Funny Nursing related Stories

Wow.. they havnt taught us about this yet. THANKYOU

My experience was with a prolapsed rectum and I nearly fainted. I was a student and did not have a clue what to do. Thank goodness for the experienced CNA who quickly recognized that there was about to be 2 patients, got me a chair and explained what I was looking at.

Wow! Thanks for the information! That would be shocking - I'm sure I would think there was something terribly wrong. I'm still amazed that there ISN'T! Seems like there would be - especially the one with the decub! My! And to think I was kind of sad to have those organs removed. Sheesh! Don't know when you have it good!

Thanks for your post. I'm a first semester nursing student, and I was having trouble figuring out what was so funny. I think if I had seen the same thing, I would have reacted the same way. Well, now I know, and I have you to thank.

Warm regards,
Theron

I had to laugh out loud when I read this! When I was in nursing school, I did some volunteer work with a rural ambulance service and we were called to a home because a woman thought her insides were falling out. It was the same thing, I remember how serious her family looked, we all laughed about it on the way to the hospital. :wink2:

Thanks...I loved it...I remember when I first saw my first prolapsed uterus, that was really ulcerated...I thought what the heck...I asked the elder lady how long she had this...she said for a yr...I thought OMG! I was doing clinicals in ER...so I went and saw the dr...so he comes and trys to reinsert it... of course it did not want to go in...I was thinking Duh...if that thing has been hanging out for a yr...I'm sure it had grown since them...I think they ended up doing a hysterectomy on her...but that was like my story to tell for ages...glad someone else experienced this too..

I like to hear such crazy stories about nursing!! I once had the same encounter with an elder woman from theatre for an operation on the leg but ended up with a prolapsed uterus which I had also missed to learn about in a nursing school
My other horror experience was at during my peadiatric nursing experience when I noticed some bunch of whitish pencil like stuff coming out of the rear end of a very poorly child!! to me, this was like a horror film and I summoned my senior nurse to witness 'this thing' which was not anywhere resembling faeces!! My senior apparently had seen many of such episodes and told me that the child was infested with Roundworms and we were supposed to count how many she had passed!! Count? How and why?? The mother of the baby had more than enough experience on this counting procedure and bailed me out in the sluiceroom!! And imagine nurses were to sluice all soiled linen before sending them to the laundry

What is sluicing the linens? Eeeeewww! I never saw worms in all my years of Nursing. Thankfully!!

We had a resident where I did locum work that liked to shock people by taking out her pessary and lift her skirt in the middle of the room for all new staff to see. Luckily our nursing instructor did warn us about this one, so I just said what came to my head, "Nice." She was so upset that I didn't freak out.