Specialties Emergency Nursing Q/A
And did you have to treat them?
I am just curious. Your stories always seem to either crack me up or shake my head in amazement.
Thanks for sharing ?
2BSure
267 Posts
Pt. presents to sign in for the Emergency Deparment.25 YO W/F presents to the emergency department via BLSPt. offers complaint"My boyfriend and I were messing around, now my Cell Phone is inside me!"Dr. states "What's the number, we'll call and see if it's still on" I couldn't believe my ears, the rest of the staff couldn't stop laughing for days!!!!
25 YO W/F presents to the emergency department via BLS
Pt. offers complaint
"My boyfriend and I were messing around, now my Cell Phone is inside me!"
Dr. states "What's the number, we'll call and see if it's still on" I couldn't believe my ears, the rest of the staff couldn't stop laughing for days!!!!
As a student I used to think this stuff was urban legend! How innocent was I?
RetiredTooSoon
167 Posts
When I was a student (early 90s) we took a 10 year old to the OR with suspected appendicitis. Labs were in with elevated white count and she had the rebound tenderness, so off she went to be relieved of her appendix.
Next day the pathology came back-normal appendix. I'm wondering now if she had strep instead.
Nurseforatu
14 Posts
Woman came in with a condom "lost"..but the topper was a tv remote fully "lost" in the...hmm...lower gi tract! Surgeon had to be called out.
blondnursey
105 Posts
i was the nurse on duty at a ltc facility. one of my staff was filing papers. she scratched her finger on the staple. one drop blood.
she filled out incident report, went to the er and called off for the next 2 days.
true story, i am still shaking my head........
beckingrace
5 Posts
My most favorite was the mother who wanted her child checked because they drove through Cleveland and a child in a suburb of Cleveland had menningitis. They did not stop in Cleveland, did not know the child but they did drive through there.
Knoodsen
95 Posts
"fiberoptic cysts"
Clays02
26 Posts
I had a guy who had some form of dementia where everytime he closed his eyes, he thought robots would perform abdominal surgery on him. So the guy hadn't slept in days and if he drifted off to sleep he'd wake up screaming. It was INSANE!
Not really ridiculous...but crazy.
sharpeimom
2,452 Posts
i was the nurse on duty at a ltc facility. one of my staff was filing papers. she scratched her finger on the staple. one drop blood.she filled out incident report, went to the er and called off for the next 2 days.true story, i am still shaking my head........
yikes! ... and i went to work with buddy wrapped broken fingers (psych) when i could have taken, oh, say a month or so, off?!
sharpeimom:paw::paw:
TinkRN8
282 Posts
gets better and better.......--dentures in the rectum.......surgery, temp colostomy--GULDENS spicy brown mustard jar up the, you guessed it,.....another surgery consult--a harmonica, assorted bottles, jars, and i just now remembered TIC TACS!!!I COULD GO ON AND ON..............
--dentures in the rectum.......surgery, temp colostomy
--GULDENS spicy brown mustard jar up the, you guessed it,.....another surgery consult
--a harmonica, assorted bottles, jars, and i just now remembered TIC TACS!!!
I COULD GO ON AND ON..............
LOL!!! When my sister was little (like 3-4), she was obssessed with sticking things up her nose....Tic Tacs, peas, Trix, Cheerios....you name it she stuck it up her nose. I remember many a trip to the Dr.'s office to have things removed. She would get them stuck up there but good...
lol!!! when my sister was little (like 3-4), she was obssessed with sticking things up her nose....tic tacs, peas, trix, cheerios....you name it she stuck it up her nose. i remember many a trip to the dr.'s office to have things removed. she would get them stuck up there but good...
while we're on the subject of things getting stuck, i have a submission for the weirdest or dumbest category... when i was eight and a tomboy, i fell out of a tree i had been climbing and sustained a fx of my elbow. it was casted in the er and i was absolutely crushed:crying2: to find out i couldn't take showers for the duration. fast forward about five weeks and as we were being led into the sanctuary from the sunday school rooms, a friend slipped me some m & m s and just then, our teacher who was elderly and very firm reminded us that there was to be no eating or gum chewing during the service.
caught! ... no pockets either... i slipped them down the inner arm of my cast and promptly forgot about them. when i did remember, i was afraid to tell my mom what i'd done because i knew i'd end up in the er again. a week later, the smell was awful and i did end up back in the er, where my cast was removed. when the staff and my parents discovered melted gross stinky m & m s and not something worse, they all began to laugh... hard. i was recasted and sent home. my parents were so relieved that it was only a pile of melted chocolate, that i never was punished.
Roy Fokker, BSN, RN
1 Article; 2,011 Posts
"My legs hurt"
"How long have they been hurting?"
"Since now, D-uh!"
"What were you doing earlier today?"
"I walked from TheOtherTown over here"
"You walked 10 miles by yourself?!"
"Yeah. Now my legs are killing me!"
Young adult female.
At 0435 in the morning.
You know what was even better?
The ED doc ordered blood work (BMP, CK, CK-MB) on her before discharging her....
MurseDan
7 Posts
When working in a children's Emergency Department a VERY distressed father came in with his baby. He was concerned about a 'abnormal' mark which was on the baby. I then had to explain that birth marks were perfectly normal...........
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