 Welcome back to another vlog and this is all about my funniest moments in nursing. I have to put a disclaimer here, obviously for confidentiality reasons I can't mention names and places and things like that. And these are just things that are a bit lighthearted because you know nursing is fun sometimes and sometimes you have these little funny moments that keep you going in nursing. This isn't to put anybody down this video, this is just to show a little bit of lightheartedness. So when I first started in health care I worked in a care home for the elderly and back then we didn't have an electronic hoist. So we had a manual one that you would have to stand on and pump it up when the patient had been in it and you'd be pumping the patient up instead of having an electric one that sort of like that. That was hard to explain, sorry guys. And I just remember working with this other girl and we put the patient in the sling, we attached the patient to the hoist and my colleague decided to get a bit foot heavy on the pedal. So she's like this, on the pedal pumping the hoist up and the patient's like this, in the hoist. Oh this poor patient. I had to say whoa hang on slow down a minute because it did get to the point where I was like this is a little bit too much for somebody, my gosh. Next funny story of the day, so again when I was working in elderly care, we had this one patient and they would fall asleep in the lounge and then their dentures when they were asleep because their mouth would open, their dentures would fall out and this one day they would just sat there and as she was sort of going, they were rattling so she had these teeth that were going, oh it was so funny and I lightly like sort of woke her up and got a teeth back and explained what happened and actually she found it really really funny as well so it was an all-round joke after that. I don't know if this is funny or not, actually it's funny to me looking back but actually it's probably because I was so traumatised by it, I've turned into a bit of a running joke now but I'll tell it anyway because yeah here we are. So I've just been working at this care home again, same care home for a good couple of months now and I'd built this really good bond with this patient, I had been caring for her day and night, every day she was sort of my patient and I'd been really helping her and she got really poorly and she was coming to that end stage, end of life stage but we didn't know when and we didn't know what was going to happen or anything. Anyway I showed up to work and they gave the handover, you know this patient had died in the night, really really sad and then someone said to me oh do you want to go and clean this patient's room out and I said yeah yeah that's really good idea so I went up, opened the door and no joke I absolutely capped myself and ran the hell back out of that room because the patient was still in the bed, that's right still in the bed, no one had come to collect the body or anything, nobody had told me the patient was still in the bed guys so I'm going into this room thinking I'm seeing a ghost in the room. Oh my god, oh it's scared the living daylights out of me, I've only ever seen that was my first patient that I'd ever seen that had died other than my own family member, I have seen my granddad die when he died at home unfortunately but this just scared the hell out of me, no one told me, no one prepared me for that, I liked it, I got someone else to come into the room with me because I was that scared at the time but now when I think back it was quite funny but at the time I was I was ready to go. Then we have the student nurse ones so on my first day my first ward I went in to help this patient and as some of you might know that the bays that patients are in are quite small there's not much room in there and I was just walking around the bed trying to help this patient and I knocked their water jug off the table and all over the place I was mortified, so mortified all over this patients clothes their books and everything, oh my gosh I could have died there and then luckily the patient was really okay about it and she sort of give a little laugh about it and I put all the stuff on the radiator and dried it out and but gosh I was mortified but thinking back is actually like a funny little thing that you can sort of talk about to people because I'm sure it's happened to more than one person out there I hope. Next up my second placement actually as a student nurse again and I was going to do the medication rounds with my mentor and I was just about to go on a break and they said okay after your break we'll go round and do the medication round I said yeah yeah fantastic she said have you ever done a PR before I said no no I said this is really exciting can I do this with you and she said yeah yeah I'll get you to do the PR shall I and I said yeah yeah this will be amazing had no idea no one told me what a PR medication was so there it was patient was there the bum was exposed and she handed me the medication and I was like what where's this going I was mortified I happy to do it obviously the poor patient it's absolutely not nice for the patient but I was mortified that I didn't know what to do and I didn't know what was about to happen and I hadn't googled it which I should have done really on my break actually just talking about that reminded me of another funny story so when I was a health care assistant just going back a little bit when I worked in sexual health we had a patient who come in and they were just a quick test what we call a quick test so they've got no symptoms or anything so they just do a urine sample and bloods or a vaginal swab and bloods that's it so I sent this patient off and I said okay you need to do this urine sample first and you come back and we'll do the bloods and explained everything to them no problem the patient went off and we were sat there waiting for a good 10 minutes and we're like they left the building so we were like walking around couldn't see them eventually they come back and this patient handed me the sample and I looked at the sample and I thought oh that's not very much it's only like this little tiny bit in in the pot and then that looks a bit close I was like that just doesn't look right to me it looks like really oh my god it's sperm the patient had given a sperm sample instead of urine and I could feel my face getting brighter and brighter and brighter thinking I don't know how to say this to this patient that they've given the wrong sample and I stood there it felt like forever I just holding this sample and I just went thank you and then luckily I was working with another nurse and I went over to the other nurse and I said sorry I was a health care assistant at the time but she was a nurse so I went over to the nurse and I handed her the sample and said good luck and they had to explain to the patient what had happened oh I'm evil that was a really bad thing that I did but do you know what the poor patient apparently the patient was really great about it they had a laugh about it it was okay in the end no harm was done guys and it was all right they were fine about it they didn't realize what happened and it was okay it was all fine in the end but yeah that was a moment and a half so coming back to student days so I was a student nurse on the ward and we had this one patient they were very very constipated and the nurse said to me do you want to do this enema I said yeah yeah no problem so lie the patient on the side give the enema those you don't know what an enema is this particular one was a water solution that goes into the rectum you squirt in there they hold it for 10 15 minutes 20 minutes and then it should ideally just flow out nicely and relieve them of their constipation so yeah so I'd left this patient and I'd come back and they said I really really need to get onto the toilet and need to get onto the toilet I said okay okay so I've got the commode round didn't think it'd be an issue and I thought the patient can just go from the bed to the commode sorted however the way I was standing was not okay so I had the patient here and the commode was here so I was going like this with the patient my leg was there you can see what's going to happen guys and it came out all of these feces came out onto my leg and I just looked because I felt it land I looked I was like poker face I was like yeah yeah come on come on just have a seat no problem sat the patient down and then I went as fast as I could out of that room the patient had no idea I wanted to compose myself make sure the patient was okay and safe and everything was okay with them but in my head I was like oh my god oh my god I've got poo on my leg I've got poo on my leg I don't know what to do with this I've never had this happened so yeah so I had to go get some trousers clean my trousers down all that jazz I wouldn't make that mistake again so I had a patient once upon a time at no point in my career I shall not tell you who or when or where this was I had a patient and they came in for some wound care so they needed a dressing on there one of their legs because they had they had some scratches and wounds and things like that they've got really really infected so I was doing some dressings on the leg and I said let me just check with the leg as I pulled up the trousers leg I was like oh oh oh oh this is in my head I was thinking oh my god oh my god it's a fake leg it's a fake leg it is a fake leg oh my god pull the trousers down pull the trousers down oh my god what have I just done I've just asked to check the other leg when it's not a real leg I died again I died inside but on the outside I said oh yeah you've got your prosthetic here is this okay is your stump okay if you had any problems with anything no no that's fine okay I'll just pull that down trying to avoid eye contact with this patient's carer that had come with them because I know if I looked at them they would click on and it would just end up yeah dying inside together and that's not okay but oh my gosh what a mistake to make however something happened I don't know if I'm allowed to tell you but somebody else has made this mistake too I won't say who and I don't won't say again where it was where we were working whatever in the past together but this patient did the same sort of thing however it was an ECG lead and put it on the fake leg and then couldn't work out why it wasn't registering we've all done these things before but oh my gosh when this person told me I died inside obviously they corrected it and everything and it was all okay but yeah it's just these little things that we have to be mindful of when we're out there as student nurses healthcare assistants nurses in the future these little things can happen another funny moment so this was a different care home that I had started working at and they asked me to go and see to this patient get them up help them to get washed and dressed and all that jazz so I went into this patient's room I didn't know much about them before I went in I just they just give me the briefing and that they needed to help and assistance but actually they're okay for most of it so I went into this room and nobody told me that this patient had dementia which is not a problem you know but however this patient thought that they were a matron of a ward still so when I went into their room they quizzed while I was whilst I was there and if I was there for the interview and so luckily for me I'm quite a fast thinker on my feet so I said oh yes yes I am so I just went along with this thing and she said oh come down sit down and we'll do this interview and I was like I'm gonna be interviewed for this job so I just sit down with this patient and pretend to be interviewed thankfully I got the job she grilled me but yeah I was answering these questions and then at the end of it the cheek said so what job were you here for and luckily again thinking on my feet I said to the patient I'm actually here to be your personal assistant so now I'm here to gonna help you get washed help you get dressed and do help with all these little things in your life to make your life easier and luckily she was amazing she's like oh my gosh thank you and then that was it done oh but the sweat that was dripping off of my forehead I'm sure at that point another funny moment in nursing I don't know if I should say this out loud and nobody actually knows this I think it'll be okay but I'm gonna get red just thinking about it but it's okay okay so I was when I was working in a care home I shall not name which one because I've worked in a few I was working with this other person and we were getting this patient help helping this patient get washed and dressed and things like that and then we were hoisting them and then all of a sudden you know when all of a sudden you know where sometimes you're doing something and you let out a little fart happened to me okay I died inside but it was very loud I didn't expect it it just came out of nowhere and luckily the other person I was working with looked at the patient and she looked at me and she thought it was the patient it was me I was that person oh look at me I've gone wrong it was me sorry I'm really going to help out all of this I'm gonna leave that one at the end because I'm hoping nobody's gonna get to the end of this vlog and just cut it out or something I don't know and lastly I'm sure there's a lot more funny moments but these are the just the ones off the top of my head right now in this second for this vlog I don't prepare my vlogs as you know but lastly one of my best moments because it's usually me that messes up and it ends up as a funny moment so when I was working in sexual health I can say this actually quite publicly because everyone knows about it so when I was working in sexual health we had our matron's office and I've never been in Matron's office no one ever goes to Matron's office unless you're in the or I don't know do you need to sign something or something I don't know but I've never been into Matron's office so I've got no idea I had no idea what it looked like but I was walking past the door was open and it was wedged open and two of the nurses that I knew were sort of standing there and they were sorting out all the medications they've had a delivery so they're checking them off and all that checking expiry days whatever they do with the medications back then and I didn't think anyone else was around so I was walking past and I saw them and I went quick run steal all the drugs and I just heard and I looked around the corner Matron Matron was in the corner and I was like only joking luckily I heard her giggle as I walked down the corridor so it wasn't too bad it was okay guys never again anyway these are the funny moments that I've shared with you today let me know do you have any funny stories to tell any funny awkward moments that you've had in your nursing career please let me obviously maintaining confidentiality and all that jazz but it's really good to have these little moments because do you know what we're only human and it is part of the NMC code as well that we can have a sense of humour so don't come at me for these but yeah just keep in mind confidentiality please and yeah let's share some really funny happy moments but for now have a great day