Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

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"I was raped by an octopus."

"I have severe, severe, severe, SEVERE, SEVERE cold sores!" (five severes, I counted. And one cold sore visible.)

Discuss.

Specializes in Med/Surg, Emergency.

"A bit deliberately spit in my face. I know what you're going to ask...it didn't get into my eyes because I was wearing goggles."

Hands down, best complaint EVER. Haha.

Most recent: thirsty after smoking kush

Most recent: thirsty after smoking kush

No, Belle, this is about PATIENTS' problems...

:cheeky:

Just kidding, that is hilarious... are you serious?! Where, San Fran??

Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.
Guys get stabbed by their girlfriend/wife a lot, but they always hide it.

My dad was in the ER years ago in Detroit after a car accident and was placed between 2 guys. One guy shot by the cops because he ran or something. The other guy was there because he was stabbed by his girlfriend with a broken beer bottle for not giving her drug money. My dad could hear everything. My dad was lucky because his car got T-boned by a bus and he wasn't wearing his seat belt.

Specializes in ER Nursing, ER Psych.

She was at her cousins house, who happens to be a hunter, and a pair of antlers that he had mounted on his wall fell down on to her head. She got two sutures. Lol. Welcome to Canada.

Welcome to Canada!

The good: "sour trout" (sore throat of course)

The bad: "my lady parts is a waterfall"

The ugly: patient presents to urgent care on vacation with cc "UTI". On triage, I ask her what symptoms she is having. "Frequency for four days" Ok, any dysuria, urgency? "fREQUENCY" ok.....flank pain or fevers I humbly ask? "Look, I don't want to sound pretentious but I am about to finish nursing school and I'm quite certain I have a urinary tract infection that's not in the bladder yet!" Uh hum....I see....a UTI that's not in the bladder yet...now despite my urge to hang up my stethoscope if this is the future of nursing, I continue on and ask if she's taking any medications..."I'm taking Valtrex. It's an antiviral medicine used to treat the herpes cold sore virus. " thanks for the flipping pharmacology lesson, do you see the R freaking N specialist next to my name? LOL!

The good: "sour trout" (sore throat of course)

The bad: "my lady parts is a waterfall"

The ugly: patient presents to urgent care on vacation with cc "UTI". On triage, I ask her what symptoms she is having. "Frequency for four days" Ok, any dysuria, urgency? "fREQUENCY" ok.....flank pain or fevers I humbly ask? "Look, I don't want to sound pretentious but I am about to finish nursing school and I'm quite certain I have a urinary tract infection that's not in the bladder yet!" Uh hum....I see....a UTI that's not in the bladder yet...now despite my urge to hang up my stethoscope if this is the future of nursing, I continue on and ask if she's taking any medications..."I'm taking Valtrex. It's an antiviral medicine used to treat the herpes cold sore virus. " thanks for the flipping pharmacology lesson, do you see the R freaking N specialist next to my name? LOL!

Oh man... I get this all the time lol... I actually had one who had the nerve to ask me "are you sure you don't need me to tell you what these meds do? I'm sure you've forgotten a lot since nursing school"..... Right, bc I don't actually use any nursing knowledge on a day to day basis in the ER working as an RN? Lol jeez..

LOL! It's hard enough to get through the EHR med lists without a novel reported about why they are on each med! Well the story about this patient continues when I ask "if you were to get a prescription, what pharmacy would you like to use today?" (I'm still using my polite and PC nurse voice while I am about to come unglued) and she replies by listing a pharmacy in a completely different state. At this point I'm like let me break it down for you " but if you have a UTI then you are going to need a pharmacy in THIS state before it gets to your bladder (hehe...I know that was mean but I couldn't resist after tolerating so much abuse). Lol!

A construction laborer hit by an iron,which the weight about 100 gram ans thw ieon fall from abot 60 floor, the man already dead wit hard head trauma

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A child with hemofilia,5th years old, regularly come to emergency to get koate 280 iu injection. This child already cope with injection procedure, i never restrain him aanymore on sit down position.

Specializes in Emergency.

Oh man... I get this all the time lol... I actually had one who had the nerve to ask me "are you sure you don't need me to tell you what these meds do? I'm sure you've forgotten a lot since nursing school"..... Right, bc I don't actually use any nursing knowledge on a day to day basis in the ER working as an RN? Lol jeez..

I had one recently say to me after some harmless bit of patient education (imagine snarky voice) "yeah, I know that ok? I went to medical school."

-I shall omit the myriad prejudiced reasons that I felt this was unlikely.-

"Do you mean you went to school to be a medical assistant?"

"Yes"

"I see"

Specializes in ER, Addictions, Geriatrics.

I had one recently say to me after some harmless bit of patient education (imagine snarky voice) "yeah, I know that ok? I went to medical school."

-I shall omit the myriad prejudiced reasons that I felt this was unlikely.-

"Do you mean you went to school to be a medical assistant?"

"Yes"

"I see"

I feel like when people have to start getting angry and defensive about how "they are an educated person!!" , they maybe aren't so much.

Specializes in Emergency Room.

"My whole body hurts, inside and out. And I feel weak. This morning I couldn't move my body was frozen."

Does one part of your body hurt more than any other part?

"No. My entire body hurts"

Pt walked into triage and out of triage with not a hitch in her step...

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