You know it is going to be the admission from hell when.....

[deespoohbear]

You know it is going to be the admission from hell when....

1) Pt arrives and hands you a 4 page typed document that lists medications on page 1, allergies on page 2, diseases on page 3, and surgeries on page 4....(and the pages were filled from top to bottom with info)

2) The family arrives en masse and they haven't bathed in a coon's age.....

3) The POA tells you that they want their 95 y/o relative who has lived the past 15 years in a nursing home to be a full code. Never mind that the patient has Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, paralyzed on one side, ejection fraction of 10%, and so on and so on....they still want everything done to "save" the patient.....

4) The patient who has had several anti-emetics in the ER is still projectile vomiting as they are rolled off the elevator.....

I know there are others.....

[l.rae]

Originally posted by deespoohbear

Love it!!!! I bet you have had Jesus, too!!

he's a regular.... :chuckle

[deespoohbear]

I also have met Elvis and Satan...... :roll

[hapeewendy]

we had jesus ,god and the queen one week!

and I work med-surg haha

loving this thread

not loving the truth held within it though, sadly so much of that is reality

nice that we can chuckle at it when were not goin thru it haha

in my opinion there are no worse words than "pleasantly confused" in report

cuz you know that its gonna mean jumping out of the bed, pulling out the IV tearing out the foley, unable to reorient once they get to the floor :)

[Jenny P]

It's the admission from hell when they come up from ED on a bedpan stooling and vomiting charcoal; are on suicide precautions and "hate" the gender of the nurse they are assigned to and can't stand the other choice either.

[Flo1216]

How about when you are the CNA assigned to sit with the pt on suicide precautions and the nurse says, " Make sure you sit by the door so you can be prepared to run,"

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

When they are busted up in an MVA. Home meds include vicodin, soma, neurontin, valium, clonidine, ativan and haldol. Allergies include haldol and demorol.

The doc orders one percocet q6h prn. That's it.

[hapeewendy]

I'm rather fond of the following admissions

"failure to thrive" "placement issues" "fatigue nyd" "falls"

yeah and ?????????????

what kind of medsurg miracle do you want me to pull from my hat to help cure that?

[DIPLOMATICRN4HIRE, MSN, RN]

An hour before your shift ends you get a stranger walk up to the desk and order "cokes and sodas" for the room which you knew was empty and you look in and there is a the Swiss family Robinson sitting in there with 6 kids running around and a bucket of chicken, "Waiting on Grandma " to arrive.

Zoe

[canoehead, BSN, RN]

Zoe, you aren't seriously expected to wait on them like that, are you? I'd be giving them directions to the vending machines- "help yourselves"

[bagladyrn, RN]

Regarding the psych pts. - I once had Ronald Reagan, Earl Weaver (the Balto. Orioles manager) and an astronaut - and they were ALL the same guy!

[hapeewendy]

wow , impressive! hehe

you know its gonna be a bad admission when ..........

your patient has already moved into the perpetual light....

nothin worse than that!!!!!

[Q.]

Originally posted by Jenny P

It's the admission from hell when they come up from ED on a bedpan stooling and vomiting charcoal; are on suicide precautions and "hate" the gender of the nurse they are assigned to and can't stand the other choice either.

What the......?