[JustaPatient]

Originally Posted by Rayrae

Or how about the families who just want you to take that pulse ox off... I can understand when it's a baby kicking his foot and it's not picking up; we know he's ok and that DOES get very annoying; but when it's a kid dead asleep and they have drifting-down sats that we need to keep adjusting O2 and giving tx for... that's a different story!!

Ya. after my surgeries they always leave the pulse ox thing on till discharge. this last surgery one night my o2 sat must have gone down somewhat significantly because i woke up on blow by oxygen. they would not have know to do that if i was not wearing it.

[Tievoli]

I had a patient who regularly pressed the call light to ask me where his eye mask was (one of those things to shut out the light).......................it was usually pushed up onto his forhead where it remained until he called me again. lol

[banditrn]

Originally Posted by HopeToBeANurseSoon

Ya. after my surgeries they always leave the pulse ox thing on till discharge. this last surgery one night my o2 sat must have gone down somewhat significantly because i woke up on blow by oxygen. they would not have know to do that if i was not wearing it.

This reminds me of the nite in the unit where an elderly lady woke up and started screaming "My finger's on fire!"

[NurseyTonyaLPN]

The facility I was working at the other night had two ways to call the nurse's station--a cordless phone which rang to our phone, or an emergency call button they can pull the cord to from their bed. A resident pulled the emergency call button, the CNA was on the other floor so I rushed my big, pregnant butt down two long halls to the farthest room. Her emergency? She wanted her lamp turned out. I could understand her doing that if she couldn't reach her cordless phone to call us the regular way, but the phone was in her hand!

[bigmona]

I had a patient call me in last week because her popsicle was busted up and she wanted me to go find her a new one. I don't think so!!!

[StudyingRN]

Ok not a call light story but the funniest story I have to offer:

I had a patient last week who was the sweetest lady. She was so proper and very quiet and reserved. She was incontinent and on lasix - no foley to prevent infections - needless to say I had changed her linens SEVERAL times that day. I had just rolled her to her side so I could make her occupied bed yet again and in trying to help pull herself further on her side to let out the loudest, fastest, wettest blast of air I have ever heard! I jumped a mile and without thinking said, "Gosh Mi!d*ed, you scared me half to death! I thought it was coming after me!" She proceeded to laugh hysterically all the while tooting up a storm which made her laugh even harder! This quiet reserved woman and I rolled for 15 minutes till we were both in tears!

Everytime I walked into her room after that we laughed till we cried! Oh and the best part was she was in for Pneumo but had been unable to work up a proper sputum sample. In laughing so hard so had a coughing, tooting, peeing fit, which meant we had to change the partially made bed yet again but...we got her coughing and brought up a nice healthy sputum sample for the lab finally!

I love my patients!

[Agnus]

Originally Posted by curlyfries

I've been a patient myself many times. Do feel at times uncomfortable for asking for the dummest things like ice water. What I've done was to bring a pitcher to the nurse's station and ask for ice water, just to save them a trip. There were times that I did things for my roommates, they were mostly elderly. Simple things like getting them water or warm up their plate in the microwave. I've done all that with an IV in my arm!

You're a saint. Shouldn't have to do such things. Thank you.

[JustaPatient]

Originally Posted by Agnus

You're a saint. Shouldn't have to do such things. Thank you.

My last inpatient surgery my roomates friends did the same for me. at night my mom would leave to go home. they were always asking did i need anyting. and were very happy to get anything i needed. including backing me up that i was calling (on the call light) for the nurse one night when my iv was beeping. (she came in to do something else saying i should have called for her) he had herd me saying to the person on the other end i needed my nurse for the alarm and he also called on his girlfriends call light saying i needed my nurse due to an alarm going off.

[thebonster]

I've had tons of stupid ones...

Quick - turn up my radio I love this song.

Just wondering what you were doing.

Is it mealtime yet?

Where is my Dr.?

Just seeing if the call light works.

Would you feed my cat at my apartment?

[doularoz]

I had a postpartum patient call me to the room to ask if I thought it was ok that her poop smelled bad.