Stupid Nurse Trick... Don't try this at home... or work!

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Ok, here's one for the books. I was attacked by my stethoscope yesterday. It flew into my eye HARD. Jammed my hard contact into it. I now have a corneal abrasion & have to be off work at least 3 days, and can't wear my contacts for at least a week!

A friend just brought me goggles, as a joke!

Has anyone else pulled one quite so brilliant? :uhoh3:

Specializes in OB, critical care, hospice, farm/industr.

I once called a man "Eddie" all day int he delivery room, due to the fact the pregnant lady had "Eddie" tattooed on her inner thigh. By the end of the day I realized he was getting less and less responsive. I finally twigged. "Is your name Eddie?"

"No."

Eddie was the last boyfriend.

Specializes in SICU, EMS, Home Health, School Nursing.
i was having a very busy day and was more concerned with getting everything done than opening my eyes and seeing the surroundings.so as i entered the still wet floor of the clean utility room [with the caution wet floor sign right outside] 3 steps in and gets who does the complete splits sideways. me !. i screamed in shock more than pain and didn't know how to extricate myself. however, off to emerg to check things out. bruised self-esteem healed with some nsaids. now i truly respect the wet floor signs. i hope this gymnastic feat doesn't come back to haunt me when i am 60 and still floor nursing full time. i spent the rest of the day laughing as i sheepishly recanted to all how i lost my virginity in the clean utility room !

There must be something about wet floor signs and clean utility rooms...lol About a week ago I was getting supplies in the clean utility room and didn't happen to notice the wet floor sign until right before I hit it. Well, somehow I did this jump/turn move over top of the sign and I didn't drop anything I was holding. It would have just been between me and the utility room, except there happened to be an LPN in there that thought it was hillarious...

Moral of the story: beware of those wet floor signs, especially if they are in or near a clean utility room!!

I got the last inch of my right thumb ripped off unloading a horse from a trailer. It was my sister's horse. She happens to be a nurse also. She freaked out. I had to remain calm while she had to sit down to avoid passing out. I was off of work for 8 weeks with that injury. I work as an othopedic nurse, so now I have something to talk to my hand patients about :specs:

I was leaving the hospital after a long night shift. There was a cleaning lady mopping the floor on the way out. I had to walk around the 'wet floor' sign... straight onto the wet floor. I went down like a rock. The look on the cleaning lady's face was priceless...she had put the sign on the dry part of the hall and was making everyone walk on the wet side:rolleyes:

I was taking a patient out of a room on a cart. My watch wristband caught on the door handle as I went through the doorway. Nearly degloved my hand!

And of course, who HASN'T cut themselves opening an ampule? I always use an alcohol swab to do the deed, but this time, the Phenergan ampule broke so jaggedly that it slashed my thumb open anyway....that was when I actually had an end to my thumb...

i have many 'wowsers' but choose not to incriminate myself.

yes, they're that bad. :)

i was watching 'untold stories of the er' recently; and it focused on an elderly gentleman admitted with some gi stuff.

his wife of approx 50-60 yrs never left his side.

as he was preparing for discharge, he started fainting after going to the bathroom.

labs and other diagnostics were all wnl.

doctors were perplexed and decided to have him stay.

as it turned out, his wife had been rubbing what she thought was preparation h on his hemorrhoids, after he was done going to the bathroom.

it was in fact, nitropaste- thus, the sudden fainting.

i'm almost certain he didn't have any hemorrhoids on his arms or chest area. :)

leslie

Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

hahaha

Specializes in Toxicology/Progressive care.

This is way too funny....

At work nurse friend walked into utility room that had a DO NOT ENTER sign.. The floor was being redone and she walked right into the glue that was being cured for new flooring... Could not get shoes off of floor and had to call contractor back from lunch to help out...

Doing first rounds at 0730, walked into room, female patient was sleeping, I started toward the bed to look closer at the monitor, tripped over my own two feet and fell face first across her abdomen and thighs..She woke up with her nurse laying across her.. Best I could come up with was.. Good morming, my name is ___ and I am going to be your nurse today...

Chair at computer was angled wrong and I could not get lever under chair to work. I stood up, turned a faced the chair, reached the lever under the seat.. The seat propeled forward, hitting me in the forehead, causing me to go to the floor in severe pain, instant headache and dizziness. I had large egg sized goose egg above eye.. Developed raccoon eyes 2 days after the event... The Employee health nurse had trouble suppressing her laughter when she called me to find out how it happened...and it was witnessed by 4 family members who were standing in the hallway...

Nurse friend slipped in urine that leaked from a foley bag and broke her wrist when she fell. :roll

Specializes in Emergency.

During my first clinical day of nursing school, I was trying to figure out how to work the big tub in the hospital. I asked my instructor for help, but she hadn't worked in the hospital for several years. The two of us were leaned over the tub trying to figure out which of the 15 buttons did what. My instructor was so caught up in the buttons that she wasn't paying attention to where she was pointing the sprayer. She finally hit the right button and the water fired me in the face and all over my uniform. She felt so embarassed, and I felt pretty embarassed too. What a start to clinicals!

Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.

Seeing a patient in outpatient clinic, wearing street clothes- wearing a skirt. Sit on rolling stool, roll around in it, try to stand up.

I rolled the stool over the skirt. I've done it more than once. I haven't lost a skirt yet though.

I've also put my stethoscope in my lab coat pocket, then tripped over it when it dangled out.

Doing a history and physical on a gentleman one day, I asked him about surgeries. He told me about an eye surgery; I asked some detailed questions. Thirty seconds later: "When have you had your eyes examined?" The gentleman looks at me funny and I remember we just discussed this at length. "Oh, I'm sorry, we just talked about that, didn't we?" DUH!

This one I didn't do. A gentleman with an above-elbow arm amputation is in the hospital. The nurse comes in to draw blood. She gets an antecubital vein in the other arm. Withdraws the needle, puts the cotton ball over the puncture site. "Now, Mr. Smith, put your finger here and hold pressure." Mr.Smith: "Well, now, it would be a really neat trick if I could do that!!"

Specializes in ER/ ICU.

Drew up some fentanyl for a burn patient, flipped the syringe in the air and it landed on my big toe- through the shoe and all. I was impressed. Of course have ran MYSELF over with our ER carts.

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
drew up some fentanyl for a burn patient, flipped the syringe in the air and it landed on my big toe- through the shoe and all. i was impressed. of course have ran myself over with our er carts.

lol! i once had to fill out an incident report for an lpn who did that -- and injected the contents of the syringe (morphine). she says it was an accident!

Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.

I worked with an LVN in a clinic who had never seen an epipen until she had to use one.

She grabbed it and popped herself in the thumb.

She was very uncomfortable for a while but was OK. (So was the patient- there was a second epipen on hand).

Specializes in ICU, telemetry, LTAC.

Sending the contents of the foley baloon down to the lab for a UA.

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