Clothing issues/malfunctions.

Not my malfunction...but a colleagues....

We worked in brain injury rehab. She was getting a patient out of bed (1 person assisted transfer) when I heard her calling me STAT!

I ran into the room and here she stood with her scrub pants around her ankles...during the transfer, the pt pulled on the drawstrings and away they went!

I laughed my butt off while I pulled them back up for her. Then we made a new rule:

No exposed strings!

....and I think it's hilarious that "you showed him your boobs"...LOL

I am sure once they start sagging I will indignant responses.

I have tried wearing a shirt underneath but its too frickin hot. oh well show them while I got 'em.

Our uniforms aren't exactly the most well made.

You know nurses tape? The white stuff we use on pretty much everything? I have a big wad of it holding the underside of my sleeve to the torso of the top.

And one night I crotched down to check a suction drain. I heard the rip and immediately thought it the back part of the pants (as you do). It was when I stood up I realised the outside seam of my pants had ripped from my knee to my ankle. Which was odd cos that's the baggiest part of the pant and I'm not that big in the leg that it'd be from spillage. It was really odd.

Another time doing a roll on a slightly demented woman I heard a loud ripped. She'd torn my pocket straight from my top.

I sew my own scrub tops, and must have done something wrong on the side seams on one, because both side seams unraveled on me one night. It went up from the bottom, bit by bit, without me realizing it until everything was flapping in the breeze. Safety pins get a little uncomfortable from hip to armpit!

i worked a code with my fly open the whole time, we were on a tennis court in the upscale part of town and i didnt even know till i was getting in the truck to drive.

we have this other nurse that will wear, i swear the thinnest dang pants all the time, and under it.. plaid, striped or whatever color undies that never match! i wonder if anyone has ever talked to her. totally unprofessional..but i just cant say anything.. she would be ticked!!
-H-RN

Heehee, freudian slip on the clothing malfunction thread?

I'm teasing, it caught my eye and I thought it was cute.

I was assisting with a central line insertion by crouching under the drape to hold the patient's arm in position. I had just lost a whole bunch of weight and I was wearing a pair of scrub pants that were too big. They fell down just enough to give folks a view of my thong. When I say "folks", I mean the doctor doing this procedure: a most stern, cantankerous, old man. A kindly coworker ran up to me and adjusted my pants, stifling laughter, approaching me with a "You look soooo pretty in pink!"

I did an internship at iv infusion center after i graduated in order to get more experience with starting and managing ivs. I was loosing weight pretty rapidly (combination of working a lot and dieting/ exercising) and wasn't able to buy new scrubs until I got paid from my weekend job. So after losing almost 40 lbs my scrubs were hanging on me. well I started an iv on this middle aged gentleman, but couldn't get a flash back, so I got onto my knees with his hand in the dependant position (he was very dehidrated) and was able to get a flash finally. I was concentrating so hard on getting the iv in place when suddenly i hear him say in a very sultry voice "some one's got a tattoo." i looked up at him and he was staring right down my shirt smiling like a kid in a toy store. aparently the shirt was so oversized on me that he had a full view of my breasts (one of which has a tattoo on it). Boy did I turn red!

I also don't wear the snap front scrub tops anymore for this reason:

At 19 i started working as a CNA in my hometown's nursing home, and i was so happy after passing my boards that i went straight to walmart and bought 4 sets of scrubs, 2 of which the tops were snap front. I thought i could wear a tshirt with one of them on, open, or alone with them snapped closed if i felt like it. I started my new job the next day, squeezed past a little old lady in a wheelchair, but didn't realize that my shirt got caught on the wheelchair handle. i felt a draft and looked down, my whole shirt had been unsnapped down the front and i was staring at my lacy pink bra. needless to say, after that i only wore regular scrub tops, or used the snap front tops as short sleeved labcoats

Deatachable bra strap detatched while I was feeding someone and fell down my sleeve into a patients soup in front of every person that worked in the building.