. In my mishap, I confronted both CNA and Nurse, took it to the management, and did it immediately.
I've been a nurse (LPN) for almost 20 years, and am now in the LPN bridge to RN program...Believe me, I have a lot of stories, not only about other nurses, but a few about myself as well...(we'll get to those some other time...maybe) Anyway, I worked with a nurse one time that scared the you-know-what out of me. I mean, she was just that d!!! Although there were several instances, one is funny-scarrier than the rest....She was supposed to insert a foley into an elderly woman w/contractures in both LE. She did have sense enough to ask how to go about it. Another nurse told her to turn her to her side and go in thru the back (since you couldn't pry her LE apart) I bet you all can figure where I'm going w/this...Yup!! She inserted into the rectum!!! NO Urine return! Inflated the bulb and told the CNA to come back and check for urine later!! The CNA told both myself and another co-worker that this nurse had pulled the catheter out, reinserted, then decided outloud that she had been incontinent and didn't have any "residual"!!!! We tried to ask this nurse if she could have "misplaced the foley, but she just got mad and ran to the DON and whined that we were picking on her. (course, we fixed the problem after the DON learned the truth but it took many more screw ups before 3 mos. later she was finally fired.
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Our nursing jobs would be so much easier if those stretched muscles would just take their blood pressure pills. 
teeituptom, BSN, RN
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I have worked with her for over 10 yrs
first I ever saw her with her makeup off
very scary
and here halloween is coming also