Ativan Adventure

I know that it's against the rules, but I did it anyway. We all do. What happened is that one of the crazier patients who was being guarded by an aide, started acting up and became difficult to control. The aide asked me if there was something I could give the patient to take her down a notch. I said that I would see what I could do.

I checked the records and there was nothing ordered that I could just jab her with. The doc only ordered pills and that requires a patient's cooperation in the form of swallowing. I was going to have to trick her.

I got a healthy dose of ativan, crushed it and mixed it with a spoonful of ice cream. I walked into the patient's room, handed it to the aide and said, "Here."

She replied, "Oh, no thank you."

I whispered, it's for the patient, that's ativan. She then took the spoon and gave it to the patient. (Aides aren't allowed to give meds, but she had the best chance of getting it down the patient.)

It's a good thing that the aide didn't want the spoonful of ice cream that she thought I was offering her. Otherwise, she would have taken the spoon, I would have walked out of the room and she would have eaten the ativan by mistake. Later, I would have found the aide passed out and the patient wilder and crazier than ever. That would have been really hard to explain.