funny things coworkers say to each other!!! lol

[ninaricci]

It seems on any given shift nurses have a nose for the nasty! LOL...I love at 3am when we are at the station charting and everyone looks up at the same time with that face that says "I know I smell something!" Sure enough....clean up time.

I'm 50 and my manager commented to one of my coworkers (i was there no behind the back stuff we all say it out loud!) how she always sees my behind???? Now that is nothing I want to show off at my age. I have scrubs up to my waist, tie them tight but with my pockets loaded down...never fails...in a code there it is! SORRY GUYS! I really am trying to keep my pants up. Suspenders maybe????

After a really busy night it may becoming increasingly obvious who is going to NEVER get a break. So I like the implications of: "Are you going to eat your dinner?" LOL...at the pace I'm going NO, you can have it! (the next night we both know I'll be eating theirs!) LOL

[miss81, BSN, RN]

As a new grad one night shift, at 4am, another nurse and myself were cleaning up one very messy "code brown" (you know the type where you need the fingernail cleaner and all) and she looks up at me and says, "God... I'm starved!" I stare at her for awhile (barely able to keep from vomiting) and she bursts into laughter! "Give it a year my dear and this won't bother your appetite," she says! And you know what... almost 10 years later she is so right! NOTHING can take away the night shift munchies anymore! Now we're trying to decide what to order while doing some nasty work! Funny because a patient actually said to us one night as we were discussing what food to order while cleaning her up, "Geez, at least I can tell that this obviously doesn't both you all!" Nurses sure do have iron stomachs!

[carolmaccas66, BSN, RN]

I walked onto a heavy, dementia medical ward one night, had not been there for ages. The RN orientated me, then we went in to see to a patient. She took one look at his poohy bed, leaned over, shook my hand and said in a serious voice: 'Welcome to Hell!' And she was right!

Never went back there.