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

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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!:lol2:

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.:idea:

Somehow a student nurse put the pulse ox clip, prong, whatever you want to call it, the close pin shaped thingy, backwards on the patient's finger!

I wouldn't even think it would fit backwards, but she managed!

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Specializes in CCU,ICU,ER retired.

I watched a seasoned ICU nurse with a pt. that had multiple face fractures, smashed sinus cavities, broken cheekbones, forehead, jaws, nose just smashed to pieces. It was my patient and I wallked in to see she had taken my oral gastric tube out anad was attempting to put a nasogastric tube in!! I could just imagine seeing that tube snaking all around her sinuses and into her brain and some of it getting sucked out!

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.
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!:lol2:

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.:idea:

If she was strict bed rest, why not use a bedpan?

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.
If she was strict bed rest, why not use a bedpan?

I have really no clue it was over 20 years ago and I never asked her.

I guess it wouldn't have seem strange had she used a bedpan.

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