OK. Whats the oddest thing you've ever heard by an instructor or another medical person (nurse, doc., EMT, whatever).
Mine is easy. An instructor explained the broncial tubes/nasal passages like this:
"We have two nostrils just like we have two bronchial tubes. Each nostril serves the bronchial tube on the same side. Someone who occludes one nostril or the other for too long depletes air supply on that side. This is much like sleep apnea."
Dont ask me where the sleep apnea thing was going. Its a wonder anyone from that class passed NCLEX. We all stopped paying attention to her and studied on our own whatever chapter was being covered in class.
On my Maternity clinical rotation I had a teen mom as my pt. When I entered her room in the morning she was standing over the bassinet with a worried look on her face. She said she thought something was wrong with the baby, of course I panicked and dropped everything and ran over there. The baby looked to be straining a little and I checked the diaper and he was going (of course it was meconium) and she freaked out that the "poo" was black and asked me to stop making her baby poop. I let out a loud laugh until I realized she was being serious - oops:icon_roll There seriously needs to be WAAAAAY more sex ed in school!
On my Maternity clinical rotation I had a teen mom as my pt. When I entered her room in the morning she was standing over the bassinet with a worried look on her face. She said she thought something was wrong with the baby, of course I panicked and dropped everything and ran over there. The baby looked to be straining a little and I checked the diaper and he was going (of course it was meconium) and she freaked out that the "poo" was black and asked me to stop making her baby poop. I let out a loud laugh until I realized she was being serious - oops:icon_roll There seriously needs to be WAAAAAY more sex ed in school!
Floriidagirl, your post made me laugh so hard, I had to get up and clean off my monitor because I spit out my drink all over it! Just trying to imagine making a baby stop pooping.:rotfl::rotfl:
Just last week, I'm getting report from a local community hospital ER on an admit I'm getting. 4wk old, intubated, HR 200....... so I ask whats the blood pressure? She tells me " oh... he's much to young to have his blood pressure taken":eek: Ummm..... get the dopamine ready!
What the?!? What does she think the tiny little blood pressure cuffs are for??
Some of the strange things I've heard during my career:
Surgical resident telling nurse to "guess" dose of morphine for a 4 year old.
Call a doctor when a new admission (with a history of Diabetes) has a blood sugar of 250. Dr's response "so, don't we just monitor his sugars." Doctor seemed surprised I wanted an insulin order.
I just thought of another good one. I had a doctor tell me that my ventilated patient's sats were low because she has sleep apnea and it is night time. I'm glad the respiratory therapist was in the room to hear this too. We just looked at each other, and had a good laugh when he was gone.
Floriidagirl, your post made me laugh so hard, I had to get up and clean off my monitor because I spit out my drink all over it! Just trying to imagine making a baby stop pooping.:rotfl::rotfl:
ummmm... all you have to is tell it "Stop pooping!" in a firm voice... right?
This reminds me of a story from when I was in grade school, when my friend and I were playing with her male cousin (same age), and he told us "girls have three holes 'down there'" We were, of course flabergasted and shocked that he would say such a thing. We actually told him "You don't know what you're talking about, boys are so dumb!"
when i was about 14, my best friend and i read this "dirty book" we'd found in the bookstore. in it, the girl inserted something in her urethra. that got me to thinking...did i have one of those? i looked and looked but couldnt find it! i called my best friend all in a tizzy and crying that i didnt have one. she assured me i did. i decided i couldnt find it because i was fat and asked her to find it for me. lol, she declined but kept assuring me i had one. that was the day i found out why my tampon was never wet after i peed, lol
If that was the case you could call me the "poop whisperer"
FloridaGirl23
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On my Maternity clinical rotation I had a teen mom as my pt. When I entered her room in the morning she was standing over the bassinet with a worried look on her face. She said she thought something was wrong with the baby, of course I panicked and dropped everything and ran over there. The baby looked to be straining a little and I checked the diaper and he was going (of course it was meconium) and she freaked out that the "poo" was black and asked me to stop making her baby poop. I let out a loud laugh until I realized she was being serious - oops:icon_roll There seriously needs to be WAAAAAY more sex ed in school!