LOL Moment Submissions

I was drawing a blood sample on a male patient and many times they read your badges or emblems while ...

We had a nurse in Germany insist on getting results of a urine culture after one hour. After explaining that ...

I got this story from my roommate who works as a home health nurse. She has a patient who is ...

Had a nurse hand carry tubes down holding the bag with both hands and telling me to be very gentle ...

I cut a very thin slice off of a rubber band and pricked my finger so that the Hemoccult card ...

Gentleman comes into the lab for a semen analysis collection. We showed him where to go and told him there ...

One of my fellow Phlebs was drawing a gentleman for a PSA. She got his name and DOB, and turned ...

Real phone calls that make the difference in pay hurt for real… RN: I have a gold top here and ...

During my clinical rotation, I was sent to draw a 90+ yr old man. I came in the room and ...

I had a Doctor call down looking to see if we had any methylene blue. When we asked why they ...

I once had a nurse call and ask me why she was drawing a patient because the test code said ...

I was doing inpatient phlebotomy at the time and went up to the cardiac step down unit. Basically, just people ...

A patient needed to collect a stool specimen, so I handed out a stool kit along with some detailed instructions ...

A lady showed up at our lab’s registration area with an order for a 24 hour urine calcium. I went ...

The doctor went to the microbiology lab and insisted that he needed results immediately. The tech explained that it would ...

One time we had a patient who was checked in to the laboratory for various stool tests. They brought in ...

I entered an elderly patient’s room in the wee hours for blood draw. He had an IV in his right ...

As a new tech years ago, I was working evening shifts by myself in micro and the transporters would drop ...