Most embarrasing moment as a nurse/ma/cna

[Spritenurse1210]

Anybody have silly/embarrasing stories to tell? please share!!!

[brwneyegal]

Ok, recently I have been seeking information to get my BSN on line. One of the online colleges called me at work. I happened to be the one answering the phone and I politely asked them not to call me at work any more. The next day as I was getting report at the beginning of my shift they called back again. I told them again please do not call me at work. A few minutes after I hung up I was handed the phone again someone asking for me by last name. I told them not to call back please. The phone rang again, and again each time being handed to me and someone asking for me by my last name only. By the fourth time I was really steaming. I just picked up the phone when the same number was on caller id and stated :angryfire "DOn't ever call here again!!!" and hung up the phone. Well it rang again this time the person on the other end of the phone said "This is DR So in so, I am looking for pt blah blah (my last name). :imbar I asked the charge nurse if we had a pt by my last name and we did. I then told the doctor which room she was in.

The next morning when the same doctor came in I explained how the college had called me at work. Luckily he was a really nice guy and thought the whole thing was funny.:rotfl:

[BRANDY LPN]

At my last nursing job we wore the scrub tops that snap up the front, and while leaving my pts. room i caught my top on the door handle, while simultaneously walking out and opening the door, unsnapped it almost all the way. Pts dh was in the room, and I was mortified. They both thought it was hilarious.

[DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN]

An accidental really sticky fart in the presence of the CNO and CEO. "Whoops, sorry, you do know everyone occasionally does this"? We all laughed and stepped a few feet in the other direction. I was soooo embarrassed!

[husker-nurse, LPN, LVN]

I was in the pt's room with our clinical instructor and another nursing student, and it was the other student's turn to give her first subcut lovenox (or heparin) I don't recall; however, the other student was SO nervous that she stabbed the patient 5 times before finally giving the injection; talk about a red face!

[DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN]

I was in the pt's room with our clinical instructor and another nursing student, and it was the other student's turn to give her first subcut lovenox (or heparin) I don't recall; however, the other student was SO nervous that she stabbed the patient 5 times before finally giving the injection; talk about a red face!

subcut? subq no doubt. I certainly hope she changed needles, although that can't be done with lovenox unless you change syringes.

[husker-nurse, LPN, LVN]

subcut? subq no doubt. I certainly hope she changed needles, although that can't be done with lovenox unless you change syringes.

subq is no longer an acceptable abbreviation in our hospital, subcut is (subcutaneous?) and NO, the instructor didn't have her change the needle, this all happened in a matter of seconds. (I probably would grabbed her wrist after the initial stick) Cheers!

[MarySunshine]

Once I was the nurse in the room while the "team" was rounding (teaching hospital) and I was VERY new. They wanted a NOW blood pressure on the patient and I swear I couldn't even get the blood pressure cuff on (in my defense, it was an awkward angle from where I was) but I was nervous and I put it on upside down, crooked, every which way but the right way. It was probably like one minute of struggling with a stupid blood pressure cuff (it felt like years) while they all watched me and finally a Dr took it from me and put it on.

Words do not express how dumb I felt. I was ready to send back my license.

[Spritenurse1210, BSN, RN]

At my last nursing job we wore the scrub tops that snap up the front, and while leaving my pts. room i caught my top on the door handle, while simultaneously walking out and opening the door, unsnapped it almost all the way. Pts dh was in the room, and I was mortified. They both thought it was hilarious.

HEHE i've done that before. had an old man get quite a show too!!!

[DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN]

subq is no longer an acceptable abbreviation in our hospital, subcut is (subcutaneous?) and NO, the instructor didn't have her change the needle, this all happened in a matter of seconds. (I probably would grabbed her wrist after the initial stick) Cheers!

Thanks for the update. I did not know that subq is no longer appropriate. We are not allowed to abbreviate anything so subcutaneous must be spelled out completely. They keep promising us that the doctors will have to start tying out their orders but no progress yet. Besides that brings up a whole new issue, typo's!

[troutfishinEMT]

Whipping out my kinda rusty spanish on a REALLY cute RN as a second-term student, I wasn't busy, so I asked her "que me quieres hacer?"

Which I thought meant "what do you want me to do?"... she started cracking up and said that the way I mixed up the words I actually asked her "what do you want me to do to you?"

Smooooooooth. God, I turned red.

For any spanish speakers out there, you may enjoy the time I ordered "cabrones" instead of camarones in a restaurant, too. I'm always doing stuff like that.

[lpnstudentin2010, LPN]

Was inserting a foley catheter into MY CHILDS PEDIATRICIAN'S WIFE with said doctor in the room. Had just eaten a piece of chocolate that made my mouth water. Was a somewhat difficult insertion due to a combination of her anatomy and heavy vag bleeding- was concentrating so much that I drooled all over her leg.

bet he never let you live it down

[leslie :-D]

i pronouned a patient dead.

pt's dtr was present.

but the pt wasn't dead.

i almost jumped through the ceiling when the pt took another breath....then looooooooooooong period of apnea, then another breath....

got my nm, who walked into the room and said "oh yeah, _______is gone".

i tugged at her sleeve and frantically whispered "I WOULDN'T BE TOO SURE OF THAT!!!!"

dang, i hate when they do that.

leslie