kind of like the "overheard in the subway/at the office/in NYC" blogs If you heard anything funny at work, share it here!
today i was making small talk with a patient and noticed a framed picture on her table of her and her husband in front of the Trevi fountain in Rome.
me: you've been to Italy? How nice!
patient: ugh, it was dirty. The whole city is filthy. Italy is just dirty, and the people are all pushy and rude, no manners. Don't ever ask an Italian to take your picture; they'll steal your camera and run away laughing at you.
a minute later,
patient: so where are you from? i mean, originally?
At the bedside of a patient declared brain dead. The family was rather "simple" and didn't really seem to be grasping the situation.
"I don't understand why they don't just do one of those brain transplants."
The rest of the night we were daring each other to call the neurosurgeon with that request. And then wondering which one of the family members was going to donate.
Not a bedside story, per se, as I'm not an RN yet.
For my CMA, I did my externship at a clinic in my hometown. At the time, I was completing my lab portion of it. A patient arrived with a social worker or some sort of advocate to do a drug test. The patient returned his sample to the lab window. The lab gals just stared at him. Really? The cup was full of water, pure H20. The patient denied it for quite some time and then finally gave a real sample, which was of course full of some sort of illegal substance.
This same patient had made a very big deal of remembering me from a short period of time that we went to high school together.
Confused female resident upset about not being able to find her (deceased for many years) husband: "I think my husband has left me. He hasn't been home for weeks. I'm going to forget about him and find a new man."
Male resident overhears this, gets a huge grin on his face and says "Alright!"
ahahaha this one today. i went to a new facility on the other side of the city, out in the suburbs, so all new people and apparently the DON is one of those who just asks more and more of her regular staff re: scheduling and is never satisfied.
DON looks at floor nurse like she's just stepped in the remnants of a code brown. 'you're seriously not going to come in Saturday? well i don't know what i'm going to do *now*. you know you could try going above and beyond for the good of the unit'
nurse: 'i've picked up three extra shifts in the past two weeks alone. you could try being appreciative instead of always wanting more.' *walks away*
i wanted to stand up and cheer, but somehow restrained myself.
If you heard anything funny at work, share it here!
WoosahRN, MSN, RN
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At the bedside of a patient declared brain dead. The family was rather "simple" and didn't really seem to be grasping the situation.
"I don't understand why they don't just do one of those brain transplants."
The rest of the night we were daring each other to call the neurosurgeon with that request. And then wondering which one of the family members was going to donate.