Comments on: Pranks

By: jason

jason — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:10:49 +0000

i was bring back blood to a nurse who requested it but i double baged it and in the outside bag i emptied a jar of red jello so when she seen me hand her the bag she thought her blood had spilled all over,

By: Laura in Little Rock

Laura in Little Rock — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:50:32 +0000

That is funny, I am going to have to remember the drawer one.

But be careful. Yesterday, I randomly walked up to someone (a friend) and taped them to the chair with three peices of tape, took a picture, laughed, helped them out. And 2 hours late, the ADON was there having me go for a drug screen. The ADON admitted she wouldn’t have called for this but since another nurse complained she had to do her job. There are evil people out there and you have to make sure you prank around people that are okay. My drug screen will be fine, and I will hopefully not be fired. I am sure the tech who I taped am I am friends with will not press charges and I would think that would be required. There weren’t patient’s around or anything. Nursing is different than it was years ago.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:31:22 +0000

I hate to be the one to say this, but sometimes pranks can get out of control. I wasn’t at work when this happened however like the rest of the hospital staff I heard about it. One of our RN’s, LPN’s, and secretaries were goofing around on a “slow” evening shift. They were hiding and spraying each other with NS syringes, shaving cream and what ever else they could find. One of them put the alcohol rub into the their hand and threw it at someone else. It got into her eye and really damaged her eye. She was out of work for two days.
It’s all fun and games until someone gets their eye poked out.

By: Dale

Dale — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:45:08 +0000

I was looking over the net and may have found my first girl friend from NHS … dewar@att.net

By: Hilary

Hilary — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:21:50 +0000

I am so glad I found this page. I am a RN working in a detox and rehab center. Last night everyone was pranking everyone. I have been looking for ways to get the guys back. They told another nurse and me that we needed to check our cars. We thought they had done something to them. When we made our way out to the parking lot, one of the guys started grabbing snow, I ran to hide behind a truck but slipped and fell, then the other nurse took off running to help me ad slipped and fell. The guys said that the prank worked out alot better than expected.

By: Elizabeth RN

Elizabeth RN — Sat, 12 Apr 2003 23:18:39 +0000

I used to work in an ER with a guy named Danny. Now, triage was right inside the front door and next to triage were the double doors to get to the back. Danny used to triage people, take them back and tell the families that the door to the back was on the “clapper” and for them to just come up close to the door and clap when they wanted to get back. People actually did this and he would push the button at triage to open the door at the same time they were clapping. Pretty cruel, but hilarious.

By: Kaylin

Kaylin — Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:24:16 +0000

Yeah, I’ve certianly seen my share of Code Brown’s where I work, even though I don’t have a regular department.
Those April Fool’s jokes were great Geena. The one about the tub with the rubber duckies was great. :)

By: voban

voban — Mon, 07 Apr 2003 21:55:13 +0000

I was actually looking up code brown on the internet to get some more ideas to share with my co-workers. I am an RN on a psych unit and we have plenty of code browns, in some cases the patients like to eat, paint with and attack you with their fecal matter. We had a major one this weekend and Amber, my co worker wrote up some very funny procedures to follow for a code brown. She found brown paper and attached the new form to our emergency flip charts.

Other than the most obvious protocols such as donning every piece of protective equipment available, there were also instructions to look under desks and in various areas for unwilling staff and very detailed instructions as to how long to vacate the room and when nose breathing could safely commence.

It was a nice slow weekend for a change so she actually got the staff together for a few minutes and we had our own impromptu inservice. We were in stitches!

You’ve got to laugh, or cry. We chose the former.

By: Da Goddess

Da Goddess — Mon, 07 Apr 2003 03:56:46 +0000

I love these! Great stuff, Geena.

We have our share of code browns….but thankfully, now that rotavirus season is winding down we have much fewer calls. Sigh. I love Spring!

By: geena

geena — Sat, 05 Apr 2003 14:04:18 +0000

You aren’t dull :P
You just don’t work in a hospital.
There are official codes – code red for fire, code orange for chemical spill, code blue for when a patient stops breathing/cardiac arrests.
Then there are the unofficial codes – amongst nurses, who must attend to the numerous natural happenings of the body, code brown is exactly what you think it would be. When a nurse comes out to the desk and jokingly says “code brown” to a crowd of other nurses, they immediately all find something better to do :-)
In addition, it was extra funny because the entire hospital knows what “code brown” means, but it has NEVER been announced over the *intercom* !