I didn't see a thread similar so I decided to make one. Share your strange coworker stories! It's all in good fun.
A long time ago I was training with a nurse and before she started her med pass she goes "the most important med pass is one I do for myself" She began pouring random vitamins from the med cart into a cup and took them.
I have an aide that talks to herself. It's on the NOC shift but sometimes she works my shift and I'm always wondering "who is talking like that?" It's her. Full conversations.
One time I walked into the break room and a coworker was googling "how to cast spells on awful boss"
I work with a CNA that thinks everyone should make the same wage, have the same size home, wear the same clothing, eat the same food, etc. She read Agenda 21 by Glenn Beck and thinks it is a good idea. She even wrote a letter to corporate asking that they revise the wage scale so that everyone makes the same money.
Another CNA draws out her vowels when she speaks. "Flaaashpooooiiiint, Maaary waaaants graaaaape juuuice." She also checks the placement sheet fifteen or twenty times during a shift. When she gets bored with something, she just stops. She will call for help when getting someone dressed and just leave when help arrives. She will pass water to half of her hall and then just stop and move on to something like checking the placement sheet. :-)
The most crazy that I can remember was a CNA named David. He was an awesome CNA. One day he didn't show up for work. He had been pulled over for speeding or something like that and they found that he had escaped from prison in Arizona (I think it was Arizona).
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
I can't think of anything strange but I know a nurse (I'm assuming any day now she won't have a license) who got arrested in the middle of her shift. She was talking to people she shouldn't have been. It was a huge converstation piece at our facility for a long time.
How can you get arrested for talking to the wrong people?
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
I once worked with an RT who had a propensity for writing verbal orders. In those days, it was OK for RTs to write verbal orders for extubation, nebs, O2, etc. -- things that were within their scope of practice. But this guy was writing orders for blood transfusions (more "boxcars") and Lasix. Not only had no actual provider given him the order, nobody WOULD give him an order because everyone thought he was crazy. (In the interest of political correctness. let me just say that there's "having mental health issues that you're working on," "crazy" and "bat guano crazy." This guy was bat-freaking-guano crazy.)
When I was taking care of an ETOHer in flagrant DTs who had a balloon pump, I kept saying "Mr. Smith, if you don't keep your leg straight, you can damage the artery in your groin. You can lose your leg or bleed to death." Honestly, I was young then, I said it nicely. Bob came into the room and told him "Hold on, there Cowboy. Keep your leg straight or they'll cut it off."
One particularly horrid shift, Bob had written so many "verbal orders" that his manager and the medical director asked to speak with him. I don't know what went on in the meeting, but when I got home and turned on the TV the "Breaking News" was a horrific traffic jam near the hospital because of a "gunman" on the street. It was Bob. I never saw him or heard from him again, but of course the rumors ran rampent.
Names and details of course changed, even though most of you probably weren't even alive when this happened.
I once worked with an RT who had a propensity for writing verbal orders. In those days, it was OK for RTs to write verbal orders for extubation, nebs, O2, etc. -- things that were within their scope of practice. But this guy was writing orders for blood transfusions (more "boxcars") and Lasix. Not only had no actual provider given him the order, nobody WOULD give him an order because everyone thought he was crazy. (In the interest of political correctness. let me just say that there's "having mental health issues that you're working on," "crazy" and "bat guano crazy." This guy was bat-freaking-guano crazy.)
When I was taking care of an ETOHer in flagrant DTs who had a balloon pump, I kept saying "Mr. Smith, if you don't keep your leg straight, you can damage the artery in your groin. You can lose your leg or bleed to death." Honestly, I was young then, I said it nicely. Bob came into the room and told him "Hold on, there Cowboy. Keep your leg straight or they'll cut it off."
One particularly horrid shift, Bob had written so many "verbal orders" that his manager and the medical director asked to speak with him. I don't know what went on in the meeting, but when I got home and turned on the TV the "Breaking News" was a horrific traffic jam near the hospital because of a "gunman" on the street. It was Bob. I never saw him or heard from him again, but of course the rumors ran rampent.
Names and details of course changed, even though most of you probably weren't even alive when this happened.
I believe every single word of this! I have never worked in another field or with another group of people that has consistently had members as odd as some of the RTs I've worked with over the years. I don't know what it is about the profession that seems to attract some truly strange individuals. Mind you, as an RT myself, I realize I may be outing myself as an odd duck
Specializes in Float Pool-Med-Surg, Telemetry, IMCU.
How could I forget the nurse who had an intimate relationship with her cat and honey. She was not ashamed or embarrassed to tell it.
Wait...for real? Not just in a "my cat is cute and cuddly" way?? Like maybe they just shared a bed, you know...platonically?? And do you mean literal honey, like what bees make?
Oh God, so many questions, so many answers I don't actually want. People are freaks.
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studentnurse47
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That is crazy! Loving this thread.