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:

[wbdtrt]

WOW! Nurse placed NG in patient lung and administered tube feeding and killed the patient. Same nurse placed tube feeding in ice pouch of feeding bag and could not figure out why bag would not prime!!! YIKES!

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

WOW! Nurse placed NG in patient lung and administered tube feeding and killed the patient. Same nurse placed tube feeding in ice pouch of feeding bag and could not figure out why bag would not prime!!! YIKES!

She continued to practice after infusing a tube feeding into a patient's lung?!

[GLORIAmunchkin72]

""The next time i am about to shower a female with a member will you please tell me before hand"......"

Thats a killer!!:)

[enoRN]

[BabyLady, BSN, RN]

Two things in the NICU that burn me up that I see from SOME senior nurses:

1. Pushing Morphine or Fentanyl incorrectly...just because the infant is on a vent.

2. Being too rough with neonates...big difference between being "comfortable" and being insensitive.

[nightengalegoddess]

Percocets in central lines. Feedings going into the wrong lines. Feedings going into central lines. Crazy old nurses taping babies mouths shut.........AND I AM IN TROUBLE FOR RAISING MY VOICE TO MY CNL??????? And those people are still working??????!!!!! THIS WHOLE THING IS FREAKING ME OUT!!!!!!!

[nightengalegoddess]

The more I read the more I freak. How do people continue to practice? Peri care with no gloves? Sounds like some sort of fetish...GROSS! Let me die in the woods without a nurse or physician in site!!!!!

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

Percocets in central lines.

Now, my question is...was this intentional on the nurse's part? Because I don't know which is worse - a nurse who accidentally puts pills through an IV, or a nurse who purposely does this!

[NickiLaughs, ADN, BSN, RN]

I was an LVN training at a disabled group home, this one pt had to have his catheter changed monthly. I was shocked to see that she did not use sterile technique! Her statement was "well the air in the room isn't sterile, this is his home and isn't a sterile environment!" I reported it, nothing happened. This nurse would call in sick every holiday, etc. They only finally fired her after a resident had been limping around severely for a week with a broken foot! The foot was obviously purple. I also heard the pt with the catheter ended up with a severe bladder and kidney infection and had to be hospitalized.

I had to quit. I couldn't understand how they let that much negligence happen.

[mskate]

I had a fresh hypertensive CVA admitted to the ICU from the ER. Her BP was, by report, 200s/low 100s. You cannot drop this type of patient's blood pressure too quickly because you raise their mortality rate significantly. In report, I was told the patient would be receiving a bolus of mannitol on the way to the unit. When the patient arrived and I hooked up the BP cuff - 70/30. WHAT? I check the pump - there was a near empty bag of Nipride bolusing into the patient.

The patient subsequently died and were unable to regain a pressure despite all efforts.

No nurse ever admitted to hanging the bag. It was not charted, the bag was not checked or initialed and according to the ER charge nurse "We have sometimes 7 different nurses working on the same patient, how are we supposed to know who hung what and when?!" ... Isn't that our JOB to know who hung what and when? .... scary.

[rkitty198, BSN, RN]

A patients IV was infiltrated and was to recieve lasix...the RN decided to still use the IV site because she said that the lasix would help to take the fluid from the tissues and bring it back to the vascular system....YIKES!

[keepleaRNing]

I'm a CNA in LTC. I would NEVER EVER put my hands on a medication, especially a narcotic. It is out of a CNA's scope of practice. What nurse would put herself at risk like that? Sheesh. And obviously, in this situation, they DID have the time to sit with the resident for 10 minutes, since the CNA was chilling at the station with the newspaper.

As far as things that freak me out, I'm sure most of you have seen this, but I work with a nurse who, for the past 30 years, has recapped needles with her teeth. I shudder.

ok, dat's NOT cool...!!