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lmao!! nope, i have never done that. plus, i haven't had clinical experience with an unconsious pt before. besides, can u imagine saying to another person " he farted" and he/she knows that that pt is unconsious... i would assume you'd get some rather weird looks. hehehe! :chuckle:chuckle:chuckle:heartbeat:d

OMG you totally hit my funny bone. I can't stop laughing.:chuckle I guess I'm one of those demented people. Anytime I hear about farts I crack up.

Hope your patient doesn't call you on it later.

Karen

nope but i did fart real loud in front of an old patient thinking she wouldn't no any better. the look she gave me ...........!

funny thing here guys, first of all i havent yet started my nursing classes, i am almost done with the pre reqs thoug, well

i was in a conversation with a nurse, and was asking how hard is it to Iv the first few times, and the RETARD here asked

And what about a folley which vein is the best one for that? (i though a folley was a type of IV, butterfly or something like that) she kinda got white, then she gave me the Huh! look, and laugh, and then explained that it actualy does not go on the veins DUUUUUUUUUHHHH

i felt so stupid! and she still jokes with me about that all the time

Haha, Csantos, that's hilarious!

I'll never forget this conversation in nursing school:

Me: What's heparin four?

Instructor: It's a blood thinner.

Me: No, what's heparin FOUR?

Instructor: That's heparin IV, as in intravenous.

Me: (kicking my own a**)

OMG you totally hit my funny bone. I can't stop laughing.:chuckle I guess I'm one of those demented people. Anytime I hear about farts I crack up.

Hope your patient doesn't call you on it later.

Karen

Haha, I would blame it on ICU psychosis. "No, I never farted in here! You must have been hallucinating. Can I offer you some ativan?"

Haha, Csantos, that's hilarious!

I'll never forget this conversation in nursing school:

Me: What's heparin four?

Instructor: It's a blood thinner.

Me: No, what's heparin FOUR?

Instructor: That's heparin IV, as in intravenous.

Me: (kicking my own a**)

:chuckle Sounds like something I'd say!!!

Gotta love those epidurals where laboring moms will fart and not realize it was them!

I can't believe this came up! When I was a CNA in a nursing home, I had a favorite patient of mine with end-stage Parkinson's disease. She could not move anything and I had to feed her with a syringe. (back when that was allowed). One evening, as I was getting her ready for bed, I slipped one out and said "Mildred, how rude"... This sweet lady couldn't move but she started laughing so hard her body shook. When I checked on her later that night, she still had a smile on her face.

omg. this thread is hilarious!

took me til my 3rd year to know what MI meant...I was sharing that story with a group of newly qualified nurses, trying to explain the novice to expert thing and that now I had been nursing so long it didn't bother me to ask the stupid question, the point being that every one talked so confidently about their pt's MI, I just knew that they would think I was such an idiot because I didn't know and the longer it went on the less I could ask, but now I was confident I could ask dumb questions, knowing that other people, knew I wasn't stupid (I hope) they looked at me like I was a slug but the nurse educator was laughing and told them that when he first qualified he worked in CCU and it took him 18 months to realise how serious an inferior MI was...he said "I just kept thinking well if it's and inferior one it can't be that bad"