Nurses Humor
Published Apr 1, 2001
Very, very funny and true!
If I may add one more:
"Spread open your legs so I can insert this "(foley cath)
Hum'nbird
8 Posts
How bout, "Eat it all up, that's right, good girl."........... Or, "I know it tastes bad, just plug your nose when you swallow."........I love this one: "Just push this and I'll come when you need me.".........There are so many, what a funny post, john. Too funny Athena, lol! Who'd a thought we would become poop experts when we first decided to be a nurse.......eeeeeeeewwwww
sonnie
33 Posts
The funniest thing I think I ever heard was a young handsome resp. therapist tell an elderly lady... " honey put this in your mouth now suck don't blow!" He was assisting her with her incentive spirometer
Stargazer
859 Posts
Another incentive spirometer story: a bunch of us had a good laugh one day when a veteran nurse was heard urging her hard-of-hearing patient behind the curtain, "Come on, Harry--get it up for me one more time!!!Pleeease??"
arbley
27 Posts
The other night at work, our respiratory therapist was busy suctioning a patient. He had almost completed the job to his satisfaction, but wanted just a little more. He says to the patient (no kidding), "I'm going to go down on you one more time and get you all sucked out." I could not keep a straight face.
susyqrn
9 Posts
Ha Ha
How about, I have to stick this tube up your nose.
I'm going to rub some lotion on your body.
chrn
37 Posts
Incentive spirometers weren't always called that....when we first started using them regularly, one of the surgeons couldn't remember what the device was called when he wrote the order: "Suck balls QID".
I'll never forget the laugh we had after that one.
kennedyj
252 Posts
Can't stop rolling....Lmao...
HazeK
350 Posts
isn't it great all the material incentive spirometers give for misquotes?
will share w/ my peers at work!
LMAO!
Kare
7 Posts
After dialysis the nurse removes all of the blood tubing from the machine. As I was helping I announced " I'm going to strip now"...the patient replied "Go ahead" ....Funny how the most innocent situations take on a different perspective...
panda_181
189 Posts
Okay, these are great! I never thought of how these things sound to other people!
Amanda :)
wildcherry
14 Posts
Checking a pts. bottom I said, you have two open areas down here....the elderly woman replied, " yes ,I do. Don't you young lady?", then she turned to me and winked. :)
Jay-Jay, RN
633 Posts
I actually said this to a male patient today: Spread your buttocks and your legs so I can get this in!
I was packing a pilonidal cyst at the time....