Embarrassing/Clumsy Moments!

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Well, I just had to laugh at myself for this graceful moment..

I was filling out an application at a LTC/SNF, sitting in their nice little seating area in the grand dining room during lunch time. After an hour of rewriting my resume for them onto the facility's application and filling out about 8 essay questions about myself, I get stand up to hand my application to the secretary... Immediately I realize that my foot had fallen asleep, but I was past the point of no return and my brain was telling me to 'put my foot down before you lose your balance!' However, when I put my weight on my totally numb foot, my ankle just caves in my cute little pumps and I nearly fall over. I hobble/fall as best I to the arm rest of the chair I was sitting in, but I have already caused quite a commotion (I think I frightened a few little old ladies). :grn: The secretary, a cna, and the director of human resources all rush over and ask if I'm ok, bless their hearts. I try to explain/laugh that my foot fell asleep and I didn't realize it until I stood up on it. Whoops! I'm at home 'rice'-ing it now, and just thought I'd share my clumsy moment with y'all! :bugeyes:

(and I've been a ballerina for 20 years! jeesh!)

Have any funny/embarrassing/clumsy moments to share? I'm sure we all need a good laugh..

Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

I seem to find invisible bumps in the floor including one time with a full bed pan which went flying all over the floor but thankfully I jumped back so fast that it missed me.

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My first ICU job was in a converted old M/S unit with two-bed rooms. There was a little shelf on the wall in between them where the defibrillator lived (we had one in each room). One day I raised one of the electric beds and took the little shelf right off the wall....$5000 worth of electronics hit the floor.

I dunno what it is about me and electric beds. Once in the same unit I was letting one down and unbeknownst to me there was a footstool underneath it. The bed stopped at the stool (sturdy little bugger, that stool), but the footboard (driven by its motor) kept moving up relative to the bed until it disconnected itself from the bed entirely and fell off with a crash, still tethered by its electrical cord. Then I had to figure out how to put it all back together. I did, but I always looked for footstools after that.

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Awkward moment: saying postmortem care instead of postpartum care---- terrifying and so embarrassing

This is when I went from hospice clinicals to OB clinicals while in nursing school!

Heh. AWESOME.

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"Then add into the equasion the fact that I wear those funny little rubber shoes and have been a recepient of the dredded "Croc Stop" on many occaions.

You know, you are happily walking down a hall minding your own business....walk,walk, walk...STOP, trip....walk,walk,walk...turn and head down another hall and repeat." LOL!!!! This happens to me all the time.

I worked in a psych hospital where they held mock codes by dropping a mannequin on the floor and clicking a stopwatch. These were held by two men. One day, the mannequin dropped and so did I. I'm going through all the motions and doing my thing. When one of the men said good job, I stopped and got up. I failed to realize that the 2 tampons I had in my pocket had worked their way out and onto the floor. I started walking away when one of the men tapped me on the shoulder and said "I think you dropped these." Embarrassing!

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

My most embarrassing moment was first day of first nursing job on what I thought was my dream department.

Get a tour of the place by my preceptor. She takes me in our first patient's room. I reach to the disinfectant by the door ...and proceed to squirt myself directly in the eye.

I let out a squeal of pain, preceptor runs out to check on me. My eye is already cherry red. I try to act like nothing is wrong, and manage to make it to lunch break, at which point I was forced to go to the ER for an eye flush.

I was mortified...talk about first impressions...

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Specializes in Med/Surg,Cardiac.

Dropping a full bottle of Integrillin. Ugh...

~ No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent -Eleanor Roosevelt ~

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Specializes in Pediatric Cardiology.

Everyday, haha! I am seriously clumsy, I can't count the number of times my patients have asked ME if I am okay. It's never caused any harm to the patient, usually just me!

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I was a new CNA I was transfering a patient and somehow when he stood up his head was conveniently right between my nice pregnantly plump boobs. Once I noticed I told him I was sorry.He looked at me and gave one of those sheepish old men grins and said it was perfectly ok. Several months later after I had my baby and had been gone for a while I was working with him again, only he no longer remembered me. He cautioned me on when I help him up because one time he got up "and noticed one cheek on one breast and one cheek on another. It was the best day of my life but probably not hers." I had a hard time from laughing as I realized that I was the girl in the story he was warning me about. Good thing he had a forgetful memory and didn't know it was me!

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

Oh losing my pants was the most embarrassing due to the amount of people around.

Personally horrifying was the night i bent over to check urine output, must have had some bad food and ripped one the whole way down on accident. Wouldnt have been so bad had a family member not been staying on a cot in the room right next to the bed. The things you dont see in a room at night....

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Specializes in Med/Surg,Cardiac.

Every single time I tell a patient that they don't have to turn on the light I phrase it terribly perversely. (i am do used to doing it in the dark...) (i actually do it better in the dark). Etc.

~ No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent -Eleanor Roosevelt ~

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My 2nd semester in school I was flushing a central line. I had the syringe with the 10 mL NS, and no one ever told me to pull the plunger back to pop it, so I pushed forward, away from my pt,of course, but got his wife that was sitting in the chair behind me. Oops:whistling:

Another story, last semester, in Peds, I was emptying my patients urinal and my stethoscope slipped right from my neck into the toilet full of pee!:eek:

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I was working as a PCT on Progressive care unit, and this sick older woman (cancer, bald, fraile) said she needed to use the bathroom. There was a bedside commode and As I got her up to do the stand pivot, she was incontinent of stool and some urine right on my shoe / shoelaces and floor.

After I got her back into bed, I used a towel to wipe the stuff off the floor, and as I was leaning over, my cell phone and pens slipped out of my breast pocked and right onto the floor.

I figure everyone get's pooped / vomited / peed / spit on eventually, it must be a rite of passage.

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