Practical jokes at work

Huganurse · May 6, 2002

I like to spray the hand foam for a laugh at work. It looks like silly string!

Furball · May 6, 2002

I had patients receive dopamine thru a periheral lines a few times as a new nurse. Made me quite nervous, I tell you. Anyway, this one pt had a great sense of humor so she played along willingly. I blew up a purple exam gove, added black magic marker streaks and stuck it in her sleeve and propped it up on a pillow. I went to my preceptor to come quickly, there's something wrong with my pts left hand....the hand receiving the dopa. >screech!

Must've had a rare slow day...we had a great laugh.

thisnurse · May 6, 2002

the only practical joke ive played ...so far....is to send my assistant into a pt room i knew was masturbating...

hey brigid...the guy in 23 was asking for you

what does he want?

i dont know, he just said would you ask brigid to come in?

i nearly peed myself when i heard her scream WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?

im always open for suggestions

LoriUSAFRN · May 7, 2002

Fake patients are always fun to give report on... Esp. the frequent flier who the night nurse hates....

ERNurse752, RN · May 7, 2002

Spraying hand foam on people...water fights with syringes...those sound familiar!

I've also heard of Lasix in the coffee, and NTG paste under door handles, though haven't actually seen either of those happen!

My coworkers got me really good on my first ER night shift...I'd had about 3 pts die on me that night, and one of pt's families had been a little indecisive about coming in to see her. I finally had to take her down to the morgue...one of the nurses pretended to be a family member, called me in the ER, and wanted to know "WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY BABY! I'M COMING IN! OH DEAR LORD, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!! BRING HER BACK!!!!!!"

And there are people in the background yelling and carrying on during all this...hehehe...

I totally fell for it, so luckily they couldn't keep quiet for long!!!!

PedsoncCNS · May 7, 2002

A Piece of scotch tape over the hearing part of the phone - especially if you have one where you can unscrew the top makes it almost impossible to hear. The nurse I work with called telecom to come fix the "broken phone" and turned bright red when she saw them pull off the scotch tape.

Brian, ASN, RN · May 7, 2002

One nightshift in CCU we had a patient expire, another nurse and I, took the patient to the morge. We decided to play a trick on the other nurse that night. :devil: After delivering the patient to the morge, on the way back, I jumped up on the gurney and covered myself with a sheet (as if I was the expired pt) and held still. The nurse that was with me told the other nurse (Vicky) that there was a note on the door of the morge that they would be back in 30 minutes, so we had to bring the corpse back and take it down later. After about 10 minutes, Vicky walked right past the cart and I sat up real quick and she freaked! :eek: :eek: She screamed and ran to other side of the room and said we scared the you now what out of her. Of course we laughed the rest of the night. :rotfl: :rotfl:

I got to admit it, it was kinda creepy laying under the blanket on the gurney for ten minutes :uhoh3:

sharann, BSN, RN · May 7, 2002

You guys are sick!

Keep up the good work...

shannonRN, BSN, RN · May 7, 2002

at my last job, they used the little lotion bottles and would squirt each other from opposite sides of the nursing station. they would also take the little tubes with saline in them and act as if they were sneezing and squeeze the bottle right onto you.

JillR · May 7, 2002

One April fools day, the people on med/surg decided to fill the work sheets with all sorts of patients that had weird problems, one was there for a penile implant. When I came to work, one of the nurses in ER inadvertently let it slip that the floor nurses did that. So when I came to the floor and there were suposedly 35 patients for two RN's and no LPN's and CNA's, I made the comment that unless we get some help right now I would not be taking report. They told me that they tried to get help and no one would come in or stay. I told them that I was going home that minute. The look on thier faces were priceless when I faked that I punched out and came back and said April fools!

The NTG thing, I would not recommend it. I have had NTG before and it puts me into the worst Migraines possible, ( not just a HA, but on my knees puking for hours HA) you would loose a nurse for the shift with that little joke.

micro, RN · May 7, 2002

this wasn't a practical joke, but the first entry about guards that weren't.............

i had care in my team of a forensic patient(a prisoner-----guard supposedly at side and tracking all/all movements).........

patient was there because they had digested something that we lucky nurses, got to expel from them......will not spell it out further.......we are all adult nurses here.............

i knew the legality of it as well of the rest of it.......so i was cool...........

so, lo to me, i walk into the room, patient in CLOSED BATHROOM, guard reading a magazine and not paying any attention...............

i am the one that had to enter said prisoner's bathroom.............the said prisoner.......was more with it and actually nice to me.....and said, "Hey, yeah.....I know why i am here, I am not going to hide anything......."

and the guard is supposed to armed and trained in this matter........

and i am just the nurse...........

won't disclose the gender of the guard as I do not want to enflame anyone here.........

but i read her the riot act............

micro