r/nursing • u/_neutral_person RN - ICU 🍕 • Jul 24 '22

Nursing Hacks Silent Knight Pill Crusher

It sucks at crushing pills. That is all.

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u/SpicyBeachRN Mouth n Butt stuff RN Jul 24 '22

I have pretty good luck with it! I even surprised my preceptor!!

My method is to take only a couple of pills, space them from each other, insert into the business end, crush slowly, take a look at results - spread things out, repeat x 1 for each baggie. Probably too much thought out into it.

But then I see other people cram 6 pills in one baggie and just keep slamming it shut wondering why it doesn’t work!

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u/_neutral_person RN - ICU 🍕 Jul 24 '22

I have to give 20 pills per person. No way im doing one at a time with the silent knight. Not to mention the bag degrades over time.

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u/nursejoy9876 BSN, RN 🍕 Jul 24 '22

During our orientation, they told us to use separate bags for each med and to crush them individually. All of the new hires looked at each other and laughed. Someone bravely asked "so what if a patient has 20+ meds?"

The educator was like yeah that's why you have to be on top of your time management. Lol.

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u/lilsassyrn BSN, RN 🍕 Jul 24 '22

Yeah, the educators I’ve met haven’t done an actual patient assignment in years.