What is the funniest or most embarrassing nursing experience you've had

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My funniest was when I had a sun-downers/dementia pt on M/S walking the floor on night shift.

I said "come on, let's go to bed...and this senior pt ran back to bed, and said okay you can get on top" LOL

Quick as lightening, the patient threw up both hands (think Jazz hands), clamped each one on one of my breasts and shouted gleefully "Wicki Wicki"!! while twisting his hands right and left.

Winner!

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Doing patient teaching for a man on viagra for pulmonary hypertension. Wife pipes right up and says "I am not sure what the heck those pills are supposed to do, but I LOVE the side effects...." HAHAHAHAHHA

I normally work on an interventional cardiac unit.however, this day I was floated to M/S. I had an 84 year old woman who had been baker acted (apparently not the first time according to her husband). She had made some homicidal comments at her ALF. She was medically stable so I had to d/c her to a psych facility. She had become pretty fond of her sitter so I figured myself and her could get her to the exit. Nope, no one could get her on that elevator. There was a huge scene she was cussing and yelling at the security guard and nursing supervisor. At our facility the police wait at the ED exit for our Baker acts and do not come to the floor. It got to the point where we had to call them up to come get her. But you bet when 2 handsome young cops said 'Lets get outta here' she started blushing and left with them like nothing had ever happened!

I'm 1 of those old nurses, 21 years as an RN & 10 years as an EMT before that. I thought I had seen it all, done it all & heard it all, until.....Shift report, Pediatric Unit... Handsome young Pool Nurse starts his report & finishes his report by cautioning next Nurse to beware the ancient computer at the desk, it kept crashing thru-out the shift. This was rec'd by groans from the on-coming crew, who know that it takes repeated tries to get it re-booted. At this point, the Charge R.N. (yep, that would be me), interjects with, "it's OK now, he was able to get it back up & I got it on." Stunned silence followed by cackles, howls & shrieks as 15 Nurses dissolved into uncontrolled hysterics & I melted into my chair. :eek:

Specializes in DOU, Medical-Surgical.
Tending an elderly British gentleman, soft-spoken and with a lovely accent. He had been nothing but a gentleman the entire shift, very quiet and calm. When I came in last thing before report to check the IV's, his daughter was at the bedside and we chatted away like old friends. She was on the side of the bed where the IV pole was, and just before leaving, I leaned slightly over the patient to look at the dates on the IV lines.

Quick as lightening, the patient threw up both hands (think Jazz hands), clamped each one on one of my breasts and shouted gleefully "Wicki Wicki"!! while twisting his hands right and left. I was so stunned by the suddenness of his movement that it was a couple of seconds before I managed to pry his clamping hands off my breasts. The stunned look on his daughter's face made any thought of being angry fly out of my mind. She couldn't apologize enough and it took everything I had to assure her that it was OK.

I never did learn what "Wicki Wicki" means!

LOL!!

This reminds me that I also took care of a British man not too long ago that had not been doing well and was becoming more and more confused, quite mean and racist. One night me and another nurse had just finished changing him and once we got him comfortable, he stared at me and then at the other nurse and said " All you Chinese people look the same".....I'm white as white can be and she was filipina. We both had a good laugh.

Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.
"Sleeping" patient being transported by bed down a busy med-surg hallway. MD walking by in the other direction. Patient sits bolt upright in bed, grabs a fistfull of the MD's jewels and screams "GET A JOB!" in the MD's face, then promptly flops back down in the bed.

Right in front of God and everyone.

A few of us had to excuse ourselves and we laughed until we cried.

Funniest thing I ever saw.

That poor man! I would've loved to have been there to see the look on his face.

This reminds me of a time I when a patient was in the elevator being transported to get an xray and when the elevator doors opened he yelled to the doctor" Hurry up and get your ass on the elevator". I died laughing.

I was in a room collecting a foley and at the same time, two aides were changing the chux under a resident.

The resident was unhappy that she was being disturbed and hollered, "You dirty--" and then she raised her arm up to strike one of the aide's hands.

Well, the aide had quick reflexes and jumped out of the way.

Meanwhile, the resident-- who was in mid-swing when the aide jumped back-- managed to slap her own ample-sized butt.

There was a "whoosh" and a "crack" quickly followed by a loud howl as the resident felt the wrath of her own hand.

I fell to floor busting a gut and the two aides were bright red, barely keeping it together, as they finished the old gal up...

And she was good as gold as they did so.

Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

Just a couple weeks ago I had a patient who liked to joke around with me (in a good way). I'd had her as a patient in the past on the floor I used to work on. I entered the room in the morning and asked "Are you having any pain?" She answered, "It just started as soon as you walked through that door." LOL!

Specializes in Burns, PACU.

We had a big lug of a man in our ICU. He was uncouth, slightly creepy and less than charming, but overall harmless. He was riddled with pockets of infection and empyema, edematous and weeping from every pore. When we pulled him back from the brink of death he refused to do a thing to help himself and anytime a woman entered his room, he said "Hey girl, why don't you get me such-and-such.". After months of hours-long wound packing sessions every shift we got him down to a half-inch sized wound just below his navel that I packed in a few seconds. I got him all tidy and tucked in when he complained that it itched. He would definitely peel away the dressing and put his filthy hands right into that wound so I explained that it was really important that he did not put his bare hands on this wound. I demonstrated with my own hand how to relieve the itching by rubbing really fast over the top of the wound on top of the covers with a flat palm. When his eyes bulged out of his head, I realized that it was not his wound I was rubbing with my hand! I turned eight shades of red and ran out of the room saying something about an emergency.

Specializes in Burns, PACU.

I had a patient arrive in PACU having a "difficult wake up" from anesthesia, meaning she was confused and uncooperative and ornery. She still had that huge green nasopharyngeal airway in to keep her from obstructing. As we were attaching her to the monitor, she is carrying on and talking nonsense and trying to pull her face shield off, etc., as confused people tend to do. As the anesthesia resident is trying to slip away (without helping me deal with this flailing, uncooperative patient, she yells "Tell that doctor to get his finger out of my nose! It hurts!" I said "Yes, ma'am" and then I said "Doctor, take your finger out of this woman's nose." and then I pulled the NP airway out (which is about the size of a finger). She didn't remember any of it when she actually came to her senses, but it still amuses me.

Specializes in Med surg, Public Health, School Nursing.

Still remember, as a nursing student working in the ED, attempting to change a bag of IV fluids with out flipping the old bag over first. Fluid went all over my patient and me. I spent the rest of that clinical day explaining why it looked like I urinated on myself and why my patient laughed every time I walked by his bed.

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