Stupid hurts.

Watch where you're pointing that nail gun.

There are a few parts of your anatomy where things are only supposed to come out...not go in. There's a reason for that.

Lighting up a joint while on O2.

Your bruise hurts?

Quit.pushing.on.it.

6 hours ago, Wuzzie said:

Watch where you're pointing that nail gun.

No one was injured in this situation, but still, the potential was there.

A few years ago the geriatric psych unit was undergoing a renovation and patient census was kept to a minimum. During the day, the geriatric psych patients were transferred to the empty child psych unit and returned in the evening.

The construction workers left in the community room, among other tools, a 6 foot fiberglass rod with a sharp metallic point. I came in to work an 8 hour MN and found the rod in the open nurses station, that could have been easily accessed by patients. I asked an evening coworker where the rod had come from.

"I found it in the community room", she said, "And (our supervisor) told me to leave it at the nurses station for the construction workers".

I locked the rod in an unused room and made this for the old "Jacob Rockstar-RN Psych Nurse Action Figure" thread: