Funny things your patients have said

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Okay, I'm sure we've all heard some really funny stuff from our patients/residents/clients during our shifts, so let's share!

I was working overnight in home health and kept hearing the wife (with severe dementia) waking up her husband to ask him strange questions. My favorite was "BOB, when are you going to wake up and drive that girl home?" (meaning me, waiting in the next room; I have a car and license, my clients did not, thank goodness!). He said "Huh?" and she insisted "She can't take the school bus, it's night time!". He answered "She'll drive herself home later, honey" and she indignantly said "Like FUN she will!" then finally rolled over and went to sleep. :D

Another resident with Alzheimer's who is starting to lose his appropriate vocabulary will occasionally swear and then be genuinely baffled and apologetic when people that overhear him are shocked. I usually just try to gently tell him that's not a polite word, and suggest an alternative. But I had to stifle my laughter when, after answering his question about what me and my weekend client did (played cards, etc.) the day before, he asked "Does she like to ****?". :eek::lol2: It was so out of the blue!

Anyone ever cracked you up or shocked you so much you had to run out of the room?

Specializes in Oncology.

just tonight, i could NOT get a resident into bed because she swore up an d down that a "gentleman came in here and stripped down and said he was going to sleep with me tonight" needless to say it took alot of convincing to get her to sleep. lol!

Specializes in LTC.

we have a lady that is a retired CNA who swears up and down that her roommate has a high fever and needs fluids.

haha we had a former nurse grab a hat from someone's toilet and keep trying to get one of the other residents to pee in it for a sample.

Specializes in CV Surgical, ICU.

We had a lot of retired medical people on one of our long term units! At one point in time we had an entire medical team! We had a retired nursing home administrator, retired MD, retired RN/DON, retired Psyche RN, retired LTC LPN, and a retired CNA! And they were all on the same unit at the same time! It was awesome! :)

We have several former nurses. God only knows how many times I've caught them doing ROM exercises and palpating the abdomens of other residents, urgently asking me to call the doctor STAT. They even walk around and feed residents in the dining room.

Me: "Did you have a good morning?"

Resident: "No, it was terrible. I pooped and peed."

Me: "Oh, I see."

Specializes in Oncology.

i had a resident the other that started hollering and crying so i went in to check on her and i asked her what was wrong...she told me she thought her mother was pregnant...well...okay....

i had a resident the other that started hollering and crying so i went in to check on her and i asked her what was wrong...she told me she thought her mother was pregnant...well...okay....

One lady was screaming and told me that SHE was pregnant -- and in labor!!

Turns out she was just passing some hard stool. Thank God.

Like I always say, it's best to give birth to your children PRIOR to menopause and a radical hysterectomy.

I was taking a lady from the dining room to her room. She had difficulty hearing and yelled everything she said. well a nurse was talking to her roomates daughter and it was private so i shut the door and this was the conversation:

"Can you wait out here for me L? they need some privacy.

"WELL WHAT ARE THE DOIN'?"

"I don't know, its about M and its none of my buisiness"

"I KNOW WHAT THERE DOING, THERE HAVING SEX AINT THEY."

"No L"

I heard half the building start laughung. including the nurse and family behind the door.

My half-brother's grandma (I'm very close to him, but I never met her), who died yesterday, had Alzheimer's. Once, when my brother was having a meal with her and his grandfather, she stopped eating, looked at him and said: "I wish I was like you. So hairy..."

Well where I work a resident was accusing me of taking her blankets. Mind you I just came on shift and me and the med aide went in her room wondering what she was talking about. She pointed at me and said I know you are so poor that you had to take those 2 blankets but I need them back. I couldn't help but bust up laughing, as the med aide was too. It was a resident in memory care.

Specializes in LTC.

I had an ex-psych nurse with dementia screaming "Thorazine" and "Haldol" as she played piano, I laughed so hard.

Specializes in DD, Mental Health, Geriatric.

These are all just priceless gold! I had one male resident with nightly incontinence issues we were told to 'double up' his briefs on and one night as I was helping him get ready for bed and putting his briefs on him he looks down at himself in the briefs, turns to me and goes, "How the hell am I gonna find my dick through all this?!"

Lol!

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