There's nothing healthcare workers enjoy more than hearing stories about how inept their fellow healthcare workers can be. Makes for gossip apparently.
Take for example the story of the student nurse that was told to clean all the dentures of the patients in the geriatric ward. As the story goes, she collected all the dentures in a single wash basin and gave them all a good brush. Never mind the unhygienic implication, there's the obvious problem of trying to match the dentures to their respective owners. Not easy as you'd probably guess.
This leads to another story where a care attendant discovered a missing set of dentures. Concerned that the patient might be mad because he/she was missing her dentures, she decided to take the initiative and find out who owned them. So she went and approached all the patient who didn't have dentures and see if the dentures fitted one of them. This went on for quite a while as the dentures departed one mouth and entered another until a nurse stopped her when she realised what the care assistant was doing.
Then finally, there's the 3rd year nursing student who was told to fit a conveen on an 80 year old male patient by a staff nurse. For those of you who don't know what a conveen is, it's a plastic sheath that fits like a condom with a tube attached to the end of it, allowing a patient to pass urine into a bag without getting out of bed. So this nursing student disappeared for 30 min and emerged from the ward. At this stage, the staff nursed had already forgotten about her.
“So where were you,” the staff nurse enquired?
“Oh, I was with the patient. I had a difficult time trying to get him hard!”, answered the student.
Apparently this old man had a big smile on his face for the rest of the day! Hope that put a smile on yours too.
Good night!
ps: If you have any funny hospital stories yourself, please send them my way. I would love to hear from you.
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