Funniest thing a new nurse said/charted/asked...

lpnstudentin2010, LPN · Apr 20, 2006

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clee1 · Apr 22, 2006

My first day as a Brand New RN with the new RN shine, well, I am shadowing my preceptor, she intorduces me to a pt and tells me to listen to his chest, hoping I would hear the faint murmur. Well the patient is depressed and saddened, so I listin, I look at my preceptor and with the straightest face, tell her I hear a heartbeat. The pt just bursts into laughter.
I use humor in my practice a lot. A husband and wifre were arguing. Husband told the wife who was my patient that she had no heart. I go to listin to her heart sounds. I look at the husband with the straightest face again and said, I have got some bad news, your wife has a heart. They were both in stitches.
I have been known to walk into a room of a pt who ad a craneototomy and tell the pt "Looks like you had a splitting headache." They laugh. Humor serves to purposes, gets the pt to look at their illness with humor, and it gains the trust of the pt very quickly.
Adam, RN

Amen, brother.

I'm the class-clown type.... I hope it doesn't get me into too much trouble.

elizabells, BSN, RN · Apr 22, 2006

Funniest charting I found by a student "uterus is patient and flowing ___ CC's of light yellow urine" for a male...umm might have meant urethra???

Well, it's never good to have an IMpatient uterus, no matter what gender you are.

rgroyer1RNBSN, BSN, RN · Apr 22, 2006

Recently, while orienting a new nurse to the floor, I was reviewing her charting. She charted scrotal edema as..." Scrotal edema the size of a large baking potatoe". I couldn't help but laugh :rotfl:
Anyone else care to share their story?

I was working with a new nurse on orthopedics yesterday and she was having trouble getting a foley in and she charted on our patient the following " Having diffuculty inserting foley due to enlarged ovary" lol now mind you this patient is a male, and besides the whole nursing staff RN's and LPN's were on the floor dying ROFLMAO! LOL

Rod RN

elizabells, BSN, RN · Apr 22, 2006

I was working with a new nurse on orthopedics yesterday and she was having trouble getting a foley in and she charted on our patient the following " Having diffuculty inserting foley due to enlarged ovary" lol now mind you this patient is a male, and besides the whole nursing staff RN's and LPN's were on the floor dying ROFLMAO! LOL
Rod RN

What do you think she really meant? Enlarged scrotum? Prostate? I can't figure it out...

GolfNut · May 13, 2006

What do you think she really meant? Enlarged scrotum? Prostate? I can't figure it out...

Yes it would have been an enlarged scrotum, the size of a baking potato though....OUCH....usually caused by a buildup of fluid in the testical

beautifulb · May 14, 2006

I was exhausted one morning at the end of the night shift just thinking of a cup of coffee. While I was writing a narrative note I wrote "Dunkin Donuts".

Oh boy.

Princess74 · May 14, 2006

I had just finished walking a nursing student thru her first foley cath when she looked up with pride in her voice and announced that it was the first one she had seen that wasn't hard.

Hahahaaaa...you just made my night. Now thats funny!!

danaheil · May 14, 2006

recently seen on operative notes in L&D for a C/S.

"Count correct upon closure of perineum"

instead of peritoneum. I feel sorry for the women that needs perineal closure from a c/s.

daisybaby, LPN · May 17, 2006

I was exhausted one morning at the end of the night shift just thinking of a cup of coffee. While I was writing a narrative note I wrote "Dunkin Donuts".
Oh boy.

Haaaaaa!

zumalong · May 17, 2006

Once had a student chart on uro floor: "Pt. urineating well."

C.G. · May 18, 2006

I had a nurse tech pull me aside after a foley was inserted into a male UNCIRCUMCISED trauma patient. She said "I've seen foleys put in guys before but what was WRONG with his member? Why did it look so funny?"

Ahhhh to be so young............I busted out laughing.