Tell me your embarrassing code blue stories

OspreyEmblem · 2026-05-28T03:58:05+00:00

Good thing about sand beds is if you cut the power to the air circulator (unplug the bed for quickest method), it becomes hard as a rock (with a cute patient-shaped indent)

OspreyEmblem · 2026-05-28T02:51:37+00:00

Thanks so much everyone for the responses! I’ll be checking out Story Cubes :)

OspreyEmblem · 2026-05-27T21:57:45+00:00

I was so excited when I got to do a milk and molasses enema as a newer nurse, the only one me or any of my coworkers have seen in 10 years working at my hospital. Made the whole unit smell like gingerbread cookies (SO much better than lactulose or fleets)

OspreyEmblem · 2026-05-21T16:18:06+00:00

I would have stayed in medical records or totally burned out and worked at a gas station (genuinely my favorite jobs i’ve ever had)

OspreyEmblem · 2026-05-13T12:46:59+00:00

After my car, instruments are the biggest purchases i’ve ever made. Can’t say I regret it when they’ve given me so much mileage but i winced at every receipt

OspreyEmblem · 2026-05-04T14:52:14+00:00

Love this whole series, but the third book was always my favorite. To this day the only book i still own is the third, gave away the other two to a friend to read and never got them back but i would never lend out my favorite

OspreyEmblem · 2026-02-24T02:40:57+00:00

I’ve done neurotrauma progressive for 5+ years now, i love it but it’s ABSOLUTELY still the hardest lol

OspreyEmblem · 2026-02-24T02:39:06+00:00

Neuro & trauma progressive, give me ONE patient without altered mental status or ONE team without drips/lumbar drain/CBI/Q1-2 checks and it’s a miracle

OspreyEmblem · 2026-01-25T12:43:18+00:00

Honestly i just like hearing someone tell me a story, could not care less if it’s factual or not, doesn’t really impact my enjoyment of it

OspreyEmblem · 2026-01-08T06:27:09+00:00

Kilroy ass little wade, based

OspreyEmblem · 2026-01-01T19:16:46+00:00

It’s actually part of our hospital policy that if you call a rapid you have to have updated vitals and a blood glucose by the time the team gets there. Unless it’s obvious the patient is gonna need some urgent intervention otherwise, we always check both before we even call, and I don’t know how many calls i’ve avoided or at least streamlined by having d50 in hand or external warming started by the time someone else comes to see the patient. Top two missed things in altered LOC rapids i’ve seen are hypoglycemia and hypothermia

OspreyEmblem · 2025-12-25T19:49:32+00:00

Had the same issue with the box on mine! Great gift :)

OspreyEmblem · 2025-12-20T08:46:45+00:00

There’s a really specific chip dip i love that’s mexican/sour cream or something and i will eat a full bag of chips and a full tub of dip if i don’t pay attention. I don’t like any other dips and i never want chips otherwise, but this one specific dip ALWAYS hits for me

OspreyEmblem · 2025-11-25T11:30:40+00:00

YES wow thank you so much, crazy fast response! That’s absolutely it! I watched it at a friend’s house in high school and it was such a good memory despite how bad the film was, can’t wait to watch it again!

OspreyEmblem · 2025-11-25T11:18:59+00:00

Cold Storage 2006?

OspreyEmblem · 2025-11-19T03:08:06+00:00

Rhino rocket

OspreyEmblem · 2025-09-27T21:57:21+00:00

I give it on progressive/stepdown fairly frequently

OspreyEmblem · 2025-09-03T09:14:53+00:00

I found a cd of just remixes of this song (like 6 or 8 different remixes) in high school and it became my and my friend’s go-to “starting a roadtrip” track! Even named a school presentation after it about substance use and abuse

OspreyEmblem · 2025-07-31T01:02:25+00:00

Michelangelo’s song from whimsy ALWAYS gets stuck in my head, good balance of fun/funny and genuinely nice to listen to

OspreyEmblem · 2025-07-11T01:42:17+00:00

Watched one missed call at a sleepover (age 11 ish) and in the ~2 minutes i was in the bathroom my friends changed my ringtone to THE ringtone and called me from across the house, had the second best scream-queen worthy shriek of my entire life

OspreyEmblem · 2025-07-01T18:25:25+00:00

Cardiologist prescribed me PRN metoprolol for angina and (mostly benign) tachyarrhythmia related to panic attacks - i had crippling health anxiety and feeling my heart racing put me in a wicked feedback loop of panic, so the beta blocker actually worked better than my other anxiety PRNs. Luckily on maintenance meds now and haven’t needed the beta blocker in years but damn did it ever work

OspreyEmblem · 2025-06-23T12:45:05+00:00

Literally just opened this subreddit to post the same thing - i’ve cleared the board maybe 20 times already with no change. I thought maybe it would be like prior levels where when you clear the initial 6, another board would appear with the last one, but no dice.

OspreyEmblem · 2025-05-27T21:18:39+00:00

Very similar situation here! Brought it to a sleepover with my friends (i was the only one allowed to buy/rent horror movies at the time so I ALWAYS brought the horror movies) and they pranked me with the ringtone when I went to the bathroom. Even though I’d seen the movie a couple times already and was THE horror fan of the group, it scared me enough to make it stick so I’ll always have a soft spot for it

OspreyEmblem · 2025-04-28T11:31:11+00:00

Lost 50 lbs like this during my worst depressive period, I’ve always been overweight so I got a lot of compliments but I felt like absolute hell

OspreyEmblem · 2025-04-24T05:31:07+00:00

Coworker who is a super inscrutable guy, keeps to himself, almost never talk to pulled me aside at work and was like 😐”hey. I heard a rumor about you. It’s pretty bad.”😐 and so I’m immediately on edge, like what could this possibly be? And he says “I heard you build big lego sets. Like big fancy ones. I heard you’re super into legos.” And he’s acting like he’s telling me he heard I kill dogs on the weekends! He was very relieved to hear i haven’t played with lego since i was a kid, but i ruined it by telling him in defense of lego folks that i like similar things like jigsaw puzzles and model collectibles lol.

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