[Angie O'Plasty, RN]

Originally Posted by NurseStace

Same facility, nice pleasantly confused gent called 911 to report that he was being held hostage.

or those pesky family members living outside the residents room (2nd floor) IN THE TREE!

Oh! So THAT's why it's called a....



(close your eyes and scroll down)




FAMILY TREE!!!



Sorry, couldn't resist.

[JustaPatient]

bump

[elizabells]

I thank god every shift that 24 weekers can't push call lights.

[prmenrs]

Originally Posted by elizabells

I thank god every shift that 24 weekers can't push call lights.

Unless they're being benchmarked and can't decide between being blind or being stupid. That oxymeter alarm can and will drive you right over the edge....

[Svanna]

probably because many who are self pay feel entitled and want to get their mo neys worth

[elizabells]

Originally Posted by prmenrs

Unless they're being benchmarked and can't decide between being blind or being stupid. That oxymeter alarm can and will drive you right over the edge....

Oh GOD, the ox alarm. I freaked a mom right out the other day when I just walked over and turned it off. Had to explain that the kid's a feeder, the kid is fine, and we just have to keep the alarm on per policy.

Or the eight-bed room where two pulse oxes are going off, one kid's Art BP got kinked so that's going off, one monitor thinks the kid's dead bc a lead came loose, so that one's alarming on all the monitors, which ****** off another baby so he gets tachy, a vent is alarming, of course all the alarms sound different, and the phone's ringing. That actually happened to me the other day. I almost cried.

[mcleanl]

Okay...my strangest call light experience happened many years ago when the call system could be heard out loud at the nurses station (unlike now when you have to pick up a phone to hear the patient). I was taking care of a very brittle diabetic. She was end-stage renal failure and her diabetes had robbed her of her sight and she was necrotic everywhere. The patient called on the bell and I answered "can I help you." She replied that "yes" she did need some help. I said sweetly, "what can I help you with." She replied just as sweetly, "I snagged my finger on my blanket and it FELL OFF." Indeed the tip of her necrotic finger had come off when she snagged it on the her blanket. And yes, everyone at the nurses station was laughing when the call came in (of course that was before we realized she was giving accurate information).

[kessadawn]

Last night my 6 year old heart patient rang the light for about the fiftieth time to tell me that chocolate milk comes from brown cows!

[smelltheroses]

Ok, not yet a nurse, but.... have been a patient. Once I had back surgery and an overfilled hospital put me in a room with an elderly lady who was completely capable of walking (she was in for a galbladder thing).Was constantly calling in the nurses either to beg for a bedpan or to complain she couldn't pee in the bathroom. They refused bedpan because she could walk. Kept me awake all night after a long painful surgery! Then was in hospital for migraines and felt like death. Also, with an elderly roommate who kept kicking her slippers under the bed and then calling in the nurse to find them. Simply so she knew where they were. Me in my death finally got sick of her bugging the busy nurses that as soon as I'd hear her page I'd go over and climb under her bed to get them about a million and a half times. Its no fun being a roommate either.

[diffymetoo]

One called me, more than once, to scratch her foot for her.