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Prank call your sister hospital with inappropriate health related questions! Literally almost peed my pants from laughing so hard!

I like to mess with my favorite clerks by calling out from an empty patient room saying "I can't breeeeath" or "I think I'm having a heart attack" in my best little old lady voice. Sometimes it's funny but more often it's disturbing when they do nothing :(

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Specializes in Emergency, Haematology/Oncology.

On my last day of work in my oncology ward many, many years ago one of the greatest pranks ever executed occurred. I was in charge of the shift and when I walked into the handover room and saw the board I couldn't believe it. On our bedlist of 25 patients, every single painful, demanding. difficult and well known patient that we had periodically cared for over my four years was there. The night staff had stuffed the beds with pillows, loaded up urinary catheter bags with tea, attached O2 to pillows and so on, to created the illusion that there were actually patients in the beds. They had done some pretty elaborate stuff and deadpanned a whole 45 minute handover with their admission details. Myself and my second in charge actually had a break BEFORE facing the shift and worked out a game plan. It was only after I went to check the 2nd patient, and 3rd that I realised. We only had 11 patients in the ward. Never forgotten it.

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On my last day of work in my oncology ward many many years ago one of the greatest pranks ever executed occurred. I was in charge of the shift and when I walked into the handover room and saw the board I couldn't believe it. On our bedlist of 25 patients, every single painful, demanding. difficult and well known patient that we had periodically cared for over my four years was there. The night staff had stuffed the beds with pillows, loaded up urinary catheter bags with tea, attached O2 to pillows and so on, to created the illusion that there were actually patients in the beds. They had done some pretty elaborate stuff and deadpanned a whole 45 minute handover with their admission details. Myself and my second in charge actually had a break BEFORE facing the shift and worked out a game plan. It was only after I went to check the 2nd patient, and 3rd that I realised. We only had 11 patients in the ward. Never forgotten it.[/quote']

Hahahaha, that's pretty awesome!

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We have a new system that sends text messages to our microcells if the pts iBed is off, or if a rail is down, the pt gets up etc. One Sunday we logged into the system and sent the entire floor to one nurse, he kept saying why is it texting me, I dont have that room. It was hilarious, a tech and I went into unoccupied room and messed with bed rails :)

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Specializes in ICU.
We have a new system that sends text messages to our microcells if the pts iBed is off or if a rail is down, the pt gets up etc. One Sunday we logged into the system and sent the entire floor to one nurse, he kept saying why is it texting me, I dont have that room. It was hilarious, a tech and I went into unoccupied room and messed with bed rails :)[/quote']

Curious...what is an iBed? Is it like the iIV pump, iMonitor, iSandwich, etc?

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