Some things that ended up funny....later !!

9 I'm sure we've all got a ton of stories that are silly, hilarious, or in someway smile-inducing!!

Here's one of mine...

It was a make-up day for clinicals in med-surg, and a patient who had coded (and not made it) needed to go to the morgue. So, of course, students are cheap labor, and I didn't mind going since I'd worked in nursing homes as a CNA during school, and dead people didn't bother me. So, we get to the morgue, got the patient on the table, spread a plastic-lined paper sheet over her, and got ready to leave- only problem? The light switch was on the other side of the room (I don't remember if we came in one way and out the other, or what). So, I said I'd go turn off the lights. Me walking past the table (with said patient) was enough to get the paper sheet floating over the body- FREAKED ME OUT , to which I said "the H*ll with the lights", and took off the door open behind me.... my classmates howled for a week (they saw my face- I just saw a dead person under a floating sheet).
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When I heard the term "didge" aka digital, I thought is was some cool mechanical tool...little did I know that it involved a gloved hand saturated in lube.

Quote from Poi DogWhen I heard the term "didge" aka digital, I thought is was some cool mechanical tool...little did I know that it involved a gloved hand saturated in lube.

Quote from xtxrnI'm sure we've all got a ton of stories that are silly, hilarious, or in someway smile-inducing!! Here's one of mine...It was a make-up day for clinicals in med-surg, and a patient who had coded (and not made it) needed to go to the morgue. So, of course, students are cheap labor, and I didn't mind going since I'd worked in nursing homes as a CNA during school, and dead people didn't bother me. So, we get to the morgue, got the patient on the table, spread a plastic-lined paper sheet over her, and got ready to leave- only problem? The light switch was on the other side of the room (I don't remember if we came in one way and out the other, or what). So, I said I'd go turn off the lights. Me walking past the table (with said patient) was enough to get the paper sheet floating over the body- FREAKED ME OUT , to which I said "the H*ll with the lights", and took off the door open behind me.... my classmates howled for a week (they saw my face- I just saw a dead person under a floating sheet). :smackingf

I was working weekend nights on an adolescent psych unit...it was after midnight, and my co-worker and I were starving. There was a bunch of stuff leftover from a chocolate chip cookie project, and she and I decided that boiled eggs sounded good.... all we had was a microwave (those of you who 'know' already know how this ends)...so we put them in, timed it for 2 minutes or so, and waited...it wasn't long before they exploded (neither of us knew to poke holes in the eggshells), and the 'blast' was enough to blow the microwave door open, sending partially cooked egg shrapnel EVERYWHERE ! :smackingfWe both lost it. We couldn't see straight, and she had to nearly hop cross-legged to the bathroom It took quite a while to scrape up everything, and every time we made eye contact, we'd start laughing all over again. Never looked at microwaves the same way- always brings a bit of a giggle.

A long long time ago......I was working night in an ICU. Our token male nurse (at the time) of hispanic origin (important later) who also happened to be very cute, had a VERY confused LOL (little ole lady)......on this particular night she removed every tube he could get her hands on and then some.....and then she "Chewed" Yes, ladies I said "chewed" her foley in half ( She was mitted and restrained as was allowed [standard operating procedure] back then). Myself and 4 other nurses (all blondes) went in the room to help said cute male nurse. The LOL kicked and screamed, cussed and swore. She threatened to have us killed and wanted to call the police. We were finally able to re-insert an hour later came out of the room covered in sweat exhausted just glad she had wore herself out and the Haldol/Ativan had finally kicked in.......The next day while recieving report we were informed about the delusional patient in bed %^&%.......and that she went for a stat head CT because she had begun hallucinating.......When we asked what was she seeing the day charge nurse said....and I quote "That poor old lady has been saying all day that last night she was raped by a mexican and there were four blonde B%$#@*& who held her down!" We sat in stunned silence for a brief moment and then fell out of our chairs laughing and retold the story of the eaten foley........as our manager wanted to know why we didn't put the foley in we responded with...."It was HIS patient"...... as our token male stated....."I'm so glad I'm finally one of the girls..."That story still lives in infamy.......

Quote from Esme12A long long time ago......I was working night in an ICU. Our token male nurse (at the time) of hispanic origin (important later) who also happened to be very cute, had a VERY confused LOL (little ole lady)......on this particular night she removed every tube he could get her hands on and then some.....and then she "Chewed" Yes, ladies I said "chewed" her foley in half ( She was mitted and restrained as was allowed [standard operating procedure] back then). Myself and 4 other nurses (all blondes) went in the room to help said cute male nurse. The LOL kicked and screamed, cussed and swore. She threatened to have us killed and wanted to call the police. We were finally able to re-insert an hour later came out of the room covered in sweat exhausted just glad she had wore herself out and the Haldol/Ativan had finally kicked in.......The next day while recieving report we were informed about the delusional patient in bed %^&%.......and that she went for a stat head CT because she had begun hallucinating.......When we asked what was she seeing the day charge nurse said....and I quote "That poor old lady has been saying all day that last night she was raped by a mexican and there were four blonde B%$#@*& who held her down!" We sat in stunned silence for a brief moment and then fell out of our chairs laughing and retold the story of the eaten foley........as our manager wanted to know why we didn't put the foley in we responded with...."It was HIS patient"...... as our token male stated....."I'm so glad I'm finally one of the girls..."That story still lives in infamy.......

One of the stories that brought a lot of us back to earth in the detox unit I worked in at a freestanding alcohol/drug treatment center involved a couple of guys coming off of alcohol. They kept coming out of the room where the beds were, and telling the nurse that there were raccoons under the beds. The nurse got them their PRN Librium, and got them tucked back in....this happened a couple of times over a 12 hour shift. While getting things wrapped up for the shift, the nurse and tech were straightening the unit, and had the doors to the outside open.....a few minutes later, 2 raccoons came from the mens' detox ward, and moseyed out of the door.... the nurse and tech learned that sometimes the inmates are more accurate than the help !!!

Quote from xtxrnI was working weekend nights on an adolescent psych unit...it was after midnight, and my co-worker and I were starving. There was a bunch of stuff leftover from a chocolate chip cookie project, and she and I decided that boiled eggs sounded good.... all we had was a microwave (those of you who 'know' already know how this ends)...so we put them in, timed it for 2 minutes or so, and waited...it wasn't long before they exploded (neither of us knew to poke holes in the eggshells), and the 'blast' was enough to blow the microwave door open, sending partially cooked egg shrapnel EVERYWHERE ! :smackingfWe both lost it. We couldn't see straight, and she had to nearly hop cross-legged to the bathroom It took quite a while to scrape up everything, and every time we made eye contact, we'd start laughing all over again. Never looked at microwaves the same way- always brings a bit of a giggle.

Nothing like a good spud bomb !

Quote from xtxrnOne of the stories that brought a lot of us back to earth in the detox unit I worked in at a freestanding alcohol/drug treatment center involved a couple of guys coming off of alcohol. They kept coming out of the room where the beds were, and telling the nurse that there were raccoons under the beds. The nurse got them their PRN Librium, and got them tucked back in....this happened a couple of times over a 12 hour shift. While getting things wrapped up for the shift, the nurse and tech were straightening the unit, and had the doors to the outside open.....a few minutes later, 2 raccoons came from the mens' detox ward, and moseyed out of the door.... the nurse and tech learned that sometimes the inmates are more accurate than the help !!!

Quote from Jenni811what??!!? wow, how did raccoons get in there??

I was working in an alcohol/drug detox unit with a tech and LVN (meds), and somehow we got to talking about sore throats. We'd gone outside (unit opened directly out to a parking lot) since it had been a quiet afternoon (I can use the Q word if I'm not at work!) and were sitting on the golf cart (used to go fetch patients/food/etc)... the med nurse was in the back seat, I was in the front, both of us facing the tech who was leaning against the front of the cart. The med nurse made a comment about having a doctor look "back at that, oh you know, the vulva"......the tech and I gave each other the deer in the headlights-on-steroids looks and both of us lost it....at which time the med nurse said "I mean uvula"...... None of us could speak for about 10 minutes....we decided that a new specialty of OB-ENT needed to be developed...... After that, if anybody said anything about a sore throat, the three of us couldn't look at each other