Most Embarassing Nursing Moments

i was working a code once with this really dreamy respiratory therapist. i bent down to the bottom drawer in the cart to get a stylet, and let out a huge fart (i just couldnt bend and hold it in at the same time, i guess). he just looked at me in complete disgust and was like "you are going to send all of us into cardiac arrest with that one".. soooo embarrassing!

I once asked (as a newbie) if I should call the doctor....To get an order to rotate the heplock site.

One of my patients had fallen out of his w/c trying to transfer himself back to bed. Luckily for him, he was uninjured. As per our protocol, I called his family to tell them about the fall. They were very nice, but a little confused. His son questioned "when did this happen?" I told him "about 10 minutes ago". I assured him that he was fine, though and that we would keep checking on him to make sure nothing adverse has happened because of his fall. His son remained confused, however saying "it couldn't have been 10 minutes ago, we've been with him for the last hour." Now it was my turn to be confused. The son explained that he was in fact down the hall with his father talking to me on his cell phone right that very minute. In horror, I looked down at the chart and realized I had grabbed B bed instead of A bed's chart! Very embarrassing!

for me the most embaressing moment is when my instuctor asks me questions i don't know and the worst thing... it's in front of people in the hospital...

I've heard a couple of funny PA announcements - "Code Blue, ward X, ABMU" followed by "what the hell's ABMU?" - um, a new medical unit!

A couple of times - "could the ward with the code please contact switch" because they forgot to say where they were

My favourite - "code red confirmed, cde red, confirmed, code red, confirmed," said very calmly then, very stressed, "SWITCHBOARD!"

I may not be a nurse yet, but I have my own story to share. I was at clinicals going to do my usual head-to-toe assessment on my resident I was taking care of. Suddenly, I hear the call light buzzing off. So I do my QOL, ya know, knock and intoduce myself. As soon as I walked in, I discovered my resident in the BR and the door was open wide. I felt sooo embarassed! so as I take off the call llight and try help the resident off the toilet, my resident says " no, don't help me, I want the other Nurse to do it." I say ok, and then waited for the other nurse to come. I was soo embarasssed because there is nothing worse than walking in on someone using the BR.

i have a super embarassing code red story.

one night i was really busy and was starving, so i put a bag of microwave popcorn in the microwave, hit the popcorn button and walked back out to the floor. i completely forgot about it, and 5 minutes later i heard "code red, ER, code red, ER, code red, ER.." and i look around like a dummy asking "where is the fire???".

it was my popcorn. FD had to come and extinguish the microwave. i was since banned from having any orville redenbacher at work.

My first husband and I moved to a different state, so that meant I was orienting at a new hospital for me.....I was on orientation and following my nurse around and we were at the nurses station and she was reaching up in a cabinet to pull down supplies to start an IV. Suddenly, she said, "Oh for Pete's sake!" and ran around the corner. I thought she was mad about something she couldn't find, so I followed her and noticed she went into a room which I thought was a supply closet, so I nonchalantly opened the door and to my horror, she looked up at me while sitting on the toilet!