re: Happy Nurses Day

Worst I've ever done (was ordered this way by the physician..at my request. But bc it was written this way it covered my arse) involved this guy who was a frequent flyer at the ER I was working at maybe 2 years after I graduated from nursing school. Dude was convinced he had some illness that was going to kill him. He was a healthy 18 year old. He would come in every 2-3 days requesting antibiotics and we'd gotten tired of it. He was taking up time and space that could've been dedicated to someone who actually needed both. Well, I asked the doc to order an injection split into 2 IM injections. (Intramuscular) The drug is called rocephin and it's almost always reconstituted with lidocaine bc it burns like a motherfricker otherwise. I asked the doc to order it straight up. I didn't mix it with anything other than normal saline and popped him in the left and right hips using the largest gauge needle I could get away with. This boy was yelling like someone was killing him and dropped to his knees and stayed there for about 45 minutes. I gained immense satisfaction from it, he never knew the difference and he never returned.

Would I do it again? You bet your sweet arse I would.