I don't know why but that statement makes my jaw clench up everytime I hear it.
I had a patient the other day ask me how I was going to insert a foley since "the head is down there, wont that hurt the baby?" For the love god, people .... come on .. 2 HOLES! SERIOUSLY!
and my favorite of all time ...
"Does that machine beep everytime I dilate?" .. this one left me speechless
Please share your "omg, no she didn't say/ask that" quotes
This thread is too funny! Now I know 101 things NOT to say when I deliver #4 this summer.
Actually, I was recently in OB triage for uterine irritability (I'm a high risk pregnancy w/ the added complication of subchorionic hematoma). The whole time I was there I was careful not to say or do much. One of the students precepting opened my curtain after I had been there for a couple of hours and came in to talk for a while. So we chatted and I told her I was a nurse as well. She said 'That's why you're so low key! You've been on both sides!' I laughed, but the truth is that I kept thinking back to this thread! LOL!
Sort of makes you wonder what else they have going on in their house-blah!:barf01:
What about the people that want to keep their placentas? I saw a show on Discovery Health about parents eating the placenta. Now, that totally beats toes in a jar!
What about the people that want to keep their placentas? I saw a show on Discovery Health about parents eating the placenta. Now, that totally beats toes in a jar!
Absolutely, hands down UGH.....:barf01: :barf01: :barf01:
Who is letting people take their placentas home??? When we started our OB rotation, we were specifically told that this was one of the only cultural practices that would not be accommodated, no way no how. And we've got students at five different hospitals around NY...
OMG! You are me exactly! I'm 23 and short and a brand new RN. It was funny when I interviewed a few weeks ago the lady asked when I was graduating from high school :chuckle She quickly corrected herself and said "you're just so young!"
Jessica
Sounds like the situation I'll probably be finding myself in soon enough (starting direct-entry MSN program this fall)! I'm 22, pretty short, and look young--I've been on EMS calls where the patient commented that I looked about 14!!
Who is letting people take their placentas home??? When we started our OB rotation, we were specifically told that this was one of the only cultural practices that would not be accommodated, no way no how. And we've got students at five different hospitals around NY...
:rollI've never seen it personally, I saw it on Discovery Health channel. Don't know the rules surrounding it. It's definitely not something I'm interested in trying...:roll
I was working as an ER tech one night, sitting at the triage desk and answered the phone. It's a man on the other end with a question... "My wife is about 5 months pregnant and she's having some abdominal pain. Not down low where the baby is but kind of up higher... like where I think her stomach might be." I said ok and waited. He says (no joke) "Can you tell me what might be causing that?" I almost snorted into the phone. Then politely informed him that the hospital is not legally allowed to give medical advice over the phone.
Specializes in CCU stepdown, PACU, labor and delivery.
Anyopne's SO/FOB ask for a "love stitch?" I was in the middle of a delivery with shoulder dystocia and the FOB kept bugging the MD not to forget his "love stitch"! ICK
I also had a FOB ask if I had started to seduce his girlfriend. Um, INDUCE, would be the word he was searching for.
Equally creepy was a FOB who asked how dialated his girlfriend was each time I "fingered" her.
HisTreasure, BSN, RN
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This thread is too funny! Now I know 101 things NOT to say when I deliver #4 this summer.
Actually, I was recently in OB triage for uterine irritability (I'm a high risk pregnancy w/ the added complication of subchorionic hematoma). The whole time I was there I was careful not to say or do much. One of the students precepting opened my curtain after I had been there for a couple of hours and came in to talk for a while. So we chatted and I told her I was a nurse as well. She said 'That's why you're so low key! You've been on both sides!' I laughed, but the truth is that I kept thinking back to this thread! LOL!