Comments on: Late Night Entertainment

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 03:50:56 +0000

Pour a small amount of salt on the table and balance something on the salt. Like the salt-shaker on its edge. See who can get their salt-shaker balanced first. Any of those "minute to win it" games, especially the one about moving the cookie from your forehead to your mouth without using your hands. Free throw contest using the trash can and some wadded up papers. This is more challenging if you move the trash can away from the "backboard." And finally, I have to put in a plug for rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

By: Shellie

Shellie — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:25:10 +0000

Last winter during our heavy snows, we went sled-riding down the sloping ambulance driveway, using our “smooth mover” boards. (They make a great toboggan).
And during construction of our new ER last year, we curled up inside those huge round cardboard concrete forms and rolled in them down the same driveway.

By: Hubert

Hubert — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:18:20 +0000

Racing portable xray machines down the hall was always a blast- and betting on them. Just tape the switches, hang ortho weights on the bars and place them side by side in a long hallway and let go !
That or make up ” Triage Bingo ” cards. List key words or phrases like “Norco”, fibromyalgia, “I dropped my vicodin in the toilet”, “I just moved here”, “I’m allergic to Toradol” “he’s congested” and see if you can get a card bingo on just one patient!

By: Ramses II

Ramses II — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:02:16 +0000

Working 3rd shift at IHOP in college we used to stack things. Salt shakers, ketchup bottles, you can even do knife and fork sculptures three or four levels high if you’re willing to bend the tines a little. My all time favorite though, and the one I was best at, was sugar packet stacking. You just crimp the ends into a V shape and stack them almost like playing cards. You don’t get many levels because the paper has very little strength, but if you bend them with some consistency you can still make a pretty impressive structure.

Lousy job, but always some of the most interesting people working it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:23:25 +0000

You can always whip out the DSM-IV and see what sorts of crazy you are. I might fall under ADD manic depressive sociopath with homicidal tendencies. Bonus points for doing it in front of waiting patients.

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By: Nurse K

Nurse K — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:18:37 +0000

The obit game played the Nurse K way is loading up an online obit site with just a list of names (so you can’t see the full obit unless you click). You look at all the names, write down ages based on name alone and then click on the names, find the actual ages, and then find the total difference between the total guessed age and total actual age at the time of death. This is of course the most formal version…You can just say names to each other and have the other one guess the age too.

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:54:52 +0000

Similar to “what would it take” is FMK, which stands for [fornicate], marry or kill. Name three individuals. The player must decide which one with whom he/she would have one-time intimacy, which one he/she would marry, and which one he/she would kill. All three options must be used; one option per named individual.

Conscious foley or conscious intubation? I was surprised at a (male) friend who would choose intubation over a foley, every time.

By: midwest woman

midwest woman — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:08:05 +0000

found a handwriting analysis book at work (have no idea why it was there) and we looked at physicians’ handwriting…yikes..there’s some real latent psychosis out there.

By: DaveyNC

DaveyNC — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:52:30 +0000

Quarters.