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.”
Worker’s Comp! Worker’s Comp!
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
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.
The nurse can speak from experience with she says, “It’s better to be pissed off than pissed on”.
remind me to stand behind you.
Last night I rolled a vomiting patient toward the doc.
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’.