do you ever have "stupid" days at work?

RNDreamer · Apr 10, 2007

:lol2: I've done the same thing...thank goodness I was only going to the grocery store, and not to work...I remember one day being at work and felling unconfortable because my undies felt too tight...I was convinced that I must have gained 10 pounds quickly...I got home a realized that I put my undie on wrong...I was wearing it sideways:uhoh3:

Not only have I gone to work with my pant on inside out but: one morning I was helping a cva left hemi pt put his shoes on, when he asked "did you dress yourself this morning?" I said "yes" wondering why he would ask this. Later in the morning I looked down and noticed I had two totally different shows on. Not even the same color....

SICU Queen · Apr 10, 2007

I've done the same thing...thank goodness I was only going to the grocery store, and not to work...I remember one day being at work and felling unconfortable because my undies felt too tight...I was convinced that I must have gained 10 pounds quickly...I got home a realized that I put my undie on wrong...I was wearing it sideways:uhoh3:

LOL!! :lol2:

wooh, BSN, RN · Apr 10, 2007

Researchers had discovered that while caffeine does indeed help with coding new information while you are learning it that there is a tipping point of sorts.
Flipside is that if you have too much coffee it will prevent your from retreiving long learned knowledge!
Aha!
The researchers had coined it, "tip of the tongue" phenomena.
Gen

OMG! So if I give up the caffeine, I might cure my early Alzheimer's?? Is this good news or bad? :lol2:

madwife2002, BSN, RN · Apr 10, 2007

Once when I was younger I was late for work I rushed had a shower and nothing was going right that day couldnt find clean trousers so I put back on the same pair of trousers I had worn the previous day,

About two hours later I was walking up the ward (I worked in the UK so it was a Nightingale ward a long ward with 28 beds either side, which have curtains seperating them from the next pt) when I felt something sliding down my leg inside my trousers I shook my leg and down the floor flew my pants/underwear from the previous day they slid along the floor about 8 beds along and stopped near the doctors on their round!!!!!!!! There must have been 8 doctors/students on the round all stood around this patients bed I could of died-needless to say as nobody saw what had happened I never admitted they were mine!!! But somebody picked them up and asked who they belonged to :lol2: :lol2:

dubstar · Apr 10, 2007

lol,

I remember setting off a little too early to my clinical placement last year, I parked the car and was thinking hmm my feet are all toasty and warm. I looked down and saw a pair of knee high barbie pink slipper boots on my feet, the left of which had a huge mayaonnaise type splat on them from my sandwich making far too early in the morning.

I didnt have my mobile phone with me to call the ward to say I would be a little late cos I needed to zip back home and change, so I had to walk to the ward and explain to the charge nurse that I had to go home and change my fab pink boots. Not my greatest day

Ruby Vee, BSN · Apr 10, 2007

i've had stupid days, stupid weeks -- even (and i swear this is my excuse for my first marriage) stupid years!

i wear danskos everywhere -- to work, at home, to run errands. one day i came home from work and kicked off my brown danskos to find out that i had on one dansko professional (with a back) and one without a back. both were brown, at least. the interesting thing is, i didn't notice until i got home and my stepdaughter pointed it out. (what can i say? it was a busy day!)

and then there was the time i was stuck in traffic in dc. i used the time to call my folks, and we were having such a good chat i continued chatting with them all the way home. (now that was stupid!) after an hour and a half on the phone, i got home, got out of the car -- and locked my keys in with the car running! fortunately dh was home. i breezed in, handed him the cellphone to "say hello to my folks" and surriptitiously picked up his car keys from the table near the front door and went outside to retrieve my keys. he never knew what happened until mom let it slip -- but she has early alzheimers's, so perhaps he didn't believe her!

twinmommy+2, ADN, BSN, MSN · Apr 10, 2007

There are days when I drink a straight shot of dumb with a stupid chaser, but most days I at least stick to the tall cold glass of stupid.

It usually falls on Friday morning after 4 days off and with the manager watching lol:smiletea2:

herecomestrouble · Apr 10, 2007

Once when I was younger I was late for work I rushed had a shower and nothing was going right that day couldnt find clean trousers so I put back on the same pair of trousers I had worn the previous day,
About two hours later I was walking up the ward (I worked in the UK so it was a Nightingale ward a long ward with 28 beds either side, which have curtains seperating them from the next pt) when I felt something sliding down my leg inside my trousers I shook my leg and down the floor flew my pants/underwear from the previous day they slid along the floor about 8 beds along and stopped near the doctors on their round!!!!!!!! There must have been 8 doctors/students on the round all stood around this patients bed I could of died-needless to say as nobody saw what had happened I never admitted they were mine!!! But somebody picked them up and asked who they belonged to :lol2:

OMG I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one who ever did that:uhoh3: :lol2:

margaretptz · Apr 10, 2007

I love hearing I am not alone, just a lowly student, but I have a long history of being a klutz. The other day, my first time doing the simulator, my very first intervention was to knock over and spill the "urine" out of the urinal hanging on the side rail. And ,my final deed of the day was to trip over a chair leg in a crowded corner of the room and knock another student off the chair and right on her butt!!! It was like pulling the chair out from underneath her! I sure hope I never trip over someone's IV line and pull it out, but I can see it happening :lol2:

Margaret

All the time. It's usually stupid stuff, like I reach over a patient's bedside table to give a pill, and in one swift motion, dump both the water and the water pitcher on the bed. Of course, by now Pt has the Feosol in the mouth and is desperately seeking something to wash it down.
GTubes are the worst. I'll try to flush gently and wind up giving myself and poor Pt a Jevity bath.
I'd like to blame my no-lens bifocals for some of these because they are definitely errors in hand-eye coordination, but I've been like this all my life.

twinmommy+2, ADN, BSN, MSN · Apr 10, 2007

There are days when I drink a straight shot of dumb with a stupid chaser, but most days I at least stick to the tall cold glass of stupid.
It usually falls on Friday morning after 4 days off and with the manager watching lol:smiletea2:

Actually I was just thinking of the day I was getting a load of meds ready at my cart for one pt at 1000. I took them all out of the little packages, and in one fell swoop, sent them flying across the floor in front of my manager who of course laughed and said "thats why I open meds in the pts room". So I get another load of meds for this same pt, take them to the room, open them very carefully one-by-one, and wouldn't you know it, I did it again. By then I was just getting angery with myself and thankfully it didn't happen again with the 3rd batch.

purplemania, BSN, RN · Apr 10, 2007

I had that problem too frequently until I found out I was diabetic. Seems my glucose being out of whack made a difference in my thinking (duh!). Take care of yourself.

Purdue_Nurse · Apr 11, 2007

Once when I was younger I was late for work I rushed had a shower and nothing was going right that day couldnt find clean trousers so I put back on the same pair of trousers I had worn the previous day,
About two hours later I was walking up the ward (I worked in the UK so it was a Nightingale ward a long ward with 28 beds either side, which have curtains seperating them from the next pt) when I felt something sliding down my leg inside my trousers I shook my leg and down the floor flew my pants/underwear from the previous day they slid along the floor about 8 beds along and stopped near the doctors on their round!!!!!!!! There must have been 8 doctors/students on the round all stood around this patients bed I could of died-needless to say as nobody saw what had happened I never admitted they were mine!!! But somebody picked them up and asked who they belonged to :lol2:

:roll :roll :roll LMAO!

It seems like my off days are always the first shift back after a long stretch off. Today was one of them! :uhoh3: