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Aug 10, 2006 03:03 PM

What's the dumbest remark you've heard yourself make...

Updated Aug 10, 2006 at 04:46 PM by KidsRNstill

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


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Old Aug 10, 2006, 03:11 PM

Default Re: What's the dumbest remark you've heard yourself make...
Ok mine is classic I am sure, I have looked after many blind people and I aways say something stupid like " Have you seen the weather today"
or " I dont like the look of ***** what do you think"
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Old Aug 10, 2006, 03:13 PM

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Just the other day, making early a.m. rounds before listening to report, went into a lady's room for a quick assessment. Wanted to check her legs for edema and asked her to straighten out her R leg. She was an amputee. Yikes. Spanish speaking only which I guess was a good thing. I was orienting with another nurse who slapped me...playfully of course.
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from HannasMom
Old Aug 10, 2006, 04:08 PM

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KidsRN thanks for the laugh. I laughed until tears came to my eyes. I can really relate....LOL! I have "foot in mouth syndrome" also.
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Old Aug 10, 2006, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by suzy253
Just the other day, making early a.m. rounds before listening to report, went into a lady's room for a quick assessment. Wanted to check her legs for edema and asked her to straighten out her R leg. She was an amputee. Yikes. Spanish speaking only which I guess was a good thing. I was orienting with another nurse who slapped me...playfully of course.
I had something kinda similar happen to me the other day. I'm an agency nurse and was working 11-7. I had only seen this patient laying on his left side, as I went in to do his tube feedings. He's a nursing home resident with obviously not much going on upstairs. I go in to give his 6:00 meds and he is up in a chair, and the left top of his head is way sunk in! I freaked out, thinking he had hit his head somehow and made it sink in like that, even though his level of consciousness was the same as before. I found out he'd had a traumatic brain injury and had part of his skull and brain removed. Geez, they could have prepared me in that for report but at most of the nursing homes you have anywhere from 30-60 residents and are lucky to get anything from report other than "they've been okay today."
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Old Aug 10, 2006, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by madwife2002
Ok mine is classic I am sure, I have looked after many blind people and I aways say something stupid like " Have you seen the weather today"
or " I dont like the look of ***** what do you think"
madwife, my daughter is blind and needless to say has plenty of friends that are as well....they ALL say "Look at this", etc.

Actually, if you try to say something like "Feel this" it's considered insulting.

Just thought I'd let you know
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Old Aug 10, 2006, 05:42 PM

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What's the dumbest remark you've heard yourself make...



Today? Or this week?
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Old Aug 10, 2006, 05:57 PM
Updated Aug 10, 2006 at 06:25 PM by KidsRNstill

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In the last 5 minutes......!
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Old Aug 10, 2006, 06:20 PM

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One of our patients went home in the AM. A Doctor asked for her chart in the PM and I told him " She left us, she went home", and he said "WHAT?! She was doing so good yesterday" . We all started laughing when I told him she is still alive and went home with her son. That was just funny.
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Old Aug 10, 2006, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by truern
madwife, my daughter is blind and needless to say has plenty of friends that are as well....they ALL say "Look at this", etc.

Actually, if you try to say something like "Feel this" it's considered insulting.

Just thought I'd let you know
Do you know I always felt insensitive but have always managed to turn it around and the person has not known any different.
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