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:

Specializes in Emergency/Trauma.
I worked with an LVN in a clinic who had never seen an epipen until she had to use one.

She grabbed it and popped herself in the thumb.

She was very uncomfortable for a while but was OK. (So was the patient- there was a second epipen on hand).

This happened to me not long ago. My first time with the epi pen, trying to waste an expired one into the trash. I have no idea how it happened but it went off into my thumb! I feel so much better now that I know I am not the only one! LOL!

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I really enjoyed reading all your posts>>>LOL and OMG!!!

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Specializes in Telemetry & Obs.
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:

5' 2", huh?? I've been jerked back too many times to count :D

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Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

I lived in a circular dorm that had phones located in alcoves around the perimeter. A friend was pinning up a pair of jeans. Someone yelled that I had a call and I took off running. Just as I reached the alcove, I tripped into the corner. I ended up with 2 black eyes and a broken nose and was bleeding like a stuck pig. At the ER, I had some problems convincing staff that my six foot nine football star boyfriend hadn't done it to me. So for eight weeks, when people said, "What happened?", I answered that I bumped into the wall...:D

sharpeimom:paw::paw:

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Specializes in Developmental Disabilities.

I remember I was hanging up laundry outside on the line when I saw one of my clients running toward the high way, I dashed as fast as I could to get him away from danger, when I ended up getting clothes lined around the neck and landing on my butt. I had rope burns for about two weeks. I'm just glad nothing more serious happened from this incident.

PS client was not harmed in the making of this nurse trick.

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I always get the pocket of my tops caught on the door handle and get jerked back. Always graceful.

I have hit my head on cabinets so many times I probably have brain damage.

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Specializes in Developmental Disabilities.

Yeah, and does anyone have break rooms where they have hanging lamps, the type with the stained glass dome types above the tables? I've hit my head so many times on them now it doesn't even phase me anymore.

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

We had a batch of problematical LR IV fluids -- you'd pull the tip off the bottom tube, but couldn't get the IV line's punch to go thru the membrane. Lab said the fluids were ok, but we were used to really stabbing into the Ringers to get any fluid into the tube. So, I'm standing beside a pt's bed, middle of the night, getting ready to wrestle my way into the LR bag so I can put in the aldomet and hang the pt's drip....I had no idea they'd gotten rid of the bad bags on dayshift, so when I clamped down on the bag and stabbed with the IV line, lacated ringers shot everywhere.

The patient didn't take getting a bath at 0300 that well, and my new scrub top turned out to have an undocumented "see thru" feature....

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I'm tall and big,years ago,the siderails in the old ICU beds were metal and even in the down position they would end up level with the "JEWELRY DEPT.".during codes,chest compressions were easier for me,due to height and size,but sure enuf,more than a few times 'JAMES AND THE TWINS" got zapped due to some overeager resident or fellow code nurse defribilating the patient and often yelling "clear" as they push both buttons.Add lack of protective gowns,liberal amounts of saline and a wet floor..It's a miracle I have 5 kids!...payback was sublime...we'd call it the DOC DISCO,sometimes 2 or 3 at once would get whacked while intubating a patient at the head of the bed and again some knucklehead would light them up...heck I remember nitropaste popping on a patients chest,that got everyone's attention.....the worst incident for me was while in nursing school in the 80's...I had to teach colostomy care to this young man..and I barely knew it myself..surgical floor,no A/C.. June,90 degrees out...I gingerly Popped off the device and blew lunch all over the kid..this was a 4 bed ward and 2 of the other patients starting tossing after my cue..Sister Marybreadtruck... didn't think it was professional...ya think?

HAHAHAHA!!! That's ******* HILARIOUS!!!

P.S. Thank goodness your "jewels" are ok!!!

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
we had a batch of problematical lr iv fluids -- you'd pull the tip off the bottom tube, but couldn't get the iv line's punch to go thru the membrane. lab said the fluids were ok, but we were used to really stabbing into the ringers to get any fluid into the tube. so, i'm standing beside a pt's bed, middle of the night, getting ready to wrestle my way into the lr bag so i can put in the aldomet and hang the pt's drip....i had no idea they'd gotten rid of the bad bags on dayshift, so when i clamped down on the bag and stabbed with the iv line, lacated ringers shot everywhere.

the patient didn't take getting a bath at 0300 that well, and my new scrub top turned out to have an undocumented "see thru" feature....

we must have had the same lr bags where i used to work. one night i got ready to spike one of those things, and with a mighty shove, shoved the spike clear through the bag and into my finger! i wasn't expecting it and let out a yowl that woke my patient. meanwhile i'm bleeding all over the place. just about that time, my charge walked in, saw the blood and thought it was my patient bleeding . . .

that wasn't too long after the time i absorbed ntg through my skin and passed out . . .

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we must have had the same lr bags where i used to work. one night i got ready to spike one of those things, and with a mighty shove, shoved the spike clear through the bag and into my finger! i wasn't expecting it and let out a yowl that woke my patient. meanwhile i'm bleeding all over the place. just about that time, my charge walked in, saw the blood and thought it was my patient bleeding . . .

that wasn't too long after the time i absorbed ntg through my skin and passed out . . .

wow...glad to know i'm not the only one who's done that....except i don't have the lr excuse...i was just new..:chair:

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In a hurry I ran into the supply room to grab an item. As I turned and started out I was grabbed and pulled back. As I was the only one in the room I was quite startled. What happened? There was a large bungey cord hanging from the side of the supply cart. It some how hooked onto my belt, stretched out and pulled me back. And I thought it was a ghost or ??

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