Patients hitting on nurses

billyboblewis · Jul 19, 2012

Once again, I have been working forever and have had numeorous advances made to me by patients. And you know that getting invloved with a patient is the best way to have your license revoked for life as it is against the rules. This also includes the patients families, etc. If you read the journals and state board disciplinary list you will see what happens to these people. I have read where some people felt their romance was more important than their license and actually married their patients. The other problem is relationships with co employees. The results are not much bette even if they are more legal. All of this happens because we are all human and have a basic sexuality and desires. You have to choose to put thoughts about unwise sexual and romantic ideas out of your head immediately or you are headed for misery. That is how all these crimes you read about started..in someones head who chose to let them play out.

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Jul 19, 2012

i had a friend who met her husband-to-be when he came into our icu to visit his uncle. she wouldn't date him for about six months but after that decided that if he was still interested she might as well. they've been married for more than 30 years now.

many, many years ago i had a patient, a very sweet guy with a lousy condition (throwing clots to his spinal perforator arteries, with variable, spontaneous, and unpredictable paralysis coming and going, mostly staying, though). he was a little older than i, in his early forties, i think. we had an easy-going pleasant professional relationship but of course i knew it was completely impossible to even think about a relationship other than nurse-patient, and that only while he was in our unit. but that means, of course, that i did think about it, because he was my type of guy in many ways and i was attracted to him.

the day he left for rehab, while he was almost out the door he gently took my hand and said something like, "i wish we had met under other circumstances." i stopped what i was doing, smiled, and said, "me, too." i gave him a quick peck on the forehead, as you might a child for comfort, and out he went, and i never heard about him again. and hardly ever thought about him until this minute.

IsmeAmanda, LPN · Jul 19, 2012

Once a lesbian elderly patient flirted with me.

It was pretttttttty weird man :eek:

AgentBeast, BSN, RN · Jul 19, 2012

During my Peds rotation they had one of the Family Life folks dress up as the Batman to go and visit the kids.

Wild Irish LPN, LPN · Jul 19, 2012

During my Peds rotation they had one of the Family Life folks dress up as the Batman to go and visit the kids.

Lol...I am going to start calling you "Mr. Random"....

bear14 · Jul 19, 2012

I'm a student nurse and with my first patient as I was leaving the room I asked if I could get him anything else and he said, "Oh I dont know...sex?" I just laughed and walked out. His son apologized and said his father was just like that. I'm pretty sure the father was joking but it made for an interesting day.

pkateRN · Jul 20, 2012

Once, when I was in nursing school, I was shadowing the wound nurse for the day. The first wound-vac dressing change I was to do was on a man's scrotum. When he asked who would be doing the dressing change, and I said I was, he promptly opened his legs spread eagle and said "boy am I lucky!" ...this man also had a large, naked woman tattoo on his arm. creeper.

Kdids520 · Jul 20, 2012

As a nursing student, we were doing our clinical rotation in a nursing home. We were told to do AM care for our patients and help them get up and dressed for the day. I was assigned to an elderly man who was talkative and pleasant. I gave him a bed bath and the entire time, he kept saying, "Oh, that feels nice. Yes. That feels good. Mmm Hmm. You're doing a great job." I thought nothing of it, finished up with him and then was standing near the nurses station with a classmate talking about our mornings. I said "I just finished giving my patient a bed bath and brought him to the day room..." The nurse working there said, "Who do you have?? I thought you had Kevin in 104B??" I told her that I did have him...her response? "You just got played, honey. That old bastard walks himself to the shower every morning."

CNAwhowantshisRN · Jul 20, 2012

As a nursing student, we were doing our clinical rotation in a nursing home. We were told to do AM care for our patients and help them get up and dressed for the day. I was assigned to an elderly man who was talkative and pleasant. I gave him a bed bath and the entire time, he kept saying, "Oh, that feels nice. Yes. That feels good. Mmm Hmm. You're doing a great job." I thought nothing of it, finished up with him and then was standing near the nurses station with a classmate talking about our mornings. I said "I just finished giving my patient a bed bath and brought him to the day room..." The nurse working there said, "Who do you have?? I thought you had Kevin in 104B??" I told her that I did have him...her response? "You just got played, honey. That old bastard walks himself to the shower every morning."

That's 2 funny!

RURN2O11 · Jul 20, 2012

I once cared for this pt who was in his late 50's or 60's and had a new diagnosis of CHF. He was quite large & with his beard he really looked like Santa Claus. At the very end of my shift he was telling me how frustrated he was that "we couldn't figure out what was wrong w/ him." I gently started explaining about CHF & how it doesn't really go away but can be managed w/ meds, lifestyle & dietary changes, etc. He listened for a few minutes & then said "Well, honey, I think all I really need is 3 wild women & a bottle of whiskey." I couldn't help but laugh b/c I found it so hilarious.

Not surprisingly, several months later this same pt was admitted again for CHF. After I'd been in & out of his room several times he apparently remembered me from the previous admission b/c he started apologizing for having said something rude to me the last time he saw me. At first I had no clue what he was talking about b/c he looked familiar but I just couldn't place him. After a few minutes I figured it out & told him there was no need to apologize b/c he had given me a great laugh at the end of my shift.

DizzyLizzyNurse · Jul 20, 2012

As a nursing student, we were doing our clinical rotation in a nursing home. We were told to do AM care for our patients and help them get up and dressed for the day. I was assigned to an elderly man who was talkative and pleasant. I gave him a bed bath and the entire time, he kept saying, "Oh, that feels nice. Yes. That feels good. Mmm Hmm. You're doing a great job." I thought nothing of it, finished up with him and then was standing near the nurses station with a classmate talking about our mornings. I said "I just finished giving my patient a bed bath and brought him to the day room..." The nurse working there said, "Who do you have?? I thought you had Kevin in 104B??" I told her that I did have him...her response? "You just got played, honey. That old bastard walks himself to the shower every morning."

I used to work as a CNA in a nursing home. I had a guy who would purposely **** himself and then say really creepily, "Now you have to wash me and touch it." It worked with the other aides who were too scared to do what I would do, which was hand him a basin with water and some soap and washcloths and tell him I knew he was perfectly capable of washing himself. I'd be back when he was done haha.

hecallsmeDuchess · Jul 21, 2012

The last guy I took care of was an elderly man who asked if he could get in my pants (his words)...I laughed out loud because it came out of the blue and totally took me by surprise. When he persisted, I let him know he was being inappropriate but he said he didn't understand why I would call him inappropriate.