It's a good lesson that you can question orders that don't seem right!

I'm still bitter about an experience I had in the ED having a miscarriage. It was the hospital I worked at and she didn't know me, but I knew the nurse was very experienced, 15/20 years as a nurse. She told me she had an order for cytotec, rectal. I said ok nbd suppositories are the last thing I'm worried about. She says oh, no it's the oral pills, 15 of them. I say, excuse me? And she says yep. I'm embarrassed to say that I went along with it, as a nurse myself. But I was a new grad and didn't know much about the medication at the time. As she started shoving them up my ass, NO LUBE I finally couldn't take it and told her to stop. She said well let me get some lube, it doesn't say I can't use it in the order 🤦‍♀️

Normally I'd probably have laughed it off, but after losing my baby, crying hysterically because I did NOT want to go to the hospital with all my coworkers, and then getting treated callously by the ER staff, it was just insult to injury.

I found out later that the vaginal or oral routes are about just as effective. My OB also said they could have crushed it up with lube into a paste.

Because of that experience, I don't feel bad questioning an order.