When they're SO sure they're right...

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You've all seen them (sometimes on AN)- a person who believes with all their heart that a practice is correct while you and the rest of the civilized world know they're wrong.

What's the weirdest, most outlandish clinical or technical misconception that you've seen a co-worker espouse?

Not so technically/medically related but the fad diets of the month nurses swear by..... I had to take a nutrition class to get into nursing school, to say nothing of what nurses should have learned in anatomy, physiology, microbiology, organic chemistry, etc.

A coworker is frequently telling patients they shouldn't drink coffee, it's harmful to their body.

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Wow, how did I miss that gem.

Well, it's not on the General Nursing forum, so a lot of people could have missed it.

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"Vaccines do more harm than good."

Its not just ridiculous its dangerous. People who believe this make my blood boil.

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.
I suppose if you wanted to be conservative, you could half one and give them vitamin B 9 instead...

If I can find a pill splitter. Good luck with that. Then again, I have met nurses who find it acceptable to cut a pill into 3 "pie pieces."

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I hate to open Pandora's box, but nurses who say they aren't getting the flu vaccine, last time they got it they got the flu.

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I worked in ICU and a resident was covering - patient's urine was low flow via catheter and I advised him - he told me "well, she's sleeping, you don't produce urine when you sleep!"

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I worked in ICU and a resident was covering - patient's urine was low flow via catheter and I advised him - he told me "well, she's sleeping, you don't produce urine when you sleep!"

OMG are you serious?

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Not kidding - could not convince him otherwise!

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Not kidding - could not convince him otherwise!

Do you know what you call the idiot who graduates dead last in their medical school?

"Doctor"

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.
he told me "well, she's sleeping, you don't produce urine when you sleep!"

Sorry for the TMI, but as someone who often wakes up at 4 am with a fullish bladder, how I wish this were true!

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Is she the start of the urban legend of the nurse that gave two Vitamin B 6's since there was no B 12? At least I hope that is urban legend.

OMG I'm seriously LMAO!

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.

You can draw arterial blood from a dialysis catheter if you use the red port.

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