Funny/Embarrassing Moments of Nursing School

Published

Now that I have graduated I can't help but sit back and think of my most embarrassing or Blush Worthy moments during nursing school.

My most memorable was during clinical my first time giving a Lovenox injection. I was so nervous I forgot to take the cap off :roflmao:. So i go to the site and attempt to inject it and it makes the click noise and my patient make this whaling scream OUCH!!!! Sooo her son who happened to be a doctor was in the room looks up to me and says " Please get the injection right PLEASE!. So my nurse looks at me and was like you didn't take off the cap (The woman screamed for no reason) LOL So I'm standing there looking crazy in the face:unsure: and had to get another one and do it over LOL!! I will never forget that day!!!

I have many more but that one sticks out to me because it was so embarrasing :x3:

Anyone have any funny stories from School or Clinical I'm sure we all do LOL

Up Vote Up Vote ×

That's hilarious Kellz! Last night I went into a patients room and put some hand sanitizer in my hands and rubbed them together. It was a strange sanitizer too because no matter how much I tried to rub it in, it just wouldn't. The patient finally looked at me and said, "You know that's soap right?" Whoops!

Up Vote Up Vote ×

HAHAA!!!! I think I've done that before as well springchick1

Up Vote Up Vote ×
That's hilarious Kellz! Last night I went into a patients room and put some hand sanitizer in my hands and rubbed them together. It was a strange sanitizer too because no matter how much I tried to rub it in, it just wouldn't. The patient finally looked at me and said, "You know that's soap right?" Whoops!

Omg I've done this before too!!!! You're not alone!

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Oh my gosh as soon as I saw the title I thought about something from my first semester fundamentals clinical. This was like week 2 of clinical and I was terrified. I was at a patient's bedside about to get her meds ready for her g-tube. I already had gloves on and I realized I didn't close the curtain (it was a semi private room) and I didn't want to touch the curtain with my clean gloves so I asked my instructor to close it. It was my first time ever giving meds so I'm shaking like a leaf and terrified because I forgot to close the dang curtain and I thought I was going to fail clinical or something. Well the curtain got stuck in the track so my instructor is pulling on it and pulling on it and didn't realize my patients roommate was on the other side of the curtain. My instructor was smacking the poor lady with the curtain. The lady didn't say a word while she was being smacked with the dang curtain but finally grabbed it and called my instructor a b---- and went into the bathroom, slamming the door shut behind her. My patient laughed hysterically and my instructor said "well I guess that's the first and last time you will forget to close a curtain! Oops!" Luckily I passed clinical and we laugh about it to this day.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Junior year I was in my second med-surg rotation and me and another student were helping an elderly man with Parkinson's to the bathroom, while my instructor was in the patients room (I had just given meds). He said he wanted to try the toilet instead of the commode, so we put him on the toilet. My friend left the bathroom, and shortly after he looks at me and says "yeah, this isn't going to work", I run over to him thinking something's wrong and ask why? Are you okay? To which he replies "My balls are in the water", very matter-of-factly. Before I could even react I heard the muffled laughter of my instructor and classmate from outside the bathroom, and before I knew it all four of us were cracking up, loudly. It turned what could have been awkward into something humorous, and he later said he had a blast with us that morning! :)

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Junior year I was in my second med-surg rotation and me and another student were helping an elderly man with Parkinson's to the bathroom, while my instructor was in the patients room (I had just given meds). He said he wanted to try the toilet instead of the commode, so we put him on the toilet. My friend left the bathroom, and shortly after he looks at me and says "yeah, this isn't going to work", I run over to him thinking something's wrong and ask why? Are you okay? To which he replies "My balls are in the water", very matter-of-factly. Before I could even react I heard the muffled laughter of my instructor and classmate from outside the bathroom, and before I knew it all four of us were cracking up, loudly. It turned what could have been awkward into something humorous, and he later said he had a blast with us that morning! :)

???? this is hilarious!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in ICU/ Surgery/ Nursing Education.

On one of my last clinical days before graduation I was assigned 2 first year nursing student to supervise for part of the leadership class. One of the patients we had was a 12 yo boy that was suffering from extreme diarrhea and episodes of vomiting. The surgeon was just in the room and ruled out a surgical problem but warn the family (and us) that if there was blood in the stool then he needed to be called immediately.

Never fails, the next stool had quite a bit of red traces, not really bright but it was red. The first year student came and got me and I in turn saw the stool and said to leave it and lets find the nurse assigned to this patient. Of course we couldn't so we tracked down the clinical instructor and went to investigate. Yep, red in the stool. Meantime the nurse frees herself up and comes to our aide. By this time the mother is getting real worried, but kept it together somewhat. We were all in a circle talking about the ramifications of what we found, and the nurse on duty was leaning against the bed side table.

The young man could see we were worried and spoke up, "You know mom, I am drinking red Gatorade..." All the nurses in the room were embarrassed, including me because I should have know better. We started laughing because the nurse assigned to the child was literally leaning against the table and touching the bottle of Gatorade!

Talking about not seeing the elephant in the room! We all felt worthless...... I have a new rule, no patient can have red, blue, or purple sports drinks. I wont even allow red Jell-O!

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Lol that is funny but I do know some post op procedures they really cant have anything red like a tonsillectomy so we wont mis ot as being blood

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

Not nursing school related but funny none the less.

When my son was about 4 we went to Disney. The night before we left he got up and vomited a toilet full of what looked like blood. I had just gotten off work and it was a bout 1:30 AM. I was terrified. He looked ok. I gathered my son and took him....and a sample from the toilet...back to the ED I had just left. The ED doc was as concerned as I was and we ran to the acute room....but my son looked fine and was crabby about all the commotion.

At the moment we were going to start an IV and get blood for an extensive workup with a type and cross...my son got sick again. This time it had something black in it but it was still red. I was terrified...as we went to guiac it... my husband called.

He found an ENTIRE BAG of EMPTY Oreo cookies with red filling (it was at Christmas time) in my sons bed. :facepalm:

Mental note to Mom and staff...guiac EVERYTHING!

We had several more panicked parents that season. They never made red Oreo filling cookies gain that I know of....LOL

We had a great time at Disney...;)

Up Vote Up Vote ×

When I was in clinicals, I was preparing to administer meds per gtube for the first time to this very nice, older woman in front of my clinical group and instructor. I was checking the residual first, but I had clamped the tube and forgot to unclamp it before putting back her residual. Instead of stopping to see why the 60 cc syringe's plunger wasn't moving, being nervous and wanting to get it right, I forced it. Of course the syringe popped off the end of the tube, ejecting about 30 mL of gastric residual right in this nice woman's face. I was mortified, but she was so nice she said, "Its okay dear, go ahead." I will never forget that. I felt AWFUL!

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Oh wow now this is a very blush worthy moment! But at least you will never forget to un clamp the tube ever again!:D good one!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Join the Discussion