[SillyLilly]

We need more of these stories! I am going to start as a new nurse verrry soon, and i just know that i will make some of these hilarious mistakes.

[RGN1]

Originally Posted by SillyLilly

We need more of these stories! I am going to start as a new nurse verrry soon, and i just know that i will make some of these hilarious mistakes.

Yup & more!

I did the VERY best thing the other day & I have NO excuse because I've years of experience.

I was working with a student & a call came in from theatre to pick up a patient, she wasn't mine but I was up to date whereas the nurse who had this patient was doing an admission so I said I'd go & take the student with me. Another nurse in earshot handed me some notes & said would I mind taking her patient down because I was going anyway.

So I grab the notes. The patient was in the last room before the theatre lift & on the way I start chatting to the student asking her if there's anything else she wants to know/do etc etc etc. I get into the lift, press the button go to theatres & just before I hit recovery realise...........OOPs...have patient's notes but where's the patient!!!!

The student & I giggled all the way back up the lift to the nursing floor. Patient thought it was hilarious too & I'm sure my colleagues will NOT let me forget this in a long time because I'm usually the organised one!

[grace90]

At the end of a tiring nightshift recently I reported lung sounds as "active" and bowel sounds as "fine crackles in the bases".

[Tanvi Tusti]

Originally Posted by SFCardiacRN

I had just finished walking a nursing student thru her first foley cath when she looked up with pride in her voice and announced that it was the first one she had seen that wasn't hard.

Very Funny!!

[Megsd]

A few weeks ago on my clinical unit a group of nurses was discussing a pt's EKG findings and what they meant. Among them was a nursing student doing her preceptorship. One of the nurses wanted to know what an inverted T wave meant on an EKG, and turned to the student, figuring she would have that info fresh in her mind. She smiled really big and said..

"An inverted T wave means it's upside down."

[JentheRN05]

in nursing school I once charted that a patient had 'gunky' breath sounds. If that wasn't bad enough I then followed that with a care plan that said the same thing. I am certain if that instructor would've been there at the pregraduation dinner then I would've caught heck for that. lol

Haven't heard a 'gunky' patient since.

[muffie]

once upon a time in my career i charted

"moves well in bed"

yikes

[Markthemalenurse]

Once I wrote patient had the squirts, instead of patient had a loose BM.

[Paprikat]

I had a new nurse come to me and ask if it was "normal" for a patient to not have a pulse. Needless to say, I kept a straight face and told her no and assist her with the death of a patient procedure.

[zookiii]

When I was a nurse working in orthopedics, I went up to a newly admitted patient and said loudly ....." Shall I put that traction on you,Dick?" and wondered why all the other patients laughed out loud! I soon learnt to think before I spoke!