Strange things that you saw when you were a student

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what is the strangest thing that you saw when you were a student...the one that sticks out in my mind is also on the subject of male/female nurses. when we did our ob rotation, the teacher did not/let the male nurses do assessments of the lochia, lady parts, episiotomies....strange.....this was only in 2000. what is your strangest memory of being a student.

Originally posted by OrthoNutter

Necrotising fascitis (for the spelling fanatics out there, sue me) of the scrotum, complete with maggots and I'm pretty sure some weevils or something too.

:eek:

I have seen that too..... wonder if it was the same pt...... soooo disgusting.:eek:

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I was shadowing a midwife one day and we delivered a baby boy who ended up with a 6th toe on his right foot.

As I was cleaning him up, the dad came over and I desperately tried to cover the foot (it had been seconds since delivery) and I did not want to be the one in the position of telling him. All he says is "What's that?" I actually asked, "What's what?" "The toe. What's that toe?" At a loss and internally panicked, I smiled and joyfully said, "Oh that. That's a bonus!" There was a long pause and he looks at me, then looks at the foot and with his chin in his hand he says as in deep thought and very calmly, "No. No I don't think I want a bonus.":rotfl:

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Originally posted by babynursewannab

I was shadowing a midwife one day and we delivered a baby boy who ended up with a 6th toe on his right foot.

As I was cleaning him up, the dad came over and I desperately tried to cover the foot (it had been seconds since delivery) and I did not want to be the one in the position of telling him. All he says is "What's that?" I actually asked, "What's what?" "The toe. What's that toe?" At a loss and internally panicked, I smiled and joyfully said, "Oh that. That's a bonus!" There was a long pause and he looks at me, then looks at the foot and with his chin in his hand he says as in deep thought and very calmly, "No. No I don't think I want a bonus.":rotfl:

Love it when ya'll make me laugh out loud!!!!!:roll

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Seen something tonight I have never seen before in over 20 years of nursing :eek: my co-worker said her new lady had something growing on her buttock and wanted my opinion as to what it was. when I went to help her with the assessment, found a 3 inch growth that had a definite glans member at the end of it growing from her left buttock. :imbar Resident said it had been there for years

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While doing my OB rotation, we got to watch a C-section. After the baby was born, the Dr. takes a towel and stuffs it in the uterus and wipes it all out nice and clean then takes out the uterus and lays it on the ladies stomach. He then holds it up and starts to show us the fallopian tubes and such. I was just thinking......oooowwwwwww, I'm glad she can't feel that. The proud new father even took a picture of me and the other 2 students that were in the room!

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Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.
I had a mentally ill patient who seemed to be in high spirits. When I walked into the ER room and noticed she had a pair of clean white Hanes underwear tied to her hair. I guess she needed a scarf. Across the front of her forehead, it said...Hanes Her Way.
at least the undies were clean! :rotfl: If they hadn't been she truly would have been a shyte head...
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When working in an ED in a southern state, a well-known fellow "lost" a vibrator up his butt. He was not about to go to a local ED, so drove 3 hours to a major city. He was carried to OR, put to sleep to relax his tight butt, and when the normally, quiet, nerdy surgeon (he actually wore bowties) took it out it was still running. His statement, "must be Everready batteries" almost made the OR crew collapse with laughter. Can you imagine driving 3 hours...oh...oh...oh...ah! LOL!

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