Funny "Code" Last Night

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.

So last night I responded to a code called in the spinal cord injury center. We (code team) arrived in the room to find a bewildered little old man, obviously not in arrest, sitting on a comode asking why on earth all these people where flooding into his room.

Turns out his nurse had called out to the new grad nurse at the nursing station:

"CAN YOU GET A COMODE?"

The new grad heard

"CAN YOU CALL A CODE!"

The new gad had called for the code and then went about her duties. The patient's nurse and the patient had no idea a code had been called until the code team came running into the room.

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Holy Cow! Now THAT'S funny! Got my snicker meter runnin' in the red. :lol2:

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So did one of you bring a bedside commode with you? :)

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That is so funny!! :rotfl:

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hahahahahaha poor things! That must have been slightly traumatic and astonishing for the patient! I hate when words get jumbled together and you think someone says something other than what they said.

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Can you say stage fright?!? LOL

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Specializes in PACU.

That probably almost turned into a code brown.:eek:

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lol! Thanks for the laugh!!

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The new gad had called for the code and then went about her duties.

Interesting.

I once got a protein shake for an RN who asked me for a "boost"

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So she called a code and then went about her business?? Wasn't even curious about a code? Didn't bring the crash cart in?? This is funny and sad!

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Specializes in PACU.
So she called a code and then went about her business?? Wasn't even curious about a code? Didn't bring the crash cart in?? This is funny and sad!

Yeah, I noticed that, too. I hope her colleagues corrected her lack of follow through.

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Specializes in Psych.

I had something similar happen to me when I was a CNA. I was told to call a level two ( meaning we needed 2 security guards, worked on psych at the time). The operator somehow called it as a RR2 ( 2nd stage of a rapid response, which would be the equivalent to a code blue, and not supposed to be called unless an RR1 was called).

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