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ok. we have a thread on the worst things we have ever seen as burn nurses. what about the most uncalled for, 'stupidest' reasons that a person has ever come in with a burn?

mine is alway the guy that came in working on his hotwater heat nekkid.

i am thinking...k... it is time for some utility work. better take my clothes off..

Specializes in BICU, ER, SICU.

An ex- con with psych issues, he took an iron and burned his eyes, ears and mouth. He lost both of his ears and had his eyelids sewn shut for months. He was actually one of the nicest patients on the unit!

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

Terribly sad ... the pretty yet depressed teenager who set herself a blaze over a boy in a failed suicide attempt. Now that she's alive and burnt over 60% of her body and trying to figure out how to deal with her scares for the rest of her life ... how depressed is she now???

Then, there's the Cup-o-Noodle burn epidemic!!! And guess what???? Our hospital serves Cup-o-Noodles as a snack to patients while they recover??? Unbelievable huh???

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Specializes in Plastic Surgery & Burns.

You gotta love the patients who were so inebriated and/or high when they got burned that they set unintentionally set themselves on fire, and then didn't know about it.

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I'm not a nurse, but we once had a drug seeker who had been cut off by so many doctors, she took matters into her own hands. She doused herself in lighter fluid and struck a match.

She died not long afterwards of something else - I cannot remember what, but it was not related to the burn, nor was it suicide.

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