What was the funniest/crazy thing you have heard another Nurse doing?

[madwife2002]

One of my friends when she was a very new student nurse was looking after a patient who was on strict bed-rest.

The patient wanted to go to the bathroom and called for a nurse to come and help her.

My friend was found by the RN actually assisting the patient on the commode, which was on the top of the bed!

Nobody had explained to her that you put the commode by the side of the bed and assist her by transferring from bed to commode, when she listened to the nurse giving report and saying strict bed-rest, she actually thought it meant the pt couldn't get out of bed for anything.

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

My friend is a nurse who always gives everyone the benefit of the doubt. (I just KNOW she used to bring crazy boyfriends home and tell her parents, "Oh, but no one understands him! He's wonderful deep down!") However, if someone gets on her nerves, she is DONE.

One night we had a patient who was bipolar and not taking his meds so therefore rather manic. Not doing anything dangerous, just sitting in bed talking nonstop about everything and anything. We advised her to keep his bed alarm on and shut the door most of the way.

Well, she kept trying to get him to shut up, and kept begging him to take his meds. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore. She called security...on HERSELF. Yes, she told them, "I think I'm going to kill my patient!" They talked to her for a bit and we let her stay out of that room for the remaining few hours of the shift. Everyone was fine.

[apocatastasis]

One of my co-workers ate the leftovers from the dirty, nasty patient meal trays from our dirty inner city hospital ICU crawling with MRSA and VRE and E. Coli ESBL and all kinds of other goodies. Day after day. SO gross.

[nrsnic, BSN, RN]

My anatomy and physiology teacher from years ago told us a story about when he was in nursing school (he dropped out because that was back when men in nursing school were severely mistreated...at least at that nursing school). He was assisting an RN to take care of a man that had gone through a TURP procedure the day before. The patient had developed a clot, so when he and the RN he was with went in to check on the patient, said patient was writhing in pain because his bladder was full (CBI had dripped in until it couldn't anymore).

The MD was called in, and he tried to irrigate the foley. The poor patient was having a lot of trouble at that point, so the RN and my teacher were on either side trying to console him. Well, the doctor was evidently feeling the pressure, so he pulled REALLY hard on the plunger, which caused it to pop out of the end of the syringe. Evidently is was like the Hoover dam breaking loose...and the MD was standing right in front of the stream! The RN was horrified and grabbed on to the syringe and proceeded to spray bloody urine all over the MD and the room before getting it under control.

The patient felt immediate relief

[x4livin, ADN]

Worked with a little LVN at a rural hosp, new nurse, who also had never cooked for herself(brought potted ham when asked to bring canned ham to thanksgiving night potluck at wk) She would go clean her dishes each time she brought food down the hall in a sink in the dirty untility room. No HUGE deal, as long as you are washing it when you get home anyway, right? Well, you know the spongy long handled brushes made for cleaning out the stuck ons from BSC pots? You got it! She ws "washing" her dishes with this and drying to take home and put up and use. We STILL remind her of this. She has a few seasons under her belt now.

[SweetsRN522]

Washing off disposable gloves after cleaning feces off a patient.. thought the gloves were supposed to be saved and used later

SICK!!!!:barf01:That is why they are called "disposable gloves" because they are meant to be disposed of after use lol.

[ChristineN, BSN, RN]

Ha - I got you beat. We had a nurse who suggested the we "tie plastic bags over the end of the trach to catch the secretions". We just all sat there dumb struck before some pointed out the obvious.

OMG I think you do have me beat. Sometimes I wonder if some of these people really went to nursing school.

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

this thread ought to be combined with the one about god-awful things you've seen other nurses do...it's all starting to meld together in my mind ...

[prettymica, ASN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN, APRN, NP]

SICK!!!!:barf01:That is why they are called "disposable gloves" because they are meant to be disposed of after use lol.

I agree this poor child is now an RN.. I would love to see what she is up too :)

[jimthorp]

A coworker discoverd a patient had coded, left the room to get an O2 concentrator and put a nasal cannula on the body then came to give report at shift end. She said the patient was unreponsive and to top it off he was a full code.

[nicurn001]

Back in the UK when nurses were trained upon the floors , The Sister ( female charge nurse ) asked a student nurse ( nurse training to be an RN ) to give a patient who was short of breath Theophyline suppositories , she asked the student if she knew how to do this , the student replied yes . A little later the sister was rounding and asked the patient ( who was out of her line of sight ) if the suppositories had helped , in a voice that sounded a bit as though the patient still had SOB and a stuufy nose the patient said " I don't think this is working ". The sister decided to assess the patient again and quickly discovered the problem upon seeing the patient , resplendant in bed with a suppository up each nostril !.

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

:lol2::lol2:

[nicurn001]

I have a hard time believing someone could be that dumb. LOL.

Sometimes a solution appears so obvious you wonder why nobody thought of it until you did ,It is a great idea to have a bag collect the secretions , you verbalise this at 2 or 3 am but then the obvious flaw is pointed out to you , breathing would be rather difficult .Note to self don't come up with brilliant ideas at this time in the future .