I was talking to someone before about making mistakes at work and how frustrating or embarassing that can be......and yesterday I made another silly mistake that made me feel like a total dumb blonde.......LOL
I was bringing back a patient for a consultation for a breast reduction.......now I thought the name on the chart said Michael Smith (the Smith part is made up though) But anyways, that was the name and I thought to myself it was a little weird that a man needed breast reduction......but if he was really large or something maybe he had man boobs?? Not my job to question the reasons!
So......I opened the door and asked for Mr. Smith. No one stood up......so I said it again.....then this WOMAN stands up and says, 'dont' you mean MRS. Smith?' LOL! Her name was Michelle!! I totally read it wrong like an airhead. I felt so stupid but she thought it was funny and I said I might need reading glasses soon! LOL! But at least the breast reduction made more sense.......
When I was talking about my silly work blunders before, I had told this story of how I accidentally shredded important documents! Eeek! We had these drug logs that kept track of what medications we administered to which patient, and the dosage amounts. And at the end of the day, we put them up front to be filed.......
Well I had grabbed the drug logs and some other stuff that was garbage......bad idea! I went to the shredder and got distracted and shoveled the drug logs into the machine instead of the trash!!!
I panicked and tried to yank them back out again to no avail......half of it was totally gone, but I did manage to save about a 1/4 of the info. I was scared I'd be in big big trouble so I dumped out the shredder and attemtped to piece the shreds back together again!
I watch too much CSI and I assumed this was an easy task. All I needed was a 2 minute music montage and it would be done!! Not so! It is impossible to piece together a shredded document.....well maybe not impossible but I am not a CSI! And I think it takes more than 2 minutes......LOL!
Luckily we had all this information written down in the patients charts, so I had to pull them all and rewrite everything........that was a pain but at least I did not get in trouble! Everyone just laughed at me instead........especially when i was attempting to put the pieces together again!
Do you have any funny mistake stories to share?? It doesn't have to be work related but it can be! I know I can't be the only one who messes up sometimes right?
xxoo natalie xxoo
