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!
I seem to have ended up as 'The Funny Guy' on my ward. Some of the things I get up to have gone down in my hospitals' urban legends...
For charity, I surfed a hospital dinner tray down 2 flights of steps at my second job... Ended up on my backside halfway down the second flight... I raised nearly £200 for the hospital to buy a new PS2 for the Paeds day unit. Still... in hind-sight that was not so funny... I had to have an x-ray of my sacrum as I couldn't sit down for 2 days after...,
I once went to answer the phone and punched myself in the eye with the receiver.
One of our domestics and I have a running joke... it always seems I end up having to walk down the corridor she has just mopped and I keep saying one day i'm going to slip on her floor... well about 7 months ago I was walking round the corner with a producer from the BBC City Hospital programme, towards the film unit, talking about the upcoming live broadcast from the ward I work on when I saw the domestic with her mop and said... "One of these days I'm going to..." I never finished the sentence as I slipped on the floor and ended up smacking into the wall. I later found out that the film unit was actually filming the corridor for potential material to use on the opening credits and caught my gymnastics on film... I made a staring role in the units xmas party
Then there was the time that one of the House Officers and I walked onto a ward in the middle of the night carrying an extention ladder... We walked past the nurses station and back out again without saying a word.
I once found one of our consultants ties at the nurses desk... He called a little while later saying he was calling around to see if anyone had seen his tie... Now bear in mind that what follows is based on the fact that he was forever flouting infection control policy... I took the tie to a friend of mine in the lab and we swabed and cultured it... After working out what was growing on it, we mounted it on a piece of paper with a label saying "Infection Vectors come in all shapes and sizes", then laminated it and pinned it to the consultants door...
I once worked an agency day in a local nursing home. Let's just say it was my first and last experience in such an unsafe setting. I was assigned to approximately 32 patients during a 3pm-11pm shift. Well, while doing medication rounds, I was becoming very overwhelmed because none of the residents had ID bracelets on, so I had to depend on nursing aides to assist in identifying the "right" patient. I approached a large room with four beds in it. The first 2 beds were empty, a gentleman was in the 3rd bed and a curtain was hiding the 4th bed with another gentleman in it. All I can remember is a voice yelling out: "I need some cream for my balls!" In my frantic search for this "cream" and wondering if it was humanly possible for me to finish my med. rounds in time, my mind became rushed. Well, I found the cream and went up to the man in bed number 3 where I thought this voice was coming from. He did not have an ID bracelet on and there was no picture of him shown on the MAR. Anyway, I asked: "What is your name?" He did not answer me, so I then asked: "Are you (name of the patient)?" He said: "Yes". I proceeded to place the cream on his privates and then put it away. As I walked out, I heard: "I need some cream for my balls!" The man that really needed the cream was in bed 4. I felt so bad and embarrassed. The man in bed 3 obviously was confused...or was he?
:rotfl: :rotfl: :chuckle That was HILLARIOUS!!! I was rolling on the floor!!!!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :chuckle
By the way, regarding using someone's dad for ventriloquism:
I understand that sometimes when under stress humor is needed, but I don't think it's ever appropriate to use that kind of humor with a patient. If I saw someone doing that to my father, you can bet that I would give whoever was playing with my father's corpse a piece of my mind, and also request to see the manager to have that person reprimanded. I think it's extremely disrespectful to the dead and their family. They should be given dignity, even in death.
If you want to make jokes about it in the break room, I have no control over that, and neither do I care. But if someone physically put their hands on my dead loved one and did that, I would blow my top right there. The deceased's family and friends are grieving, and there is no need to add to the problem.
I think it's extremely disrespectful to the dead and their family. They should be given dignity, even in death.
Dignity is a lot of things to a lot of different people.
Take me, for instance. Dignity would be the last thing I'd be worried about when I'm dead. You could stick me in the garbage shoot for all I cared. I still have a hard time thinking of myself as anything but a piece of waste after I'm gone, anyway.
What I'm saying is there's a lot of different religious and cultural beliefs. SOme have parties when a person dies. Some have solem occasions to mark the passing. SOme, like me, beleive that when the soul leaves, all that's left is just a husk and you can just dump it somewhere.
THIS instance might have been disrespectful to the family/dead person, but the next one might have been insulted if you DIDN'T do something like that. Perhaps the person was a joker or something like that in his life, and he could have been pissed that someone didn't make fun of his passing. My Uncle, when he passed away, wanted everyone to laugh at the whole thing. He didn't want anything serious about his death or his funeral. That's the way he was. In fact, he had all of heaven pissing on our heads the day we burried him b/c he was in suit. They couldn't even get him into the ground b/c of all the water.
I didnt witness this but more than one person told me about this prank. I work nights in a Level III NICU where we have a neonatologist in house 24/7. We have one neo that is notorious for getting cranky if you wake him up for no good reason. One night (in the wee hours of the mornig actually) the charge nurse called him in the callroom and told him, "They need us in section room 2. They cant get the baby out! Its a stat c-section for NVP. Hurry!". She then hung up the phone and told the rest of the nurses to play dumb if he called back. The doc hurries out of the callroom in a sleepy fog and goes to L&D where he gets geared up and makes his way to the section room. The patient is on the table, draped. "Whats this section for??? NVP???"
At which point the nurse standing by the "patients" head moves to the side. There on the table was one of the male Respiratory Therapists who says "Yeah, NVP. No lady parts present."
I dont know why they like to pick on this particular doc but he does like to joke around. On another night they snuck into his callroom with a syringe pump, 60 cc syringe filled with water and some extension tubing. They set the pump to slowly drip the water and put it in the ceiling tile over his bed. Everyone kept waiting for his irate call for maintanence but it never came. Come to find out he had simply moved his bed over so it all ended up on the carpet. Someone got in trouble for that one so I hear.
I can t imagine having the time to play these pranks these days!
Yep. I had an incident yesterday where NOW I know I acted totally inapropriate...but its too late. I definitely have to have a good laugh while I work and some of my fellow nurses are the same way. Unfortionately in the incident I was involved in, someone called up the ADON and she came up and rephremanded the Unit Manager of our floor because she was involved in it too. She told her she has to apologize to all the people who saw the silly thing we did at the desk....blah!
Makes me wonder why the other employee who was "offended" didn't just say something instead of calling the boss. Theres a good example of nurses eating their young huh?
What happened? (if you dont want to talk about it thats ok to)
I used to work in a dialysis unit. One night when we were cleaning the unit after the day's work, my tech (who would soon be an RN working in a Critical Care Unit) picked up the leads from an EKG machine and pl;aced them on his chest and turned it on. Suddenly he cried out "Hey,I'm flat line!" with a real sound of terror in his voice. "Phil",I said "you have to put it in Lead 2 for the way you have the pads" He was embarassed and I still chuckle when I think of it.
This happened to a nurse I used to work with. Working in L&D in the cold north. She would wear a turtle neck under her scrubs. If she had to scrub a c-section she would go into the med room and change out of the turtlenck. She did this numerous times.....until she found out there was a hidden security camera in there!!!
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I seem to have ended up as 'The Funny Guy' on my ward. Some of the things I get up to have gone down in my hospitals' urban legends...
For charity, I surfed a hospital dinner tray down 2 flights of steps at my second job... Ended up on my backside halfway down the second flight... I raised nearly £200 for the hospital to buy a new PS2 for the Paeds day unit. Still... in hind-sight that was not so funny... I had to have an x-ray of my sacrum as I couldn't sit down for 2 days after...,
I once went to answer the phone and punched myself in the eye with the receiver.
One of our domestics and I have a running joke... it always seems I end up having to walk down the corridor she has just mopped and I keep saying one day i'm going to slip on her floor... well about 7 months ago I was walking round the corner with a producer from the BBC City Hospital programme, towards the film unit, talking about the upcoming live broadcast from the ward I work on when I saw the domestic with her mop and said... "One of these days I'm going to..." I never finished the sentence as I slipped on the floor and ended up smacking into the wall. I later found out that the film unit was actually filming the corridor for potential material to use on the opening credits and caught my gymnastics on film... I made a staring role in the units xmas party
Then there was the time that one of the House Officers and I walked onto a ward in the middle of the night carrying an extention ladder... We walked past the nurses station and back out again without saying a word.
I once found one of our consultants ties at the nurses desk... He called a little while later saying he was calling around to see if anyone had seen his tie... Now bear in mind that what follows is based on the fact that he was forever flouting infection control policy... I took the tie to a friend of mine in the lab and we swabed and cultured it... After working out what was growing on it, we mounted it on a piece of paper with a label saying "Infection Vectors come in all shapes and sizes", then laminated it and pinned it to the consultants door...