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During my years of working in the ER, we had a patient come in with complaints of a sinus infection. The MD appropriately palpated her face; when he palpated under her eyes one of her eyeballs popped out. I swear. Thank G-d it was Dr. Mike, the coolest and most level headed of the ER docs… He simply grabbed the eyeball and popped it back [...]
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My patient was a middle aged man being admitted for a surgical procedure. During the admission process I asked him if he was allergic to latex. He gave me a grin and a wink and replied, “Why? What did you have in mind?” Being a young nurse I was absolutely mortified and continued on to the next question!
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While completing a basic pt care course in my first semester of nursing school, I encountered a usually kind, but very, very confused elderly gentleman. I came on shift one morning, and I was told that J.R. had not slept the night before… nor had he slept in approx. 4 days.

Just then, the door alarm went off. I went over to see J.R. in his [...]
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A couple years ago I had a patient that was alert and oriented (or at least I thought she was). She kept having diarrhea throughout my shift, so I’d keep putting her on and off the bedpan. There were some moments that we were a little too late and it would be on the sheets so I’d changed them. I had no problem with this [...]
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This was my second semester of nursing school. It was the first time that me and my other classmates actually got to care for a patient. My patient was in her late 60’s and had dementia, she was pleasantly confused.

I had to get someone to help me move her from her bed to the chair so she could join the other residents on her floor. [...]
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While in nursing school I was checking residual (pulling the stomach contents out to see how much is in there.) I got a large plunger full of stomach contents plus air in a syringe. To fully check how much was in my syringe I held it up to push out the excess air. During this process the plunger stuck so I had to push really [...]
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When I was in my 1st year of nursing school, I had returned from the restroom while doing med-surg clinicals, not realizing that I had about 3 feet of toilet paper tucked into my uniform bottoms. No one mentioned anything to me…I kept wondering why I was getting strange looks from the nurses, doctors and patients… Finally, at the end of the day I realized [...]
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In high school I started working as a CNA in a nursing home to decide if I wanted to pursue a career in nursing. One of my very first orientation days, the worker I was following was helping me get a female resident with Alzheimer’s ready for bed. After taking off the woman’s shirt, I removed her bra. The confused woman looked down at her [...]
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It was a busy unit on our floor. Two patients came up to the unit at the same time-both admitted right next door to each other. One was from the Cath lab and one was from the ER. A fellow nurse asked me if I could help her out by checking her patients groin site-she pointed to the room. I went into the patients room, [...]
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I had a pt who was so sleep deprived he had “ICU psychosis.” I said, "Mr. (HIPPA) I need to do your bed bath." So he said, I kid you not for 3 for 4 hours, “Bed Bath and Beyond, Bed Bath and Beyond.”
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