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:

ouch about getting your hair stuck.

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Specializes in pure and simple psych.
Umm...I once dropped a syringe which then rolled under my pt's bed, as I bent to retrieve it she pressed the button to raise the head of her bed which then caught my hair in one of the joints and pulled tight. No amount of changing the angle of the head of the bed helped me get loose. We had to press the call light. The other RN working with me laughed her butt off as she cut me loose. I wore a surgical cap the rest of the night and got a hair cut (a VERY short one) the next day.

:selfbonk:

:lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2: Too Funny

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Specializes in pure and simple psych.
I'm really clumsy at times, and during the olympics a couple of years ago, I was talking to the patient while we were watching the figure skating. I was imitating the skater who was on, got caught in her IV tubing (thankfully not attached at the time) and did about the most ungraceful swan dive ever!

:roll:roll:rotfl::rotfl::roll I'm still laughing. These should be published, Brian... Really!

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Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.

I was doing the narc count with another nurse, and bent down to check the small refrigerator that holds a few meds. As I stood back up, I whacked my head on the metal narc cabinet door. I already had a thundering headache before hitting my head, so I stood there dazed for a few seconds. After I recovered, I looked at my coworker and said "How do my pupils look?" She decided my neuros were ok and we went on with the rest of the night.

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Specializes in pediatric ER.

I thought I'd add a few... I'm quite a klutz myself, so have quite a few... here's a couple.

When I was in nursing school we had one day that we could go and watch surgical procedures. This was quite cool because I had been caring for a patient with a brain tumor that was going to the OR. Very neat. So I'm standing there watching the neurosurgeon carefully dissect down, he's standing there with bone-saw in hand ready to cut into the skull, it's literally buzzing in his hand and my legs were getting a little tired from standing in one place, decided to move a little bit and tripped over the cord that went to the light mounted on his head, unplugging it, the surgeon says, "Uhh, LIGHT please!" I was so embarrassed, but luckily he wasn't sawing at that point!

Another more recent one, I was taking care of a critical patient in the ED, taking patient to cat scan. Patient is intubated and on a vent, so we were bagging on the way to CT. So we get done with CT, hook pt. back up to O2 under the bed and everything, get him all packaged up and start on our way back to ED... his sats slowly start to drop and then PLUNGE! I'm freaked, but luckily have a second nurse, start running down the hallway with pt to make it back to room, loose BOTH of my shoes, causing me to slide into wall thus causing my body to crash into the wall, luckily just kinda graze the wall with the stretcher... but there's suddenly blood everywhere... I sheered off the IV tubing, not sure how I did it, but I'm freaked, we rush the kid back... I now have wet socks from IV fluid and blood, get him all hooked up... turns out I forgot to turn the O2 tank on.... yah, not my finest moment, but he was OK.... luckily! My co-worker that went to CT with me was not impressed, but nice enough to get my shoes and a pair of hospital footies...

I now carry a spare pair of socks to work... I'm THAT special!

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well, one day at work i dropped my badge, and just out of instinct immediately reached down to grab it...well, i had forgotten to push my chair away some from from the nurses station and knocked the crap out of my head:yldhdbng:...on the left side of my forehead...and the sound of it was so loud that my co-workers thought i had kicked the desk...until they saw me grab my head, and said "was that your head?!" i wanted to start swearing sooo bad:spbox:...but since i work at a peds office, obviously not the best idea. so i took some motrin and blew it off. two days later i was still dizzy:sstrs: vomiting:barf02: and even had a dent in my forehead! i had to go the the ER for a CT...ended up with a CONCUSION!!! so now i don't even keep my badge on. to this day my co-workers still think that it was pretty funny that i got a concussion from something so stupid!:smackingf

so PLEASE...if you drop something MAKE SURE TO MOVE YOUR CHAIR BACK! :D

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Specializes in Oncology, Cardiology, ER, L/D.

I was doing a H/P questionaire on a new cardiology patient when I went to sit on stool when you guessed, I missed it. It went out from underneath me! I ended up skidding across tile floor and banging my head on the exam room door.:banghead: Talk about feeling like an idiot. To make matters worse, the patient was new to our practice and had her two small children with her who looked at me like I was the biggest dufus in the world. Talk about making a first impression!

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Specializes in Developmental Disabilities.

The worst thing I've done so far is really, really hurting my ear drums with my bell hit against the side of the bed.

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Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

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:

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Specializes in Developmental Disabilities.

Oh, I HATE that. I'm glad someone else feels my pain.

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I once pulled up the patient's curtain - it was one of those roller ones, but it hadn't latched correctly, i bent down to pick up something and WHAM it hit me on the head. I actually wondered if I had a mild concussion cos I needed to sit down and felt horribly nauseous and my vision was blurred for about an hour! But I had to keep working, someone had decided not to show up - they went out of the grog the night before and called in saying they were "ill" meaning "hung over".

I still cringe when I see those roller curtains!

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About the only thing I've ever done is tear my scrub pocket on a wheelchair handle, and got a urine bath emptying the bucket on a commode.

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