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Have you ever blamed a fart on an unconscious patient? I have!

When I was a CNA, my supervisor scolded me saying, "When you come to work you immediately get started on completing your daily tasks and you're always the first person to start giving your baths." I said, "Oh, thanks!" She said, "No! This is not...

I wouldn't call in due to lack of sleep because at my hospital, if someone calls in they just triple up the other nurses instead of calling in someone else. So, it really affects the staff. So, no, I don't call in unless I'm puking or have a fever.

I have been reading this thread for the past couple of days. Tonight, a patient died on my ICU unit rather unexpectedly. About 1 minute after she was pronounced by myself and another RN, the "service alarm" on her bed started going off. I unplugge...

This is really a HIPAA question, but I knew if I put that in the title no one would read it, haha! I work on a small psychiatric unit and when I pass out medications in the evening I go up to each patient and quietly say, (for example) "This is the ...

"To avoid a replay of this, just say, "Here's your medicine" and let the patient take it from there." Oh, that's not a good idea. Well, maybe if I added, "Do you have any questions about it?" or "Do you know what it is and why you are taking it?" ...

You know what? That was really crappy of her (pun intended). Don't worry, karma will catch up to her. Coming from an ICU where our brilliant management team recently got rid of all our CNAs due to "budget problems" I can tell you that you guys do ...

TiredMD- Hahaha this is very true. Afterall, this is a woman who washes out her Doritos bags with soap and water before she throws them away! And in case anyone complains about my lack of sensitivity- shame on both of us!

TFFTB- Too F-ing Fat To Breathe TSTL- Too Stupid to Live TYTB- Too Young to Breed PRATFO- Patient Reassured and Told To F- Off

I went to nursing school with a girl who is exactly the same way (maybe it's the same person!). We had a very similar conversation once in which she told me that if she was ever diagnosed with a terminal but treatable disease, she would refuse treat...

I worked with one RN who was caught digging through the sharps container to get bottles of Fentanyl that people had not thoroughly wasted. Another RN I worked with followed a friend of mine into the med room and distracted her so that my friend for...

I worked with a resident in PICU that was.. challenged. She has failed the Peds rotation several times, but her husband was high up in the coporate level in the hospital so she was allowed to repeat it. On her THIRD ROTATION through the PICU I saw...

This reminds me of the way our radiology techs practice... I now go in the room and babysit when they are anywhere near my patient. All too many times, I have followed them to find the patient's HOB completely flat while they have tube feeds going, ...

Oh my gosh, don't do it! I have never been so disrespected in my LIFE as I was working as a pharmacy tech at Walgreen's. I actually had a customer tell me that he was going to go home, get his gun, and come back through our drive-thru lane and shoo...

This isn't really a Press Ganey issue.. but the managers on my Critical Care Unit have fired all our our secretaries and nursing assistants because "our budget no longer allows for ancillary positions." Now, they have the NERVE to get angry that the...

O.A.R. - Night Shift "Its 3 a.m., I wanna go to bed I got a lady running through my head Ran outta money, i'm lookin for a night shift It's 3 a.m. and i wanna go to bed" The Verve- Bittersweet Symphony "Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life Tr...

You see 400+ lb people ordering "extra cheese" or "extra ranch dressing" and instead of being disgusted, you think "Eat up honey... job security."

I love alcohol withdrawal patients. They never fail to keep me laughing. One night, I had an old man who was a pill! I ended up having to put him in 4-point restraints. Despite my efforts, he still tried to escape. Sitting at the nurse's station...

When I worked as a pharmacy tech at Walgreen's, and old woman called and asked to speak to the pharmacist one day. I could tell by his reactions that this was a very interesting phone call. This is the story he told after the call ended. Old Lady ...

From a woman who claimed she "went to nursing school" (later found out that she shadowed a nurse for 2 days when she was in high school): "If her oxygen goes down are you going to pump her up with that Bamboo bag?"

OMG you totally hit my funny bone. I can't stop laughing.:chuckle I guess I'm one of those demented people. Anytime I hear about farts I crack up. Hope your patient doesn't call you on it later. Karen Haha, I would blame it on ICU psychosis. "No,...

Haha, Csantos, that's hilarious! I'll never forget this conversation in nursing school: Me: What's heparin four? Instructor: It's a blood thinner. Me: No, what's heparin FOUR? Instructor: That's heparin IV, as in intravenous. Me: (kicking my o...

I was sitting in on a swallow evaluation for a developmentally delayed 2-year old. The resident performing the eval. was very nervous and was known to stumble over his words. He was using a bottle, applesauce, and some fruit puff cereal. The patient...

I used to work as a pharmacy tech at Walgreen's, and we had this guy who would always call to ask for an order on his "hi-DRAW-con-ee" Translate as hydrocodone.. haha "O2 stats" kills me! I always want to correct people, but I have to remind mysel...

As a nursing student on my first med/surg clinicals, I was reading a patient's history and saw "T&A." I pondered this abbreviation for a long time and could only think of one thing that T&A stands for. I finally asked, "Does this mean breas...