What is something you never thought you'd have to say to a coworker?

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Lately, there have been some things at work that, as a nurse, I never thought I'd have to say to my colleagues.  

A few things that stand out: 

"Please don't walk barefoot in the hallway"

"If you need to apply lotion to your feet, please leave the nurse's station to do so" 

"Please avoid printing out entire 300 page textbooks using the work printer" 

How about you? What are some things you never thought you'd have to say to coworkers? 

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I fired a nurse when he said to another nurse, in the hallway, I'd like to **** you.  I mean seriously?! Why would anyone think that was OK?  He acted like she should take it as a compliment. 

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2 hours ago, Laine said:

I fired a nurse when he said to another nurse, in the hallway, I'd like to **** you.  I mean seriously?! Why would anyone think that was OK?  He acted like she should take it as a compliment. 

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Thank you for firing that person!

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On 2/4/2022 at 5:50 PM, MunoRN said:

Not something I ever thought a nurse would have to tell a coworker, but a patient; Please don't drink your own urine, or at least if you do please keep track of the volume.  Which then sparked an interesting discussion of how you would chart output that then becomes intake.  

OMG..... just spit out my iced coffee.. thank you for this! ?

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3 hours ago, emergenceRN17 said:

OMG..... just spit out my iced coffee.. thank you for this! ?

Well theoretically speaking urine is sterile as it leaves The body and can be consumed in survival situations 

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On 2/3/2022 at 4:13 PM, MunoRN said:

You shouldn't use your own saliva to lubricate something you're about to insert into a patient.

How about the patient's saliva?  LOL BEST Laugh of the week!

 

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On 2/4/2022 at 12:15 PM, CommunityRNBSN said:

 

 

 

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On 2/9/2022 at 11:07 AM, VivaLasViejas said:

I’ve seen a nurse with 45 years’ experience do that. I was horrified, but as a brand-new nurse I was too intimidated to confront her about it. So I took the coward’s way out and told our supervisor, who I’m assuming did talk to her because I never saw her do it again. Now, of course, I would have ZERO qualms about approaching her no matter how long she’d been a nurse. Too soon old, too late smart!

I worked with a nurse, years of experience, who would uncap and RECAP needles in her teeth; she said she was trained that way.

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6 hours ago, hppygr8ful said:

Well theoretically speaking urine is sterile as it leaves The body and can be consumed in survival situations 

I know but it was just funny .. I need a laugh today

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6 hours ago, emergenceRN17 said:

I know but it was just funny .. I need a laugh today

I know it was funny but it's also really funny to see the looks on the faces of so called "Tough Guys" at the thought of drinking their own urine. 

Hppy

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16 hours ago, Nursetom1963 said:

I worked with a nurse, years of experience, who would uncap and RECAP needles in her teeth; she said she was trained that way.

Knew a lot of nurses who did that too. Like they thought it looked cool!

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On 2/11/2022 at 7:57 PM, hppygr8ful said:

Well theoretically speaking urine is sterile as it leaves The body and can be consumed in survival situations 

Actually........once urine passes through the outer parts of your urethra it is no longer sterile and would contain multiple types of bacteria you wouldn't want introduced into your GI tract. Secondly, drinking urine would be essentially like drinking sea water and would be a terrible idea in a survival situation and accelerate dehydration and probably your death. There's a lot of info out there on this.

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On 2/4/2022 at 11:25 AM, Kitiger said:

If you need 9 pills to get the right dose . . . you don't have the right dose.

I encountered an exception fairly recently. 

Patient had intractable pain and was recieving 20mg methadone (4 tablets) Q3 on a titration dose. Not sure what its like in other countries but methadone only comes in a 5mg tablet. 

When the doctor added in a BD dose, which turned out to be roughly 55mg. We tried to  give via eilxer (10mg/1ml) however patient couldnt tolerate the taste. In the end patient was taking 11 pills per BD dose and 4 tabs per q3PRN

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