Top 10 Most Embarrassing Things CNAs Have Done at Work…#9 is Hard NOT to Laugh At…

2. Warning – Don’t swing your Foley bag

I was removing a male patient's catheter, and for the life of me, the balloon wouldn’t deflate! I was told to cut the catheter, and instead of cutting at the balloon port, I accidentally cut the actual tube… balloon still fully intact!

So here I am, stuck with a Foley in place, no bag to drain into, and an extremely upset on-call urologist. The patient ended up needing surgery to have it removed.

Fun fact: Surgery was going to happen anyway, because when the patient came in intoxicated, the ER staff had placed the catheter. The patient thought it would be a great idea to swing the Foley bag around in circles, causing an internal “kink.”