What is the freakiest thing you have ever seen at work?????

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Several years ago we had an elderly intubated woman admitted from the ER. She had resp. distress at home and ended up vented. They brought her up to us minus her post intubation film so x-ray came up and did one. After, they sent the film to us. As we stood there looking at it I said Ooops, guess whoever tubed her put her teeth on her chest. Into the patients room I go and pull back the top of her gown and whala, no teeth! Apparently her resp. distress was caused by swallowing her uppers! Poor thing needed surgery to remove them, the bronch was unsuccessful.

A gental man who was homless went through surgery. When he arrived at his room we were cleaning him up and found crabs all over his body, beard, hair all over.

Had to shut down surgery for hours to clean it up.:imbar :imbar

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OK, this is the weirdest for me. Working the ER, 58 yr old female, c/o foreign body in lady parts. get her back in exam room, then she says, well, actually, I was raped. So, we call the police, social services, etc. the dr is doing the exam, all the sudden goes "Hey! it's Mr. Potatoe Head" ( as in the TOY!!!)

she had managed to get the FEET of Mr. Potatoe Head pulled off,but he still had the big smile!! When the police took the "evidence" he asked me, "So, is this the perpetrator?"

OMG, Zudy. As a former forensic science student turned nursing student, I can just imagine... When you get morbid medical humor mixed up with even more morbid cop humor... ::shakes head and laughs::

But...

Mr. Potato Head?! LOL

Donna :)

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I saw mine last night. 18 years of bedside nursing in ER's and ICU's, both military and civilian, I thought I had seen it all. Last night a middle aged male tells me he is depressed. Soooooooooo,

he puts 3 AAA batteries up his member. :eek: I thought I was gonna die. X-ray confirmed 3 batteries in the bladder. Just trying to charge up his life I guess. Gary

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WHERE DO THESE PEOPLE COME FROM????:eek:

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This is one hilarious thread.

I would really like to know, well.. maybe not... WHY, no.. WHAT possesses people to stick/shove/place/push objects in orifices? Sheesh. :uhoh3:

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The day I witnessed a C.N.A. fighting with a resident over his food....... she actually took his cake......and ate it!!!

...simply uncalled for....

and yes, she lost her job... on the spot.

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Furball,

Even scarier, Where do these people go??????:eek:

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Specializes in ER, NICU, NSY and some other stuff.

most bizarre one I ever saw was the guy with the jig-saw blade in his urethra. Made an awsome x-ray. I have no clue what the entire clan of family members thought he was there for initially......

My only thought was, I would sure hate to be the neighbor who had ever loaned him a tool of any sort.......

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:eek: I don't think I can match any of your stories!!! Thank God!!!!! :chuckle The short time I worked at our small hospital here, I do remember an inmate coming in to the ER from the State Prison ---- he had swallowed peices of a coffee cup. OUCH!!!!

It hasn't happened to me, but the noc shift crew at the Nursing Home where I'm at swears there's a ghost in the building. The nurse and 2 aides were in one room, when they went into the hall there was a residents wheel chair in the middle of the hall --- all of the residents were sound asleep. :eek: Another night one of the CNA's went in to a resident's room to check on her (this resident is immobile, as is her roommate), saw that she was wet, went out to her linen cart in the hallway just outside that resident's room, went back in and the residents bed was pulled away from the wall, as was her nightstand. :eek: Now the CNA's at night, and the nurse, who all say they've had weird things happen in that room, go in there and announce to the "ghost" "leave me alone and let me get my work done, I don't have time for your games." :chuckle Don't know if it works or not!

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we once had a young woman patient who was from the hills of kentucky. she kept a spitoon at the bedside and peed standing up

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Specializes in Geriatrics, LTC.
Originally posted by cmggriff

I saw mine last night. 18 years of bedside nursing in ER's and ICU's, both military and civilian, I thought I had seen it all. Last night a middle aged male tells me he is depressed. Soooooooooo,

he puts 3 AAA batteries up his member. :eek: I thought I was gonna die. X-ray confirmed 3 batteries in the bladder. Just trying to charge up his life I guess. Gary

OOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm cringing in pain for him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:imbar

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Hey Colleen10,

Where do these people go? Silly, to management, of course! The really REALLY scary ones go to Administration!

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