Categories: Scrubs

50 Top Crazy Nursing Moments Revealed

“Walked into a dementia patient’s room to empty a Foley. Couldn’t find it hanging on the bed. Traced it from insertion site to under the man’s head. He asked when we got the warm pillows and asked for another one.”

“Psych patient 50 something y/o female screamed all night in the quiet room in labor, but she was not pregnant.”

“Pt brought in a grocery bag of PVC pipe because he wanted to build a pipe bomb, I put it in the pharmacy because that’s where we put all contraband. The pharmacist walked in the next morning and freaked out and called the bomb squad and we went into 4 hours shut down.”

“Mom (a healthcare worker) brought in 18 y/o daughter to get her off medications for Schizophrenia so she could get pregnant and give mom a grandchild.”

“I can only think of one funny thing when I was a student: While taking an elderly patient’s pulse, he said, ‘Have I still got a heartbeat?’”

“Left the ward and was found drunk at a bus stop, brought back in with a bucket of KFC chicken and empty beer bottles inside it.”

“Brought in a toothbrush that she has shoved up her vagina because she wanted it tested for cervical cancer.”

“A mom asked if she could come in and take her baby’s shots for him, since she was breastfeeding.”

“Saw a woman suck the snot out of her 2-month old’s nose when he was congested.”

“Patient complained about a pink squirrel in the hospital room closet. Made me remove ‘it’ with a broom…meds were adjusted.”

“I was closing a patient’s blinds for his window because there is a tornado warning. He told me, ‘No. Don’t close it. I want to see it coming.’”

“Had to explain to a man in his 20s that no, he is not allergic to alcohol, that’s just a hangover.”

“I work in long term care…a pt would take his cups of apple juice and put them in the windowsill for a few weeks, and then drink them…and get drunk! We couldn’t figure out where he was getting the alcohol…no alcohol, just apple juice.”

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