August 6, 2026 • 7 mins
Caitlin has been filling in for Bree, but when she's not doing that she's actually a nurse. That means she has some great stories from the frontline.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Show requested, So here it is, as long as you've
got d data. It's z m's Brian Clinton Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Caitlin's here filling in for Bree while she's off on
baby leave. But it's your last day. It's your last day.
We're losing you back to Autotahi krish shirts, and you're
losing you back to the nursing profession.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I've had the best time. It's been a lovely break
from Scrubs, but I'm ready to get back into it.
I've missed being on the floor.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Okay, I do.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Just before I go, though, have a story that I
need to tell you that It doesn't make me sound
that great, but it's kind of a fun story, and
I kind of want to hear some other people's funny
nightmare story. Okay, sure, Okay, So this happened to me
on night chef. Now, if you've ever done night shift,
you're a dead though. So I feel like, potentially, and
you used to be a big raver, you know, big partier. Yeah,
(00:48):
and go out and stay out all night. I think
that's what helped me. Yeah, right, okay, but it's hard.
It's hard work, and I do eight hour night chefts
every you know, soft and once a month kind of thing,
and you have to go in and she co on
the patients, right, because that's part of your job hundred percent. Well, yeah,
(01:08):
you've got to make sure that they're okay. So I
just remember quite soon into my nursing career going and
checking on this patient in the middle of the night,
and I just like to I like to be really
quiet when I go in, just to try and not
wake them up and startle them too much because it's
someone coming into the dark, dark room, and I freak
out when I get working up one hundred percent. So
(01:30):
I'm going and I'm going, like, no, idea what her
name was, Let's call her Caroline, Caroline, Carolyne, Caroline. I'm
just I like to touch them on the like the foot,
all the or the league, just like a lot of
like tap or like no, probably more like on the
on the calf or something, top of the foot.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm just like touching it.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm going, Caroline, Caroline.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'm touching.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
She's not waking up, and I'm going Caroline. And I
did it and I went and I.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Looked, oh you she was dead.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
No.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, I just was like, okay, now do I need
to like, you know, presy, do I need some help?
When here? Do I need to? And I looked over
her and she goes she got this massive, big fright
and was awake. But that's because I'd forgotten that she
was paralyzed from the waist down. So that was one
of the moments where you go, okay, So anyway, I
(02:26):
gave you a really big.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
And then we laughed about it, and then we moved on,
can you feel your legs?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I felt so.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
At least she wouldn't have known that you were touching
her legs.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
No, she was tackling her fair I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I don't speaking. She couldn't feel it until she was asleep.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So but anyway, I'd love to hear from my fellow
nurses healthcare professional.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's done workplace nightmare as before, but I really want
to focus it in on the nurses and you're right,
the healthcare professionals.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Out there, and if.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You're allowed to tell us, we would love to have
it on the.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
CDMs Brie and Clinton podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Stephany's here, Hi, Stephanie, Hi, nurse Stephanie.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Not anymore?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Okay, okay, what was your nursing nightmare? Is it the reason,
you're not a nurse anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
No.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I was the nurse of the student at the time.
So I was nineteen, and I was looking after an
older gentleman who had had a stroke, and it meant
that he was paralyzed from the waist down and his
arms were also paralyzed.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh no, okay.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
So as the weeks went by, one morning I was
helping him shower and his johnson started working again.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Out of the blue. Mm hmmm, yeah okay.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
And he tried very very diligently, with his paralyzed to
cover it up with a lannel.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Oh Stephane, he got He was progressively more embarrassed, and
I went read and then yeah, because.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You're only a trainee.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I know you nurses are all incredible professionals, but if
you're only an eighteen year old trainee.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's hard. I think that was I think that was
the problem. I think that was.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yeah, so it was. It was very awkward. Yeah, we recovered.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I was still in nurse for several.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Years after that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Okay, cool my first Okay, cool, Glad it didn't end
the job prematurely. Yeah, you know, I be the wrong
choice of word too, Okay, thanks. We asked for your
nursing nightmares. And there are some incredible texts that have
come in. Someone said, I'm an ambulance officer and while
assessing a male patient at home, I turned to his
(04:58):
daughter and asked to does your dad have a list
of his prescription medications?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
She replied with, uh, that's my husband. Yeah. Always ask
never assume, never ever, ever assume.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What about the school nurse whose student came in to
say that he had been second class and she was
all ready to send him home, but then he proceeded
to pull out his lunch box with the vomit in it,
half stopping through his entire bag.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
He still wanted to eat his chicken rat. No, you
are specially school nurses, oh man. And then you'd be like,
oh am I going to get that? Do I have
the tummy bug?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Now?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Someone said I love me, and because you said yours
have been on a night shift, they said, I love
me a night shift.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
But that's when the crazy in people comes out. Is
that true?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Full moons? Full moons? Honestly, I can't explain it, not explain.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
What's the Canterbury one, the northwester. Oh, there's something about
the direction that the wind blows in cannab and then
everyone says that we go crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Oh honestly, I can't explain. I don't know why, but yeah,
they're crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Not quite a nurse, but I'm a physio and I
have had a few crackers. I said to a patient,
isn't it a beautiful view from here? The mountain looks amazing,
to which they replied, I don't know. I'm blind. Same
person they said, I said to an amputee the day
(06:27):
after their surgery, don't worry, We're not going to run
a marathon.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
How does that even come up?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
In compliss Sometimes though, like you just, I don't Know's.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That Austin Power's scene where he's like, don't say mold,
don't say mold, don't say mole.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Mully Mully, Molly, mully, Molly, Molly Molly.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I've also gone to perform a mobility assessment on someone
whose daughter said, you do realize that they've been bid
bound for years, don't you?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I am. That's in the right place, though.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
No I know, and just sometimes I mean and this,
actually I really want to read this text out because
it's kind of some some nursing and stuff up for us. Unfortunately,
after thirty years of nursing, I can safely say even
though we have to put up with verbal and sometimes
physical we don't get paid enough, and most of us
would not choose another profession. The fun and laughter we
have with our nursing colleagues makes up for it. And
(07:20):
I definitely yeah, I definitely agree with.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That as a beautiful message. It's an important sentiment. But
pay nurses more. Yeah, I think that's.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
All we do.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Play Zim's brim Clint Financer, Facebook, TikTok and
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Live weekdays from three on Zim
Show requested, So here it is, as long as you've
got d data. It's z m's Brian Clinton Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Caitlin's here filling in for Bree while she's off on
baby leave. But it's your last day. It's your last day.
We're losing you back to Autotahi krish shirts, and you're
losing you back to the nursing profession.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I've had the best time. It's been a lovely break
from Scrubs, but I'm ready to get back into it.
I've missed being on the floor.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Okay, I do.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Just before I go, though, have a story that I
need to tell you that It doesn't make me sound
that great, but it's kind of a fun story, and
I kind of want to hear some other people's funny
nightmare story. Okay, sure, Okay, So this happened to me
on night chef. Now, if you've ever done night shift,
you're a dead though. So I feel like, potentially, and
you used to be a big raver, you know, big partier. Yeah,
(00:48):
and go out and stay out all night. I think
that's what helped me. Yeah, right, okay, but it's hard.
It's hard work, and I do eight hour night chefts
every you know, soft and once a month kind of thing,
and you have to go in and she co on
the patients, right, because that's part of your job hundred percent. Well, yeah,
(01:08):
you've got to make sure that they're okay. So I
just remember quite soon into my nursing career going and
checking on this patient in the middle of the night,
and I just like to I like to be really
quiet when I go in, just to try and not
wake them up and startle them too much because it's
someone coming into the dark, dark room, and I freak
out when I get working up one hundred percent. So
(01:30):
I'm going and I'm going, like, no, idea what her
name was, Let's call her Caroline, Caroline, Carolyne, Caroline. I'm
just I like to touch them on the like the foot,
all the or the league, just like a lot of
like tap or like no, probably more like on the
on the calf or something, top of the foot.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm just like touching it.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm going, Caroline, Caroline.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'm touching.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
She's not waking up, and I'm going Caroline. And I
did it and I went and I.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Looked, oh you she was dead.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
No.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, I just was like, okay, now do I need
to like, you know, presy, do I need some help?
When here? Do I need to? And I looked over
her and she goes she got this massive, big fright
and was awake. But that's because I'd forgotten that she
was paralyzed from the waist down. So that was one
of the moments where you go, okay, So anyway, I
(02:26):
gave you a really big.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
And then we laughed about it, and then we moved on,
can you feel your legs?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I felt so.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
At least she wouldn't have known that you were touching
her legs.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
No, she was tackling her fair I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I don't speaking. She couldn't feel it until she was asleep.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So but anyway, I'd love to hear from my fellow
nurses healthcare professional.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's done workplace nightmare as before, but I really want
to focus it in on the nurses and you're right,
the healthcare professionals.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Out there, and if.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You're allowed to tell us, we would love to have
it on the.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
CDMs Brie and Clinton podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Stephany's here, Hi, Stephanie, Hi, nurse Stephanie.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Not anymore?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Okay, okay, what was your nursing nightmare? Is it the reason,
you're not a nurse anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
No.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I was the nurse of the student at the time.
So I was nineteen, and I was looking after an
older gentleman who had had a stroke, and it meant
that he was paralyzed from the waist down and his
arms were also paralyzed.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh no, okay.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
So as the weeks went by, one morning I was
helping him shower and his johnson started working again.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Out of the blue. Mm hmmm, yeah okay.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
And he tried very very diligently, with his paralyzed to
cover it up with a lannel.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Oh Stephane, he got He was progressively more embarrassed, and
I went read and then yeah, because.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You're only a trainee.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I know you nurses are all incredible professionals, but if
you're only an eighteen year old trainee.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's hard. I think that was I think that was
the problem. I think that was.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yeah, so it was. It was very awkward. Yeah, we recovered.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I was still in nurse for several.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Years after that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Okay, cool my first Okay, cool, Glad it didn't end
the job prematurely. Yeah, you know, I be the wrong
choice of word too, Okay, thanks. We asked for your
nursing nightmares. And there are some incredible texts that have
come in. Someone said, I'm an ambulance officer and while
assessing a male patient at home, I turned to his
(04:58):
daughter and asked to does your dad have a list
of his prescription medications?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
She replied with, uh, that's my husband. Yeah. Always ask
never assume, never ever, ever assume.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What about the school nurse whose student came in to
say that he had been second class and she was
all ready to send him home, but then he proceeded
to pull out his lunch box with the vomit in it,
half stopping through his entire bag.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
He still wanted to eat his chicken rat. No, you
are specially school nurses, oh man. And then you'd be like,
oh am I going to get that? Do I have
the tummy bug?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Now?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Someone said I love me, and because you said yours
have been on a night shift, they said, I love
me a night shift.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
But that's when the crazy in people comes out. Is
that true?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Full moons? Full moons? Honestly, I can't explain it, not explain.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
What's the Canterbury one, the northwester. Oh, there's something about
the direction that the wind blows in cannab and then
everyone says that we go crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Oh honestly, I can't explain. I don't know why, but yeah,
they're crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Not quite a nurse, but I'm a physio and I
have had a few crackers. I said to a patient,
isn't it a beautiful view from here? The mountain looks amazing,
to which they replied, I don't know. I'm blind. Same
person they said, I said to an amputee the day
(06:27):
after their surgery, don't worry, We're not going to run
a marathon.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
How does that even come up?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
In compliss Sometimes though, like you just, I don't Know's.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That Austin Power's scene where he's like, don't say mold,
don't say mold, don't say mole.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Mully Mully, Molly, mully, Molly, Molly Molly.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I've also gone to perform a mobility assessment on someone
whose daughter said, you do realize that they've been bid
bound for years, don't you?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I am. That's in the right place, though.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
No I know, and just sometimes I mean and this,
actually I really want to read this text out because
it's kind of some some nursing and stuff up for us. Unfortunately,
after thirty years of nursing, I can safely say even
though we have to put up with verbal and sometimes
physical we don't get paid enough, and most of us
would not choose another profession. The fun and laughter we
have with our nursing colleagues makes up for it. And
(07:20):
I definitely yeah, I definitely agree with.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That as a beautiful message. It's an important sentiment. But
pay nurses more. Yeah, I think that's.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
All we do.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Play Zim's brim Clint Financer, Facebook, TikTok and
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Live weekdays from three on Zim
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