Diagnoses you never thought you'd see?

[KarafromPhilly]

What's the most unusual patient you've ever had? I've had a couple--one was a woman whose admit orders included that she was NOT to have any food from home. They suspected that her husband was POISONING her.

The other was a woman who was a former LPN with a textbook case of Munchausen's syndrome. There was really nothing wrong with her but she kept insisting (moaning, actually) that she was SO sick. Very weird.

[carolmaccas66, BSN, RN]

Did the men develop dementia too? There was once a time when this was the most common reason for admission to mental institutions.

I'm pretty sure this lady's hubby was deceased but from what I don't know - it was a looong time ago!

Interesting info you contributed though, I didn't know that.

[carolmaccas66, BSN, RN]

A middle aged woman with no co-morbidities, who was a psych nurse at this particular hospital admitted for renal failure- cause?

Severe infection caused by :

1. Sucide attempt in which she stabbed herself repeatedly in the abdomen and then.....

2. Stuck a spoon in her rectum to obtain fecal matter, which she then stuck in the wounds

Wow! She was a psych nurse? Not being flippant but did the patients or the job send her a bit loopy maybe?

[elizabeth8503RN, MSN, EMT-B, NP]

Male breast cancer is a disease that very few people realize exists, but there have been cases under my care and I personally know a man who had it.

My late grandpa (he died in October) had both of his breasts removed for possible breast cancer. Turns out they were just benign tumors."

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

26 week neonate with Potter's Syndrome.

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

Male breast cancer is a disease that very few people realize exists, but there have been cases under my care and I personally know a man who had it.

A former supervisor of mine at the dept of corrections died of breast cancer just a few months after he retired.

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

During my pedi rotation, one of my patients had Trisomy 13. .

We recently lost a beautiful little girl in my NICU who had Trisomy 13. I cuddled her for several hours (she was DNR, thank God) until my shift ended, while she satted in the 20s. My shift ended and she died about an hour after I went home. :/

[nursel56]

2 week old infant with Ritter Syndrome. (symptoms are red, scaling desquamating skin like a burn that never gets better).

Infants conjoined at the head.

Bullous pemphigus.

As a TA I helped take care of a baby (1 month old) born with brain stem only. The Nurses told me it was caused by an STD the father had, mom knew nothing about it & we were told not to tell her. Very sad

I took care of a baby like that, too. He wasn't anencephalic, though. They did an old-school exam called transillumination, seeing only the brain stem. It was odd, because he had a suck reflex, and lived longer than predicted, even though NPO. I had the eerie feeling of a personality in there.

[carolmaccas66, BSN, RN]

26 week neonate with Potter's Syndrome.

Forgive the ignorance but I am not a paeds/child nurse - what is Potter's Syndrome?

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

Forgive the ignorance but I am not a paeds/child nurse - what is Potter's Syndrome?

Potters Syndrome is the term used to describe the total absence or malformation of infant kidneys.

Potter sequence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[ro2se]

My patient was 58 y.o. and he had a penile fracture. I have to do a care plan on it and I am still thinking what nursing diagnosis to use.

[*4!#6]

I have had not one but two patients with necrotizing facitis (sp?). I never realized that this was so common, or maybe I'm just "lucky" (if that's the word).

[lindseylpn]

Flesh eating bacteria, cat scratch fever