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No. 90
from EricJRN
Old Jun 01, 2009, 02:17 AM

Default Re: What's the dumbest remark you've heard yourself make...
I was on a roll recently while teaching an NRP course.

In a skills station: "The baby's limp is tone."

In lecture: "Suction the mouth first, then the nose. Remember it this way: you have one mouth and two noses."
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No. 91
from LEN-RN
Old Jun 02, 2009, 10:28 AM

Default Re: What's the dumbest remark you've heard yourself make...
Originally Posted by sharona97 View Post
Working in a clinic, I went to call the patient's name and instead yelled out the pizza place who sent him in (w/c).

That is funny
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No. 92
Old Jun 03, 2009, 09:40 PM

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I sat a patient up in bed for her meal and told her I would "put her down" in a minute My nurse in charge called me the Grim Reaper! Hahaha.
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No. 93
Old Jun 03, 2009, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by McBx3 View Post
The worst one I can think of (and believe me there are plenty!), is when I was a new grad, and a CNA was helping me change the attends of a dementia pt. I ended up putting it on upside down, with the sticky tabs on top, and I told the CNA, "Sorry I'm not so good at this... I don't have kids." She shot me this "WTH" look, and I realized what I'd said. I was sooo embarrassed. First and last time that I ever compared an adult pt to an infant
I don't see anything wrong with this. You weren't comparing the pt to an infant; you were talking about diapers. But I can see how it might have offended an oriented pt.
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No. 94
from Mahage
Old Jun 03, 2009, 11:30 PM
Updated Jun 04, 2009 at 08:24 AM by Mahage

Angry Re: What's the dumbest remark you've heard yourself make...
Originally Posted by KidsRNstill View Post
OK, I'll go first----

It was a busy day in our pediatric office (what day isn't??) and I was running ragged, rooming patients, helping other staff, etc. and in between crises helping answer the phones-----I picked up a line that had been on hold for a while and chirped "Thank you for helping--can I hold you???" Needless to say, a good laugh was had by all....

Or the time I was working in the hospital and had walked in a patient's room. He was asleep; his phone rang and I answered it--it was his family, checking on how he was doing. My reply--"Oh, he's dead to the world..." (Southern for "He's sleeping peacefully"). "WHAT???" "Uh (prying foot out of mouth), I mean, he's fast asleep....".

Yikes!!! PLEASE make me feel not so all alone by relating some goofy things YOU'VE said....

KidsRN
As a student nurse I was thrilled to be able to hold the leg of a young hispanic woman who was finishing a hard labor. The young husband was in the labor room and was very supportive of his wife. The baby did not cry as quickly as we all hoped and the doctor told him in English that the baby would be okay she was just "tired" (cansado) once she started crying. He clearly did not understand and appeared more than a little distressed. Since I was so proud of my ability to communicate with this young couple in broken Spanish, I told him in my best Spanish that his baby was (casado) "married." He immediately said firmly in English, "No, she is NOT CASADO she is bebe!" I quickly appropriately apoligized for my mistake and we both had a good laugh along with the couple of staff who also spoke some Spanish. Given the stress he had been through he needed one. He will have a good story to tell her about the vieja who said that she was married at birth!

Mahage
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No. 95
from Mahage
Old Jun 03, 2009, 11:39 PM

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The craziest thing i ever did was to take a blind patient to the door of the dialysis room and expect him to find his own chair. In my own defense i was not a nurse then, hadn't even worked with many blind people in my first few days as a dialysis Social Worker. I figured it out when he said politely, "Uh, mam could you walk me over there please?" I could have gone through the floor especially since I had just finshed an interview in which he had told me that he had been blind for the last two years.

Mahage
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No. 96
from Akasha85
Old Jun 04, 2009, 12:03 AM

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all of these stories go to show nurses have a sense of humor, heh we need it. I think the patient apreciates it especially when they are included in the joke or are the ones that make you aware what you said just because they are ill or elderly doesn't mean they can't find humor in our mistakes. Our family is norweigian and we laugh at the stupidest things. Can't even get into it. Just keep humor with youself and all will be good
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No. 97
from inthesky
Old Jun 04, 2009, 04:20 AM

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I was reading this thread in amusement, deciding whether to post anything. I say far too many stupid things to ever chronicle. I tell patients to follow me around the corner (there is no corner) to my med window (it is actually a door with no window at all) every single work day without fail. Today, a patient amiably confronted me today about my lack of med window; it was amusing.
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No. 98
Old Jun 04, 2009, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Akasha85 View Post
when working in a nursing home a new coworker asked where so and so was. I replied she is the one with grey hair and glasses with a sweater on.
I used to do that all the time !!
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No. 99
from Akasha85
Old Jun 04, 2009, 11:36 PM

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I think everyone who worked in a nursing home has made the remark the one over there with grey hair, glasses,sweater in a wheelchair. I really miss working in the nursing home.
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