Funny Stories

The funniest reader quotes: Spring 2012!

Nurses aren’t just on the front lines of healthcare, they’re also on the front lines of delivering some occasionally hilarious one-liners. We love your comments and stories so much, we couldn’t help rounding them up and sharing them!

Nurses Week FAIL!

We’ve collected tales below about the most insulting Nurses Week “celebration” efforts ever. Laugh (and cry) along!

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The yellowstained blues of a cocky resident

This is a (true) story about how a YBCA (young, brash, cocky and arrogant doctor) became his own worst enemy. Chuckle if you must.

The “buddy nurse” on a bad day

I believe the scariest moment for a nurse isn’t a code or fear of losing a job — it’s when your best coworker threatens to quit! We all need friends to keep us sane on our craziest days — especially at the hospital.

Lying down on the job

I’ve been a nurse for 33 years and I DID do something a little bit “crazy” once. I figure, gotta deal with stress somehow—why not laugh while you’re at it?

Overheard from the nurse’s station V

There’s no telling what you can accidentally overhear at the nurse’s station. Try not to giggle too loud as you read these — someone might hear you!

The woman who brought her own furniture and other unforgettable patients

“The worst moment was when I found her attempting to replace the shower head in the bathroom with one she’d brought from home.”

The strangest thing my patient has ever done…

Patients may make the nursing world go round, but sometimes their behavior is a little weird! Read these hilarious stories from real nurses!

Remembering the annual ‘New Residents Day’

The first of July used to be a date which forever lived in infamy for nurses who work in teaching hospitals…

Funny stories from the front lines: My code brown moments

Whether we needed two masks, a change of clothes or more towels than we’d care to mention, code brown stories are just plain funny to hear.

If you can’t fix it with duct tape…

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

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!

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.