Stupid Nurse Trick... Don't try this at home... or work!

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Ok, here's one for the books. I was attacked by my stethoscope yesterday. It flew into my eye HARD. Jammed my hard contact into it. I now have a corneal abrasion & have to be off work at least 3 days, and can't wear my contacts for at least a week!

A friend just brought me goggles, as a joke!

Has anyone else pulled one quite so brilliant? :uhoh3:

And I thought I was too clumsy and accident prone to even think of nursing school....:)

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Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.

I fall out of chairs even when they are put together. I trip over the tips of my shoes. And since my butt is getting bigger it gets in the way of everything.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, home-care.

OMG, My sitting on the toilet when it was cleaned with Drano and the seat put down without cleaning and burning my entire personal area, sounds mild compared to some of these. It took about 15 mins for the fire to set in. I was a cashier at the time, said goodbye,and ran to my vehicle, pulled my slacks off, drove home and hollerd for my DH to bring me a blanket. Rinsed myself off and headed to the ER when I saw the burn... NEVER SIT ON A SEAT OF A TOILET WHEN YOU SMELL CHEMICALS..... OUCH:cry::barf02::uhoh3::sniff:

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and here I thought I was the only one! It also happens frequently with my stethescope that I keep in my pocket... doorhandles and bedrails

Yup me too.. it happens all the time. One time, the stethoscope get stuck on the door handle that I swung backwards from the pull and my face went into the side of the door. I felt so cool..:icon_roll

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Have you ever worn crocs? They stop moving but you don't? Visited many a wall when I wore them.

TuTonka

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Specializes in Home Health, Hospice.

I was on call for Hospice when I got a 4AM death call.I am NOT a morning person! I stood in the closet whimpering that I had nothing to wear...then went into the bathroom to get ready. I grabbed my electric toothbrush in one hand, and my hot curling iron in the other...(see it coming?)...put the wrong one in my mouth!! I made it to the death in time to have the body removed before the grandchildren woke up...but wore that lip blister for a week!

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

I swear that I keep banging my head on things. I have hit my head on the shelf in the room for the feeding pump which is right above the suction and O2 flowmeaters. I swear I have hit my head on that so many times. I have smacked my head on the wall mounted monitor, and the IV poles that hang down from the celing.

I just hit my head on that shelf last week and I still have a sore spot in my forehead.

I swear being a tall nurse is dangerous.

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Specializes in Home Health, Hospice.

I'm only 5' 2"...I just can't reach anything!:cry:

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We had a nurse (not new grad but new to the hospital) on the floor orienting with another, first day, I asked if she was finding everything she needed, she seemed very nice and told me so far she felt she was doing well, managing to find most things. About an hour later I saw her walking down the hall toward one of her patient's rooms with a long strand of toilet paper trailing behind her.... guess she found the bathroom alright. :wink2:

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Specializes in amb.care,mental health,geriatrics.

We have those door handles that are long thin metal things, you know the ones that you just grab and pull downward to open the door- how many times have I gone rushing into a room and been yanked backward as I hear the sound of my lab jacket pocket ripping.....:imbar

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Specializes in amb.care,mental health,geriatrics.

Wait, wait, I have another one... how about, while making friendly conversation with your patient, asking "Is this your wife?" and he says.... "no, that's my daughter." (as the lady glares at me...)

Kind of like one time when my son was born (I was 35 when I had him) someone said "what a cute baby! Is that your grandchild?" Oh no she didn't.....

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Specializes in ICU.
I am just the right height that the sleeve of my scrubs manage to get caught on the door handles (the ones that have a paddle sticking up on the outside and down on the pt side of the door, I start to leave and then get pulled back...:banghead:

The door to the basement has a doorknob that is one of the sideways lever handles that you just push down to open the door. I was running up the steps with a basket of laundry and I pushed the door handle down with the basket and then went to go through doorway sideways with the basket. Well I was wearing jeans and the beltloop from the jeans slid over the doorknob and I was stuck to the door! I was really stuck. I could NOT get off the door. I had to drop the basket, and try to undo my pants with my butt stuck to the door knob!! Finally somehow it came free!

I was also in the office at work one day (my p/t job while in school) and I dropped my pen, so I rolled the chair back a bit and bent over to pick up my pen when somehow the chair tipped forward and spilled me onto the floor and clobbered on top of me. There is a video camera in the office because of the cash and such there and so I wouldn't tell anyone about it for a while so they couldn't figure out when it was to rewind the tape and all get a good giggle by playing on the big screen at the company Christmas party!! LMAO!

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