• @PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    387 months ago

    There’s no way in hell the nurse just said “yeah ok got it fam” and went along with her day like it wasn’t important.

    I suspect that, if true, it was clarified further down the line before treatment. Or, considering how I’ve been in-and-out of the ER, the nurse just wrote down ‘human bite’ regardless of what the patient claimed lmao.

    Like I said. It’s the internet. I’m not saying it’s definitely real. But it’s far from impossible.

    • @xantoxis@lemmy.world
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      137 months ago

      She would chart the cause as accurately as she can; whether she also writes down the obvious lie is up to her. Which means she would write down “human bite”; not because it’s best for the patient, not because of liability, but because every other staff member (nurses and doctors included) would laugh at her if she didn’t. Nurses got a pecking order, and writing down obvious nonsense in a patient’s chart is a good way to drop ranks.