Go ahead laugh. Laughter keeps you from going crazy.

Nurses Humor Toon

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It's been said laughter is the best medicine. It is healthy to laugh and very contagious. Nurses often become infected with giggles that can lead to uproarious laughter at some of the most inopportune times. Where have you been when you've tried to stifle a giggle?

Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
bluegeegoo2 said:
head cocked to the side and tongue hanging out.

Referred to as "The Q Sign"!

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
RN yogi said:
When I was working as a CNA on an oncology floor we had six patients die in one night. The transport guy couldn't keep up. He was back and forth to the morgue all night. All I could think of was Monty Python..."I don't want to get on the cart I'm not dead yet." "Yeah, but you will be." I died laughing every time a saw him. Sigh...I'm such a bad person.

OMG this made me L actually OL!! ?

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Tenebrae said:
I worked in community mental health prior to doing my nursing training. I swear the longer I work in health the more black and twisted my sense of humour gets ?

DITTO!!

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I'm currently on my last prac (emergency centre). They did an education day for us; we learned about spinal injuries and while we were practicing rolling a patient with suspected spinal injury, the quiet male student pipes up with "remember: I'm a guy" (because we had just learned that a bad sign of a spinal injury is an erection). I was feeling a little stressed and that comment made me lose it. I hadn't laughed so hard in months

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Specializes in Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative.

I remember a situation with a patient who was with us for end of life cares. One day we were doing a log roll to clean him I think. Because he was really anxious I got his wife to stand at the head of the bed for reassurance. As we worked I felt a random hand on my butt. Thinking he was feeling affectionate for his wife

I just looked at him and smiled and say "John (not his real name) I think you want to go one butt to your right." we all cracked up

On 12/15/2014 at 2:55 PM, VivaLasViejas said:

Like sirI, funerals are humorous for me as well.

I remember one very well. I was fine until a woman got up to sing "Wind Beneath My Wings". She was loud and OFF-KEY. Now, the one thing that strikes me even funnier is hearing someone's faulty soprano meandering through a song, and I sat there in the church pew with my head bowed, tears squirting out of my eyes, LMAO without making a sound. Thank God I had the pew all to myself (the service was not well-attended). I'm sure it looked like I was prostrate with grief, even though I didn't know the deceased and I was there only to support her son and daughter in law.

Somehow I made it through without giggling and snorting aloud---I'd have had to leave otherwise because I believe in decorum and good manners, and laughing through a funeral Mass is definitely bad form.

I also have trouble NOT laughing when someone is throwing up. Most people get grossed out by the sound, but for some perverse reason it cracks me up. Always has. It's even amusing when I do it. I don't find the accompanying distress humorous at all, just the noise one makes when one is engaged in emesis.

This past weekend my son came to visit, and he had some sort of stomach virus which made him barf several times. I almost bit a hole in my bottom lip to prevent myself from breaking up. I did that a lot when I was a nurse, too.....couldn't let my poor patient know I'm a weirdo who thinks ralphing is funny!

And MY name is Kooky???

Sorry, I just have never heard tell of such, Girl.

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Specializes in Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC.
On 11/15/2014 at 9:04 AM, SeattleJess said:

You'd only be a bad person if you DIDN'T laugh when recalling classic Monty Python bits. Like live liver transplants.

"May we have your liver?"

"I'm using it."

I first saw Python in 1975 when the series began running on PBS stations here. It has turned into a lifelong addiction.

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Specializes in Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC.
On 12/15/2014 at 12:55 PM, VivaLasViejas said:

Like sirI, funerals are humorous for me as well.

I remember one very well. I was fine until a woman got up to sing "Wind Beneath My Wings". She was loud and OFF-KEY. Now, the one thing that strikes me even funnier is hearing someone's faulty soprano meandering through a song, and I sat there in the church pew with my head bowed, tears squirting out of my eyes, LMAO without making a sound. Thank God I had the pew all to myself (the service was not well-attended). I'm sure it looked like I was prostrate with grief, even though I didn't know the deceased and I was there only to support her son and daughter in law.

Years ago, I attended a United Methodist Church. The minister's wife was built like a fireplug: Very short, and about as wide as she was tall. Her voice was barely tolerable. She would always wear dresses, and she had to reach up for the microphone, which made her dress ride up - a lot. I would often hear something resembling retching coming from other pews, which put me on the verge of open laughter.

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