Best & Worst April Fool's Pranks

[Fran_Nurse]

Early morning shift in A&E (ER) we got one of the nurses to lay in rhesus on a trolley and covered her like she was dead then sent in the student nurse to clean the body before sending it down to the morgue, the nurse had been holding a bag of frozen peas over her arm so it was cold. When she touched the arm that was hanging out of the covers the nurse sat up, the student nurse almost wet her knickers.

She saw the funny side later.

What are your best and worst pranks?

Did someone get you?

Or did you get someone else?

[banditrn]

rnmommy23 said:

We had a doc that would always come in the morning and look at his pt's catheter bags, checking urine color ouput...

So, we took a new bag and hooked it up on a pt's bed, hid the real one and when the doc turned the bag around to check he was sure surprised to see goldfish swimming around. It was all we could do to keep a straight face until he saw it.

Oh, my, wish I could have been there!

[screwielouie]

THAT'SDEFINITELY ONE FOR THE RECORD! HAHAHAHAHA ?

[harley007]

My husband was working in another state when I was 4 months pregnant with my identical twins. He knew we were having twins and I would call him with an update after my routine OB visits. On April 1st I called him to say they did an additional ultrasound and surprise we were now having triplets ... just silence for two minutes until the "April fool". Can't repeat what he said!

[amandahqtpie]

This wasnt for April fools but it was pretty funny. I was a nursing student (just passed nclex 5 days ago by the way). I was precepting on nights with this lady that was pretty cool, we got along well and both had the same twisted sence of humor. She had taken an admit, and I myself had4 patients. She went to lunch in the middle of the night and didnt tell me. Her patient had just had a hip replacementand needed to use the bed pan. So I put the patient on the bedpan, and then decided to play a prank on her for not telling me she was leaving. I had one of the nurses run into the lounge and freak, telling her that I had just put her patient on the bed pan and dislocated her hip. Funny think was she believed it, but finished her sandwich before coming to check. If that were me I would absolutely flip out.

Its kinda fun doing little obvious things when you are a new nurse, Every time I have someone check my insulin and its lantus, I always make it a point to say that there is say....20 units of lantus, and 10 of NPH. Gets a good look from em everytime. Its also kinda funny after I have started an IV to say ( not in front of the patient). That I had a really hard time finding a good artery. Its all about shock value

[camost]

Not a Fool's Day prank, but fun nonetheless...

I used to work at a Job Corps Center. On Wednesdays, the new enrollees would come thru medical for their physical. One aspect was a urine drug screen. Gotta love apple juice and specimen cups. Its funny how you can tell the first person in line that you test for drugs by tasting the urine and all the rest of them fall for it in turn...

Once, while working CCU on nights... We got a new tele box set up in a room. We needed to test it, so I got hooked up to the monitor. Then, as a goof, we jiggled the wires to make it show V-tach. The poor monitor tech was calling code blue before it even dawned on her that there wasn't a patient in that room. (It was a slow night and even the code blue team thought it was funny.)

Oh, and right after I got my kitten this year, I went to a pot luck dinner. I made kitty litter cake. It was very realistic looking. And very delicious!

[camost]

Another nurse called the charge nurse and said get over here quick, they are fighting in the nurses station.

We did this last year... it was my house sup's birthday. She was downstairs on a smoke break. We set up the break room for her birthday, cake, candles, and a few gifts. Then we called her on the cell phone and told her that me and another nurse were getting into it. (the two of us were in the background, making fight sounds, including punches)

When the house sup got up there we broke out into Happy Birthday.

Oh yeah, we got her a Ouija Board for her birthday since she was into ghost stories. She was too afraid to take it home, so it sat in the break room for weeks.

[athena55, BSN, RN]

Hello Everyone!

I just now saw this thread posted and although this happened a few moons ago, I shall never, ever forget it.

I was charge nurse on night shift (before we changed to 12 hours) and before I had come in for report the evening nurses got Annie out of the closet, dressed her up in a patient gown, put up some Bucks traction on her leg, then attached a training EKG monitor up to her.

As soon as I sat down for report I was told that the newest admit was a GSW to the leg. Just as they were starting to give her history, the "monitor" started to go through all kinds of rhythms, and for good measure they had put some diluted betadine over the sheet that was covering the traction. Ohmygoodness I just about had my own MI....I flew over to the bedside asking them to"... stop sitting on yer orifices, call a code, what's the patient's last H&H....." I was so busy barking out orders that I realized it was a joke when I threw off the sheet to feel for a carotid. Taped to her "chest" was a sign "Happy Aprils Fools Day...We Gotcha!"

Thanks for making me giggle (again)

athena

[beachmom]

Before I was a nurse I did medical transcription at home for a private practice doctor. I had been having computer trouble off and on for a few weeks. On April 1st I printed the first page of the transcription in a terribly hard to read font with the note "I'm sorry Dr. M, my computer is having trouble again, and this is the only font I could get to work." He was really upset until he turned to the next page that said "April fool!" He thought it was so funny, he asked for the page and my note to show to his friends.

[CMCRN]

I worked in a Labor and Delivery unit with central monitoring. At change of shift on April 1, 11:30 PM, I got in the bed, piled pillows to look bigger under sheets, put the fetal heart monitor on my heart then continuously kicked my leg to elevate my heart rate to about 80-90, (normal fetal rate should be 120-160). One of the other nurses gave report and said they had called the doctor, this heart rate had been going on for some time, there was meconium, she was a multip about 6 cm, and he refused to come in, they had tried to put an FSE on but the pt was 300 pounds and no one could get it. One nurse jumped up from report said I"ll get it! Ran in the room and had gloves on and was coming at me with the IFSE,(I had an O2 mask on and not only did she not recognize me, she did not even look so intent was she on her task) I had to yell Tracy Tracy it's me, April Fools before she stopped!

[CMCRN]

OK I have another one. We love April 1! We are a High Risk OB unit and often get referals from other local hospitals. Often they are on Friday night and we called them Friday night dumps. We always groused we have to take everything and never get to send anything out. Well April 1 st one year we got a patient , 350 pounds, 24 weeks with PROM. When she got to us we discovered that they had forgotten to mention that she was also TWINS. A couple of hours after she got there we convinced the resident on duty that we should call up the hospital and say the pt was stable and we were sending her back! Which she did very professionally and convincingly! The Dr at the other hospital was loudly protesting when we all gathered around the phone and yelled APRIL FOOLS!! He did not have a sense of humor and wrote us all up.

[AfloydRN, BSN, RN]

Told one of our ER doctors he had to pronounce this code from the field that was down a long time and never had a chance. Sent him into the dark trauma room. He uncovered the sheet and a fellow RN jumped out at him. I swear he didn't talk to us for a week. Gross one- put surgilube on stethoscope earpieces and on telephones. Leave one small, med and large glove in each empty box.