Practical jokes at work

[fedupnurse]

What are some of the best practical jokes you have ever pulled off at work?

I was in charge one night and we had a prisnor as a patient. The cop watching him until the county took over was a real jerk. He went out into the waiting room to sleep. An hour into his nap we moved the guy to a room down the hall. He, as well as the cop who was supposed to be watching him, slept thru the entire thing. Another hour went by and 2 county guys came in to relieve the township guy and found him asleep in the waiting room. As they came thru the closed fire doors into the unit we could hear the township cop saying "don't worry about it, he didn't go anywhere." The 3 of them walked into a room with an empty bed with a crumpled up sheet, gown and socks on the floor. All color drained from the cops face as he came out to the desk and stuttered "w-w-wher's m-m-m-my boy?" We nearly died laughing. When they started talking about APB's we fessed up and showed the 3 of them to the patient's new room. The county guys loved it!!

So what about the rest of you? Surgilube on phone earpieces and call the person? Water fights with 60cc syringes?? How do you blow off steam at work?????:roll

[Flynurse]

My classmates and I were doing our rotation in the largest hospital in the city. We were very intimidated by some of the things we saw. Everything was always professional, neat and tidy. The hospital operator always has a soothing, almost monotone voice when she paged a doctor or other such:

"Dr. Clooney.... please dial 5465. Dr. Tom Clooney, please dial 5465."

Everynow and then the nurses would get board and they would call the operator to page some pretty interesting things.

"Al Buteral please dial 3415. Al....Buteral please dial 3415."

"Will Butrin please call the operator. Will....Buterin please call the operator."

But the worst page was when the page "Code Charlie on floor 4. Code Charlie on floor 4." Code Charlie is a missing child and one of the units of the fourth floor was, of course, the Maternity/Nursery floor. Our instructor watched us scurry to block exits and basically freaking out over the whole situation. When the code was called off, our instructer started laughing. She knew the whole time it was a drill. :imbar

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One of the facilities I have had family in at one time or another plays charms everytime a baby is born. However, with the awful possibility of abduction these days if a baby is missing or taken it is Code Pink. The staff closed every exit including those to the roof. I guess though if someone is desperate they will go to the roof. I don't think we get enough fire or any type of drill as we should.

[caroladybelle, BSN, RN]

A friend of my got a pair of nursing shoes, socks and scrub pants - stuffed them up, set them in front of a commode, closed the stall door and crawled back out (only one stall). We watched as staff went in the bathroom, looked under the stall door and went back out - repeatedly. It took about 6 hours to get caught.

We were tempted after a few hours to call a code Blue - but our administration is uptight and we would have been fired. :eek:

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That would not have worked for my place as it is built like a closet with just one door that opens out. BUTT it could someday get mysteriiously locked. Then again, I would be the one to need it first. I can almost put money on it.

[Stormy]

A resusci-Annie doll (full body) was stuffed in the dinner tray wagon anticipating that the LPN working that day would find it. Unfortunately, the dietary aid was the first to open the door. Annie's arm fell out of the cart on her feet. This poor aid dropped to the floor screaming like a banchee monkey! Needless to say, the staff were in major hot water over this one.

I used to work with an RN who ALWAYS went to break with her patient laying in a pile of poop that we would clean up while she was gone. Decided to get even one day. While she was gone for break, we put an extra layer of soaker sheets under her patient, and sandwiched a mixture of muco and senekot for color together. We jumped to her aid to help her turn her patient when she got back. With some clever planning, we ensured she stuck her hand into the goop. It was priceless! (This pt was unconscious). We laughed - she cursed.

[jevans]

Ive been on the recieving end of an amazing practical joke many years ago and I still laugh about it

As a junior student I was asked to go to the morgue at night to id a patient that the previous shift had failed to label properly.

I went into the most stark awful room ever

when the tech opened the fridge ..........................

the patient sat up and asked " is it day already"

after I freaked I laughed and got my own back

[l.rae]

the previous hosp i worked for told this one on a newly hired tech. they sent him all over the hospital looking for fallopian tubes. every dept. was in on it, they would send him somewhere else to look.. finally arrived back in the er about an hour later.

also recently, we had a particularly grueling shift and the md we worked with this night was awesome, got em in got em out and no nonsence..we all really like him. about 2 in the am the er was empty and dr______, proud of himself, gets on the overhead page and says, "attn. er shoppers, the er is now empty". well he came and sat down at the nurses station and was shootin the bull with us when (unbeknownst to any of us} our triage nurse sneeked out to the triage area, opened the door where the patients are brought back and screamed in the most paniced voice , "dr ________ come quick!!" we were all on our feet runnin like hell. i think i actually had a run of svt. dr. ______who is a big practical joker himself admitted, "well done."

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[jevans]

As a student we had a great joke that lasted 3 yrs

whenever we were in block we would take the skeleton out of the teaching lab and sit it on the bench outside of the hospital entrance with assorted messages around his neck. this lasted for three years!!!!!!

On our five year reunion I took the skeleton in DJ our tutors told us they thought it was us because it stopped after our graduation

but they couldn't prove it

[Flynurse]

I swear one of my former classmates fell for this:

Doctor: "What's the difference between a woman and a man?"

Student: stunned by the doctor's inane question she replied,

"I dunno."

Doctor: There's a vas deferens!

Student: :imbar

[NICU_Nurse, BSN, RN]

I have been DYING to play a new joke on some of our nurses or even some of the rotating med students- perhaps using some fake blood or some of those gory halloween scar-trauma flesh-like things. One catch: I work in NICU. However, this could easily involve nurses or other staff rather than the babies...anyone with any good ideas? I promise I'll report back to ya'll with the results!

[LasVegasRN]

Originally posted by KristiWhite2377

I have been DYING to play a new joke on some of our nurses or even some of the rotating med students- perhaps using some fake blood or some of those gory halloween scar-trauma flesh-like things. One catch: I work in NICU. However, this could easily involve nurses or other staff rather than the babies...anyone with any good ideas? I promise I'll report back to ya'll with the results!

The chocolate poop thing should work well there.... scroll back on some of the previous posts on this thread and see how great that works! :chuckle

[NICU_Nurse, BSN, RN]

Actually, I was the first one to offer that idea up as a joke. Been there, done that. ;>P Moving on to greener pastures, if I can come up with something really good!! That's where you guys come in!