We are all supposed to love our jobs and most of us do! But we are all supposed to over look just danged annoying behaviors.
My pet peeve, I do not care for drama patients. You walk out in the hall and they are laughing and having fun with a visitor, they take one look at YOU looking at them and they are hanging on to the walls to help them walk and moaning in pain. I sometimes think my mere presence causes them harm... ;o)
Me: "Great! Your temp is normal!" Patient: "Oh, if it is normal I am SICK! My usual is 72(F).
Me: "Great! Your b/p is 120/70!" Patient: "Oh, if it is normal I am SICK! My usual is 50/10."
Patient (being discharged to police custody after refusing admission for detox): "Can I have my wallet back?"
**Security guard brings wallet with inventory sheet**
Patient (getting hostile) to me: "I had 300 dollars in here! One of you @#$%^ stole it!"
Me "Well, the security guard and I inventoried your wallet upon your arrival to the ED after EMS found you passed out in your car at Waffle House with enough Heroin in your possession to kill a baby moose. It's likely that's where your money went since it was empty when we went through it."
The "I had laparoscopic surgery today. Why I am hurting?" patient. You had SURGERY. They CUT you and jiggled around with your organs.
The "oh one more thing" patient. Tissues, blanket, comb...more socks, orange juice, blanket
The "I didn't sleep at all, it was a horrible night" patient during bedside report. Wow when I made rounds everything was fine and you declined all the prns I offered but ok.
The "Fine until family comes in drama patient" -- You have visitors and SUDDENLY you can no longer pick up a cup of water from the bedside table, need someone to raise or lower head of bed, pain has gone from 3 to 10 and you're nauseated...hmmmm
Specializes in Oncology/StemCell Transplant; Psychiatry.
When I worked in LTC, I always joked that's some of my residents. didn't know how to yell any other word down the hall besides "HELP!!!!!!" It was always the same residents, AAOx4. I'd be at the other end of the hall passing meds, and I'd hear someone yell "Help! HELP!!!!!" Of course I'd come sprinting down the hall to their room. "What's wrong, Mr. So-and-so?" And he'd say, "I dropped my cell phone," or "The TV isn't loud enough."
Oh come on! Don't you ever need to let off a little steam?
Don't tell me you've NEVER had a patient that seriously annoyed you because I simply wouldn't believe you.
We're all human, patients and nurses. Humans can be very annoying to each other.
I am pretty sure you can believe her. She has never had a patient that has seriously annoyed her. Or one that interested her, or challenged her, or .....
Gooch, correct me if I m wrong, but pretty sure The Gooch has nurses, not patients.
The patient that tells the family that the nurses have completely ignored him/her. No one will change their bandages, or offer to bathe them. This after four nurses spent time in the room, together, to get the dressings changed and bathe the patient!
Specializes in Infection Prevention, Public Health.
We had a health care clinic at a homeless shelter. For reasons I will never understand we had patients who would defecate in the toilet tank-- not the bowl. They called it "doing a double decker". Then the next poor soul would use the toilet and flush and a fountain of feces laden water would descend into the bowl.
However, we had some guys who would sneak bottles of booze into the shelter and guess where they would hide it? Yup, in the toilet tank. That's why you see a lot of tankless toilets in public facilities.
Specializes in M/S, Pulmonary, Travel, Homecare, Psych..
We had a health care clinic at a homeless shelter. For reasons I will never understand we had patients who would defecate in the toilet tank-- not the bowl. They called it "doing a double decker". Then the next poor soul would use the toilet and flush and a fountain of feces laden water would descend into the bowl.
However, we had some guys who would sneak bottles of booze into the shelter and guess where they would hide it? Yup, in the toilet tank. That's why you see a lot of tankless toilets in public facilities.
Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.
Personally, I rate kidney stone pain as a 10. Unmedicated childbirth was an 8. I have a high pain threshold...during my recent percutaneous nephrolithotripsy, my discomfort never went over a 5 but the nurses were medicating me at 3 or above because they knew I really did need it. I guess I can be annoying in that I try not to bother them, because I know how hard they work and if there is something I can do myself, I'll do it even though it may not be the best idea (like getting OOB with a B/P of 98/60 when my norm is 130s/70s).
Specializes in Infection Prevention, Public Health.
Ummmm......
Yuck
Yeah, I am a virtual encyclopedia of the most disgusting things that can be done in homeless shelters, tribal jails, cars, trash cans and a lot of other "low brow" types of places. Gotta tell you that I love population-specific nursing
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ScrappytheCoco
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Patient (being discharged to police custody after refusing admission for detox): "Can I have my wallet back?"
**Security guard brings wallet with inventory sheet**
Patient (getting hostile) to me: "I had 300 dollars in here! One of you @#$%^ stole it!"
Me "Well, the security guard and I inventoried your wallet upon your arrival to the ED after EMS found you passed out in your car at Waffle House with enough Heroin in your possession to kill a baby moose. It's likely that's where your money went since it was empty when we went through it."
Patient "Oh...well that makes sense."