Once I had to push activated charcoal down an OG tube. I asked a double amputee where his socks were. We had nowhere to put him, nothing to stop the mess. Halfway down the hall, he starts pooping all over the place. We called him the pirate because he talked like a pirate. I was walking a liver patient in the hall… a very confused man. I told the CV surgeon – expecting to get yelled at – and he was actually nice about it and said that that patient did go in and out VTACH in the OR and he wanted to leave them in a few extra days…. I was getting him OOB and one of the wires fell and got stuck in the bed, when he stood up it popped out! So I inadvertently removed his pacing wire early! Once I had a post-op CABG that had his external pacing wires still. Somehow it came out, and she instinctively put it back in… which caused the patient to bleed, tear the esophagus, and go back to the OR! Ahhh! 5. My coworker had a patient that had some sort of esophageal repair and the patient had NG tube that was sutured in. ***side note surgery was imminent anyway bc when the patient came in intoxicated and the ER placed the cath said the patient thought it was a good idea to swing the Foley bag around in circles causing an internal “kink” 4. The patient had to be taken to surgery to have it removed. So now I was stuck with a Foley, no bag to drain into, and a very upset on-call urologist. I was removing a male patient's catheter and the balloon would NOT deflate! I was told to cut the catheter and instead of cutting at the balloon port I cut the actual tube….balloon was still intact! Housekeeping didn’t find it funny though…. It was so funny we about all peed our pants. She took it so high that the line pulled out of the blood and the bag of blood went all over her! She looked like Carrie from the prom scene. We were hanging blood and it wasn’t running well so a coworker went to extend the pole up and wasn’t paying attention. It wasn’t me but I died laughing and the patient thought it was funny. in the comments below or on social media ) 1. What is your most embarrassing moment?!?! (*hint* we are asking you to share…. The results were shocking, cringe-worthy, and some. We asked some of our nursing friends to tell us about their most embarrassing moments at work.
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