Funny Names for Nurses

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An Accident and Emergency Department in Birmingham boasts a Nurse Payne

Nurse Hacker scrubs regularly in a London Operating Department

Sister De'Ath walks the corridors of a hospice in Victoria

Does Annie Beaver still work in Obstetrics in New York?

Mrs. Ake, a retired RN, was a specialist nurse in rheumatology

Kathy Foley was the head of the Catheter Insertion Team (back when they had those in the old days).

Dr Hui (pronounced "Wee") was a urologist whose wife, a nurse, worked as his office manager. Her name was Pi (pronounced "Pee"). Nurse Cox worked for a different team.

Chris Feely always favoured complementary therapies - especially therapeutic massage, while Nurse Fang was more at home with Cosmetic Surgery.

Ed worked with a nun who's last name was Fuchs. He did not know how to pronounce her name - so he asked. And he wanted to die.

Mary Slaughter could never get a post on the Surgical Unit, and Nurse Cutts was never the 'First Pick' Midwife.

Sharon Ward - when she gets promoted - will be Sr. Ward.

Not forgetting Melina, who works on a general medical ward and Nurse Nurse - she goes where she's sent!

Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.
devi said:
Haven't gone through all the responses, so hopefully mine is new.

My pediatrician was Dr. Pepper :chuckle

I love it!

Rnannie94 said:
Dr Moses - ob-gyn. He actually has a sign in his office, and used to give out t-shirts to his new moms -

MADE BY GOD, DELIVERED BY MOSES

Absolutely priceles!

This is really true, Dr. Richard "Dick" Hedden MD-Urology. And yes, he did want us to call him Dick!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

We have a resident Dr. Dumm....and Dr.Tickle.....an OB-GYN Dr. Bush....Allergist Dr. Thrush....We also had a resident Dr. Yonker...which we got a kick out of because here we call our Yankauer's ...Yonker's....Surgeon Dr. Lim....and....drum roll please....Dr. Nutt psychiatrist.....haha.....swear it's true!!!

KimberRN1 said:
We have a resident Dr. Dumm....and Dr.Tickle.....an OB-GYN Dr. Bush....Allergist Dr. Thrush....We also had a resident Dr. Yonker...which we got a kick out of because here we call our Yankauer's ...Yonker's....Surgeon Dr. Lim....and....drum roll please....Dr. Nutt psychiatrist.....haha.....swear it's true!

We have a doctor in Obs and Gynae from Czechoslovakia called Svab,pronounced as' swab!'

working in london, most hospitals are staffed by a very diverse multi-ethnic mix of nurses from far-off lands. unfortunately (for them) nurses' names can cause amusement for hospital staff.

i remember once working with a nurse called candida and on another occasion a nurse called malena. i was just hoping that during handover there were no patients with thrush and bloody stools... that would have been too much...

very sweet girls though.

Specializes in cardiac/critical care/ informatics.

No Kidding had a patient named oral cox that is the spelling we thought it was a joke when we called the surgeon and said he was consulted he thought we were joking. took some convincing so he would come see the patient.

I knew a urologist named Peter Cannon.......

Talk about nurses with funny names. I wish I could find Share Freely, a travel nurse who worked briefly in our dialysis clinic. AWESOME NURSE!!!

We workedwith a nurse named Sweet Memory!! I wonder how people survive with such names- funny, isn't it!!!???

Specializes in IMC, ICU, Telemetry.

The urologist that did my ex's vasectomy was Dr. Richard Chopp. No lie - in Austin! I wonder if his friends call him by Richard, Rich or...

I had an OB/GYN named "Dr. Richard Pees" at Hershey Med Center - he went by Dick, though. Why he chose the nickname he did with that last name, I don't understand...also, maybe he should have been a urologist. ?

http://webapp.hmc.psu.edu/physdir/provider.cfm?id=rpees

I also had a dentist named Dr. Smiley. ?

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