What is the funniest or most embarrassing nursing experience you've had

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My funniest was when I had a sun-downers/dementia pt on M/S walking the floor on night shift.

I said "come on, let's go to bed...and this senior pt ran back to bed, and said okay you can get on top" LOL

I was a brand-new-to-the-hospital house supervisor and I got a call from one of the more senior nurses on the med-surg floor. "We need to show you something and get your opinion before we call the doctor." I got to the floor and there was a bedside commode sitting in the hallway outside a patient's room. They indicated that what they needed an opinion on was in the commode. I lifted the lid and there was the most perfectly round mound of poop you've ever seen. The nurse had VERY CAREFULLY dropped peanut M&Ms onto it to make a smiley face! It turns out that this was probably the LEAST inappropriate thing they did in the years I worked with them.[/quote']

This is hands down the funniest post I have read on here. Wiping tears from laughter.

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Specializes in Hospice.

Okay, going in for the most embarrassing. I was responding to a code blue and as I was running my scrub pants came untied, yes you guessed it, with the house orderly and resident MD behind me. My pants fell down and I got tripped and went down with them. The orderly stopped dead in his tracks laughing, but the resident MD didn't miss a beat and kept going to the code.

I don't ever wear scrub pants that tie anymore.

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Mental Health.
Okay, going in for the most embarrassing. I was responding to a code blue and as I was running my scrub pants came untied, yes you guessed it, with the house orderly and resident MD behind me. My pants fell down and I got tripped and went down with them. The orderly stopped dead in his tracks laughing, but the resident MD didn't miss a beat and kept going to the code.

I don't ever wear scrub pants that tie anymore.

LOL!

cardiacfreak's memory reminded me of a code blue when I was a student. This was back in the days of dresses and caps and white shoes. Our student uniform was a cute (not) little white dress with a yellow and white pin-striped pinafore over it, and our cap was shaped sort of like geese flying in vee formation. This was back in the mini-skirt era.

So another student and I were in the room when the patient coded. She started artificial respiration and I hopped up on to the bed to start compressions. I should also mention that I'm under five feet tall and at the time I weighed about 90 pounds, so in order to get a good compression I had to practically do a handstand on their chest.

As everyone came running in to the code--including the first year resident I had my eye on-- there I was: cap flopping forward upside down so that the wide part of the vee covered my nose and mouth, my long pinned-up hair coming undone, and pins popping out at irregular intervals. My butt, of course, was facing the door, and my skirt was hiking up progressively toward my waist.

Yep, I definitely struck a blow for professionalism that day! :cheeky:

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Specializes in Hospice.

Retired APRN, I can't even imagine doing compressions with a skirt on. :roflmao: Oh, the things we go through to save lives.

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"Sleeping" patient being transported by bed down a busy med-surg hallway. MD walking by in the other direction. Patient sits bolt upright in bed, grabs a fistfull of the MD's jewels and screams "GET A JOB!" in the MD's face, then promptly flops back down in the bed.

Right in front of God and everyone.

A few of us had to excuse ourselves and we laughed until we cried.

Funniest thing I ever saw.

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LOL!

cardiacfreak's memory reminded me of a code blue when I was a student. This was back in the days of dresses and caps and white shoes. Our student uniform was a cute (not) little white dress with a yellow and white pin-striped pinafore over it, and our cap was shaped sort of like geese flying in vee formation. This was back in the mini-skirt era.

So another student and I were in the room when the patient coded. She started artificial respiration and I hopped up on to the bed to start compressions. I should also mention that I'm under five feet tall and at the time I weighed about 90 pounds, so in order to get a good compression I had to practically do a handstand on their chest.

As everyone came running in to the code--including the first year resident I had my eye on-- there I was: cap flopping forward upside down so that the wide part of the vee covered my nose and mouth, my long pinned-up hair coming undone, and pins popping out at irregular intervals. My butt, of course, was facing the door, and my skirt was hiking up progressively toward my waist.

Yep, I definitely struck a blow for professionalism that day! :cheeky:

LOLOLOL!!!

Brilliant description of the events. :)

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Mine is more embarassing than funny....I spent about 20 minutes explaining to a postpartume patient that their epidural was the reason for her inability to "pee", that the nerves would "wake back up" and if not we would use a "tiny rubber tube" to drain her bladder, if need be. She listened nicely and very sweetly said, "I guess they didn't mention in report that I am an anesthesiologist?"

After I got done blushing and saying I was soooo sorry, she reassured me that I had done a banf-up job of explaining the paathophysiology in simple English!! :-)

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Specializes in School Nursing, Public Health, Home Care.

Early in my career there was an influx of southeast asian immigrants who unfortunately came with intestinal parasites. Imagine a 22 year old who blushes easily asking an older gentleman with no english skills whatsoever that she needs a stool specimen. 'nuff said.

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Specializes in LTC.

Oh my...which one to choose from! I was working in orthopedics and had on a scrub top with snaps in the front. I went to a pt's room and went around the foot of the bed to hang a bag of IV fluids. My top caught on the trapeze frame. Snap, snap, snap, snap...every single one of the snaps came undone. I did some fancy moving and went to go to the corner of the room to resnap. I threw that scrub top away that night. The family was in the room and we had a good laugh about it...but how embarrassing!

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When I worked in LTC, One time I asked one our of grumpy residents if she was in pain. Her response "yeah, looking at you". I died.

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Specializes in OB.
"Sleeping" patient being transported by bed down a busy med-surg hallway. MD walking by in the other direction. Patient sits bolt upright in bed, grabs a fistfull of the MD's jewels and screams "GET A JOB!" in the MD's face, then promptly flops back down in the bed.

Right in front of God and everyone.

A few of us had to excuse ourselves and we laughed until we cried.

Funniest thing I ever saw.

OK, I just literally laughed until I cried. Might still be crying a little. That is HILARIOUS!!!!! :roflmao:

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Taking care of a sweet little old man in ICU after he had had an inferior MI. He was puking and retching something fierce. Got an order for a compazine suppository. Did

I mention he was extremely hard of hearing? He was extremely hard of hearing.

I enter room with said foil-wrapped object, hold it up and yell in his ear (loudly enough for everyone in the ICU to hear) "I brought you something to help with the nausea!". To which he responds (even louder) "I can't swallow that!" To which I must explain that object is not swallowed at all, but rather...... you know the rest. At maximum volume.

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