Nurses Humor
Updated: Feb 15, 2023 Published Jun 12, 2000
Found in the History and Physical section of a patient's chart who had experienced visual hallucinations while ill:
Quote "Patient vehemently denies any auditory, tactile, or old factory hallucinations."
morte, LPN, LVN
7,015 Posts
Clamped, I mean. Clamped. Thanks for the clarification, morte.
oh dear, el....your post came up WHILE i was posting....if i were clarifing, i would have been, hmmm somewhat hmm nicer????at least danced around it a little....lol
Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP
4 Articles; 5,259 Posts
Nah. No worries here.....didn't mean MY post to come out the way it sounded either. Sorry. :)
Hilinenursegrl
96 Posts
As I was reading through the chart of a pt I was taking care of I noticed that the clinic doc, one of the most loved in the facility charted, "Cyst on left tit" I almost peed myself reading that note. But it was true, she did indeed have a cyst on her left tit!
Conrad283, BSN, RN
338 Posts
Not a blooper, I actually wrote this in a pt's chart.
D: Pt had large loose BM this evening.
R: Pt reports feeling much better
NEAROZONE
2 Posts
One Co-worker had a mental block. On the ER chart she would write, "C/O head" everytime some came in with a headache. I guess she preoccupied.
Jenn-eRN2008
9 Posts
Just today I wrote " Lung sounds CDI (clean dry intact) " I was doing a discharge and was looking at my note . I meant to write that his lungs were clean and dsg cdi .
PsychNurseWannaBe, BSN, RN
747 Posts
My coworker and I were at the nurses station and she was filling out an incident report. She hands me the paper to proof read. I got to the end of it and did a double take and shot soda out my nose. I told her what she did and we just about died laughing. We still laugh about it.
We had a patient who hurt her finger in her wheelchair. At the end of the report, I knew she meant, "will continue to monitor the patient." What she wrote was "will continue to finger the patient."
paw1974
4 Posts
Thanks! These really cheered me up this morning!!
Saw a good one years ago!!
"Patient not eating, but taking po urine well."
YUCK!
britgirl37
50 Posts
Under diagnosis, a UK Dr wrote: GOK
After trying to figure this out, the nurses finally asked the doc what it stood for - "God Only Knows"
(he got into trouble for this one!!)
and...
"deceased lung sounds" written on RN charting.
also...
"confused family at bedside"
Lovetobenurse
13 Posts
I read this one on our twenty four hours nurse report: antifungal in urine!
PhillyRN82
31 Posts
Just came across a funny note from a newly grad nurse:
"Received patient on bed, comatose, GCS 3/15 but patient is ambulatory with assistance. "
hahhhahaaha
TomCCRN1991
25 Posts
I once saw an order that said: O2@4L/Foley cath. I think he meant it to be 2 separate orders.