Time to Come Clean,,,,slips of the tongue

casi, ASN, RN · Apr 6, 2008

I heard this one about a month ago. I was helping out another aide that was in a one to one with a patient we put in 5-point restraints an hour or so earlier. We were all exhausted by the patient. Me and the other aide were pulling the patient up in bed. The aide went to slip the pillow under the patients head and anounced. "I"m going to put your head under this pillow."

ohmeowzer RN, RN · Apr 6, 2008

i accidently told a lady she was fat... i don't remember how i said it, but it just came out .. i just told her she was fat.. she wa shaving trouble standing up or something,,,, i didn't mean to say and i felt bad, i apologized and said i didn't mean it to come out way.. of course i am not skinny mini either... i am still embarrssed...

donsterRN, ASN, BSN · Apr 6, 2008

I was in the ER one night and a young, attractive couple came in; he was the patient and I don't remember what his problem was. She looked like she was late in her 3rd trimester, and seemed very anxious and nervous for her husband. I did my best to reassure them both, but her especially by telling her we'd have him fixed up in no time, and certainly in time for him to be present when she had the baby.

You could have heard a pin drop when she icily told me that she wasn't pregnant...

DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN · Apr 6, 2008

you could have heard a pin drop when she icily told me that she wasn't pregnant...

omg don !!! how did you reply?

fiveofpeep · Apr 6, 2008

While discussing some physiological process with an Md I said, "but that is above and beyond what you do everyday," but meant to say that what he did was above and beyond that...

He was my ex boyfriend's friend of the family. I tried to tell him what I meant to say but he wouldnt have it haha.

BlueRidgeHomeRN · Apr 6, 2008

ok, mine was at sunday school, not work..

discussing anceint followers of jesus, i brightly chimed in that "st. paul was the main apostle to the genitals". :imbar

have never lived that one down!!:brnfrt:

Dixielee, BSN, RN · Apr 6, 2008

ok, mine was at sunday school, not work..
discussing anceint followers of jesus, i brightly chimed in that "st. paul was the main apostle to the genitals". :imbar
have never lived that one down!!:brnfrt:

:lol2: i think i would have had to change churches after that one! thanks for the great laugh!

TazziRN, RN · Apr 6, 2008

"sorry i did not recognize you with your clothes on"..
what i meant was that the only time i had ever seen him was while he had scrubs on and did not recognize him in "real" clothes.

this actually happened to me! i was in the post office (crowded) and saw a fellow night shifter several spots in front of me. i called her name and she said very loudly "hi! i didn't recognize you with your clothes on!!" you coulda heard a pin drop in that post office!

this one is kind of bad....i aplogize ahead of time! i had a lady who was extremely uncooperative in labor who i was trying my darnedest to work with-coaching, coping, anything that would help and she continued to use the "f word" every few words. now i regrettably have the mouth of a sailor outside of work but keep it professional at work, but she was over the top yelling it-and we are in a maternity ward with other women, family members, and children. i had asked her to stop using that word for those reasons and she kept going. finally, she yells "why can't you ******* do something?!?!?!" to which i replied, "look, i didnt get you ******* pregnant, but listen to me and let me help you!" her mouth dropped to the floor and her mom busted out laughing saying "she told you, now shut up!" and she did....rest of the experience was a wonderful f free labor!

hey, nothing wrong with that! you got her attention and you got her cooperation.

i was in the er one night and a young, attractive couple came in; he was the patient and i don't remember what his problem was. she looked like she was late in her 3rd trimester, and seemed very anxious and nervous for her husband. i did my best to reassure them both, but her especially by telling her we'd have him fixed up in no time, and certainly in time for him to be present when she had the baby.

you could have heard a pin drop when she icily told me that she wasn't pregnant...

oh my...........

my own contribution: there was a short period of time when we would say to "get humping", to mean hurry. one day i saw a doc in the hallway and i asked how his fairly new baby was doing. we got to talking and he said his wife's goal was to have three babies by the time she was a certain age. (can you see where this is going?) since the age limit wasn't that far off i said, in front of a crowded nurses' station, "you don't have much time, doc, you'd better get humping!"

as soon as the words were out of my mouth i turned around and slunk back to my own department........

Cindy_A · Apr 6, 2008

I once had a patient whose son was a priest. She was concerned one evening that he hadn't been to see her, since he came by every night. I assured her that he was probably running late, and he would be there soon. As I turned to leave the room, her son (the priest) walked in the door. To which I exclaimed "Well! Speak of the devil!"

imanedrn · Apr 6, 2008

i was at church, years ago, we were talking about getting married and not changing your last name. back then i thought that was crazy. a doctor i knew from the hospital was there. i turned to her wanting to talk and not knowing what to say i said "isn't it ridiculous that some women keep their maiden names when they get married!". she said "no actually i don't have a problem with it and mary _______ is my maiden name". whoops!
:chair:

i kept mine!

Toquay · Apr 6, 2008

I had a wonderful friend in nursing school that convinced me to begin my nursing career in Oncology with her. She was a great student in school and blossoming into a wonderful nurse. One morning while doing her patient assessment, the Onc MD came for rounds and walked in to see the patient my friend just started to assess. She told me later that she felt a little nervous but decided to continue as the MD watched her. The Doc decides to sit down and watch. She felt a little nervous but decided to do a wonderful assessment and impress the Doc. She gets the vitals, listens to lungs, then starts head to toe and asks the patient to stick out his tongue and he just stares at her...she again requests the pt to stick out his tongue and gets the same blank stare. The Doc makes a clearing type sound in his throat and tells her the patient has no tongue as tongue cancer was his primary cancer. She said she was a flubbering mess after that.

After Onc I started an ICU position and was brand new learning everything critical, EKG, monitors, swans, art lines, vents the whole sha-bang. I had just finished an EKG course and my preceptor tells me my patient has a "Q" sign and did I see it? I, of course eager to learn, tell her no and she tells me to go in the room and look at it. I go into the room and go directly to the monitor looking at the wave form. I see a typical qrs complex but nothing fantastic about it. I go back to the desk and she looks at me and I tell her I see the qrs but can't discern anything inparticular about the Q. She sends me back in to observe the "Q" sign. The other experienced nurses are watching me now... I get up close to the monitor trying to see something odd with the "Q" in the qrs complex and it still looks ok to me. I report back and then she tells me, go look at the patient. This pt was recently made DNR and was dying and this was the first time I heard about a "Q" sign. I felt a little silly thinking it was some high tech thing I just could not understand. We laughed about it for years and the nurses that taught me critical were wonderful teachers with great senses of humor.

Toq

CT Pixie, BSN, RN · Apr 6, 2008

was the first time I heard about a "Q" sign. I felt a little silly thinking it was some high tech thing I just could not understand. We laughed about it for years and the nurses that taught me critical were wonderful teachers with great senses of humor.
Toq

Would you please follow in thier footsteps and teach ME what the "Q" sign is? I've been in healthcare forever (not as a :nurse: thought) and I haven't heard of the Q sign, is this a word used strictly in critical care or is it used everywhere and I've just yet to hear it?