[Adham Ahmed]

:hatparty: nice tricks , I don't remember any of personal trick happed with me as mentioned here ..
thanks for all

[earle58]

Originally Posted by Ruby Vee

Our neice was working for a pizza parlor, in the kitchen. She was chopping jalapenoes one day, and took a break to go to the bathroom and change her tampon . . .

oh.
my.
God.

leslie

[firstaiddave908]

ouch about getting your hair stuck.

[sanctuary]

Originally Posted by rninwch

Umm...I once dropped a syringe which then rolled under my pt's bed, as I bent to retrieve it she pressed the button to raise the head of her bed which then caught my hair in one of the joints and pulled tight. No amount of changing the angle of the head of the bed helped me get loose. We had to press the call light. The other RN working with me laughed her butt off as she cut me loose. I wore a surgical cap the rest of the night and got a hair cut (a VERY short one) the next day.

Too Funny

[sanctuary]

Originally Posted by strong_willed

I'm really clumsy at times, and during the olympics a couple of years ago, I was talking to the patient while we were watching the figure skating. I was imitating the skater who was on, got caught in her IV tubing (thankfully not attached at the time) and did about the most ungraceful swan dive ever!

I'm still laughing. These should be published, Brian... Really!

[grace90]

I was doing the narc count with another nurse, and bent down to check the small refrigerator that holds a few meds. As I stood back up, I whacked my head on the metal narc cabinet door. I already had a thundering headache before hitting my head, so I stood there dazed for a few seconds. After I recovered, I looked at my coworker and said "How do my pupils look?" She decided my neuros were ok and we went on with the rest of the night.

[analee23]

I thought I'd add a few... I'm quite a klutz myself, so have quite a few... here's a couple.

When I was in nursing school we had one day that we could go and watch surgical procedures. This was quite cool because I had been caring for a patient with a brain tumor that was going to the OR. Very neat. So I'm standing there watching the neurosurgeon carefully dissect down, he's standing there with bone-saw in hand ready to cut into the skull, it's literally buzzing in his hand and my legs were getting a little tired from standing in one place, decided to move a little bit and tripped over the cord that went to the light mounted on his head, unplugging it, the surgeon says, "Uhh, LIGHT please!" I was so embarrassed, but luckily he wasn't sawing at that point!

Another more recent one, I was taking care of a critical patient in the ED, taking patient to cat scan. Patient is intubated and on a vent, so we were bagging on the way to CT. So we get done with CT, hook pt. back up to O2 under the bed and everything, get him all packaged up and start on our way back to ED... his sats slowly start to drop and then PLUNGE! I'm freaked, but luckily have a second nurse, start running down the hallway with pt to make it back to room, loose BOTH of my shoes, causing me to slide into wall thus causing my body to crash into the wall, luckily just kinda graze the wall with the stretcher... but there's suddenly blood everywhere... I sheered off the IV tubing, not sure how I did it, but I'm freaked, we rush the kid back... I now have wet socks from IV fluid and blood, get him all hooked up... turns out I forgot to turn the O2 tank on.... yah, not my finest moment, but he was OK.... luckily! My co-worker that went to CT with me was not impressed, but nice enough to get my shoes and a pair of hospital footies...
I now carry a spare pair of socks to work... I'm THAT special!