[burn out]

We once had a patient origianlly admitted to med-surg (can't remember what for) but he got in the closet and found a wire coat hanger and straightened it out and ran it into his abd. The he went seeking his nurse. After a trip to the OR for Exp. Lap and nothing was found to be injured we got him to ICU post op so we could watch him better. He really gave us something to watch as he picked up the butter knife off of his tray and ran it into his incision. Back to the OR then his was one on one until we got him in the local state mental hospital.

[RNperdiem]

During ICU report.
"and Mrs X. does not want certain nurses taking care of her. She says they are incompetent."
Pause
"isn't she the one who crashed her riding lawn mower into a tree? She is calling us incompetent?"

[KJRN79]

I once (LONG ago) had a corrections officer in during a prison riot...this guy had shot himself in the butt to get out. Tried to say someone shot him, but ER figured out the angle was definitely self-inflicted. He did then admit it.

[pagandeva2000]

Patient came to the coumadin clinic and told us that a fork-lift truck ran over his foot two days ago, but he figured that he would wait rather that go to the emergency room since he had a clinic appointment already. His INR was 4.0, and had to go to the ER, anyway, because the provider wasn't sure if it was high because of another internal issue or because his foot was the size of a basketball. The provider called me into her office, closed the door and said "Get this A$$hole out of here before I kill him myself".

[pagandeva2000]

Originally Posted by sister--*

Had a man come into E.R. with an electric vibrator stuck up his anus...the cord was dangling out like a little tail.

Believe it or not, his wife came the next day and picked-up the vibrator. She didn't stop to visit her spouse.

Sigh...looks like he was not on the job...

[pagandeva2000]

My mother, who was a CNA told me that she walked through the emergency room and saw about 20 doctors looking at this xray with rapt interest. She noted that it looked like a stick a ball, somehow. Later when she returned, she saw that there were different doctors (again, a large number) staring at this thing and taking notes, talking rapidly. This time, my mother recognized a doctor and asked him what the commotion was. He told her that a patient stuck an entire basketball trophy up is anus, that the only thing left out was the platform it stood on. This patient ripped his whole abdominal cavity out, and what my mother actually was seeing in the xray was the hook-shot...the arm holding the basketball. Went past the diaphragm. My God...what a field day!

[lauralassie]

A Bart Simpson doll up the anus. It was the best Xray I've ever seen. You could see his hair and arms open wide , like he was yelling ' get me out of here!"

[Gromit]

Originally Posted by lauralassie

A Bart Simpson doll up the anus. It was the best Xray I've ever seen. You could see his hair and arms open wide , like he was yelling ' get me out of here!"

I almost blew my tea all over my computer! THAT is just too funny!

[JBudd]

Had a guy come up tho the triage window doing the dance, with blood spatters of the front of his pants. Said he was cleaning his gun and it went off in his lap. Funny how the hole was through and through the shaft, no wound to the sac or thighs. Just as if someone had stretched it out and shot through it. hmmmm

[GardenDove]

These are great.