[KayleighRN]

So what did the admin do?
Under stress people have many emotions. Under the stress us nurses have, people shouldn't be surprised to see us nurses crying/laughing and a bit looney all at the same time!
I hope you all didn't get in trouble...

[heatherh]

ok, I am a new student and just finished my first semester. Our first clinical was in LTC and I was assigned to a woman who was completly dependant. She was a rather large woman who was on tons of MOM, so she had really runny BMs. She wears diapers, so guess who got to change them?? You guessed it!That wasn't really THAT bad, but listen to this... To change her diaper, I had to turn her laterally away from me, which left her bum right in my face. And EVERY time I turned her, she would leta huge one go right in my face. My instructor would tell us not to make faces, (and I wouldn't, even though the smell was worse than the BM which was extremely offensive) but she would book it right out of my patients room when that happened with a horribl look on her face!!

[Jay-Jay]

Kayliegh, you're certainly right on about the laughter being a way of dealing with stress. Unfortunatley, not everyone understands that, especially non-nurses. I really don't recall what happened, but I think the manager, being a nurse, was sympathetic. It was my preceptor who had to talk to her...I was let off the hook because I was just a student.

It really WAS funny...this poor old soul naked as a jaybird, crawling along the hall as fast as he could go on hands and knees. I may be wrong, but I seem to remember he was smiling (hey, I'm OUTTA HERE!!) Got rid of that nasty IV, I'm goin' HOME!! Even if I have to crawl....

[VivaLasViejas]

In the confused-patient vein, here's one of my favorites: 94 YO Jenny, who had never in her life been in a hospital ("I birthed all 11 of my babies right in my own house, never seen no doctor or nothin', and every one of 'em was as healthy as I am!"). She was on the med-surg floor with CHF, and even though she was more than a little demented, she had a kind of twisted logic. There was another confused pt. in the room across from Jenny's who yelled all night long no matter what we did for him, and to say the least, this did not make Jenny very happy. We were all taking a short coffee break at around 4 AM when we heard this blood-curdling scream from the general direction of the man's room. No sooner had we run around the corner to see what was going on than we spotted Jenny, who was shuffling toward us with a half-full catheter bag........along with the entire catheter, balloon and all. "I yanked this contraption outta that feller down the hall,' she announced, handing over the apparatus before heading back down the hall to her own room. "Guess now he's got something to holler about!!"

[Estella]

I was a nursing assistant on a general surgery floor when this happened. It was only my second week!
An elderly man had abdominal surgery, and had been complaining of gas all day. "Just can't get it to move...." My nurse assured me that if he moved himslef around, the gas would move, too. (I still wonder if she ever listened to his bowel sounds.....)
Anyway, being the dutiful NA, I ambulated him around the unit and then back to his room to sit up in the chair. It was near the change of shift, and I told him I would be back in a couple minutes to see how he was doing. When I returned, his gown was covered in blood, green goo, brown stool, pus, you name it... Before I could even think to yell for help, I asked, "Mr. B, are you all right?"
He smiled at me, actually laughed and replied, "I just let out the biggest fart in my life. I feel great!"

[Kaelie]

I love this section of the forum. It's nice to have a laugh and take a load off at the end of a hectic day!

Thanks!
Kaelie

[BelindaLPN]

I am a charge nurse in LTC. One of the aides went home early with a migraine so I was doing her last bedcheck b4 shift change. I walk into the last room....check the 1st resident...uneventful....as I get closer to her roommate, I can smell BM. So I prepare to clean her up. She is laying on her side facing the wall....so I clean the side closest to me....however, as I roll her over to her other side.....she looks at me and smiles....HER MOUTH IS FULL OF BM!!! I don't know how I got her cleaned up without throwing up on her! A few days later, the aid who went home brought me some chocolate pudding as a thank you for letting her leave early....isn't she nice?? LOL

[tattooednursie]

EWWWWW these are nasty but very entertaining! I got one for yall. Once I was doing pericare on a resident, and this was a very time consuming and difficult residents so I started singing to kinda make it easier, whatever good that did. the resident grabbed the rag full of poo and pee and shoulved it in my mouth!!!!!!!!!
I lost my lunch and put a hanfull of soap in my mouth! and hurled some more. It was so GROSS!!!!!

[Gypsie nurse]

This is my first posting so I thought I would share an experience I had 13 years ago as a student nurse in the ER. I was watching a gentleman who had just come in after shooting himself in the head. Now it was gross enough seeing his eye hanging out of the socket and blood dribbling out of his ears, but when he suddenly sat upright and spewed blood straight at me, hitting me full in the face and chest, that pretty much ended any delusions I had that nursing was going to be a glamorous career. As I walked to the locker room to shower and change out of my not-so-white uniform, the cardiac surgeon dropped his jaw nearly to the floor and said, " What happened to you? You look like you got the crap kicked out of you." After that I have not in 11+ years of nursing been trully grossed out by anything.

[kids]

Originally posted by mjlrn97
...shuffling toward us with a half-full catheter bag........along with the entire catheter, balloon and all. "I yanked this contraption outta that feller down the hall,' she announced, handing over the apparatus before heading back down the hall to her own room. "Guess now he's got something to holler about!!"

BAWAHHH