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Mar 08, 2008, 11:48 AM
 Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments
I, too, have had experienced many embarrassing moments. One that comes to mind sticks out more than others. I work with an orthopaedic surgeon. We were seeing patients one day, and like I normally do, I walked in a patient's room along with the doctor to discuss her complaint of "hip pain." She was a very obese patient, and proceeded to stand up, turn away with her back toward us, and she pulled down her pants! Underwear and all! She said, "Doc, I think I've growed a third hip!" She stood there, for what seemed like 5 minutes with her pants down trying to get him to agree that she has somehow "growed" a third hip. Haha...it's so hard to hold in laughter sometimes, but I managed.   | | No. 32 |
Mar 19, 2008, 04:49 AM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments Originally Posted by reynaldo lerio  WELL,...there are thing that science can't explain... I too encountered dead person came back to life twice that was during my OJT as BSN, RN, one in ER and the other was in the OR. In my disgrace I joint the police force and arrest the person who came back to life (the one in OR) and witnessed as police posuer buyer in court, he was convicted for 20 yrs imprisonment for selling Illegal Drugs. THATS LIFE.
GLAD TO SEE I'M NOT THE ONLY NURSE WHO'S WITNESSED THE IMPOSSIBLE. SORRY ABOUT THE UNFORTUNATE END TO YOUR EXPERIENCE, HAVING TO ARREST THAT MAN.
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Apr 05, 2008, 01:49 AM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments
A couple of the nurses in one of the units at my hospital (a large University teaching/trauma center) wanted to warm a towel in the microwave. They did not know you had to wet the towels first...
So they put a stack of towels in the MegaNuke 9000 that Dietary has in the meal room, and then walked back to the desk.
This unit was known as not the swiftest floor. The sort where some really skilled nurses have work their butt off doing extra duty, covering for other nurses on the floor who should have "moved on" by now.
So, they got busy working on something else and the towels burst into flame inside the closed oven. Rather than doing something logical like shut off the oven or use a fire extinguisher, they simply closed the door to the room with the towels burning in the running oven and started planning to evacuate the patients.
When the fire crew responded, they put it out and the damage was mainly confined to the oven, but the unit had to share meal space with their sister ward for a couple weeks while the room was remodeled/repainted/ceiling tiles replaced.
Oh, and a new MegaNuke 9000, with a sign on the front explaining that only dietary staff were allowed to touch it.
I was involved in an electrical fire once in the same hospital about four years earlier. When I saw the fire in the x-ray equipment cabinet, I went over and pulled all the large power breakers in the room. Engineering kept praising me for my actions, which I thought were incredibly obvious. After the towel-fire, I could understand why.
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Apr 05, 2008, 02:23 AM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments
I was a new grad and the patient me and my preceptor were taking care of was going to be cardioverted. I was SOOOO excited! So I am stand in the back so I am not in the way and even though the doctor said "clear" I guess I just didnt expect the patient to jump and and yell. Scared me so bad that I jumped bout a foot in the air, hastily backed up, and hit the button that flushes the toilet  . I turned 100 shades of red and the doctor looks and me and goes " bit new arent ya"
fun times
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Apr 05, 2008, 08:30 AM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments
I'm a float, but usually am sent to med/surg floors or rehab. About once a month or so I am sent to postpartum/gyne. That unit is layed out totally different.
One night, I went into my patient's room, BUBBLED her and talked to her about breast/bottle concerns she was having, and even charted on her. Then somehow I realized I had assessed the wrong mom in the wrong room. Ugh! 
Another shift, I went in to check on my patient who was supposed to be a fresh C-section. This gal was dressed, in her own clothes, but I went ahead and assessed her thinking she must be one tough cookie, but when I checked her incision it was steri-stripped. That's when I got the idea I had the wrong pt again, and that was clinched when I told her that I was going to be given a Rhogam shot soon and she told me she didn't need it because she was Rh+. I backed out of the room and never went back in, thinking "Oh, crap, I did it again."  | | No. 37 |
Apr 05, 2008, 08:46 AM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments Originally Posted by Scrabbler As a nursing student I worked in a nursing home. I was sitting in report one morning after being called in for a shift. Drinking my coffee, still waking up I realized something wasn't right--I had forgotten to put on my bra!! Luckily (and embarassingly) one of our residents wore sportsbras and was kind enough to help me out...can't say I didn't get teased about it!
I also did that. I usually work 12s but had volunteered off for the first four, during which I took a good nap in my pajamas.  I never sleep with a bra on. When the alarm went off at 10:15 pm  , I jumped out of bed, put on my uniform, threw together a lunch and dashed out. I was seeing my first patient of the night when I realized I was completely braless. At least I had put a shirt under my scrubs, but my other female coworkers got a good laugh when I told them.
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Apr 05, 2008, 09:00 AM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments Originally Posted by peridotgirl 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. 
What I hate is going into a male pt's room to check on them, and they're using the urinal. I usually apologize and tell them I'll be back in a moment and pull the curtain.
| | No. 39 |
Apr 05, 2008, 04:18 PM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments Originally Posted by careerchoices A couple of the nurses in one of the units at my hospital (a large University teaching/trauma center) wanted to warm a towel in the microwave. They did not know you had to wet the towels first...
So they put a stack of towels in the MegaNuke 9000 that Dietary has in the meal room, and then walked back to the desk.
This unit was known as not the swiftest floor. The sort where some really skilled nurses have work their butt off doing extra duty, covering for other nurses on the floor who should have "moved on" by now.
So, they got busy working on something else and the towels burst into flame inside the closed oven. Rather than doing something logical like shut off the oven or use a fire extinguisher, they simply closed the door to the room with the towels burning in the running oven and started planning to evacuate the patients.
When the fire crew responded, they put it out and the damage was mainly confined to the oven, but the unit had to share meal space with their sister ward for a couple weeks while the room was remodeled/repainted/ceiling tiles replaced.
Oh, and a new MegaNuke 9000, with a sign on the front explaining that only dietary staff were allowed to touch it.
I was involved in an electrical fire once in the same hospital about four years earlier. When I saw the fire in the x-ray equipment cabinet, I went over and pulled all the large power breakers in the room. Engineering kept praising me for my actions, which I thought were incredibly obvious. After the towel-fire, I could understand why. I've been a nurse for long enough that microwaves did not exist when I started. When we got the first one on our floor, one of the staff thought it would be a good idea to reheat the patients breakfasts before passing the trays. This went well for a few days, and then the weekend came. We were short staffed, and in the interest of saving time, the nursing assistant (which is what we called them then) decided to save some time. The patients were having boiled eggs and cold cereal, so she put everyone's boiled eggs into the microwave at the same time.
Do you have ANY idea what kind of a mess 60 boiled eggs can make when they all explode inside your microwave at once? The noise? The smoke? Not to mention the SMELL! Thank GOD the whole microwave didn't explode, but it blew the seals off the door and there was egg all over the nutrition room -- the walls, the appliances, the floor, the ceiling, and the nursing assistant . . . .
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