[Tiwi]

Actually our patients are pretty clever. Part of the code call is three buzzers. If they do that accidently, and get 5,000 staff of every description running in their direction, then they quickly learn that to get a nurse, press three buzzers and they will come quick! The thing they forget is...they usually get a few very angry nurses...

[RNsRWe]

Recently a call light kept going off, and every time I answered it, the old guy said he didn't know why it was on, must have hit it by accident. Ok, well after three of these events in like five minutes, I asked him HOW he could POSSIBLY keep hitting it by accident, when it was laying on his belly??

Turns out he was trying to change the channel on the TV and kept hitting the giant RED CROSS call button instead....LOL...no wonder he couldn't find CBS!!

[grace90]

Originally Posted by Tiwi

Actually our patients are pretty clever. Part of the code call is three buzzers. If they do that accidently, and get 5,000 staff of every description running in their direction, then they quickly learn that to get a nurse, press three buzzers and they will come quick! The thing they forget is...they usually get a few very angry nurses...

At the end of a nightshift last week, I walked a 70 yo LOL s/p lumbar OR to the bathroom with the help of an aide. The aide then disappeared while I stayed with the LOL. After a couple minutes the LOL tried to stand up and took a step then her legs gave out from under her. She started to sit down but wasn't close enough to the toilet and despite my pleas to please not sit down yet and take a step backward, down she started going. I think she weighed 200 lbs. I yanked the bathroom light on and SOMEHOW got her to the edge of the toilet. She still kept trying to get up even though she couldn't stand and I kept telling her not to. Finally, after a couple minutes of this, a nurse came in and turned off the light because I was in there and almost left until I yelled at her that I needed help. I called the nurse's station because the two of us couldn't get her off the toilet ourselves either. It took a few more minutes, of us trying to hold her half on the toilet and keeping her from getting up before someone answered the phone and came and got us. If no help had come soon, I would have called a rapid response for the simple reason that I HAD to have help and help just wasn't coming.

[Pattiecake]

I'd like to know who the great mastermind was that made the call bell, the TV remote and the bed controller all one unit!!!
If I had a nickle for the number of times I've answered an attempt at a TV channel change...or a bed adjustment, I'd be a rich woman today.

[RN2B78]

lol these are all very good haha makes me feel like I am right back at work!! i once had a gentleman ring his bell because he wanted to make sure it worked...and then I also had a lady that would hit the call light just to see how fast we could get to her talk about frustration

[CNAinNeb]

I had one resident put on her call light to tell me she couldn't reach her call light. What?

[chihoro]

some clever but trouble seeking patients will deliberately ring the call light and time you to see how fast you respond. if you are slower than what the facility administrator bragged to them(as the response time) about when they were admitted, then they read your name badge or ask for your name and go rat out on you and the rest of the floor nurses!!!hoping for a severe scolding/firing and or write up by the administrator/DON. True.

[flightnurse2b]

we had this 80 something demented gentleman come into the ER for abdominal pain one night. he hit the call light and as soon as i said "how may i help you?" he started screaming "NURRRRRSE NURRRRRSE IS THAT YOU? I NEED YOU" so im thinking ok this man is falling on the floor let me go check... so me and the nurse go in the room and hes sitting there in the knee chest position, gown wide open in the back with his toosh in the air and says "oh thank god! i need you to come over here and stick your finger in my *** and pull this terd out".

i about died.

[Jessiedog]

One of the funniest reasons a confused patient used her call bed was that she'd lost something. Not so unusual, but what she'd lost was a pig!! Honest-to-God, she thought she'd seen pig run under the next bed! So, down I go on my knees, thinking there might be some slippers or something that might have 'looked' like a pig. A colleague came into the room, and found me under the bed. Upon asking what I was doing, and my answer that I was looking for a pig, she fell over laughing. Pretty soon we were both crawling around on our hands and knees as we humoured our confused lady, calling out "Here, piggy piggy! Here piggy!!" It really turned into a 3-ring circus as the confused lady kept shouting directions to us, we crawled and called, and then the other patient in the room got into the act, yelling out "It went out the door! Quick, catch it!

[corpsman3]

My all time favorite is when they call you to unplug their IV machine so they can get up and to the restroom.