[daisey_may]

I graduated high school two years ago and can not take the blame for this one:
During a senior debate class, a girl who was notoriously not very bright was asking me about what the cold war was. As I started to explain it, she quickly interrupted me and in a calm, serious manner asked-" wait-is that the war where they fought with the ice bullets?" I was dating my now fiance at the time and we were both in that class together. We busted up laughing so hard our sides hurt and sometimes still refer to that time as one of our funny high school memories...ice bullets...

[daisey_may]

Oooh! I have another one. This one wasn't me either, it was a co-worker.

I was on orientation still and had a hispanic patient who spoke Spanish and could not understand English. Her husband was with her, but he did not speak or understand English, either. I was busy in another patient's room so my preceptor went to go talk to my hispanic patient. I was walking by the room and peeked in to see my preceptor reading from an English to Spanish translation book with difficulty and the patient and her husband were smiling at her. Next thing I know, she starts bowing and backing out of the room. The patient and her husband, who weren't quite understanding her spanish, looked very confused. I was laughing so hard and then the patient and her husband were, too. I asked her why she bowed, she said she was frazzled, but everyone was laughing.

[Franemtnurse]

Originally Posted by Franemtnurse

When I'm in my silly mood, I sometimes answer the phone with, "Fearless Fanny's House of Pleasure. How may I help you today?" After I say that, there's usually silence on the other end.

Then one afternoon as the phone rang, with me in my silly mood, I answered in the usual; "Fearless Fanny's House of Pleasure. How may I help you?" Then came the reply, "FRANCES! , I got caugh red handed by the nurse in my pain management clinic. I said, "Oops, I guess I'm being a little too silly today." To which she replied; "Yes you are!!" That stopped me from answering the telephone to strangers, but it certainlly didn't stop me from being silly. I love to laugh and I love to make others laugh. Besides, it's easier on the face muscles.

[peridotgirl]

Hey rnsang97, I was wondering, what is the correct BG level..?

[LAZYDAISY]

At the moment I wrok in a warehouse and the other day I was called to an incident as the nearest first aider available. I get up to person whose clutching his foot sat on the floor, the fork lift truck thats big and red and 12ft high is right next to him. Nearly all the management is there and I get flustered and say "so what happened here then?", my colleuges just looked at me in disbelief, luckily I managed to convince them that it's all part of the plan to calm the injured party lol.

I think your stories are soooo funny

[hodmadod]

I'm a prospective nursing student who hasn't made an intro thread. I'm a thirty-six year old guy.

I think my sense of humor is actually giving me a social phobia. I have some sense of what it's like to interact with patients eight hours a day, but I can't always figure out what to say when someone asks me why I'm chuckling to myself like a fool.

So consider yourself warned, and offer me advice: my latest obsession is that I'm going to draw an AFP on an OB and somehow "nasal tube defect" will slip out.

[kmrmom42]

Hahaha! That is funny. You must be a phlebotomist, huh? Maybe next time you could say spinal cord defect and get away from the neural/nasal dilemma.
Welcome to this web site. You are sure to like it.
Karen

[hodmadod]

Welcome to this web site. You are sure to like it.
Karen

Thank you!

It has indeed been fun reading this entire thread in a unit.

I mean at a go.

[Angie O'Plasty]

One day while on orientation at my PCA job on a tele floor, my preceptor and I were seeing one of our patients and he asked for a cup of coffee. We told him that he could have coffee, but only decaf as this is a cardiac floor and that's what we generally give people. He was disappointed when he heard this, so my preceptors comment was "Oh, sounds like you wanted it for the jolt", to which my reply was "Well, that's the concern on a floor like this--someone might get that jolt and end up needing another jolt to get them out of a funky rhythm!" The patient replied, with a straight face, "That's really a nice thing to say to someone who's just had a heart attack" so then I felt bad about my comment. Turns out though that he was just messing with me and was not, in fact, offended.

[daisey_may]

This happened the other night and it still makes me laugh when i think about it. I work on a med/surg floor. Sometimes our patients require telemetry and there are monitor techs that sit upstairs to watch our patient's hearts. The other night, the monitor tech called down and one of our aides answered the phone. I do not know if this was a new monitor tech or what. The aid looked up and said "patient Mrs. M is in asystole--whatever that means." Like it was said like nothing was wrong... We all looked back behind us where we can see right in this patient's room...where the little 90-something patient is sitting up in bed, blowing her nose. As we're crowding to her room, she looks at all of us looking at her and she yells "have i done something wrong?!" We busted up laughing. One of the nurses called the monitor tech again and said "the patient was blowing her nose, ...we have it figured out now. It was just so funny. The monitor techs never call to say "asystole" they say "call a code". And usually they say "check on this patient, something is wrong" or, "check the green lead--it must be off again". And that poor lol who was blowing her nose and looking at everyone staring and rushing in her room...