Oops.

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Nurse Catheter: “Hey ERP, I can’t clear the guy’s foley in room 3, can you help me?”

Me: “Don’t worry Nurse Catheter, I will show you how to irrigate a foley properly.” (as I start to squirt sterile water in with a 60 cc Toomey Syringe)

Nurse Splatter : “I don’t know, be careful. Are you sure you should be using that much pressure?”

Me: “Of course. I have done this before and I have found that a Toomey syringe when pushed with a lot of force, can dislodge even the most stubborn clot.”

Nurse Catheter (to the patient): “Sir, are you having a lot of discomfort?”

Patient: “Yes! Urgh!!!”

Me: “Don’t worry sir, I almost have it!”

SPPPPLLLLLLAAAAATTTTT!!! The syringe popped off the foley, spraying water (and some bloody urine) all over the nurse’s face.

Patient: “Ahhhhh, that is soooo much better! Thanks Doc!”

Nurse Catheter: “GRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!”

Me (very sheepishly to the nurse): “Sorry.”

7 comments to Oops.

  • Worker’s Comp! Worker’s Comp!

  • stacy

    Patient recieving a foley cath- $300.dollars… doctor doing a irrigation on a foley—$ 400…. the look on the nurses face afterwards,— PRICELESS!!!!! LOL LOL dollars

  • stacy

    oops the “dollars” is not supposed to be behind the LOL’s

  • LOL…another story that makes you laugh, unless you are the nurse. Great site.

  • Nurse Toni

    The nurse can speak from experience with she says, “It’s better to be pissed off than pissed on”.

  • elsi

    remind me to stand behind you.

    Last night I rolled a vomiting patient toward the doc.

  • ShockUrMomma

    I agree with better to be pissed off than pissed on. In my greener years, I wasn’t that familiar with urostomies. Guy comes in, his isn’t draining. I gather supplies, head in with the doc to change catheters. Nothing for me to do, so I stand at the foot of the bed ‘learning’…until the doc pulled the old catheter out. Shot all the way to where I was standing. I ended up in the doc’s lounge taking a shower, washing my face & hair, wearing a spare pair of OR scrubs someone scrounged up for me. We call this ‘a lesson learned’.

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