What's the dumbest thing you've done that you got written up for?

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I did something stupid and I think I'm going to get written up for it. I need to hear other people's things they've done that they got written up for. I feel like a putz.

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1 hour ago, MelEpiRN said:

oooh meanmaryjean that would have made me SO salty! 

The hospitals I used to work at (in a major football culture area) allowed team gear every Friday during football season. Completely expected and OK at many  businesses throughout the city.

You have no idea! They also tried to outlaw printed scrub tops (in a children's hospital FGS !) but finally made a rule it could be animals. Animals with faces only. So no hearts at Valentine's day. No Santa. No pumpkins at Halloween. 

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When I was a baby nurse, I got written up for not having a PICC line dressing change done on my 8 hour dayshift. Policy was it had to be done on dayshift - which we considered over at 7pm (we worked 8's and 12's), but we were flexible. So, I didn't think much of handing it off to the evening shift nurse. Apparently she didn't think much of my time management skills.

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20 minutes ago, meanmaryjean said:

You have no idea! They also tried to outlaw printed scrub tops (in a children's hospital FGS !) but finally made a rule it could be animals. Animals with faces only. So no hearts at Valentine's day. No Santa. No pumpkins at Halloween. 

I'm trying to think of an animal without a face that might be on a scrub top.....Could you have a top with stars if you took a Sharpie and gave them all faces? So they were now "Starfish"

Humans are animals.  Santa is an animal.  With a face.  

They'd hate me, huh? 

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26 minutes ago, Chickenlady said:

I'm trying to think of an animal without a face that might be on a scrub top.....Could you have a top with stars if you took a Sharpie and gave them all faces? So they were now "Starfish"

Humans are animals.  Santa is an animal.  With a face.  

They'd hate me, huh? 

Butterflies. The whole face thing was because of butterflies- and it's too weird for words. Trust me. 

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On 8/28/2020 at 6:13 AM, VivaLasViejas said:

I had only one write-up in my entire career, but it was a doozy.

I was working at an assisted living facility that had a male resident who was always pestering the ladies for sex. He was harmless and didn't actually try anything...until he found a LOL who was willing to do the deed. She had a fair amount of dementia, as did he. ...

I read this as a male RESIDENT (physician-in-training) and was totally shocked until I figured out it was another resident in the facility!! ?

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On 8/28/2020 at 6:13 AM, VivaLasViejas said:

I had only one write-up in my entire career, but it was a doozy.

I was working at an assisted living facility that had a male resident who was always pestering the ladies for sex. He was harmless and didn't actually try anything...until he found a LOL who was willing to do the deed. She had a fair amount of dementia, as did he. One of the resident assistants caught them in the middle of things and reported it to me. I called the family, who got a good chuckle out of it, and figured that was the end of it. They were both consenting adults after all. Technically it wasn't "abuse", so my executive director told me not to report it to the state, and stupidly I went along with him.

Our manager, the vice president of the corporation we worked for, hit the roof when he found out and wrote both of us up, telling us that we would report the incident immediately or be fired. Not surprisingly, the state was underwhelmed and chose not to make a big deal out of it, save for suggesting we find something else for Randy Andy to do. 

How could they be consenting adults if they were  demented?  

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On 8/28/2020 at 7:02 AM, TeflonNurse said:

Not me but my friend had booked a trip to Hong Kong or Tokyo or somewhere similar  a year in advance and when the time came for the trip we had a staff meeting scheduled during the time she was away. Our Nurse Manager tried to write her up for not being at the meeting...

 

(Edited to fix it, I don't think she was actually written up)

 

Your Manager needs an enema.  What an idiot.  Didn't she know the woman was on vacation?  What was so all fired important at that meeting?  And didn't the idiot manager even talk to the nurse before doing a write up and making herself or himself look like the total idiot he/she really is?

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On 8/28/2020 at 4:13 AM, VivaLasViejas said:

Not surprisingly, the state was underwhelmed and chose not to make a big deal out of it, save for suggesting we find something else for Randy Andy to do. 

Like what?  Somehow, giving him a stack of washcloths to fold doesn't seem like it would cut it.

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Not written up, but on my second to last day at a job that required navy scrubs I decided to wear kid-friendly printed scrubs since it was also the grand opening of the peds er where I worked. The charge nurse called the nursing supervisor who came to the department and pulled me out of a patient room and told me I needed to go home and change. I lived a 90 minute commute away so I told the ANM for my unit that if I went home I wasn’t coming back and would call out the next day too. So they got the department director to approve my being able to change in to OR scrubs to stay, which were NOT navy but thankfully I wasn’t exposing the peds patients to dinosaur print anymore. 
 

I hated that place. I kinda wish I’d just gone home and then called out the rest of my shift. 

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I got written up for using a razor vs clippers for hair removal on a patient

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On 9/1/2020 at 10:35 AM, mmc51264 said:

Putting one word in all caps in a message to someone. 

WOW!! THAT'S CRAZY!

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On 9/1/2020 at 10:35 AM, mmc51264 said:

Putting one word in all caps in a message to someone. 

OMG! (Pun intended). I would probably be fired then because I do that ALL the time. Ha ha. It helps to make a point and if I received a write up, I'd PROBABLY continue to do it out of habit. LOL.

 

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