Practical jokes at work

Stupid, stuffy, humorless doctor spoils our fun again! What the hell was he doing in the hospital after 5 P.M. anyway?? Who gave permission for that????

Originally posted by fedupnurse

Stupid, stuffy, humorless doctor spoils our fun again! What the hell was he doing in the hospital after 5 P.M. anyway?? Who gave permission for that????

Get this - his mother-in-law was admitted from their home (she lived in their guest house) and he came in to write DNR orders. Hmmmmmmmmm.:stone

Now why doesn't THAT surprise me!!!!!!

Not a practical joke, but at my last job we had a EMT that would give me a hard time. Just because the last patient of mine that she transferred screamed the whole 2 hour ride to the other hospital. If she can't take a little screaming, so much for her. LOL

Karalea, for only two hours. That is nothing in the real world as she is probably still screaming unless she has laryngitis or has gone HOME. I have had patients scream for days at a time and it is when they are quiet that you begin to worry. I had billateral above the knees amputation and she would scream to the top of her lungs until the day she decided it was her turn to get out of bed. On rounds she managed to get out of bed and pull out all lines. I was lucky as she had to have an 18 in and I was able to get two into her. We called the doc as none of us had witnessed the getting out of bed and were afraid of some type of injury and he made a remark of how she couldn't without legs. She went over the rails as they were up on both sides. Other than the lines being out she had no injuries. The ER doc was p__ss__d that they had to wake him to see this fisty woman. When we got her back to the floor we put a vest restraint on her to save further possibility of injury. I was so scared as it happened as a GN and I wasn't sure what to do and my head nurse took right over. Thanks Nancy where ever you are

Time for some vitamin H eh?

What the hey is vitamin H? I am taking a stab at it it it Vitamin humor?? Would lke the true meaning Thanks

We use it as code for Haldol.

Other codes...She's on the A-train (she's snowed on ativan)

this could be a new thread eh?

-Russell

Actually, I had allready given this patient her ativan and it wasn't phasing her at all.

And Vitamin T - is Thorazine

Vitamin O=Oxygen

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