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!
omg thanks for cracking me up. i work in l&d and we have lots of stories and yes we laugh at the patients, not in front of them but lets be honest we are human too. it takes a strong nurse not to laugh in front of them and an even stronger one to go back in there after 15 mins of laughter, with a straight face and act as though nothing hysterical happened.
i one time had an orthodox lady come into triage, refused to change into our gowns for "religious modesty" we allowed it after several explanations about sterility the mess blah blah to no avail. she came out of the bathroom in her own gown stockings and a turban to be sure she was covered. she then proceeded to pull her gown way up over her pregnant belly and flashed me. not what i was expecting and told her that the rn's just triage we don't do lady partsl exams. i still haven't gotten over that.
one of the funniest things i remember as a student was a young black man who came in for dilantin toxicity. he was very confused and i knew something wasn't right. but i asked him assessment questions. when i asked him what kind of family he had, he replied VERY LOUDLY with a straight face and a look of "boy is she dumb" A BLACK ONE! i died inside with laughter i thought am i dumb or what?
Another nurse and I were helping a patient on an Alzheimer's unit get undressed. And he said to her, "No! No! Leave my clothes on... you don't have to do anything and I'll still pay you!" The nurse said we're just getting you ready for bed don't worry... I guess he still wasn't covinced so he said "No, Stop! I have the Clap!" I had to run out of the room laughing...
on l & d we do get some huge women 300+ sometimes. we had this one woman who was pregnant with twins and was 376 on her initial visit she was very sweet and shy and self conscious so we were very supportive. when she went for section i prepped her belly and the attending went and literally taped her fat and hiked it up over her shoulders and taped it to the or table. my co worker and i were glad for masks especially when the pt said now i know i'm too fat. and the attending replied "no you arent"
we also had another 300+ whose fetal heart rate dropped and needed an internal monitor. our female resident rushes in. she is 4'11 and maybe 100 lbs. sticks the monitor up the cooch and keeps going-up to her elbow before she could find baby's presenting part. i was dying cuz i didnt think her arm was gonna come back out as the woman's thighs were bigger than our doc.
when we got pt stable etc we went to the nurses station and she looked at me and asked me to put a string around her ankle next time and pull her back out. i died for days!
:rotfl: :imbar i too can sympathize with you. one night after a 3-11p shift i stopped by to turn in my time sheet in the agency box. i had scrubs on that tied. i got out of the car and walked up to the box and dropped in my time sheet, turned around and my pants dropped to the ground. it was dark out and thier were two cars parked in the upper part of the parking lot. i had no idea if anyone was in them or not. i was so red i think i glowed on the way back to my car. i sure hope no one seen that and i hope there were no security cameras that caught me in action.:imbar :imbar :biggringi
i think this has happened to everyone. one of the nurses i work with was turning a pt with the charge nurse of all people (a male to boot) and ofcourse the pt was tubed and sedated, her scrub pants fell right down to her ankles. well she was holding the patient so she couldnt even attempt to catch them but boy when she bent over to pick them up everyone saw a full moon that night............needless to say she doesnt wear a g-string anymore.
When I was a very young LPN, I was instructed to give a Dulcolax suppository to an Alzheimer's resident who was in her room. When I entered the room, she was sound asleep, lightly snoring.
I pulled the privacy curtain, untaped her Attends. As I gently spread her buttocks, she suddenly yells at the top of her lungs, "Oh, Sal, NOT NOW!!!"
My charge nurse heard her and was crying laughing at the desk when I left the room with my red face.
Same facility, same young nurse: I was toileting a male resident with a CNA. As his butt hit the toilet seat he started yelling, "oooh, oooh!" The aide knew what happened, reached between his legs and flipped his very looooong scrotum over his thigh. I was speechless.
When I was a very young LPN, I was instructed to give a Dulcolax suppository to an Alzheimer's resident who was in her room. When I entered the room, she was sound asleep, lightly snoring.
I pulled the privacy curtain, untaped her Attends. As I gently spread her buttocks, she suddenly yells at the top of her lungs, "Oh, Sal, NOT NOW!!!"
My charge nurse heard her and was crying laughing at the desk when I left the room with my red face.
Same facility, same young nurse: I was toileting a male resident with a CNA. As his butt hit the toilet seat he started yelling, "oooh, oooh!" The aide knew what happened, reached between his legs and flipped his very looooong scrotum over his thigh. I was speechless.
When I was still in nursing school we were on L&D rotation our instructor had taken our clinical group into the nursery to do an assessment on a newborn. The baby was under the warmer and she went through everything and took off the babies diaper (boy) to finish the assessment and turned to us to say now when you do this cover his, she never finished it and took a warm stream of pee right on the kisser. We laughed so hard because most of us knew better because we had kids too. She then picked up the baby and went to swaddle him so we could change the warmer and you guessed it, poop happens, nice green and tary plop on her front and landed in her pocket. She gave us one of those looks daring us to laugh but the staff beat us to it. It was so funny she just said to us jokingly to remember she still had to grade our care plans, the other instructors gave her heck and the next class involved one of the instructors examining a doll and pretending to get wizzed on. She will never live it down.
I admitted a young man to the rehab unit after he rode his Harley down a 200 foot drop. Closed head trauma, etc. I was doing a physical assessment when I noticed his member had some kind of marking on it. The man could not speak, but was fully alert. I kept looking, getting closed to the writting. Finally, becoming uncomfortable with how close I was to him, I said " I guess you have to inflate it to read it" He laughed, coughed and his rehab began. Finnaly after several weeks, we found out it said" F--- Me" It was a riot. :rotfl:
This was all I meant as well. I, too, have a crazy sense of humor at times (how can one not when raising three daughters?), but I don't feel that how long I've "been in the trenches" should have a thing to do with this kind of thing. I've been the person in the hospital bed before, so I know what that feels like. How funny would you find it if you walked into a room and saw a nurse doing something like that to your dead relative? Or as the above poster said, what if the family had heard this supposed "humor" from outside the room? I'm sure a lot of strange things go on that are meant for nurses to cope with the extremes of their job, but for me this incident would cross the line and is just sad.
I hope I never become so "seasoned" a nurse that I forget what human decency towards the dead is. I'm not questioning the original nurse's ability to be a fine nurse-as I'm sure she is, I'm questioning what she felt was funny.And I don't think many of the comments made about me on here have been kind or fair. I simply said I missed the original post's hilarity, and I suddenly am label as "one of those." That's okay. I think I'd rather BE one of "those", then.
I won't post anymore concerning this, as I seem to have created a sort of "side thread" without meaning to. Next time I'll just roll my eyes and sigh when I read something like that, I guess.
Cara
I didnt get it either was the patient supposed to be saying "Hello"?
I think the ventriloquist trick was inappropriate, but I can see how it would be funny during a long stressful shift where you had to look death in the eye more than once. It's a way to cope, although probably not the best one.
I've seen plenty of dead people I've never found any of them amusing.
This was supposed to be funny? Sorry, I missed the hilarity there.
Cara
so, I also assume that he nurse who asked me to aid in transferring a patient who had expired in the w/c by asking..."Can you help me with this, she is all dead weight. " is also not funny? :stone".............."I laughed till I PIMP" what is that?
mari31666
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omg thanks for cracking me up. i work in l&d and we have lots of stories and yes we laugh at the patients, not in front of them but lets be honest we are human too. it takes a strong nurse not to laugh in front of them and an even stronger one to go back in there after 15 mins of laughter, with a straight face and act as though nothing hysterical happened.
i one time had an orthodox lady come into triage, refused to change into our gowns for "religious modesty" we allowed it after several explanations about sterility the mess blah blah to no avail. she came out of the bathroom in her own gown stockings and a turban to be sure she was covered. she then proceeded to pull her gown way up over her pregnant belly and flashed me. not what i was expecting and told her that the rn's just triage we don't do lady partsl exams. i still haven't gotten over that.
one of the funniest things i remember as a student was a young black man who came in for dilantin toxicity. he was very confused and i knew something wasn't right. but i asked him assessment questions. when i asked him what kind of family he had, he replied VERY LOUDLY with a straight face and a look of "boy is she dumb" A BLACK ONE! i died inside with laughter i thought am i dumb or what?