For as long as I can remember, Mr. Wright was our friendly Egyptian Surgical registrar, always polite, always has a chat. Well he finally became a consultant and walks into work (ER) with a brand new very expensive looking suit and the shiniest shoes in the world.
Never expecting to actually do any work, he ends up having to do a bedside sigmoidoscopy. The tube went [...]

I am currently a nursing student and working as a CNA as I go through nursing school. I work in an assisted living facility. One day I was getting an older resident out of bed and trying to talk her into a shower because she had to be ready to go to church with her son. After some begging she said she was going to [...]

Working in the emergency department one night we had an elderly lady come in from a local nursing home with stroke like symptoms. She had a decrease in LOC. During the exam we noticed that she had two fentanyl patches on with two different dates on them. So we removed them and told the physician. He told us to give Naloxone 2 mg IVP. As [...]

Working in a nursing home for years I thought I had seen everything until one day I had a family member franticly trying to find her mothers dentures. This wasn’t abnormal, and after about an hour of searching we couldn’t find her dentures. That night the CNA brought a plate back to the kitchen asking for a regular diet instead of pure’ because the lady [...]

During my senior clinical in the ER, I had to insert a foley into an 80+ year old man with an uncircumcised penis. I started to become nervous for some reason (I don’t know why because I have done it once already on an uncircumcised patient). I was trying to do the whole “one hand becomes non-sterile and the other stays sterile” bit but my [...]

This was during my last semester of my Associate’s degree program. There’s that one person in every class that just has to parade their knowledge in front of the professor, John was our class’s. So our professor is lecturing on GI disorders and asks, “What is the name for black, tarry stools?
John replies “Melena.”
Professor, “What is the name for greasy, frothy yellow stools?”
John, again correct, [...]

So cute: the other day I had a patient that asked me if her family could stay and watch me change her toe amputation site dressing. Among her family was a little boy probably 4-5 years old. Upon seeing the large opening where her 2nd and 3rd toes used to be, he asked, “Are they going to grow back?” We all started cracking up, such [...]

Our floor had a difficult patient that eventually decided to leave AMA because we were not giving her the drugs she had hoped she might get. Three weeks later, her brother shows up on our floor, goes to our patient fridge, and begins to empty everything into a plastic bag. We told him the food was for patients on our floor only and to please [...]

Well it was our first semester of nursing school and two of my fellow students were at the V.A. Hospital. They were transferring an older gentleman to a portable shower chair made with PVC pipe and a toilet seat. Before they could even left the room the girls caught a whiff of something awful. They looked down to discover a mess! The one girl says, [...]

I was working the night shift and I had this sweet little old man. He wasn’t used to being away from his wife, and needed quite a bit of reassurance. After bringing him multiple items, I responded to his call light, only to find his face covered in a thick pink cream. He had mistaken his butt paste for facial lotion. As we all know, [...]