Holy funnyhats!
Ok, so I think I can share this story without violating the HIPPA laws. I'm not sharing any identifying information - no names, date of birth, nothing that would give out knowledge of just who this person is....
So that means that I MUST share.
Well, here is a story I'm sure I will be telling for many years to come...... hahahhhhahahahaha!
Just shoot me! I finally got my "most embarrassing nursing school story" today! LOL.
This guy had a total (radical) open (not laparoscopic, but full on open incision)
prostatectomy (prostate removal)... I thought the incision site was....
ah-hem.... on his perineum (between the testicles and the anus).....
so I told him I needed to assess the incision, and he was fine with that....
after not being able to see it well enough at first, I asked him to spread his legs further because I couldn't get a good look, so he did.
So then I had to..... Umm.... "lift up his business" (for the 2nd time, mind you) and......
After a few amusing seconds, which seemed like forever to me, I was perplexed at why I didn't see the incision site.
Of course I didn't say anything out loud, but was running through the scenario in my humbled brain...
as I realized I needed to "trace" the tubing for the JP (Jackson Pratt) drain in order to figure out what was going on,
the patient gracefully reminded me that his incision site was on his abdomen.
OMG - can you say HUMILIATED?????
Thankfully this was probably the most fun patient I have ever had. He was funny, gracious, appreciative, and
he kept saying how obvious it is that I should be a nurse. He even let me tell the funny story to his wife - who let
it be known that she is SURE that he enjoyed my little embarrassing moment! haha!
I know these things will continue to occur. I hope I am always as able to laugh at myself as I have been today.
:-)
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