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May 21, 2008, 12:34 PM
 Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments
I'm a vegetarian, and eat a lot of beans, broccoli, spinach, etc. Some nights I'm just one big walking fart! Last week I had a particularly musical night on the tele floor, and a nurse walked up to the floor to help with admissions and asked "Who died? It smells horrible up here!" I usually excuse myself by saying "Whew, I'm sorry I'm poluting y'all's air around here."
A couple nights ago, another vegetarian co-worker and I were comparing notes on what we eat and how farty we were.  (I am trying to change what I eat, even if it does mean kicking out foods I really love.  )
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May 21, 2008, 04:10 PM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments
Same thing happened to me when I had my sleep study. I just so happened, my body decided to do a lot of draining. So about every two hours, when I got up,(she having to help me due to all the gadgets I had on me.) I burped, farted, and coughed. After a few hours, the tech said; "My we are gassy tonight aren't we." I said, "Not only gassy, but runny too."
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May 21, 2008, 10:22 PM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments Originally Posted by Ruby Vee  there was egg all over the nutrition room -- the walls, the appliances, the floor, the ceiling, and the nursing assistant . . . .
I had a similar experience in my firs year of nursing, back in 1992. This was before sterilizers were used on most floors to clean the pans. We had the old 'pan hopper', which flushed the liquid waste off, but not the solid.
In my usual rush, trying to cope with 6 acute surgical patients while only 3 months out of training, I ran in with my full pan and placed it in the door of the hopper, released the foot plate to shut the door, and pressed flush. Unfortunately, I didn't wait quite long enough before pressing flush. A jet of water gushed out of the tap, hit the inside of the full pan, and fountained out of the partially open door. There was I, dripping wet, covered in liquid waste!!  Not only was I covered, but the ceiling and the wall behind me also recieved a liberal spraying. While standing there, gasping in shock, I looked sideways and saw the ward maid watching. She looked at me and said "I'll get you a towel so you can clean up the mess." No sympathy, just a request that the pan room be sanitized before she came back in!  | | No. 45 |
May 26, 2008, 11:22 AM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments
While I was in nursing school I was a unit secretary on a Peds floor. I was always eager to help, and had a 19 year old who pushed the call light because he had to use the urinal. This guy was in to get decannulated after TBI from a gunshot. He had been in Inpt rehab for awhile and had to relearn almost everything. I was told by the nurse, help him with whatever he needs...
So I go in and ask what I can do for him, and he told me he needs me to take his penis out of his pants, put his penis into the urinal, wipe him off, etc, etc. I even stayed to help him with his sandwich (cutting it, feeding part of it to him, etc, etc).
The next day I go to work and see him making the rounds on the floor with the physical therapist! He was walking with a rolling walker and waving at the nurses, cracking jokes, and carrying on like a normal guy!
He even came by the nurse's station and gave me a big smirk. I was sooo embarrassed. I've since leared to ask patients "How can I help you to help yourself do this?"  | | No. 46 |
May 29, 2008, 03:59 PM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments Originally Posted by NurseRoRo While I was in nursing school I was a unit secretary on a Peds floor. I was always eager to help, and had a 19 year old who pushed the call light because he had to use the urinal. This guy was in to get decannulated after TBI from a gunshot. He had been in Inpt rehab for awhile and had to relearn almost everything. I was told by the nurse, help him with whatever he needs...
So I go in and ask what I can do for him, and he told me he needs me to take his penis out of his pants, put his penis into the urinal, wipe him off, etc, etc. I even stayed to help him with his sandwich (cutting it, feeding part of it to him, etc, etc).
The next day I go to work and see him making the rounds on the floor with the physical therapist! He was walking with a rolling walker and waving at the nurses, cracking jokes, and carrying on like a normal guy!
He even came by the nurse's station and gave me a big smirk. I was sooo embarrassed. I've since leared to ask patients "How can I help you to help yourself do this?"  Hey there honey, Maybe he wanted to give you a hug????  Good one. | | No. 47 |
Jul 30, 2008, 08:44 PM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments Originally Posted by NurseRoRo While I was in nursing school I was a unit secretary on a Peds floor. I was always eager to help, and had a 19 year old who pushed the call light because he had to use the urinal. This guy was in to get decannulated after TBI from a gunshot. He had been in Inpt rehab for awhile and had to relearn almost everything. I was told by the nurse, help him with whatever he needs...
So I go in and ask what I can do for him, and he told me he needs me to take his penis out of his pants, put his penis into the urinal, wipe him off, etc, etc. I even stayed to help him with his sandwich (cutting it, feeding part of it to him, etc, etc).
The next day I go to work and see him making the rounds on the floor with the physical therapist! He was walking with a rolling walker and waving at the nurses, cracking jokes, and carrying on like a normal guy!
He even came by the nurse's station and gave me a big smirk. I was sooo embarrassed. I've since leared to ask patients "How can I help you to help yourself do this?"
I have been caught this way SOOOO many times. My defense has been to become cynical, and doubt what most patients say. I'm not nasty, I just wait to see proof of what they have claimed before I believe them. I have to say, it's saved me a LOT of trouble over the years!
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Jul 31, 2008, 03:23 PM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments Originally Posted by grace90 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." 
I had to laugh at your post, for I have done the same thing several times! But nothing was as bad as last week when I put a Foley in the wrong patient!! The little lady was alert and oriented, in the ER for something minor, and didn't once say anything about it. I was soooo embarassed when I realized what I had done!  The problem was, both ladies were my patients so I had to go back into her room!!
But, nothing beats the night the ER doc grabbed me. I was working with a very sweet, very competent older ER doc that night. We were log rolling a MVC patient off the backboard and I was holding c-spine at the head. As we rolled off the board, the IV line got caught. I am, um, rather well-endowed, and when I bent forward to catch the IV line I, um, "draped" the patient's face. Well, the poor patient starts saying "I can't breath, I'm suffocating". I'm thinking to myself that we need to hurry, thinking that it was the position the patient was in that was causing the problem. Well, I hear the ER doc say "He's got to have an airway", and before I had the chance to look down or figure out what he was talking about, the doc had "lifted" my chest off the patient. Talk about embaressing!! The doc never said anything about it to me, just looked at me once, turned red, and left the room. The patient fortunately didn't notice (the pain of a pneumothorax, shattered shoulder, and lacerated spleen had his mind occupied). | | No. 49 |
Aug 15, 2008, 05:58 PM
Re: Most Embarassing Nursing Moments Originally Posted by EMTandNurse2B I But, nothing beats the night the ER doc grabbed me. I was working with a very sweet, very competent older ER doc that night. We were log rolling a MVC patient off the backboard and I was holding c-spine at the head. As we rolled off the board, the IV line got caught. I am, um, rather well-endowed, and when I bent forward to catch the IV line I, um, "draped" the patient's face. Well, the poor patient starts saying "I can't breath, I'm suffocating". I'm thinking to myself that we need to hurry, thinking that it was the position the patient was in that was causing the problem. Well, I hear the ER doc say "He's got to have an airway", and before I had the chance to look down or figure out what he was talking about, the doc had "lifted" my chest off the patient. Talk about embaressing!! The doc never said anything about it to me, just looked at me once, turned red, and left the room. The patient fortunately didn't notice (the pain of a pneumothorax, shattered shoulder, and lacerated spleen had his mind occupied).
I love it, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!!! Working on an orthopoedic unit, I know how close you get when rolling, and how many people it takes to do a log roll. "How Embarassment!!" |
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