LOL moments at work

Trekfan · Feb 7, 2011

Oh, and another one while I think of it....its slightly more towards the 'shocking' side of the scale than the LOL side, but if you're warped like me you might see the humour!
Was working in the peds section of the ER. I hate peds for various reasons. Anyway, was having a hard time convincing this 2, almost 3 year old to take his dose of prednisone. Finally got him to open his mouth, I quickly squirted it in. He promptly spits the lot straight back at me, and says in a loud voice...
"It tastes like f*cken sh*t you b*tch"
???????? Am totally shocked - look at the mother to see her response (knowing if MY children had ever dared behave like that they would have been in deep doodoo!) and she's laughing her head off and says "guess he don't like that none".
Ummm, yeah...and I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree either.....
(should mention I work in a dodgy part of town!)

What is wrong with people not controlling there kids now adays I was in walmart and had to stop myself from spanking someone kid after Said kid run up to my service dog screened in his face and hit him . All with mom wAtching And doing nothing .

Trekfan · Feb 7, 2011

Ambulatory surgery center setting:
Overweight patient, with equally overweight mom and dad.
Dad puts on the call light and says (with southern drawl) to nurse when she arrives...
"How much longer are we gonna be here? This woman (points to wife) is a diaaahbetic and the only thing she's had to eat today is a doughnut!"

OMG that is so funny and sounds like my friend she calls me all the time for help with with her moms s

Diet and sugar she's a diaaahbetic too . She says I do not know what to do about her sugars all she Had was a six pack of coke and 2 fish meals. then I asked her did you remember to give her her lantus ? She says oh no I held it I did not wAnt her sugar to go to low so I gave her a pb&j instead . I donot think I am getting though at all

smily nurse, BSN, RN · Feb 7, 2011

When I did home care the Rn was paired with an LPN. We were a great pair and worked very well together. We had one elderly Irish gentleman. Lisa did most visits, I saw him app 1xmo. Lisa is also young enough to be my daughter and VERY pretty. When I called to schedule the appt. pt stated "are you the old lady or the young pretty one?" hahahaha Lisa & I both got a kick out of it. :redbeathe

mama_d, BSN, RN · Feb 7, 2011

One of my closest friends is a tech on our floor, and look out when we have the same team! We had this sweet 80-something year old we took care of together for two nights in a row. Her son told me before he left the first night that he was worried about how depressed she had gotten over the last several months since she had moved from her own place to a SNF. My friend and I made it our mission to get that woman smiling.

By the end of the second night, we had her singing Monkees songs and dancing in the bed, cracking jokes, and sharing funny anecdotes about her life. When I came in for the next night shift, her son was so tickled that she was in such high spirits.

I told him that she had us cracking up as well, especially with one of her stories about raising a boy. (Keep in mind that the son was late 50's at least.)

I then told him that the story we found so humorous was about how when he was being potty trained, he insisted on sitting on the "big potty chair" b/c "I do what I wanna do" and subsequently fell in, resulting in a fear of toilets that lasted well into toddlerhood.

He turned tomato red, looked at his mom, and had to laugh..."She's been telling that story my whole life, I'll never live it down!"

It cracked me up that a grown man could still get embarrassed by a story like that, and I guess it just goes to show that Moms never get tired of telling funny baby stories. :)

Nicole Anderson · Feb 8, 2011

103 yo LOL sees a young male aide walk by and asks me "What do you think he would do if I kissed him?"

80+ yo LOL was roaming around the nursing home on Thanksgiving saying she was going to the market and asking EVERYONE, visitors included, if they needed her to get them any sweet potatoes.

90 yo LOL looks at me and says "I may be crazy, but you are crazier"

sunnycalifRN · Feb 9, 2011

Just the other day, this happened . . . pt with a distended belly, KUB showed lots of air in the large intestine . . . had already inserted an NG tube . . . getting ready to try an enema or suppository . . . pulled the curtains and my helper and I turned the pt on his side . . . . . then the patient released a non-stop 30 second blast of flatus, from between flapping cheeks ( got the image??) We both stood back and held our breath!!! Ah!! The joys of nursing!!!

regularRN · Feb 9, 2011

A patient once told me "In a previous life, I was a fish." Cracked me up, but then I realized in the bigger picture he was right!

lovethis · Feb 9, 2011

60-something yo male about 6'0 asked for a bedpan. The aide helped him onto it, closed the curtain and placed the call light in his hand. Less than five minutes later, the aid calls me and tells me to look at the space between where the curtain ends and the floor. All I could see were this man's feet flat on the floor. He decided to place the bedpan on the floor NAND use it that way! He said 'this is the best I could do'!!!

Old.Timer · Feb 9, 2011

Years ago in one of the earlier medical marijuana trials, we had a LOL medicated with THC for N&V with chemo. She hadn't had anything po in days, no appetite whatsoever. She was later found eating her roommate's leftover dinner tray and then attempting to climb on a counter to reach the saltine crackers. Our nursing diagnosis...increase in munchies secondary to pot pills.

Same LOL had severe uterine prolapse which was managed with a pessary as she was a poor surgical risk. She was famous on the night shift for trying to get up and go walking. This was long before bed alarms. Most times we caught her before she got too far, but every once in a while she'd make it to the hallway before we'd hear her. By then you knew that the pessary had likely fallen out, she'd have only one arm through her patient gown, she'd be pushing her bedside tray table for stability, and the uterus would be down and swinging to and fro. It was quite the visual, especially from the rear.

I still remember every detail about her. We ran ourselves ragged trying to stay one step ahead of her whenever she was admitted. You quickly learned to always poke your head in her room if you were walking by as you never knew what trouble she might be getting into. Even so, she was an absolute delight. She loved to laugh at us laughing at whatever her latest shenanigans had been.

summer-dreamer · Feb 14, 2011

I haven't been in nursing for too long, but I do remember one funny incident while still in nursing school. I was on an out-rotation visiting a same-day surgery site. While watching a pt's gamekeeper thumb injury being repaired, the scrub nurse assisting the surgeon walked past me to grab something. All of a sudden, I heard a loud BRRRRAAAAPPP. It took me a few seconds to realize that the nurse had let loose some gas! No one really paid any mind about the escape of flatulence and continued as usual. And I respected that; everyone still needed to be professional. But still... that was one very loud blast.

NurseGuy30 · Feb 15, 2011

A nurse at a hospital I did a rotation in: "This is a Catholic hospital. A sister gets on the PA to say prayers at exactly 8:30 AM and exactly 8:30 PM. So if someone gets on the horn at 9:45 and says 'Sweet Jesus!' you know you should get ready to run."

sevensonnets · Feb 18, 2011

I work in a large Catholic hospital and was once taking care of Brother Alphonse who lived in a local monastery. Wore sandals with socks and a long brown robe tied at the waist with a rope. He was well over 6 feet tall and sort of reminded me of a bear.... A bunch of his "brothers" came to visit on Saturday afternoon and they were watching wrestling on tv. Hooting, hollering and generally interrupting the peace and quiet of our 18-bed ICU. Went in to politely settle them down and they offered me popcorn and a chair so I could watch wrestling with them! Anyway, couple of days later Brother A was discharged directly from the unit. I was struggling to push this great huge fellow to the discharge exit when he goes, "Oh look, here comes Brother Ignatius! Let's pretend I'm dead!" So he slumps over in the WC with his head to one side and went completely limp!!! Brother Ignatius however was unfazed. He punched him on the arm and said, "Cut that out Brother Alphonsus or I'll kill you myself!"