funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

cre8tivRN · Sep 1, 2005

I thought of another time....

We had a nurse with a bad back and some sciatic pain. And when it got too bad, she would go and lay on the floor in the break room for a while to see if it would help. Well one night, the respiratory therapist went into the breakroom and was watching tv, which was pretty loud, and she apparently followed into that room and layed onto the floor. When he was done watching the video on the tv he turned around to leave the room, when he saw her on the floor with her eyes closed, and yelled at the top of his lungs....."OMG, ARE YOU OKAY?,,,,,,HELP, I NEED HELP IN HERE!!!!!!!"

All of us came rushing in to see what had happened, as she was explaining to him why she lays on the floor. :wink2:

Cute_CNA, CNA · Sep 1, 2005

One night in the icu, I needed help to turn a patient who was on a vent, and sedated with a versed drip. I had asked a nurse to come into the room, and she followed. We went to both sides of the patient and proceeded to grab the lift sheet when she said........"Wait just a minute, I have to FART!". She then proceeded to back up from the bed, turn around, lift up a leg, and farted as loud as can be. She then returned to the bed grinning to herself and helped me lift the patient.
I couldn't wait to get out of the room. I about died laughing inside. I couldn't wait to "put on a play" for the nurses in the nurses break room and replay that moment for them. They were laughing so hard. We still laugh to this day!
Anyone have any others to share????? :chuckle

:chuckle What did the patient do?

grace90, LPN, LVN · Sep 1, 2005

The only one I can think of is when an lpn was reporting off to the rn at the end of a particularly busy, hair-pulling night shift. They were discussing a patient's lung sounds and the lpn accidentally described what she had auscultated as "scattered weazles". :chuckle :chuckle I still rib her about that once in a while. :)

andre · Sep 1, 2005

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this made me snort, i was laughing so hard!

I thought of another time....
We had a nurse with a bad back and some sciatic pain. And when it got too bad, she would go and lay on the floor in the break room for a while to see if it would help. Well one night, the respiratory therapist went into the breakroom and was watching tv, which was pretty loud, and she apparently followed into that room and layed onto the floor. When he was done watching the video on the tv he turned around to leave the room, when he saw her on the floor with her eyes closed, and yelled at the top of his lungs....."OMG, ARE YOU OKAY?,,,,,,HELP, I NEED HELP IN HERE!!!!!!!"
All of us came rushing in to see what had happened, as she was explaining to him why she lays on the floor. :wink2:

Faeriewand, ASN, RN · Sep 1, 2005

I am just dying laughing at these! :chuckle OMGosh! Too funny! :coollook:

Super_RN, BSN, RN · Sep 1, 2005

OK, now if this happened to me, I would probably vomit, but it was hilarious because it wasn't me...

One night another nurse and I were cleaning up a disasterous code brown (patient was sedated, on the ventilator). He got some poop on the outside of one of his gloves and then sort of scratched his cheek with that hand, leaving a streak of runny poop across his face. :barf02: I was laughing so hard I thought I was going to pee myself and HE HAD NO CLUE! I couldn't hardly get the words out "You have poop smeared on your cheek!" When he discovered it (quickly, the smell from his cheek to nostrils couldn't have taken long) he wiped it off with a paper towel and then used alcohol pads across his entire face...But oh, the look of war paint was hilarious! :rotfl:

hospicemom · Sep 2, 2005

I was still in nursing school when this happened.......but I was extremely nervous one day and my instructor was looking over my shoulder as I prepared to draw up insulin to give a pt. I confidently ( ya right) took out a 3cc syringe and a needle...attempting to do the conversion from units to cc's out loud for my instructor, I realized...somthing just wasnt right.....hehe...once I realized this was impossible and i was having "one of those days" we both just broke out laughing......then I grabbed the insulin syringe.

Cute_CNA, CNA · Sep 2, 2005

OK, now if this happened to me, I would probably vomit, but it was hilarious because it wasn't me...
One night another nurse and I were cleaning up a disasterous code brown (patient was sedated, on the ventilator). He got some poop on the outside of one of his gloves and then sort of scratched his cheek with that hand, leaving a streak of runny poop across his face. I was laughing so hard I thought I was going to pee myself and HE HAD NO CLUE! I couldn't hardly get the words out "You have poop smeared on your cheek!" When he discovered it (quickly, the smell from his cheek to nostrils couldn't have taken long) he wiped it off with a paper towel and then used alcohol pads across his entire face...But oh, the look of war paint was hilarious! :rotfl:

Code brown. How appropriate. :rotfl:

cre8tivRN · Sep 2, 2005

:chuckle What did the patient do?

thank goodness the patient was sedated enough not to respond to it at all.

Sapphy, BSN, RN · Sep 2, 2005

This just happened the other day.... On a taped report a nurse called a Don Joy brace a John Boy brace.... they will be Walton's brace's from here on out LMAO

gr8rnpjt, RN · Sep 2, 2005

Anyone have any others to share????? :chuckle

I was working 3-11, one other RN, on med surg. We were standing at the desk and my patients family came out to say that they didn't think Dad was breathing. The other nurse and I sent the visitors out and pulled the curtains. I stood on one side, she on the other. I was using my stethoscope listening for lung sounds and I assumed she was planning to feel for a carotid pulse. All of a sudden, she turned his head towards me ( I was bending over, inches from his face) and pulled down on his chin. In her best ventriloquist voice, she said, "hello". Unfortunately, it was my patient and I had to try to tell the loved ones that Dad had indeed ceased to breathe without losing my composure. When I got to the charting room I laughed till I PIMP!