Nurses Helping Nurses
allnurses Network: Central | Jobs | Books | Newsletter
allnurses: A Nursing Community for Nurses
Home General News Blogs Articles Students Region Specialty Degrees F.A.Q.
Nursing Humor - Share your jokes and funny stories /

Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????



Did You Know?
allnurses is the largest community for nurses on the web. We now have over 388,662 members! Join today to network with other nurses, laugh, share, and much more.
Page 5 of 5 < 1234 5

No. 40
from taz628
Old Jan 26, 2009, 10:54 AM

Default Re: Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????
First semester of nursing school: I'm on clinical in a med/surg unit with my pt who had some decent back surgery due to abscesses. I'm in there with the floor nurse and the resident comes in. My pt has been up walking the WHOLE hospital and states he'd really feel better if his foley could come out. "Sure," the doc replies, "we can take care of that right now." The nurse and I assume this means he'll give the order and we'll be taking it out as soon as he's done assessing the pt. But noooooooooo - not the case! Before we can even BLINK, the doc rounds the bed, pulls out bandage shears, cuts the tube and yanks!! No time for the balloon to deflate and I, quite literally, see my pt jump almost a foot off the bed. Pt replies, "Jeez that hurt! But it feels good to have it gone." The nurse immediately pulls me out of the room and with a straight face says, "You KNOW what's not the proper way to do that, right?" All I can do is nod yes. I've never seen anything quite so ridiculous.

Just recently, now that I'm a big-girl nurse on my own - - we had a pt on our critical care intermediate unit refuse to wear his TED stockings among MANY other basic health measures. The resident comes to the floor and the pt's nurse tells him about how the pt is refusing just about everything, but he's a full code and blah blah blah. Basically, the pt is just being an @$$ to the nurses. This resident has a mixed reputation with the nurses. Some hate him and say he's arrogant, some (like myself) love the man. He's Latino, self assured, loud, and has very few problems saying what's on his mind. He goes into pt's room and, in no uncertain terms tells the main he's got 3 choices if he declines all these care measures: "1, you're going to die. 2, you're going to die. 3 - YOU'RE GOING TO DIE." The pt promptly shut up and started cooperating. Hmmm... it was really much funnier to witness first hand lol.

And best dementia line EVER: crazy old lady comes into our unit. Like, UBER crazy. Constantly yelling out from her room, "Is everyone OK? Are you OK?" etc. Convo goes like this:

Patient: where's my body??
Nurse: *aggravated grunt* It's in the bed attached to your head!
Patient: Oh, ok.
Top
 
Advertisement
Sponsored Links
 
No. 41
from badphish
Old Feb 01, 2009, 07:54 PM

Default Re: Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????
another Army story (sorry)

came back from lunch to the Aide Station one day to find the XO (administrative officer) starting an IV on one of the soldiers. I said what are you doing? youre not a medic! my XO says i took the EMT course, i said that doesnt mean you can start IVs. a little bit of knowledge is very dangerous.
Top
 
No. 42
Old Aug 28, 2009, 10:20 PM

Default Re: Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????
I had worked in a hospital for many years.. I knew the pharmacist on duty well.. I was nine months pregnant when I went down to pick up my amoxicilling rx for a nasty case of bronchitis. The pharmacist had an intern with him, and the window was designed with a shelf that rested just above my belly.. you had to kind of lean in through the window and yoohoo to get someones attention. The pharmacist waved to say he knew what I needed, paused to think a moment, winked at me and instead sent the intern over to counsel me on my medication.. after the standard "do not stop taking this medicine.." He says.. " Have you had this med before?" my reply.. "yes.. about nine months ago.. the last time I had bronchitis." Which was true...He said.. "Oh good then we will just go over some precautions...Some antibiotics deactivate birth control pills.. so if you are taking the pill you will need a back up method for a few weeks if you are sexually active and do not desire to get pregnant.." I glanced over that the pharmacist.. and back to the intern.. and I said, pointing at the pharmacist in an accusatory manner and stepping back, hands on my massive, pregnant belly which had previously been hidden under the window ledge.. "That guy never told me that... Oh my god... it THAT why Im getting so fat and havent had a period since last time I took this antibiotic?" The look of absolute mortification on the interns face was priceless as he backed away from the window, pale as a ghost and stuttering.. "I-I- Umm-I..."..and the normally dry pharmacist had collapsed against the file cabinet in gales of laughter behind him.
Top

3 Readers Gave Kudos
 
No. 43
Old Aug 28, 2009, 10:28 PM

Default Re: Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????
I work maternity with an arrogant doctor who also doesnt have any issues letting people know what he thinks.. For a time we had gyn surg.s on our floor during a remodel. We had an extremely obese woman come in.. large pannis.. large sections of heaving hanging skin from the thighs.. She was having pelvic pain and the doctor needed to take a looksie... so he pulled me and another nurse in to help hold legs and etc.. When we had gathered as much as we could to facilitate his exam.. he puts his gloves on and in front of this perfectly cognitive 40 year old woman ( not that it would be appropriate under other circumstances... ) The doctor says.. Ladies.. Im going in.. if you slip or let go I am a dead man... We were both stunned that he could say such a thing... after a moments recovery the other nurse and I must have both been on the same wavelength.. we both said.. "hmm.. tempting".
Top

2 Readers Gave Kudos
 
No. 44
Old Aug 28, 2009, 11:00 PM

Default Re: Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????
I used to work with a few CNAs back a few years ago that were not the brightest. We worked 11-7 and instead of eating in the break room on the unit, they would often times have their food in the hall. The gross part was the fact that they would roll laundry carts over and use them like tables. I can't tell you how many times they did this. I can't believe they never picked up some nasty germs from that. I still get grossed out just thinking about that. I would just walk by shaking my head thinking, " I mean for crying out loud...I just put sheets filled with POOP in that thing!
Top
 
No. 45
Old Aug 28, 2009, 11:25 PM

Default Re: Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????
Originally Posted by Nursenomopayne View Post
I work maternity with an arrogant doctor who also doesnt have any issues letting people know what he thinks.. For a time we had gyn surg.s on our floor during a remodel. We had an extremely obese woman come in.. large pannis.. large sections of heaving hanging skin from the thighs.. She was having pelvic pain and the doctor needed to take a looksie... so he pulled me and another nurse in to help hold legs and etc.. When we had gathered as much as we could to facilitate his exam.. he puts his gloves on and in front of this perfectly cognitive 40 year old woman ( not that it would be appropriate under other circumstances... ) The doctor says.. Ladies.. Im going in.. if you slip or let go I am a dead man... We were both stunned that he could say such a thing... after a moments recovery the other nurse and I must have both been on the same wavelength.. we both said.. "hmm.. tempting".
OMG - that is so cruel - but yet so funny! What did the patient say? Did the doctor just not realize what he was saying? If I were the patient - I think I might have intentionally passed gas or something as revenge!!!! LOL
Top
 
No. 46
from diane227
Old Aug 29, 2009, 01:07 AM

Default Re: Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????
I worked in a huge ED in Houston. The clerical staff were giving a party for one of the staff. The nurse manager reported to me that she was not able to find two of them during one of their shifts for about two hours. Turns out they went shopping at Kmart during their shift to get stuff for the party. Just left their assignment to go shopping. Did not tell the charge nurse or ask permission, just left.

I had two off duty police officers on duty in the ED one night and they were apparently board and decided to take a ride down to the stroll (the area where the hookers hung out and the liquor stores, 7-11stores were) to get some beer. They went to one of the 7-11 stores to get a 6 pak and walked in on a robbery in progress. Both got shot. We found out where they went when they returned to the ED on a stretcher with their gun shot wounds.

People having sex in the stairwell, smoking pot in the parking lot, having a seizure secondary to using crack on their break, trying to heat up the thanksgiving turkey in the autoclave (this was before microwaves) and having the turkey explode in the autoclave. Having all the ED clerical staff leave the ED at once to go out to the parking lot to smoke pot, nurse having a psychotic break at work evidenced by the fact that she was mumbling and walking around trying to paper the wall of the med room with those red medication added stickers, I could go on and on.
Top
 
No. 47
Old Sep 07, 2009, 02:33 AM

Default Re: Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????
Is the patient vegetating or what? I was a charge nurse at a LTACH. A patient was an IV drug user and the doc suspected that he may have cardiac vegetation and ordered a TEE. The nurse taking care of the patient was new to the US from India. He read the order and began to laugh. I asked, "what is funny about a TEE?" He replied, "I can tell the doctor that he has been vegetating all day- he wont get out of bed, won't talk on the phone, he won't do anything!".
Yes, then I explained what a TEE was and the reason for the test. It was hilarious!!!!!!
Top
 
No. 48
from oguesswhat
Old Sep 07, 2009, 10:42 PM

Default Re: Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????
Originally Posted by Nursenomopayne View Post
I had worked in a hospital for many years.. I knew the pharmacist on duty well.. I was nine months pregnant when I went down to pick up my amoxicilling rx for a nasty case of bronchitis. The pharmacist had an intern with him, and the window was designed with a shelf that rested just above my belly.. you had to kind of lean in through the window and yoohoo to get someones attention. The pharmacist waved to say he knew what I needed, paused to think a moment, winked at me and instead sent the intern over to counsel me on my medication.. after the standard "do not stop taking this medicine.." He says.. " Have you had this med before?" my reply.. "yes.. about nine months ago.. the last time I had bronchitis." Which was true...He said.. "Oh good then we will just go over some precautions...Some antibiotics deactivate birth control pills.. so if you are taking the pill you will need a back up method for a few weeks if you are sexually active and do not desire to get pregnant.." I glanced over that the pharmacist.. and back to the intern.. and I said, pointing at the pharmacist in an accusatory manner and stepping back, hands on my massive, pregnant belly which had previously been hidden under the window ledge.. "That guy never told me that... Oh my god... it THAT why Im getting so fat and havent had a period since last time I took this antibiotic?" The look of absolute mortification on the interns face was priceless as he backed away from the window, pale as a ghost and stuttering.. "I-I- Umm-I..."..and the normally dry pharmacist had collapsed against the file cabinet in gales of laughter behind him.
Haha that cracked me up!
Top
 
Page 5 of 5 < 1234 5
Reply




Thread Tools


Who's Online
349 members
2,682 guests
3,031

37

lawsuit - But don't most RN's work through breaks/lunch...

0

Patient Evaluation of Retail Clinic Care

3

The hard to reach on-call doctor, and its effects on...

8

Woman charged with passing off prescription drug as...

20

Man in "Vegetative State" was conscious for 23...

2

Interesting article on ThedaCare's Collaborative Care Model

13

Possible breakthrough regarding MS

63

16th Philly area hospital to stop delivering babies: Mercy...

14

Really interesting article on Indian open hearts

12

High-Tech Pump Does What Her Heart Can't



42

Dear preceptor

1

Society Needs Care Too

13

Why am I doing this, anyway?

2

Nurse Heal Thyself

9

My Papa, why I am the nurse I am today.

17

I made it through

11

An angel's gaze

16

A Sister Never Forgets

16

Ruby's Marbles

40

What Do Operating Room Nurses Do?

14

My Little Old Jedi

20

I love this job......

23

"I hear voices"

20

Preventing FRUTI (Foley Related Urinary Tract Infection) in...

24

Error and Attitude





Sponsored Links

Currently Reading This Page: 1 (0 members & 1 guests)

Interested in the hottest topics of the week? Subscribe to the Nurse-zine Newsletter.
Enter email address: