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  1. You put what??!!!! were???!!

    A while back, I had an adult pt who stuck two AA batteries up his butt. Two days later, he came with a 9 volt in there and complained about how much it burned. The mind
  2. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    Proctologist: Seymore
  3. I know I've had pt's I couldn't wait to get rid of. Some are just plain boors. This is the thread to share your stories about THOSE pt's. Wish I could find a magic book that tells me what makes an...
  4. I get irked when I see coma patients who look pretty with their mouths closed while they're laying on their back in bed. The movie Wit with Emma Thompson always gets me. And don't get me STARTED on...
  5. True ER stories

    Oh LOL. http://www.ertards.com/ I'll pass this
  6. Nurse-ified Song Titles?

    Oops, You Coded Again I'm A Poop-Wiper 4
  7. Oh wow, you win.
  8. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
  9. When the first thing you see is a pt wandering the halls, and he can't find his
  10. :rotfl: I woulda paid money to see
  11. Share your "problem patient" stories!

    Had a LOL come in today claiming pain. The pain is related to a bowel impaction. She's impacted because she's having an affair with Vicodin. The Vicodin is constipating her. She swears the Vicodin...
  12. Recently had a confused pt with a touch of salmonella. The poor dear realized she was going to vomit after I put her on the commode; she jumped up and bent over to vomit, and when I ran up behind her...
  13. Murphy's Laws of Nursing | Life of a Nurse

    Any pt you've bathed and diapered will be covered in poo ten minutes after you leave the room to bring in the
  14. A Patient Made Me Cry Today

    To the OP: You are proof that there are angels on
  15. I once spent half a shift with toilet paper stuck to my scrubs. Still haven't lived that
  16. How to tell you've worked too many shifts in a row

    You ponder haldol dart guns for the rowdy kids when they get loud while you're trying to
  17. Murphy's Laws of Nursing | Life of a Nurse

    A sick, but stable patient will have a sudden crisis three minutes before your shift ends---------but only if you have plans for after
  18. The strangest thing you've ever seen on an x-ray?

    A doorknob in someone's stomach. Drunk pt was dared to do it. Came in three days after swallowing the doorknob with abd pain. A little surgery and he was good to go. Funnily enough, he asked for the...
  19. Anything House has ever
  20. Dangerous nurses

    I can't say because I don't know all the details myself. I just know the vent was mistakenly unplugged, the pt died after and there was a lawsuit. I was not at work when it happened or else I might...
  21. Dangerous nurses

    Once had a student nurse unplug a vent to plug in an IV pump and not realize it. Pt died. Massive lawsuit ensued. To this day I still wonder how someone would even consider unplugging anything in an...
  22. Murphy's nurses laws

    -The sweetest LOL is usually the one who you'll find wandering the halls at midnight with poop in her mouth, in her hair, on her hands and in a smear on the wall she's using to support
  23. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW! Puke is one of my
  24. It's such a shame how the brain can confuse the tongue. Someone said there's no dignity for people with dementia. I think they're right. Especially Alzheimer's. I had a 104 year old pt who'd had it...
  25. Sometimes I wonder how the poop-eaters can eat poop. It can't taste