Nursing School Bloopers

[Jabber964]

Anyone have any funny nursing school stories from their past?

I had to change an IV bag and went in with my instructor to do so. My instructor always made me nervous but I was determined to remain confident and do the task....it wasnt difficult. She proceeded to ask me what was in the bag and I told her normal saline. She told me "ok, go ahead" and stood back to watch. I proceeded to pull out the line to put it into the new bag, but didn't take it off the IV pole before doing so. I received a saline bath with the remaining fluid that was in the bag. My instructor ran to get a towel and we cleaned up the wet floor. She then asked me to step outside the room. I thought I was going to hear it. What I heard was her laughing and telling me that I had to laugh sometimes and "everyohne has a saline bath once and then it never happens again." I still don't believe her but its funny looking back now.

[AR2010]

I needed to weigh my patient, adn didnt realize that there was a built in scale in the patient'd bed, so I went to the supply closet and dragged this huge rusty clang scale across the whole floor, past the unit secretary, nurses station, visitors etc, when I looked up I saw some of the nurses laughing and didnt realize why until I got into the patients room and he said "They usually just push this button here..." Of course it was the button big as day with the scale on it.......AWK--WARD!!!!!

We were at our first rotation ever of nursing school, at a long term care facility, and my instructor told us we had to make sure our patients were up and dressed (no hospital gowns), so me taking this literally, it just so happens that I had a 300+ pound lady with edema of her legs. I go into the room where they keep the clothing and the only thing that was left were sweatpants and sweatshirts...common sense told me that sweats with the gathered bottoms would not be a good idea to put on a woman with edema in her legs, and would cause some constriction, but my instructor did say that we had to dress our patients, so I fought them onto her anyway, just as I finished (covered in sweat), my instructor comes in and I thought she would have a stroke!! She starts ranting and raving about how I should have known not to put the sweats on her knowing she had edema etc....lesson in point, always use common sense!!!!!!!!!