Re: Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????
First semester of nursing school: I'm on clinical in a med/surg unit with my pt who had some decent back surgery due to abscesses. I'm in there with the floor nurse and the resident comes in. My pt has been up walking the WHOLE hospital and states he'd really feel better if his foley could come out. "Sure," the doc replies, "we can take care of that right now." The nurse and I assume this means he'll give the order and we'll be taking it out as soon as he's done assessing the pt. But noooooooooo - not the case! Before we can even BLINK, the doc rounds the bed, pulls out bandage shears, cuts the tube and yanks!! No time for the balloon to deflate and I, quite literally, see my pt jump almost a foot off the bed. Pt replies, "Jeez that hurt! But it feels good to have it gone." The nurse immediately pulls me out of the room and with a straight face says, "You KNOW what's not the proper way to do that, right?" All I can do is nod yes. I've never seen anything quite so ridiculous.
Just recently, now that I'm a big-girl nurse on my own -

- we had a pt on our critical care intermediate unit refuse to wear his TED stockings among MANY other basic health measures. The resident comes to the floor and the pt's nurse tells him about how the pt is refusing just about everything, but he's a full code and blah blah blah. Basically, the pt is just being an @$$ to the nurses. This resident has a mixed reputation with the nurses. Some hate him and say he's arrogant, some (like myself) love the man. He's Latino, self assured, loud, and has very few problems saying what's on his mind. He goes into pt's room and, in no uncertain terms tells the main he's got 3 choices if he declines all these care measures: "1, you're going to die. 2, you're going to die. 3 - YOU'RE GOING TO DIE." The pt promptly shut up and started cooperating.

Hmmm... it was really much funnier to witness first hand lol.
And best dementia line EVER: crazy old lady comes into our unit. Like, UBER crazy. Constantly yelling out from her room, "Is everyone OK? Are you OK?" etc. Convo goes like this:
Patient: where's my body??
Nurse: *aggravated grunt* It's in the bed attached to your head!
Patient: Oh, ok.
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