Funny Moment

It’s important to remember to take time to laugh in the nursing profession.  Many nights, my co-workers are extremely busy and stressed out regarding the patients and yet we always try to find something to laugh about (and that’s why I’m a God send to my peers…because I’m good at making people laugh). 

For this story I can’t really give you much background information because it would totally ruin the story.

One morning as we were doing our bedside rounding and checking in on the patients…I managed to get a really good laugh at my co-workers expense.  The last patient we went in to check on was sitting up in bed drinking some apple juice.  Now normally this would not be out of the ordinary, but all of a sudden my co-worker began to freak out a little.  She jumped to the side of the bed and quickly took the apple juice from the patient.  I started to laugh and try to hide the laughter all at the same time.  The nurse was holding a urinal filled with apple juice!!!  This patient had been refusing to drink out of anything but the urinal all night (of course I made sure it was a clean one before I let him continue to drink from it).  The nurse coming on did not know this and thought he was drinking his urine.  The patient was not happy about his juice being taken away…and when I explained the situation, the nurse gave him back his juice.  I have to say it was one of the funniest things I had seen in a while.