travels with Julio

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Specializes in criticalcare, nursing administration.

I often had to travel to remote clinical lab sites in my role as a new nursing instructor. These trips involved taking a mannekin from the home campus on 300 to 500 mile car trips, teaching a skills lab, and returning the next day. On one trip, I took an adult male mannekin with me, taught the lab, spent the night in a hotel per usual, and drove back to the home campus to return my 'companion' to the lab. When I returned 'Julio' ( hispanic mannekin) to the lab, his gown flew up, and I discovered an important part of his anatomy (member) was missing!!! OMG, OMG, I just returned from an overnight trip with a mannekin of the opposite sex, and lost his member??? As a brand-new employee, how was I going to explain this to my boss ( who, by the way, was an ex-nun):eek: The second thought I had was how much does a member cost to replace ( if I had to purchase a replacement) ???

Panic set in. After a few minutes of hyperventilatitng, I began to employ critical thinking. Maybe the missing body part had fallen off at the rural site. Called over there, and asked in a roundabout way whether any 'unusual' things had been found near the nursing lab. No luck. I then took the critical thinking one step further and thought that if the 'anatomy' could have fallen off at the remote site, it could ALSO have fallen off at the main campus. Encouraged, I raced to the front steps of the health science building just in time to see the UPS delivery man stepping over the erect member on the front steps.......:yeah:

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Specializes in school RN, CNA Instructor, M/S.

Omg!!! You are kidding!!!! What was his reaction and how long was the replacement procedure!!!

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Now that should have been unnerving! Or he thought it was just a college type joke. A rigged member decoy!

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Specializes in criticalcare, nursing administration.

Julio and I had many adventures. Finally told my boss, who laughed hysterically, and told many of the other faculty. After that, we began to email her from the road:

Julio " dear------, luvRNs and I have been traveling a lot, and I think she's really cute. do you think she'd go out with me?"

Our emails became widely circulated among faculty, and Julio developed quite a fan club.....

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Specializes in med/surg, psych, public health.
:lol2: :yeah: :up:
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Specializes in Critical Care, Cardiac Cath Lab.

This is hysterical! It totally made me think of the scene in "The Goonies" where the statue falls off the table and when they realize that the member has broken off, the kid says, "But that's my mom's most favorite part!" LMAO!!!!! Great story...thanks for sharing! :)

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