RN Stories

Thad a patient pass. In his culture/religion no one was to touch the body for 4 hours to allow the spirit to properly pass into the afterlife. The hospital supervisor

I have a scar on my forehead from a patient throwing their clipboard at me because they didn’t want to fill out new patient paperwork. Needed 5 stitches.

I once had a patient tell me she was allergic to alcohol. Her reaction: it made her laugh and feel funny. But she was committed and wouldn’t even let us

When I worked in SICU, there was a CT surgeon who had a page long set of “call if” orders. He yelled at the wrong night shift nurse and from

I once had to drag my patient in his wheelchair with an oxygen tank backwards across 5 lanes of traffic. He was an alcoholic and was trying to escape to

When I worked as a nurse tech we had a 62 year old cowboy who was involved in an MVC. He only had scrapes and bruises. He was going to

We have a patient on our floor that keeps assaulting nurses and staff. Patients are scared to walk in the hallways because of the fear of being assaulted. Been told

I had a 6’5″ man parading in the corridor wearing a gold lamè g-string, of his wife’s, and a frilly gown. He thought there was nothing wrong with his chokos*

I once had to change a foley on a 300 lb woman in a house where there was no electricity in 96 degree weather with a flashlight held by a

I got a call on my day off that they found a urine stain on a sheet that was changed a week ago. The resident likes to make her bed

Walked in on a patient on her OnlyFans page and had to explain to the doctor what it was and what she was doing.

I remember a supervisor asking if my patient had died yet cause they needed the bed.

When I worked night shift, we used to have to walk through an old nursing home building to get to the new nursing home to do portable X-rays. One day,

I had a patient who was on Ambien 6.5 mg. When I went to give her the medicine, l could not find it anywhere on her medication chart. She replied,

I did 30 years of nursing and not one of my managers ever took our side.

Was physically assaulted by a patient. Tried to redirect him, but got thrown twice against the wall and punched in the face. Suffered low back injury as I had landed

New grads- call the board of nursing and request a copy of your state’s nurse practice act. That way you will know what is in your scope of practice. Your