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I was doing my maternity rotation and a classmate and I had a pt that only spoke a little bit of English and there was a “huge” language barrier. She was asking us “How will I know when my baby is getting enough milk?” I responded with: “Well, you will know if he has 6-8 wet diapers per/day.” I asked her if she understood [...]
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Funniest Nursing Stories

I was explaining to a patient in for etoh how to call in her breakfast for the next morning to which she replied…

“Ok…is your bar still open? I need a shot.”
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Funniest Nursing Stories

No lie, I once worked with a psychiatrist called Wayne King.
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Funniest Nursing Stories

I was doing my clinical rounds in the dementia unit where I was sitting between two women and across from a few of my classmates. One of the women was just babbling on about nothing, which greatly annoys the other woman. I was “actively listening” to the woman babbling because she wanted someone to listen to her. The annoyed woman says, “I can’t believe she’s [...]
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Funniest Nursing Stories

So it was my first day of clinicals and I had an older woman who was on some serious opioids and she had severe diarrhea. I was in the middle of giving her a bedbath and she tells me that she needs the bedpan quickly. After she does her business, I try to slowly remove the bedpan from under her. As I’m moving away from [...]
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Funniest Nursing Stories

I was taking care of a confused patient. It was time for her to be washed between her legs. I asked her to open up her legs apart so I could wash her up clean. To my surprise, she just said nicely, “Oh it’s okay honey, I’m not going out tonight.”
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Funniest Nursing Stories

I was in nursing student in my maternity clinical rotation one morning reporting to my instructor who and what my patient assignment was. I was stunned at my case and kept bragging to everyone and my instructor how my patient had a thyroid in her uterus!
My instructor in turn looked at me and just asked with her condescending voice, “Grace, where is your thyroid???” After [...]
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Funniest Nursing Stories

I work on a respiratory unit but we usually have a mix of everything…so one night one of my patients was a little confused lately who kept getting out of bed and wandering…so I set her up with a recliner and a bedside table at the nurses station and gave her a whole bunch of towels and face cloths to “fold for me” she was [...]
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Funniest Nursing Stories

I was still in nursing school taking care of a patient that was a victim of a car accident (over flow onto a GI floor). He wasn’t able to turn to the side to give an enema properly. Instead, I had to lift his extremely swollen scrotum (from being in the bed all day for several days) and place the enema in his bottom after [...]
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Funniest Nursing Stories

I passed by a patient’s room and heard, “HEY! NURSE! HELP!” Mind you, everyone was nearby, but I was the only one who stopped what I was doing and came in the room to tend to his needs. Once I was in, I saw that the patient was out of bed, about 10 feet away, his IV tubes and lines were pulling, one was already [...]
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