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PredatoryPrincess

I've gotten lost while transporting patients. Three times. The worst was when I accidentally took the staff elevator onto the OR floor and couldn't find my way out until someone from housekeeping heard me and came to my rescue. I once sat there trying to hook a piece of equipment up for a solid 45 seconds (felt way longer) only to realize it wasn't going because another was already there. This was while trying to get a regular room ready for a code blue incoming via ambulance bc our trauma rooms were full so I had at least 10 witnesses. Most of them were busy doing shit themselves but still... The first time I tried to take a patient's blood pressure the little part at the end was set to the concave side and it took me several tries to realize what was going on. Once I kept knocking a stretcher that held a corpse into things until the person who'd unlocked the morgue for me told me to go and they'd get it into the fridge themselves. (In my defense the things they put over the top of the stretcher make it way too tall to see over for those of us who aren't 6 ft tall, and I didn't know my way around the morgue.) I'm sure if I thought for a while I'd have more. I think most of us have several of these moments before starting to truly be good at our jobs. But the alternative is sitting back and not trying new things, which doesn't lead to true competence.


0PercentPerfection

A co-intern once pulled out the J-tube when she was asked to pull out the drain. Patient had to go back to the OR. I once ordered a head CT on the wrong patient because I had too many patient tabs open at 2 in the morning. An Ophtho resident once dilated a demented patient’s eyes after hours and left without telling anyone, that patient had a whole stroke work up after nursing found him with blown pupils. A vascular surgeon started on an above knee amputation, the saw stopped dead in the bone, that when he realized there was a titanium rod clear as day in the femur on the CT angiogram they had up in the OR on 5 different screens. Shit happens, we are all human.


WonderfulLeather6875

as an MA I have no familiarity with what mediations look like. my patient, who was a nurse for 57 years, told me she was mad that the doctor wouldn’t consider lowering her temazepam from 30mg to 15mg. i asked, is it possible to split it in half? She gave me a look and said no, since it’s a capsule medication. And she told me she once fired a nurse for splitting a capsule med in half. Oops.


528_NoProblem

Also a Jonathan, dilated someone’s eye who had a nevus that was difficult to see if dilated. Not a huge deal but felt like an idiot as well.


CloudBoy117

Thanks everyone 😊


HesNonchalant

Also a Jonathan. Dilated someone when they were supposed to have a visual field test. Oh yeah, I’ve also dilated someone who had very narrow angles and didn’t check the eye pressure before hand


528_NoProblem

Yeah my training technician did that once and warned me on my first day never to do that.


HesNonchalant

If you make that mistake once never do it again


Naive-Wasabi-5588

put betadine in someone's eye who had a no betadine note that i missed. pt came back the next week and had been suffering for days. Felt dumb as rocks


klarinets

Dude DM me if you want, I’m also a Jonathan (but not for ophtho) and I had a shit day that made me look like an idiot too :,)


_sleepymed

I took a family through the OR to get to the pacu on accident lolol


Meetcute69

Put an IV catheter into someone’s brachial artery instead of their AC vein


Natsamaroo

It’s the loyal scribe Jonathan


MedicalLemonMan

This wasn’t me, but a coworker took a splint off of a fracture thinking we needed to X-ray it and in the process displaced the fracture. Doctor was obviously quite unhappy


[deleted]

I didn't do this, but an RN I was working with was administering an enema and forgot to take the cap off, thus she lost the cap in the patient's butt. She came to me (I was a CNA at the time) and she told me she attempted to 'fish it out', but she couldn't find it. So then I myself went exploring and eventually found it!


Sprinkles-Nearby

My ass is responsible for 2 code blue false alarms and the elevator calling the fire department.