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  #1031  
Old Jul 05, 2008, 03:10 PM
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Re: Things patients have taught me NOT to do...

Originally Posted by lupin View Post
Don't shoot up tessalon perls (really bad outcome).
The kind of person who would attempt that is probably the kid that smoked everything in the kitchen to try to get high-and every thing that grew in the yard.....How sad to be so desperate to escape reality that you would do something so boneheaded...

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Old Jul 05, 2008, 07:57 PM
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Re: Things patients have taught me NOT to do...

Originally Posted by ktwlpn View Post
The kind of person who would attempt that is probably the kid that smoked everything in the kitchen to try to get high-and every thing that grew in the yard.....How sad to be so desperate to escape reality that you would do something so boneheaded...
Exactly. Like the patient we had S/P Shoulder Hemiarthoplasty, getting 3mg Dilaudid (I wanna say q2h), with an On-Q Pump, who I found shooting up in the bathroom...

We searched his room and he had about four of our IV start kits, and three 20g IV caths in his suitcase...from our clean utility room. Somehow he figured out the code to get into our supply room.

It's very sad.

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  #1033  
Old Jul 05, 2008, 08:10 PM
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Re: Things patients have taught me NOT to do...

Oh, I'm reluctant to share this one, but...

Never prostitute yourself out to homeless folks, and definitely don't let them stick their penis in your colostomy.

No matter how I try to forget that one...

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Old Jul 05, 2008, 10:53 PM
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Re: Things patients have taught me NOT to do...

Originally Posted by JaredCNA View Post
Exactly. Like the patient we had S/P Shoulder Hemiarthoplasty, getting 3mg Dilaudid (I wanna say q2h), with an On-Q Pump, who I found shooting up in the bathroom...

We searched his room and he had about four of our IV start kits, and three 20g IV caths in his suitcase...from our clean utility room. Somehow he figured out the code to get into our supply room.

It's very sad.
Had a "friend" working on the floor, maybe?

Did anyone catch him in the utility room?

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Old Jul 06, 2008, 12:01 AM
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Re: Things patients have taught me NOT to do...

Never masturbate with your moms eyebrow pencil in your urethra - 16 y/o had to go to surgery to have it removed.

Never try to masturbate using a pepsi bottle, this elderly getleman got his penis stuck

Never put a light bulb in your rectum

If you come in pregnant, PLEASE DON'T TELL US YOUR A VIRGIN, we really won't believe you.

When we ask you if your sexually active, we want to know if your currently engaging in sexual behavior - we don't need the response "no, usually I just lie there." Hard to keep a straight face on that one.

When your 4 week old infant has a skull fx, don't tell me it's because you bumped his head on the carseat while getting him out.

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Old Jul 06, 2008, 12:09 AM
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Re: Things patients have taught me NOT to do...

Originally Posted by JaredCNA View Post
Never let your s/o place a cucumber in your rectum during sex.

I kid you not. We once got a post-op cucumber removal surgery at 3am. A 44-year-old male whose wife said she "did it to him all the time with no problems."


You know i would wonder about my "husband" if he allowed me to stick things up his butt for sexual gratification

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Old Jul 07, 2008, 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by nursebabygirl 08 View Post
never wake up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom to put on chapstick in the dark...it might be preparation -H
Unless, you are using as a anti-wrinkle night cream, than knock yourself out. It actually does work on wrinkles! Just DON'T get it in your eyes.

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Old Jul 08, 2008, 08:10 PM
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Re: Things patients have taught me NOT to do...

Originally Posted by rph3664 View Post
Had a "friend" working on the floor, maybe?

Did anyone catch him in the utility room?
No, no one saw him go in there. He didn't have a friend working on the floor.

It's still confusing to me. The only thing I could think is that someone was trying to start an IV on him and left the supplies in there when they couldn't get it. They probably called ER or the supervisor to start it and they never came. I don't know.

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Old Jul 08, 2008, 09:19 PM
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Re: Things patients have taught me NOT to do...

Never get up out of bed with a femoral arterial line (which you've disconnected at the stopcock), walk into the patient room next door and masturbate in front of the nice little old lady in the CCU for an MI. If you ARE stupid enough to do the above, don't insist upon fighting with the nice security guards who come to remove you from the little old lady's room. If you MUST fight with the security guards, it really isn't fair for you to turn the stopcock on your arterial line so that you can spray them with your HIV+ blood. If you insist upon doing that, you really can't complain when one of the guards accidentally breaks your nose and blackens both eyes in the tussel after he slipped in the growing pool of blood and head-butted you as he fell. And after all of the above, the Security Guards won't look kindly upon your threat to sue them for violating your civil right to sexual expression! (Happened in the early 80s, and I still laugh when I think about it!)

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Old Jul 09, 2008, 09:51 PM
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Re: Things patients have taught me NOT to do...

Originally Posted by Sisukas View Post
Don't assume that not having a bowel movement for 4 weeks is a normal part of pregnancy.
OMG! You HAVE to be kidding me? As if there's not enough abdominal pressure with the pregnancy alone!

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