Auctioneer/Baseball Announcer Nurse

[Davey Do]

The geriatric psych unit is "Filled to the Gills with Mentally Ills". Due to patients acting out psychotically requiring PRN injections, patients with dementia, comorbidity, or on forced meds, the med pass takes well over two hours, even though I set up as many as I can beforehand.

Then, in the middle of it all, a loud, obnoxious, profane, entitled, high maintenanced, sporadically med compliant patient who refused some meds after they were scanned wheeled up the med room window and demanded, "Gimme my Narco!" I said, "I'm sorry, sir. The only pain medication available to you is Tylenol".

He glared at me and said nothing.

I asked him,"Do you want the Tylenol?"

He continued to just glare at me.

I become an Auctioneer/Baseball Announcer Nurse!

[Davey Do]

The loud, obnoxious, profane, entitled, high maintenanced, sporadically med compliant patient who I had been auctioneer/baseball announcer nurse with would yell "NURSE! NURSE!" to any female who walked past his room. For me he yelled, "DOCTOR! DOCTOR!"

"I am a nurse", I would say, "How may I help you?"

A patient's toilet was stopped up, maintenance was summoned, and after dealing with the toilet, the maintenance man walked past the aforementioned patient's room with plunger in hand.

"DOCTOR! DOCTOR!" the patient yelled, then paused, probably remembering that sometimes nurses are male, and yelled, "NURSE! NURSE!"

"He's not a doctor or a nurse," I said, "He's a plumber".

The patient yelled, "PLUMBER! PLUMBER!"

Well, it was funny at the time.

My only wish is that the maintenance man had been "the lady with the alligator purse".

[Daisy4RN]

11 hours ago, Davey Do said:

I become an Auctioneer/Baseball Announcer Nurse!

Yep, done that too. Only I would usually get a "well then call the doctor" because I don't want Tylenol I want Norco". And, of course the customer (oops I mean patient) is always right.

[Davey Do]

18 hours ago, Daisy4RN said:

I would usually get a "well then call the doctor" because I don't want Tylenol I want Norco". And, of course the customer (oops I mean patient) is always right.