Most Embarassing Moments During Clinicals!!!!!

prmenrs, RN · Jan 22, 2005

I'll tell you a funny story that happened to one of the trauma nurses a few years ago--she was making rounds w/the residents. She had one of those 4 color BIC pens in her pocket and a tampon. Guess which one she pulled out when the chief resident needed a pen to sign a chart!!! :imbar :eek: ooops!

Trauma Columnist · Jan 22, 2005

Ooh - I have done the "is it the pen or tampon thing" too!!! Yikes.

HappyNurse2005, RN · Jan 23, 2005

well, last semester (3rd semester) i was walking a post-op elderly gentleman down the hall. he was wearing his hospital gown (tied well, no booty showing) but no shorts/pants. and he was also wearing an Attends. well, he says, as we go down the hall "my britches are falling down". I'm like, oh crud! I can't pull up his gown to fix the tabs on it, b/c then i'd be exposing him big time. THank goodness we were right beside teh employee bathroom, i thought i'd take him in there and fix it. Nope-someone was in there. SO the attends fall to the floor around his ankles (thank goodness they were clean). and no, he didn't think to step out of them. he just stood there. so i had to get on my knees on the floor and un-do the tabs and take it off. oh wait! while im doing this, here comes the doctor to talk to the patient. I was sooo embarrassed, lol. (i was the one who had put the attends on him earlier). that was horrid!

or the time the semester before when an elderly female pt was scheduled to be d/c'd to a nursing home called Our Lady of the Valley. i was trying to ask her "do you know when they are coming to take you to Our Lady of the Valley?" and instead looked right at her and said "do you know when they are coming to take you to Old Lady of the Valley?"

kenni · Jan 23, 2005

last semester (my first semester) I always seemed to get diarrhea while @ the hospital. once I tried to go to a less-noticeable bathroom so no one else would know and the teacher stoped me and said "where are you going?" then, she wanted to take us on a trip to the ICU and every restroom we passed by was those 1-stalls where everyone outside would hear your business. that day I almost messed up my all-white uniform.:imbar

HyperRNRachel · Jan 23, 2005

My most embarrassing moment was the day I started my period while at the hospital. Now when I say started my period, it was more like the dam gates opened and blood was all over my pants. I waddled to the restroom like a baby wearing a wet diaper, fill my pants with toilet paper and then phoned my instructor. By the time she came around I had the proper necessities and all I needed was clean pants, but she had a better idea! She wanted me to go into the restroom, take off my bloody underwear and pants, wash them in the sink, and then dry them under the hand dryer! What? Could you see me in the restroom butt naked from the waist down drying my pants under the hand dryer? I could only think about some upper management coming in and I looking like a deranged, naked, nursing student washing her un-mentionables in the sink. After I said "no" to that idea, we decided to find scrubs. We (me still waddling cause I can feel the wetness of my pants) go from the basement to the 3 rd floor surgical unit with my instructor asking for scrubs and explaining that I started my period. All the while people are looking at me like I should be old enough to know better. To make matters worse, my clinical instructor wanted me to only borrow scrub bottoms and keep on my school uniform top! Nothing screams "I had a major accident" like a royal blue school uniform top and hospital green scrub bottoms. After getting a scrub top and bottoms (I may have lost all dignity that day but I still wanted to look like I knew how to dress myself) then I had to explain to my classmates why I was wearing hospital scrubs instead of a school uniform. What a day. So this clinical I keep extra supplies including underwear (nice ones in case someone looks in my bag and finds them) in my clinical bag. Now I just need to get an extra pair of uniform bottoms!

mitchsmom · Jan 23, 2005

She wanted me to go into the restroom, take off my bloody underwear and pants, wash them in the sink, and then dry them under the hand dryer! What? Could you see me in the restroom butt naked from the waist down drying my pants under the hand dryer? I could only think about some upper management coming in and I looking like a deranged, naked, nursing student washing her un-mentionables in the sink.

LMAO!!!!!!

BSN2004NSU, BSN, RN · Jan 23, 2005

HILARIOUS!!!!!!:chuckle

My most embarrassing moment was the day I started my period while at the hospital. Now when I say started my period, it was more like the dam gates opened and blood was all over my pants. I waddled to the restroom like a baby wearing a wet diaper, fill my pants with toilet paper and then phoned my instructor. By the time she came around I had the proper necessities and all I needed was clean pants, but she had a better idea! She wanted me to go into the restroom, take off my bloody underwear and pants, wash them in the sink, and then dry them under the hand dryer! What? Could you see me in the restroom butt naked from the waist down drying my pants under the hand dryer? I could only think about some upper management coming in and I looking like a deranged, naked, nursing student washing her un-mentionables in the sink. After I said "no" to that idea, we decided to find scrubs. We (me still waddling cause I can feel the wetness of my pants) go from the basement to the 3 rd floor surgical unit with my instructor asking for scrubs and explaining that I started my period. All the while people are looking at me like I should be old enough to know better. To make matters worse, my clinical instructor wanted me to only borrow scrub bottoms and keep on my school uniform top! Nothing screams "I had a major accident" like a royal blue school uniform top and hospital green scrub bottoms. After getting a scrub top and bottoms (I may have lost all dignity that day but I still wanted to look like I knew how to dress myself) then I had to explain to my classmates why I was wearing hospital scrubs instead of a school uniform. What a day. So this clinical I keep extra supplies including underwear (nice ones in case someone looks in my bag and finds them) in my clinical bag. Now I just need to get an extra pair of uniform bottoms!

Mandarella · Jan 23, 2005

OK, too funny. You poor thing. But guess what...we all have those nightmare moments.

My most embarrassing moment was the day I started my period while at the hospital. Now when I say started my period, it was more like the dam gates opened and blood was all over my pants. I waddled to the restroom like a baby wearing a wet diaper, fill my pants with toilet paper and then phoned my instructor. By the time she came around I had the proper necessities and all I needed was clean pants, but she had a better idea! She wanted me to go into the restroom, take off my bloody underwear and pants, wash them in the sink, and then dry them under the hand dryer! What? Could you see me in the restroom butt naked from the waist down drying my pants under the hand dryer? I could only think about some upper management coming in and I looking like a deranged, naked, nursing student washing her un-mentionables in the sink. After I said "no" to that idea, we decided to find scrubs. We (me still waddling cause I can feel the wetness of my pants) go from the basement to the 3 rd floor surgical unit with my instructor asking for scrubs and explaining that I started my period. All the while people are looking at me like I should be old enough to know better. To make matters worse, my clinical instructor wanted me to only borrow scrub bottoms and keep on my school uniform top! Nothing screams "I had a major accident" like a royal blue school uniform top and hospital green scrub bottoms. After getting a scrub top and bottoms (I may have lost all dignity that day but I still wanted to look like I knew how to dress myself) then I had to explain to my classmates why I was wearing hospital scrubs instead of a school uniform. What a day. So this clinical I keep extra supplies including underwear (nice ones in case someone looks in my bag and finds them) in my clinical bag. Now I just need to get an extra pair of uniform bottoms!

jen.sn · Jan 23, 2005

My most embarrassing moment was the day I started my period while at the hospital. Now when I say started my period, it was more like the dam gates opened and blood was all over my pants. I waddled to the restroom like a baby wearing a wet diaper, fill my pants with toilet paper and then phoned my instructor. By the time she came around I had the proper necessities and all I needed was clean pants, but she had a better idea! She wanted me to go into the restroom, take off my bloody underwear and pants, wash them in the sink, and then dry them under the hand dryer! What? Could you see me in the restroom butt naked from the waist down drying my pants under the hand dryer? I could only think about some upper management coming in and I looking like a deranged, naked, nursing student washing her un-mentionables in the sink. After I said "no" to that idea, we decided to find scrubs. We (me still waddling cause I can feel the wetness of my pants) go from the basement to the 3 rd floor surgical unit with my instructor asking for scrubs and explaining that I started my period. All the while people are looking at me like I should be old enough to know better. To make matters worse, my clinical instructor wanted me to only borrow scrub bottoms and keep on my school uniform top! Nothing screams "I had a major accident" like a royal blue school uniform top and hospital green scrub bottoms. After getting a scrub top and bottoms (I may have lost all dignity that day but I still wanted to look like I knew how to dress myself) then I had to explain to my classmates why I was wearing hospital scrubs instead of a school uniform. What a day. So this clinical I keep extra supplies including underwear (nice ones in case someone looks in my bag and finds them) in my clinical bag. Now I just need to get an extra pair of uniform bottoms!

Two words: White Out!

Don't laugh...it works!

But it doesn't come out...

TracyB,RN, RN · Jan 23, 2005

My most embarrassing clinical day was during LPN clinical... I was inserting a Foley with my instructor & my entire clinical group. I bent over & RIIIIIIPPP, goes the seam of my pants, from the back of my waistband all the way past my butt to the middle of the crotch. I just wanted to crawl under that patient's bed....Thank GOD, we had to wear these hideous tunics that covered the split seam of my pants, plus, it was almost time to go home. WHEW

student_girl · Jan 23, 2005

O.K., my turn: last semester (first one), one of my pt wanted to go out. We were in a LTC part of the hospital. I ask people, I make calls and finally get him someone to take him on errands. He had a BIG dressing on his foot, and I had trouble putting on his shoe. I had to completly unlace his shoe, while I saw that the man was waiting for him. :imbar When came the time to lace his shoe, I noticed that the lace was "eaten up", and that I couldn't put it back.:imbar I called one of my classmate for help and we ended up having a good laugh!:chuckle

The next things happened to the classmate that helped me. She comes from europe and has a different culture, so there's some things she didn't quite understand. She put baby powder in one of her pt's face, and when our instructor told her, she said that it was because she never had a baby, and didn't know what to do with baby powder.:chuckle

And in her country, when someone is allergic to soap, they have oil in a glass bottle. So when she saw one, she assumed her pt was simply allergic to soap and poured some in her water bowl. The teacher came in and said: "Why are you bathing him with cold syrup?" :chuckle Needless to say, she said that from now, she'd read labels CAREFULLY!:chuckle