This is the best I've heard in awhile. I had the clinic assistant aka secretary tell me she had called the plumbing company to come out and check a problem with one of the staff toilets. I inquired as to what the problem was and she replied... are you ready? The water in the toilet is warm! I was to afraid to ask, as well as trying not to laugh, how she determined the water was warm. I was afraid she was bobbing for "Baby Ruth's".
I once had a RN tell me that the C3 the patient was runing on would not maintain conductivity. I looked at the machine, removed the pillow from the top of the aid jug, handed it to her, and walked away.
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I overheard a nurse say that they were not allowed to put the RO in direct mode while patients were on because that was not as quality water (as opposed to having the RO in tank mode). I just laughed to myself.
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Originally posted by orc: Heres one for ya. Just happened 5 minutes ago. Nurse informed me that the microwave was smoking because she put a patients pair of slippers in to warm them up. The slippers did not catch fire but were smoking. I was informed that it was unplugged now and could you check it out to make sure it was ok. As I was wheeling the microwave out of the treatment area one patient said to me, "so, need the microwave for your lunch huh"? I said ya, and here it comes, " I'am having sole food today".
A tech had to stay overnight at a distant small clinic to repair the damage on 7 of the 14 old C3 machines used there. A mouse or mice chewed through the silicone tubing. These machines are now all equipped with mouse traps.
Posts: 108 | Location: Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 | Registered: 02 March 2000
Here in my city I see things like the stories listed here on a regular basis. Not only Clinical but Technical as well. When I first started I thought these were funny. As the years went on I began to realize the term for these situations is called incompetence. The huge dialysis company I work for always brag about their professional trained staff. It now makes me sick to see this happening. I have seen many patients hurt and made ill from these but it is always covered up.
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Next time someone asks you what was wrong with a machine with an easy fix on the unit, you go ahead and say " I D 10 T " error. You'll walk away smiling every time!
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Had a nurse inform me that she could not draw a sample from the sample port on the machine with the Phoenix meter. So I went with her so she could show me, she proceded to stick the Phoenix meter into the small hole on the bottom of the flow indicator, aka Bob, and attempted to draw up her sample, "see, I told you it wouldn't work" she told me. I couldn't speak because I was choking on tears of laughter. Gotta love em.
Gotta love em.