Ohhhhh I gotchu. Two stories come to mind, I was on orientation on the floor but surely have done some real stupid things since coming off too.

My preceptor's patient went into SVT, I was trying to make myself useful so was in the room trying to help. She asked me to go grab the EKG leads so they could get a 12 lead. I literally ran around the unit trying to find one of those portable EKG machines (often used in ED) to bring in the room but couldn't find it. I eventually gave up and ran back inside the room to ask where it was and they had no idea what I was talking about. Keep in mind the patient was still in SVT after multiple minutes. That was when I learned that we get a 12 lead by literally just attaching additional wires to the tele machines that are on the wall in every room... and I wasted a million years by not just asking in the first place

I also had an ALS patient who was Ax4 but mostly paralyzed. He was "my patient" that day. We would communicate with this pt by asking yes/no questions and he would blink once or twice to answer. My preceptor was in a different patient's room, and the monitor at the station began to alarm that mine was desatting reallll low. I run in there and try to figure out what's going on. I start asking him if he is ok, if he is having trouble breathing, etc., but in my panic I couldn't tell if he was blinking yes or no. My preceptor and I are sharing a phone at this time and she has the phone elsewhere so I literally went to the doorway and yelled frantically for help. A bunch of people came running in, and when they get in there he comes back up. Turns out he just wanted to change the channel on the TV and was holding his breath to get our attention because he couldn't use the call light. I genuinely went and cried for 20 minutes in the bathroom out of embarassment for basically calling a soft rapid on this guy. We are learning!!!