April Fools Day

I am working nights tonight and my coworkers have a bit of a fun prank war going on while they are on their breaks. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for good April Fools pranks/jokes. Obviously they need to stay professional and can't be mean-spirited and preferably not take too long to set up (they have two 15 min breaks and a 30), but other than that it would probably be OK.

Any ideas would be appreciated as I don't have time to get involved too often LOL

[kessadawn, BSN, RN]

I planted rubber mice all over the unit. Tonight I'm bringing plastic cockroaches. They are always a big hit!

[rkitty198, BSN, RN]

I was on my way to medicate a patient with a pyridium tablet (orangy brown tablet) when one of our GI docs who rudely called me over to ask how his patient was doing.

I told him that his patient was defecating undigested pills (which she was) and I put the medicine cup down on the table (to make him think this was the pill she defecated). He then picked up the cup and sniffed it!

It was an April Fools joke that went both ways this time :)

[fuzzywuzzy, CNA]

I put a chair alarm in the bedside drawer of one of my alert residents and told him to slap it and shut the drawer after I left the room so people would come running and not be able to find where it was coming from. He got a kick out of it.

[Forever Sunshine, ASN, RN]

fuzzywuzzy said:

I put a chair alarm in the bedside drawer of one of my alert residents and told him to slap it and shut the drawer after I left the room so people would come running and not be able to find where it was coming from. He got a kick out of it.

LOL! I'll do that next year.

I could get a couple good ones with the chair alarms.

[RescueNinja]

lckrn2pa said:

We called transport to take a post code down to morgue, the two guys working that day were both in nursing school and always hung out in the ER with us whenever they could so they get there and start out of the trauma bay with the pt, who is actually one of the surgery residents and he sits up moaning and groaning as they get out of the room. One ran behind the desk and the other straight out the ambulance bay doors. Even the patients got a big laugh out of it.

That's an excellent prank!! Did the runaway ever come back??? LOL

[RescueNinja]

fuzzywuzzy said:

I put a chair alarm in the bedside drawer of one of my alert residents and told him to slap it and shut the drawer after I left the room so people would come running and not be able to find where it was coming from. He got a kick out of it.

Good one!! I could do that even on a busy night!!

[AggieNurse99, BSN, RN]

Go to Google or Bing and change the language to either Pirate or Bork!

[RescueNinja]

AggieNurse99 said:

Go to Google or Bing and change the language to either Pirate or Bork!

Ohhh good one! Unfortunately we don't have *any* internet access other than our e-charting site otherwise I'd definitely do that!

[MomRN0913]

noyesno said:

All I can think of are pranks involving laxatives. Probably because I'm feeling kind of constipated today. TMI, I know. Hope you think of something good! ?

Funny you say that.....

My coworker didn't intentionally prank me, but we had all went out to dinner prior to a shift for another coworker's farewell. My stomach hurt so I asked her if she had Maalox on one of her patients. She said yes, and handed me the single dose cup. I chugged it. Well, soon after I was running to the bathroom. I looked in the drawer and she gave me MOM instead! I learned a few lessons. Always check your med, (on her part and mine) and don't take patients meds. Luckily, I can still joke about it until this day.