[merlie]

I used to work in a nrsg. home. I don't know why, everytime its raining hard, our hall way is like a big X'mas tree full of X'mas lights. I had a particular resident that will tell us to put some sand bags on the hallway 'coz the river will flow. The other one was cursing because he thought that somebody drove his truck away from his house. Some were just a hobby, pushing call light in their sleep. It was really disaster, but some way it's funny.

[hmcna]

Originally Posted by TDub

Perhaps soaking in ice water?

This reminds me.... not of a call light... but i work with some developmentally disabled kids.... and one boy made an allegation that a particular staff had bit hiim on his private area.

Well as the nurse, i needed to assess and ensure there was no injury.

this boy, makes false allegations all the time, but we still have to check them out....

So he came to my office, and with a staff as a witness i spooke to him and discussed his concern and his "injury" he insisted that it hurt badly.

I did examine it and there was no sign of injury, and i'd given him many chances to recant his story....

So, since he said it "HURT BADLY" I suggested that he hold ice on it for about 10 min on, and 10 min off for the rest of the evening.... at first he said no, that he didn't think that would be very good... and wanted to know if i 'd hold the ice.... for him, he's 14, i said no way....

Then he said he didn't want to put ice on it... but we discussed when you hurt an area putting ice on it is usually one of the first things to do....

I've never seen such a quick recanting of an allegation.... all the way to the point of saying that he had made the allegation because he wanted to see the staff get in trouble and or fired....

[celticqueen]

Originally Posted by RN06-NP09

You guys always crack me up, so I came up with this question to hear more funny weird stories.
What were some funny,stupied,or weird reasons patients push the call light for? Are you supposed to go to the room right away or how does it work? I will be an RN next year and intersted in knowing more about the actual daily life w/ pt.

I had a patient who rang the bell - to tell me they couldn't reach their bell!!!

[TDub]

Originally Posted by nrskris10

Once I answered a call light of a man who was on fluid restriction. I walked in. He asked me to PLEASE get him "a cup of that koolaid from the big jug on the wall".
The big jug being a red sharps container. Poor guy.

~Kristen

Oh, the poor guy---thirsty AND delusional.

[bemory]

I had a patient call me in the room because she swore her telemetry box was attacking her. she said I felt it grip my throat and I had to fight it.

One nurse answered a call light and asked the patient while in the room if he moved his bowels. the patients said "hell no, i **it my pants"

[mstigerlily]

40 y/o first time mom who had a c-section - took care of her 2 nights in a row. It was 6am and I told her I was going off shift and enjoyed taking care of her she asked if I could show her how to change the baby's diaper since she had "never done it before"!!!

I guess I and the other nurses (or the dad) had done all the diaper changing but jeez this woman was a CPA. Diaper changing is pretty tame stuff compared to that I would think.

Melissa

Originally Posted by RN06-NP09

You guys always crack me up, so I came up with this question to hear more funny weird stories.
What were some funny,stupied,or weird reasons patients push the call light for? Are you supposed to go to the room right away or how does it work? I will be an RN next year and intersted in knowing more about the actual daily life w/ pt.

[Cute_CNA]

Originally Posted by bemory

One nurse answered a call light and asked the patient while in the room if he moved his bowels. the patients said "hell no, i **it my pants"

[Spatialized]

The other day I got report about an older gentleman, who got a little confused at night. The first night the staff found him butt naked walking out the doors of the unit, bleeding, with no leads or IV on. Reoriented him, no problems. Second night he walks out of the room towards the nurses station and asks the nurse, "Can you please close the door to my room?" after he had walked right past it...at least he didn't ask anyone to wipe anything.

Cheers,
Tom

[Audreyfay]

One of the hospitals I used to work at, received a bomb threat, which was called into the Operator. The Operator was suspicious because #1 It was an internal call, #2 She could hear an IV pump beeping in the background.

It turned out the patient hadn't gotten his lunch yet and was angry!

[NorthernRose]

Originally Posted by NancyJo

Read this one to my husband, who said that must be a joke. People not in nursing haven't got a clue. Says he couldn't imagine someone actually doing this. Told him this is just another day in the life of a nurse. Has a whole new respect for all of us now.

Had a 32y.o man a while back who walked the halls, went down to smoke and who called to say he needed his butt wiped. Said mama did it at home, we told him he needed to do what he could for himself, but sure enough when mama came in she bathed, wiped him and waited on him hand and foot. Was on the call light constantly until she got there to remind us what we were getting paid for. In the room next to his had a 20y.o who came in for a asthma, was doing much better no signs of resp distress and was awaiting discharge that afternoon. Called wanted a bed bath and fed his breakfast. Now this kid was up moving around too, reminded that he was going home and told him he would be need to be doing these himself when he gets home.
Wrong! mama came in bathed and asctually fed this young man his breakfast.
Good grief

Glad I'm not these two guys momma!! Bet they donn't have wives!! lol The day either of my grown kids thinks I'm going to feed/bathe/wipe their tushes is the day I turn green with purple stripes!!

I've worked LTC for 14 years....am amazed that its always the patients that are farthest from the nursing desk that have the worst cases of callbellringingitis!!!
I've gotten alot of "I need the bedpan" and when I tell the pt. you just had it 2 minutes ago and they say "Oh i forgot" then roll over and go back to sleep. Or, someone will put their light on, go to answer it, they didnt want anything. Get back to the desk, their light is back on, back down the hall..."Well, since you woke me up I need a pain pill/bedpan/drink."

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)