The most embarrasing thing you've done at work!

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Ok, here's my story.

A couple of months ago, we changed from zip uniforms to poppers. So, last night I was with an intubated patient in CT and walked around the table, catching my uniform and giving everyone in the room a nice view of my bra :roll I'm still blushing thinking about it!

So what's the most embarrasing thing you've done?

Specializes in Everything but psych!.
OK so this story is from when I first started in nursing going on three years ago so don't judge me too harshly. While performing routine peri-care one of the other CNAs had covered the residents entire scrotum in zinc oxide cream and it was white and wrinkled. Thinking it was a balled up wash cloth I tried to pick it up, when it didn't come easily I tried again and said "What is this?" When the elderly resident cried out in pain I quickly realized what was going on and let it go. The other CNA said, "I hope you know, you should have one". Well I was so embarassed that I was glowing bright red. Few people know this story but I have learned much since this time.

You get the prize for the best, funniest story! :rotfl:

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Thanks I guess:uhoh3: :imbar

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Specializes in Everything but psych!.

That was, by no means, a cut. Just cute! I can recall so many things I did. Like the time, as a student nurse, when I went to replace a foley cath, only to find the woman had about 6 holes that any one could have been urethras. :imbar Why does it always happen as a student?

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I'm watching coverage of the tragedy on the Gulf Coast and I just read your posting and almost cried laughing. Thanks for sharing such an embarassing moment.

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My significant other has been watching nothing but the news for a week. I just want to shake him and say "Honey, turn off the TV!" He just got a new Razr phone and he can watch 28 channels on it. First thing he shows me about the phone is where he can watch MSNBC coverage of the disaster while we are taking a break together at work. I can only handle this in small doses, but of course he is trying to figure out how to go to New Orleans and help out. You know who will be trailing right along behind him if he goes.

I'm watching coverage of the tragedy on the Gulf Coast and I just read your posting and almost cried laughing. Thanks for sharing such an embarassing moment.
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It's difficult not to want to go down there and help. If you and your partner do go down there, be careful and take good care of yourselves while you are helping the people in need.

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Specializes in LTAC.

A few months ago I was elevating a patients bed to change her linnen. I didn't notice the IV pole on the headboard and it went through her overhead light, causing the flourescent tubes to explode. Most of the glass was contained in the fixture but the noise increased her LOC for a while. I really felt like a dumbass but at least no one was hurt. I also found out it happens fairly often. It seems the new beds don't conform to the old rooms. Go figure.

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once grabbed a donut to eat surreptiously during report. scooted my chair to grab a chart, tilted back in slooow moootion..and fell out in a near somersault. landed trapped under chair against med files...with one arm stuck up in the air triumphantly displaying the donut, which never hit the floor! (got offered a lot of donuts after that one!)

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once grabbed a donut to eat surreptiously during report. scooted my chair to grab a chart, tilted back in slooow moootion..and fell out in a near somersault. landed trapped under chair against med files...with one arm stuck up in the air triumphantly displaying the donut, which never hit the floor! (got offered a lot of donuts after that one!)

you should get bonus points for a graceful execution of a gymnastics routine while maintaining integrity of said donut.:rotfl: :lol_hitti :bow:

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I've done several stupid things in the ER since I've started working there. My first psych pt, I went to do his triage, and for his privacy shut the door. When I went to leave I found no doorknob. Luckily one of my 6 laughing coworkers watching on the monitor came to let me out!

Then there was the pretty blue button on the wall when I tried to turn out a call bell...oops! Code blue ER.

Not to mention how many times I've asked a "daughter" for info on her "father: only to find out it's her husband.

Gotta laugh!!

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

I am waiting for one embarrassing thing to happen to me: to fall on my face while trying to hang something on an IV pole. I am rather short (under 5' club), and seems like my first day on, all my pts' IV poles have their tops all the way up to heaven and try as I might I cannot reach them. And it can be hard to adjust if there's multiple pumps on a pole... I need to find a stool! I just have this picture in my head of me balancing one foot on the rolling "foot" of the iv pole and one barely on the floor, trying to hang something, and me falling over, breaking some bone and knocking the IV pole onto the pt's head! :uhoh21: Hopefully that won't ever happen... I am a big fan of those Bard pumps that you can just set on the bedside table, or something and have to do NO reaching at all! :)

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once grabbed a donut to eat surreptiously during report. scooted my chair to grab a chart, tilted back in slooow moootion..and fell out in a near somersault. landed trapped under chair against med files...with one arm stuck up in the air triumphantly displaying the donut, which never hit the floor! (got offered a lot of donuts after that one!)

i would have paid money to see that!!

getting ready for my final placement at 5.30am and that has made me laugh out loud!

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