Originally Posted by Gromit Had a guy who was up there in age, who woke up screaming and cussing, several of us converged on his room, he was rolled onto his side, tugging HARD on his foley catheter, yelling "I can't get my penis out of this hose!"
While not a call light story, this reminded me of one of our old fellas who was deaf as a post, severely demented and ambulatory, albeit slowly.
It took this poor guy 15-20 minutes to ambulate up the hall to the nurses station, 12-20 times a night. When he got to the station he always asked the same question, "When's breakfast?" After trying to tell him without waking the entire unit he would walk back to his room. You can imagine that two trips an hour left him little time for sleep. Finally, instead of yelling, I made signs to cover his question and direction back to bed. Also, if the CNA or I stopped him in the hallway to answer his question, he would still continue to the nurses station to ask his question.
One night he got quite sick and was transported to the hospital. The nurses there were on the phone with me in short order asking what to do about his ambulating and wanting to know when breakfast was. I explained that this was typical nighttime behavior and since he was sensitive to sedatives and anxiety meds the docs preferred not to have him on anything on a PRN basis, at least in my setting. I got one more phone call...towards shift change the RN called me, in high hysterics and told me the latest...
Our guy had pulled out his foley, balloon intact, draped it over his arm and walked out to the nurses station, where they expected him to ask what it was, why did he have it...but his only concern was..."When's breakfast?"
He was shipped back to us quickly.
allergic reaction!
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