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* ''WesternAnimation/SkunkFu'': In "The Art of Being Lazy", Skunk pretends to be sick to get out of doing chores, and Panda assigns Pig to take care of him. Cue comically incompetent nursing which ends up making Skunk look like he actually ''is'' sick. Though when ninja monkeys try to attack, Skunk weaponizes that by telling Pig that the monkeys are sick and also need his "care". Afterwards, Panda returns and reveals that he knew all along that Skunk was faking, and had Pig take care of him to [[TricksterMentor teach him a lesson]], but admits that things went too far.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' in episode 78 ("[[Recap/SailorMoonREp32VenusMinakosNurseMayhem Venus Minako's Nurse Mayhem!]]") Minako Aino tends to all the other cold ridden Sailor Senshi... badly. From [[HopelessWithTech blowing up Rei's cassette player]] and feeding her [[LethalChef hot-sauce soup]], to trying to clean a room and [[TrashOfTheTitans leaving it looking like a twister tore through it]], and (with the help of Chibi-Usa) smashing Usagi's bedroom window by accidentally throwing a thermometer through it, she is a ''disaster.'' Considered a major turning point to her CastSpeciation. Though at the end of the episode, Minako gets sick and Usagi and Chibi-Usa show up trying to offer their own "help". [[HourglassPlot Oh, dear]].

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' in episode 78 ("[[Recap/SailorMoonREp32VenusMinakosNurseMayhem Venus Minako's Nurse Mayhem!]]") Minako Aino tends to all the other cold ridden Sailor Senshi... badly. From [[HopelessWithTech blowing up Rei's cassette player]] and feeding her [[LethalChef hot-sauce soup]], and (with the help of Chibi-Usa) smashing Usagi's bedroom window by accidentally throwing a thermometer through it, she is a ''disaster.'' Considered a major turning point to her CastSpeciation. Though at the end of the episode, Minako gets sick and Usagi and Chibi-Usa show up trying to offer their own "help". [[HourglassPlot Whoopsie]].

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' in episode 78 ("[[Recap/SailorMoonREp32VenusMinakosNurseMayhem Venus Minako's Nurse Mayhem!]]") Minako Aino tends to all the other cold ridden Sailor Senshi... badly. From [[HopelessWithTech blowing up Rei's cassette player]] and feeding her [[LethalChef hot-sauce soup]], and (with the help of Chibi-Usa) smashing Usagi's bedroom window by accidentally throwing a thermometer through it, she is a ''disaster.'' Considered a major turning point to her CastSpeciation. Though at the end of the episode, Minako gets sick and Usagi and Chibi-Usa show up trying to offer their own "help". Oooops.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' in episode 78 ("Venus Minako's Nurse Mayhem!") Minako Aino tends to all the other cold ridden Sailor Senshi... badly. From [[HopelessWithTech blowing up Rei's cassette player]] and feeding her [[LethalChef hot-sauce soup]], and (with the help of Chibi-Usa) smashing Usagi's bedroom window by accidentally throwing a thermometer through it, she is a ''disaster.'' Considered a major turning point to her CastSpeciation. Though at the end of the episode, Minako gets sick and Usagi and Chibi-Usa show up trying to offer their own "help". Oooops.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' in episode 78 ("Venus Minako's Nurse Mayhem!") Minako Aino tends to all the other cold ridden Sailor Senshi... badly. From [[HopelessWithTech blowing up Rei's cassette player]] and feeding her [[LethalChef hot-sauce soup]], and (with the help of Chibi-Usa) smashing Usagi's bedroom window by accidentally throwing a thermometer through it she is a disaster. Considered a major turning point to her CastSpeciation. Though at the end of the episode, Minako gets sick and Usagi and Chibi-Usa show up trying to offer their own "help". Oooops.

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* In ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'', Mayu nurses Shungo in an episode but makes things infinitely worse by only stimulating [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre THAT]] part of the body.

* ''LightNovel/KyouranKazokuNikki'': Ouka gets sick and all hell breaks loose as Kyoka nurses him from a cold to a brain infection to breaking his right arm and leg.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Smashing a window -- not normally the best approach to healing.]]

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' with literal nursing pokemon (Chansey and its evolution Blissey). It's a case by case situation, with some being efficient and others inept, including an episode with a ''very'' clumsy Blissey who was an old friend of Jessie. XY brings us an equivalent episode featuring a clumsy nurse Wigglytuff.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' in episode 78 ("Venus Minako's Nurse Mayhem!") Minako Aino tends to all the other cold ridden Sailor Senshi... badly. From [[HopelessWithTech blowing up Rei's cassette player]] and feeding her [[LethalChef hot-sauce soup]], and (with the help of Chibi-Usa) smashing Usagi's bedroom window by accidentally throwing a thermometer through it she is a disaster. Considered a major turning point to her CastSpeciation. Though at the end of the episode, Minako gets sick and Usagi and Chibi-Usa show up trying to offer their own "help". Oooops.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' with literal nursing pokemon (Chansey and its evolution Blissey). It's a case by case situation, with some being efficient and others inept, including an episode with a ''very'' clumsy Blissey who was an old friend of Jessie. XY brings us an equivalent episode featuring a clumsy nurse Wigglytuff.

* ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'': Fubuki gets sick and Naeka tries nursing her back to health, displaying her LethalChef credentials in the process.

* Manga/FrankenFran is a genius doctor and really just wants to help; the only problem is that while she's almost certain to fix you, 99% of the time [[FateWorseThanDeath you'll really,]] ''[[BodyHorror REALLY]]'' [[{{Squick}} wish she hadn't.]]
* In ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'', Mayu nurses Shungo in an episode but makes things infinitely worse by only stimulating [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre THAT]] part of the body.
%%* In ''Anime/BlazBlueAlterMemory'', Noel tried to take care of a wounded Ragna. This trope took place. Oops.
* One arc of ''Manga/CityHunter'' has Ryo's newest charge as an incredible [[TheKlutz Klutz]] who work in a hospital as a nurse... And has a body count. [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment The director of the hospital assigns her to the most unruly patients]] to try and make them leave.

* In the Italian movie "Film/LeComiche2" the two protagonists are initially male nurses who run over a man with their ambulance on the scene of a motorcycle accident. From that moment they mix up the guy they run into, who doesn't need medical attention, and the guy of the accident, insisting on taking the first to the hospital. Unfortunately they are two lunatics that basically knock him out, kidnap him and every time he tries to explain the situation or escape they cause him more physical damage. The tortures continues once they reach the hospital, here they manage to mix him with a female patient causing him to undergo a breast augmentation surgery whose result is shown later in the movie.

* In ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'' by Creator/ENesbit, the kids decided they want to invent medicine. So they try goofing around in the cold until one of them gets sick. Eventually, one of them does and they try to give him all sorts of medicines...but none work and he just gets worse. Needless to say, the adult who discovers this mess is not amused.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{House}}'', several babies in PPTH are struck by a mystery disease. House eventually discovers that an elderly nurse working in the pediatric ward had a cold, which she transmitted to a teddy bear which was then given to a newborn.

* In ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', Ann Perkins is actually a good nurse, but her instinctive urge to take care of injured or helpless people leads her to support her lovable slacker ex-boyfriend Andy for far longer than she should.

* Despite being a doctor herself, [[Franchise/BlazBlue Litchi Faye-Ling]] more or less fits in a dramatic manner: As a doctor, she's good at healing others... except her romantic interest Lotte Carmine, who became corrupted into Arakune. Attempts to help him involve things that makes other people question her intelligence, reasoning, sanity or being just blinded with love, including partially corrupting herself with the same thing that corrupted Lotte, [[spoiler:joining a world-destroying evil group that only looked like they have a clue, but actually ran with very shady and ObviouslyEvil people, and by the time she ''did'' [[FindTheCure obtain a healing method]] (and also at least cutting ties with the group), all she got was that Lotte, in his most lucid manner, saying that he didn't want any help at all, it was one big misunderstanding from the start, [[AllForNothing rendering all her 'good intentions' for nothing.]] (except to use the cure on herself, presumably)]]

* ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' has Meiling and Flandre try to take care of Remilia, Patchouli, and Sakuya when they're sick. It... doesn't go well.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': "Nurse Stimpy" has Stimpy bungling his way through an attempt to look after a sick Ren.
* WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel: Loulabelle, Weasel's assistant, who usually dresses as a nurse. Her debut was in the Season 2 episode "I.R. Mommy".

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "A Bird in the Hoof": Fluttershy takes on this role when she makes off with Princess Celestia's sickly pet bird, Philomena, who turns out to be unresponsive to a variety of treatments. Twilight Sparkle gets in on the act, out of fear of what will happen to Fluttershy if Celestia finds out, and HilarityEnsues. [[spoiler: Turns out Philomena's a phoenix, and her "sickness" was from being at the end of her life cycle, just before the "spontaneously combust and rise from the ashes" part.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Smashing a window, not normally the best approach to healing]]

* Compa from ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' isn't very good of a nurse, as she's still in training. She nearly ends up choking Nep-Nep to death trying to bandage her up.

* In ''Anime/BlazBlueAlterMemory'', Noel tried to take care of a wounded Ragna. This trope took place. Oops.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' in episode 78("Venus Minako's Nurse Mayhem!") Minako Aino tends to all the other cold ridden Sailor Senshi... badly. From [[HopelessWithTech blowing up Rei's cassette player]] and feeding her [[LethalChef hot-sauce soup]], and (with the help of Chibi-Usa) smashing Usagi's bedroom window by accidentally throwing a thermometer through it she is a disaster. Considered a major turning point to her CastSpeciation. Though at the end of the episode, Minako gets sick and Usagi and Chibi-Usa show up trying to offer their own "help". Oooops.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': In episode 78 of the original 1990s anime "Venus Minako's Nurse Mayhem!" Minako Aino tends to all the other cold ridden Sailor Senshi... badly. The main two we see her directly help are Rei who ends up causing all sorts of discomforts and annoyances for, then she and Chibi-Usa then try to help Usagi and manage to smash her bedroom window by throwing a thermometer through it. Considered a major turning point to her CastSpeciation. Though at the end of the episode, Minako gets sick and Usagi and Chibi-Usa show up trying to offer their own "help". Oooops.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Minako Aino tends to the sick Rei and ends up causing all the discomforts and annoyances herself. Considered a major turning point to her CastSpeciation. Though at the end of the show, Minako gets sick and Usagi and Chibi-Usa show up trying to offer their own "help". Oooops.

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** "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E48ScroogesPet Scrooge's Pet]]" reveals that Launchpad also tried to bring a sick Scrooge breakfast in bed and spilled it on him.

* Nenji of ''Anime/NanakaSixSeventeen'' gets two of these in the episode where he catches a cold. [[OvernightAgeUp Nanaka]] and [[PrecociousCrush Kuriko]] both vie for the right to take care of him, and both fail miserably.

If the illness is relatively minor, such as a cold, the nurse in this trope may also be a LethalChef attempting to invoke ThroughHisStomach.