What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

[texas_lvn]

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:

[muffie, RN]

ouch!

[Cheez-It!]

Something that just happened to me here recent ...

I got in report a couple of residents had temps. The nightshift nurse had given them tylenol.

I went to assess the two, and one had a temp of 101 and the other 103. Both residents had lungs full. One had the lovely green snot crusted to the inside of her nose and hanging to her lap. So, i got the chest xrays ordered called the doc and family etc etc. Got antibiotics ordered and started from e-box. Got the results back right before the same nurse came in to relieve me. Both had infiltrates. Imagine that.

She actually looked at me and said, "Well, I gave them some Tylenol, and I didn't want to wake Dr. X up."

[sheilagh]

Sounds a little like one of my incidents. We had a pt on tele who every night about 9pm would begin what appeared to be a loud very aggressive sundowners.Problem is he is 36 yoa and during the day is aaoX3.Well he would chase the nurses in the hall, throw things, until you confront him and say "name stop, you are scarring the pts, lets go back to your room", he would immediately cower and there were no more problems. The first night he did this though we had a seasoned charge RN who loved to tell the newbies(that was me) how she could handle ANYTHING ! That first night he did this I calmed him down, but not before I saw the charge run from her desk and lock herself in the breakroom bathroom!!!....the pt was nowherenear her, and it took us 10 mins to convince her it was ok to come out.

[sheilagh]

This one is about a doc actually and we laughed for weeks on this one. Secretary asks me to read an order the doc wrote because she must be reading it wrong....well she wasn't, he ordered a CHOCOLATE MILK AND HONEY enema for a 65 yoa woman who was constipated...when shock wore off, and I finally stopped laughing I called doc to verify. Yes, that was what he wanted her to have as the milk was mild but would stimulate her and the honey was for lubrication! charge said we had to do as ordered, but I got a non-confrontational way out when I was told by dietary that we had no chocolate milk and the only honey we had were in the graham crackers....still can't drink chocolate milk without thinking of him.

[Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN]

A nurse crushed Percocets, mixed with water, and gave it through a central line IV. :eek: :eek:

Did the pt live?

What happened?

[txspadequeenRN, BSN, RN]

This dont shock me at all . I cant tell you how many milk and molassis enema's I have given.....

This one is about a doc actually and we laughed for weeks on this one. Secretary asks me to read an order the doc wrote because she must be reading it wrong....well she wasn't, he ordered a CHOCOLATE MILK AND HONEY enema for a 65 yoa woman who was constipated...when shock wore off, and I finally stopped laughing I called doc to verify. Yes, that was what he wanted her to have as the milk was mild but would stimulate her and the honey was for lubrication! charge said we had to do as ordered, but I got a non-confrontational way out when I was told by dietary that we had no chocolate milk and the only honey we had were in the graham crackers....still can't drink chocolate milk without thinking of him.

[leslie :-D]

s/p stroke pt, totally aphasic and dysphasic-strict puree diet.

pt's son brings in quiche, to help with her appetite.

i told son his mom could not have it.

he agreed.

minutes later, i witnessed a nurse fdg this pt, the quiche, as she spoke with the son.

pt started choking....

the nurse gave her water!!!!

i came running w/suction.

too late.

pt died later same day, asp pneumonia.

no one held accountable, even after incident report.

leslie

[banditrn]

I recently came across a situation in LTC that cause my hair to stand straight up.

This place keeps accepting trach patients that are totally wrong for the place because they have a 37:1 res to nurse ratio. This last time it was reported to me that the res was supposed to be on regular O2 with a speaking cap during the day, and humidified O2 with a trach mask during the nite. The LPN who reported to me has had NO experience with hospital work, and she told me that after the res had been on the humidified O2 for a while that her sats went down to 73, so she switched her back to the regular O2 and they came back up.

Now, keep in mind, I'm used to working in a hospital where everything comes out of the wall, and in this ladies room they had all sorts of strange little boxes and such. Well, she did OK the rest of the nite.

Next nite, the LPN had an emergency, so the day RN stayed over and I went in early. She had switched the res to the humidification. When I went in to check her sats - 73%!!! Well, I got to looking at all these little boxes sitting around - the one delivering the humidification does just that - they were turning the oxygen completely off. I blame whoever delivered all that stuff partly for not explaining it completely. It should just have that the speaking cap was taken off with the O2 tubing left on and the trach dome put over it!! I have more experience with these things and should have caught what they were doing sooner. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!!

[TouchstoneRN]

After receiving report while working med surg I had a nursing student come to me because the RN who was with her gave Morphine 10mg IV instead of the IM route it was ordered. thinking that the student might have been mistaken and wanting to use the situation as a learning experience for the student I grabbed the MAR and the original order sheet only to find out that the Student was correct. I immediately went into the room to check the status of the pt. she was a small women approx 110 lbs. I asked my cna to check her vitals and I called the supervisor and the covering physcian. The supervisor called the RN at home who replied "Oh, I didn't even notice" and laughed. she never even asked about the condition of the patient. Luckily the patient survived, thanks to narcan and a transfer to the ICU. I praised the student for intervening. The other RN eventually left and is now doing a desk job...how much safer for our patients!

[gr8rnpjt, RN]

Did the pt live?

What happened?

I believe the crushed percocet in IV story was written by a troll.........

[gr8rnpjt, RN]

Why? Is that bad????

Oh, please, you are kidding, right?

[daisey_may]

Oh, please, you are kidding, right?

Yeah, she's kidding. Out of all these posts, this is the one that bothers you the most?