[emeraldjay]

As a CNA I get to hear all sorts of things. My favorite, NOT, is the lady who prefers to be covered with towels, washcloths, well, anything that isn't a bedsheet. She will ring to have her washcloth moved either up or down her hand at most a half inch.

[kea6783]

Not nursing related, but geriatric talk reminded me..

my best friend, Michelle, Her grandpa is getting old and he always talks about dying, and it really depresses her.

Well, it never fails, he'll say, " Sweetie, I'm going../It's time for me to go../Are you ready for me to go.."

She rolls her eyes and says, "where Poppa?"

And he just points to the sky..

DRIVES HER NUTS!

[URO-RN]

"pull up my covers." Sheesh.

[grace90]

Here's a cute one... "There's my empty water glass and (points to his urinal on the window sill) there's some used water."

[JustaPatient]

Originally Posted by grace90

Here's a cute one... "There's my empty water glass and (points to his urinal on the window sill) there's some used water."

that is so funny

[curlyfries]

I had a roommate on the ped floor who was in the hosptial for eating disorder. He would constantly ring the nurse and say, "help, I've fallen and I can't get up!." This was back in 1990 when that statement was popular. Yah I was a ped back then too!

[Hellllllo Nurse]

As a phone triage nurse, I got a phone call form a pt in an adult care home. Seems his attendant was not answering the call light. The pt asked me to call the attendant on the phone, and have him bring the pt a blanket from right down the hall.

I phoned and awoke the attendant, who'd been asleep on the job. Amazingly, he was not at all embarrassed at what length his pt had to go to to get a blanket, due to the attendant's laziness and neglect.

In this case, the pt's call was weird, but more than justified.

[Hellllllo Nurse]

Originally Posted by NorthernRose

.......We also have a few rooms with 'ghost lights' The call lights will come on when no one is inthe room. Had this happen a few weeks ago. One resident from the room was in the hospital the other was sitting in his chair at the desk....NO ONE in the room to turn it on. Went down turned it off...half way down the hall, it came back on!!! (Of course this is a room farthest from the desk!! lol) This happened about 4 times! Freaked us out a bit. Then the light across the hall started doing the same thing. We couldn't get that one to shut off at all. Usually when things like this happen, we have a death (or 3)

I've experienced those "ghost" call lights, too.

I found that unpluging the call light, sticking an IVAC probe cover in the socket, then sticking the call light end into the probe cover stops those ghost lights from ringing.

[AmyB]

... I confess to not reading the entire thread yet.

Has pillow fluffing been covered? I have a resident in my LTC who pulls the call light, falls asleep, and when I finally get to her, she wants me to adjust her pillows. Today her call light was on for almost my entire shift. I did check in on her, just to be certain, but if she was sleeping, I tried to shut it off without waking her and make a hasty retreat.

[DutchgirlRN]

Several come to mind. An elderly lady who would not stop calling. She was on that light every 2 minutes had to pee a tiny dribble every time. She kept getting up pulling the IV behind her. We just knew she was going to end up on the floor. I called her daughter to come in and sit with her. She said, she wears depends, she has them on, I'm not coming in, just tell her if she gets up again without help you will put the posey vest on. I did and she didn't call out more than once or twice more the rest of the shift. It felt like the wrong thing to do but hey it worked. She never did pee in her depends either. I think she just wanted somebody in the room.

The ones who really make me mad are the one who ask for the nurse. "Can she bring you anything?" "No, I just need to talk to her". You go to the room and they're like "can I have a cup of ice" Yesterday: "can my daughter have a coke". Her daughter was at least 50 years old (my age), I politely told her that the cafeteria was open.