Smart Nurse vs. Dumb Pharmacy Round One. DING!

Excellent writing. Can relate completely!

WOW!!! what a night....I'm glad you still have your sanity after that round....(or do you?)Hope your next shift is better.

Wow! I feel you frustration and pain. You should publish you story some how some where but make it public not in any health care journals, we all know the story. Publish your story so that the public can feel your pain. My hat is off to you. Great Job.

Hahaha!! Although I am just a student nurse right now, I have worked as a nurses aide in a LTC facility for many years- and it is JUST like this story. I was smiling all the way through. Not because it is a funny matter, but because I have to wonder how a pharmacy could possibly be as unorganized as many of them really are. I feel your pain!!

Okay, I will quit whining about being floated last night......It was nothing like your well-recounted experience

Just keep these stories coming friends. I just sigh and realize how lovely it is to be retired.

Kudos for caring, coping, and not taking the emergency slide out ...We have the same pain, different format, on Friday afternoons/evenings in the ER. Apparently, that is a red-letter day on the calendars of several local nursing homes for the following weekly scenario: we don't have enough weekend staff, so every resident that is cranky, demanding, or has a PITA family is getting sent to the ER with a complaint of "altered mental status." AMAZING -- how many people have altered mental status on Friday afternoons, I tell ya ...

How do you find time to pass meeds through all of this? Or are you lucky enough to have med aides.

I know those shoes all too well. Although I haven't ripped the head off of a pharmacy billing clerk(who probably does get to sit and eat bon bons all night).. I would have done the same.

Quote from Ex2R0How do you find time to pass meeds through all of this? Or are you lucky enough to have med aides.

Quote from AltraKudos for caring, coping, and not taking the emergency slide out ...We have the same pain, different format, on Friday afternoons/evenings in the ER. Apparently, that is a red-letter day on the calendars of several local nursing homes for the following weekly scenario: we don't have enough weekend staff, so every resident that is cranky, demanding, or has a PITA family is getting sent to the ER with a complaint of "altered mental status." AMAZING -- how many people have altered mental status on Friday afternoons, I tell ya ...

Way to go I was a new nurse on the floor and noticed the pharmacy had sent a card of meds which was labeled right but was the wrong meds. We needed Bactrim DS and discovered it was KCL in the card. Calling pharm to report this and get a fired of man in the other end. He had some nerve to get fired up when the screw was made by himself.