Embarrassing moments?

baseline · Oct 30, 2002

I"m going to inject this under your foreskin,you'll feel a little pinch" His eyes got quite a bit larger.He clearly wasn't as intoxicated as I'd

Very funny!

I have one more (there are really too many to count......).

I was working in ICU and we had a very large 5 year old child with a trach. This is back in the 70's. The ENT doc was going to change the trach for a smaller one, and the child had other ideas. Now this ENT doc was about 6'3'' with a short fuse. And this large uncooperative child had ideas of his own.

All the other staff were involved with a new admission who wasn't doing so well. I was incharge and the other nurses were fairly new and inexperienced. I was determined all would go well and get back to the critical patient. Miss Efficiency and all. Miss Responsibility.......Miss This is MY Shift and ALL will go WELL..........

uh huh. Should have called me Miss Hap.

Things did NOT go well and the suction was ripped off the wall and the child fought and yelled and the doc stomped and acted like the child..........it was lovely.....

Determined to finish this.....I tackled this child holding the flashlight in one hand ( doc didn't like the lighting...) and the childs hands in the other.........I had my head towards the childs feet, arm wrapped around his legs....and I reached up with DETERMINATION and clung to this charming little beings sweaty hands.............so proud of myself and as he pulled away I tightened my grip.......

All was quiet.........when a deep voice said "Excuse me. But this would be much easier if you would let go of my hand."

oops.

WV Hillbilly RN · Nov 8, 2002

I've got one that absolutely turned me as red as I had ever been in my life! I was on the job..... my very first day as nurse extern and I had a 400 pound patient. This guy wanted to sit up, so I told him to let me get some help...... at this point, he grabbed me and started pulling himself up with me as his pull toy...... being a little aggrivated with him, I got him up on the side of the bed and said," Now, are you ok?" . . . he replied with "nope....I'm sitting on my testicles and you're gonna have to dig em' out"..... OK... you remember those non-judgemental looks that we are supposed to carry around all the time????? I lost mine!!!! BUT, while trying to remember what page in my text book this procedure was on, I (and this is the best part) got on my knees in front of this guy and went to digging..... didn't realize they could have ever possibly been swollen to that extent and thought I had them all, but to my surprise, there was more! It didn't hit me until after it was over that it must have looked really good for me to be on my knees in front of this man with my hands buried up digging his testicles out from under him! It's a million wonders I didn't just quit that day! Needless to say, I went back to school and asked my instructor if there was any written procedure for this and we both just rolled laughing!!!!!!

OBNurseShelley · Nov 9, 2002

I was helping a patient back to bed from the bathroom and assisting her with the IV pole, her husband was sitting in a chair sord of in the middle of the room and i was walking backwarks and I just kept backing up and backing up and ending up stumbling and sitting right on his lap in the chair, I was laughing so hard I couldn't get up, the patient almost fell over she started laughing, it was hilarious and everyone at the desk wondered what was going on in my room because we were all laughing histerically.......needless to say i was beet red!

ShelleyERgirl, LPN · Jan 20, 2003

:imbar :chuckle

When I was brand new to the nursing profession, I was in the Navy stationed in Puerto Rico in the ER. An elderly Puerto Rican dependent wife came in with urinary retension and had to have a straight cath done. At the time I had only done about three before that so I volunteered to get more experience. Little did I know what kind of experience I was about to get! Since this little lady was pretty old, about ninety, her anatomy was a little closer together and not as clearly defined. I inserted the cath into her urethra and was waiting for the flash of urine. Nothing. I pulled back and little bit and tried again. Nothing. I did this one more time and noticed her breathing getting a little heavier and she was getting how should I put it, a little moist , after trying this a couple more times, her legs start shaking a little bit and she starts going, " adios mio, adios mio" in this quivery voice, which means " My God, My God"! I finally realized instead of helping to relieve her urinary retention problems, I was relieving her sexual tension problems I wanted to die of embarrasment and ran out of the room in disgust. Another nurse went in and finished the procedure, but when the old lady left she saw me and gave me this big toothy grin! I always thought she probably left and smoked a post coital cigerette when she got home!

Michelle;)

Sleepyeyes · Jan 20, 2003

Ok, picture this: i"m 18, working in a LTC and the orderly's off, so that means I get all his patients-- all the men.

I give the urinal to this one old guy who's in post-CVA, and when i come back, he says he's done.

So I tip up the urinal to take it away, and he stops me with a look of alarm. I look down. "It" is still in the urinal.

so i pull back

and back

and back......

by the time i finally freed Willy, the old dude had the biggest grin on his face watching my hard-to-conceal amazement.

and I was sooooooooo :imbar:

itsme · Jan 22, 2003

I was passing meds, and went to give a lady hers, her water cup was empty so I said "just a minute while i fill your water dish"!! Obviously I had my dog on my mind or something!! Worst part was there was a CNA in the room, who is a good friend of mine, and she told everyone about the water dish thing!! :)

rachel h, BSN, RN · Jan 29, 2003

This didn't happen to me but I witnessed it...

I used to be a CNA in the PACU, which also had an outpatient pain clinic in it. There was this one anesthesiologist who was so incredibly nice, always helping out with little things like getting patients in the wheelchair, etc.

One day him and the nurse were helping an older lady into a wheelchair. He was behind the wheelchair, and as he went to maneuver it into place, the drawstring ties on his scrub pants got caught between his hand and the wheelchair handle and in one swift movement he untied his pants! I felt so bad for him... he was so embarrassed!

But it was funny nonetheless...

mark_LD_RN · Jan 29, 2003

well hard to say which embarrassing moment was worse for me. I give the 3 tops ones in my mind in order,let me know what you think.

1) was new grad working in L&D had new beds , I was trying to put the foot back on the bed i had pt still up in stirrups, i went to push on bottom part of break away bed to be sure it was looked and fell face first .:)

2) I was checking a patient and she blurts out with her husband and a couple visitors " hey while your in there could you work on my G spot for awhile." that left me speechless.

3) I was positioning a patient for an epidural,had her put her hands between her legs and slump over, as i stood in front of her i let her rest her head on my chest. the next thing i know she was grabbing my package. I stepped away tried to act like nothing happened,husband was standing next to her. he says" she got ya ,you need to watch her shes got roman hands"

rachel h, BSN, RN · Jan 30, 2003

LOL!

:eek: what kind of L&D unit is this that you work in? :eek:

OBNurseShelley · Jan 30, 2003

OMG mark, that is too funny....LMAO

Tilleycs · Jan 30, 2003

Man, these are TOO much. More, more! I sit behind a computer all day. Trust me, nothing funny EVER happens in the IT field.

Dr. Kate, BSN, RN · Jan 30, 2003

It's been years ago and thigns were sometimes a bit lax in the safety area. In ICU we had fewer TVs than rooms. The TVs were on high stands and went from room to room. The cords were of varying lengths and depending on the room and the patient's visualy acutiy sometimes were stretched a distance and 12-18 inches off the floor.

The plastic surgeon was at the head of the bed suturing the patient's face, the TV at the foot of the bed (door end of the room), cord 15 inches off the floor. I scurried in with something, tripped gracefully over the cord, slammed onto the floor elbow first, didn't knock the TV over, and had both the surgeon and the patient asking how I was as I delivered whatever I was bringing into the room and slunk out, pretending I was fine. Mostly embarrassing and beat when I slipped on water and fell on my orifice.