Great moments in bad judgement

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Reaching under commercial lawn-mower to remove stick. Mower running. Started with 10, ended with 6.

Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.

1 kid + butane torch + gasoline tank = 1 bad trip to a childrens hospital burn unit

Not ER-ish but two of my three patients a few weeks ago were on our unit for the same reason. Welding torch to a gasoline/kerosene tank.

JUST SAYIN'. Another, much more seasoned nurse, explained that this is one way to create a home-made meat smoker.

Not human meat, obviously.

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Specializes in Emergency.
Haaaaaahaaa! I had an x-ray tech roll a portable, broke my big right toe, ed docs thought this was hilarious and wanted to resus. my toe and defib it, then they had the same tech with same portable xray my foot, as they all thought this was hilarious since I was the charge nurse, I still give those same docs hell.

I cannot. Stop. LAUGHING!!!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! :rotfl:

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Lady wanted to save some money on breast implant surgery. Decided to get this surgery in South America somewhere, and from the look of her breasts in OUR hospital, I think the surgeon who performed said surgery got his MD licence in a Cracker Jack box. SMH...

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Specializes in Emergency, Med/Surg, Vascular Access.

Couple months ago, had a 60-some-odd female pt come in c/o she thought she was pregnant and going into labor. Triage nurse said, when was your last period? She replied, oh, about 20 years ago. Nurse says, well, what stopped your period 20 years ago? Pt replies, a hysterectomy...

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

"Well you see...I was just minding my own business when..."

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there's one case,transfered to our center.male 19 years old.work part time at brick-factory.

hx:he accidently put his hand inside the "things'(well,i don't know) but makes his hand so badly and sadly injured because

the impact of the things.

came with multiple # on his rt.hand ,where on x-ray (the bones are everywhere) and it is almost a miracle to save his hand..

but,i am so dissapointed that this guy have to wait 5 hours to b transferred to our center and his hand already bluish..

but still i'm shock that this young guy so calm..-all his friend and girlfriend crying when our orthopedic surgeon explain the problem n risk..

before his friend and girlfriend come,this young gentlemen spoke to me almost whisper "Don't let my friend see my hand,otherwise they don't eat their dinner tonight"

oh..my...He is thinking about his friend appetite...please,your hand is more urgent !!

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

Guy got mugged at a rest stop outside of town, keeps worrying about his 10K rolex. Wife and daughter come in, no questions about the fact he got hit over the head, all they want to know about is the Rolex. Um, you mean the one still on his wrist?

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Specializes in med-surg, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP.
Guy got mugged at a rest stop outside of town, keeps worrying about his 10K rolex. Wife and daughter come in, no questions about the fact he got hit over the head, all they want to know about is the Rolex. Um, you mean the one still on his wrist?

SMH...Oh, me.

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Specializes in Cardiac, Tele, Med Surg, LTC.

looking at an xray that shows a toilet brush in the abdominal cavity via the rectum. Patient stated, "I fell on it" ?????? Seriously?

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.
"Well you see...I was just minding my own business when..."

After drinking two beers, these 2 guys....

Every story starts that way.

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8 year old kid stuck two small magnets up his nose, they attached to each other at the septum. Fortunately, the doctor was able to pull them out. If the patient was 3, then it would have been understandable, but the kid was 8 for goodness sake.

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Few months ago, admitted a patient through our ER to the ICU where I work. The report I got was patient had overdosed and was coming to us on a vent but stable. After further reviewing the patients chart, it quickly turned into the joke of the month. This particular patient, a young educated man with a masters degree in business, had Apparantly had a dream that he had pinworms. Subsequently he woke up at home with anal itching, drive himself to the store and bought two large bottles of doggie dewormer and drank them both. Ended up coming to the ER with nausea, high blood pressure and emesis. He brought the empty bottles with him but the ER physicians did not believe that was all he had taken. He was intubated in order to protect his airway while they figured out what was going on, and also to be able to give him propofol to calm him as he was irate and becoming a danger to himself and others. Sure enough, when it was all said and done, he was negative for everything but the worm medication. The quote that made this even more funny, as we were transferring him from the ER stretcher to our unit bed, the ER nurse tells me that he had defacated himself, and they had cleaned him the best they could, but he was going to need a good bath. I had to stop myself from laughing on front of the patient. And yes, he got his good bath and a good inspection of his anal area, where of course there were no worms. Next day he extubated himself and ended up being discharged home.

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