If you’ve ever sprinted to silence a bed alarm, wrestled with tangled IV lines like a Cirque du Soleil performer, or questioned whether you’re working in a hospital or a hidden camera show—this blog is for you. Med-Surg Mayhem is a lighthearted (but painfully accurate) look at the unpredictable world of medical-surgical nursing. From gravity-defying Code Browns to patients who think IV poles double as scooters, this series shares real-life stories that are messy, hilarious, and all too relatable. This isn’t just another clinical resource. It’s a place for nurses to laugh, breathe, and remember you’re not alone in the chaos.
New episodes released biweekly (every 2 weeks).
Each post features a true or inspired-by-true-events tale from the med-surg trenches.
Expect recurring themes like:
Code Brown Chronicles š©
Patient Shenanigans š
2AM Drama šØ
Nurse Nightmares (and wins) š
Bookmark this series, share it with your unit bestie, and check back regularly for your dose of nursing humor. Because let’s face it—if we don’t laugh about it, we might cry into our coffee. This blog series will capture the funny, relatable, and often outrageous moments med-surg nurses and myself Brittany H. BSN, RN experience on the floor—especially during night shifts. Each post will highlight one ridiculous situation, bringing humor to the hard work.
As a med-surg nurse, Iāve mastered many skills: titrating IV meds, managing post-op patients, and delivering meds with ninja-like precision. But thereās one challenge that tests me every shiftā¦Finding. My. CNA.
There are many things that can make a nurseās heart skip a beat: a flatline on the monitor, a code blue overheadā¦ and a patient (or family member) who starts a sentence with, āI Googled my symptoms," andā¦Weāve all had that one shift. The one where every patient believes theyāve discovered the hidden diagnosis that years of medical training, diagnostic imaging, and clinical experience somehow missedāthanks to a quick 3-minute search and a rabbit hole on Google. This is the tale of a night where I wasnāt just a med-surg nurse... I was the unwilling co-star in an internet-fueled episode of Diagnosis: Delusional.
Some shifts are quiet. Othersā¦ involve a surprise concert at 2 a.m. featuring a heavily medicated patient and the greatest hits of the 90s. This is the story of how one dose of Dilaudid turned our surgical floor into a backstage pass for Backstreet Boys Live: Post-Op Edition.
š IV Poles and Bad Decisions: Med-Surg Mayhem, Episode 2
Let me tell you the tale of a brave nurse, armed with a stethoscope, caffeine in her bloodstream, and an overinflated sense of optimism.
