Funny Stories

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If you can’t fix it with duct tape…

This nurse got a surprise when she saw what the internist was wearing…

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Your funniest nursing school moments!

We asked our Facebook fans for their funniest stories from nursing school, and boy, did we get an eyeful! Read on for their hilarious, crazy and occasionally R-rated responses!

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A modern view of Nurse Ratched

Back in 60s psych wards, there were no counselors who held the group therapy sessions over which Nurse Ratched presided. Shock therapy and/or lobotomy was the usual treatment for extreme depression, suicide attempts, psychoses, and neuroses. The antipsychotics and antidepressants which we now take for granted did not exist.

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You did what? (Or, the weirdest injuries my coworkers and I have sustained)

I’m here to tell you stories, my Chickadees, of the most amazingly random things I’ve ever seen anybody, including myself, do.

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4 “sailor” jokes for nurses (you were warned!)

Read these hilarious but slightly edgy jokes for nurses at your own risk!

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The funniest reader quotes of 2011

They say laughter is the best medicine, and Scrubs readers sure know how to dole out that medicine!

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Dear Santa, I can explain…

Ignoring your hospital’s dress code and swiping cookies from the nurses’ station isn’t really enough to land you on the naughty list, is it?

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A nurse’s OMG moment

There could be a whole book about people putting strange things in strange places. Actually, there probably are a few books out there like that but none that I could recommend here….

The nurse who used to work the streets

The nurse who used to work the streets

Prior to becoming a nurse, I was a firefighter/paramedic for 25 years. During that time I learned to work in less than pristine conditions.

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Strange but true patient story

Hospital communication can be a bit complicated. See how one patient took matters into his own hands — pre-HIPAA!

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Kids say the darndest things…

C’mon, admit it, kids are some of your funniest patients. Some of my best stories come from this group of patients. Tell me your funniest kid story!

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The funniest gift I ever received at work

Click in for 10 hilarious (and sometimes shocking) gifts nurses have received from well-meaning patients, coworkers and friends.

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Definitely (?) true medical stories! – Part III

“There was this paper on her incubator that said ‘Please save Urine,’ so I knew that the nurses had named my baby.” LOL at these four crazy stories.

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What my pets think I do for a living

My dog’s eyes would go wide if he detected the smallest hint of a Bodily Fluid Disaster on my scrubs. Sometimes I’d find him head down in the laundry hamper, checking out the condition of my patients from the previous shift.

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Definitely true medical stories! – Part II

Proving that truth really is stranger than fiction.