Ok, do you guys remember the patient I had who crushed her percocet and pushed it thru her port-a-cath and occluded it? If not, here is a copy of the thread...
Well, she is back and with a vengeance! First thing as Im coming onto my shift, she rings the callbell 3 TIMES before I am able to get to her room...wanting pain medicine. She is a nurse who lost her license due to narcotic abuse. She knew it was change of shift, and as a fellow nurse she should have known not to act that way. We, as nurses, know not to act that way because we know and understand how shift change is hectic. :grn:Well later, she claimed she had a seizure. I walked into her room and she was awake, alert, watching tv, no signs of any seizure activity at all. She claimed she did though. :icon_roll She also claimed she had been vomitting, but keeps forgetting to save it...flushes it everytime. She claims there is blood in her urine, but refuses to show us any of her urine. She refused to give a urine sample in the ER until they threatened her with an I/O cath to obtain a sample..then all of a sudden she could pee...no blood in it by the way. All this after chasing my orifice taking her Dilaudid IV and Phenergan IV all day around the clock. :smackingf Well, I didnt call the doc when she claimed to have had a seizure...what exactly would I tell him? She was fine, had just painted her toenails and asked me if I liked the color, she had eaten a ton and drank a ton of pop, chocolate milk, etc. But yet she needed her Phenergan. grrrr. Well, anyway, when the doc comes to the floor he is upset with me that I hadnt called over her "seizure" and I assured him that I had seen NO seizure activity. So he ordered an EEG stat. Of course it showed nothing. She even told me it would show nothing.."it never shows anything." Then to top it all off, I go into her room and she has picked the dressing off her port and as Im re-dressing it and adding IV extension tubing, she starts fluttering her eyes, she wont answer me for about 10 seconds, and then looks at me and says "what are you waiting for". I took her vitals, all WNL, made dang sure that I called the doc. He comes to see her. She tells the doc that I told her she had a seizure, I said NO SUCH THING. He assessed her, tells me she is crazy and leaves. I felt like :selfbonk: by the end of the shift. I ran out of that place as fast as I could. Its people like that who make me HATE my job.
First thing as Im coming onto my shift, she rings the callbell 3 TIMES before I am able to get to her room...wanting pain medicine. She is a nurse who lost her license due to narcotic abuse. She knew it was change of shift, and as a fellow nurse she should have known not to act that way. We, as nurses, know not to act that way because we know and understand how shift change is hectic. :grn:Well later, she claimed she had a seizure. I walked into her room and she was awake, alert, watching tv, no signs of any seizure activity at all. She claimed she did though. :icon_roll She also claimed she had been vomitting, but keeps forgetting to save it...flushes it everytime. She claims there is blood in her urine, but refuses to show us any of her urine. She refused to give a urine sample in the ER until they threatened her with an I/O cath to obtain a sample..then all of a sudden she could pee...no blood in it by the way. All this after chasing my orifice taking her Dilaudid IV and Phenergan IV all day around the clock. :smackingf Well, I didnt call the doc when she claimed to have had a seizure...what exactly would I tell him? She was fine, had just painted her toenails and asked me if I liked the color, she had eaten a ton and drank a ton of pop, chocolate milk, etc. But yet she needed her Phenergan. grrrr. Well, anyway, when the doc comes to the floor he is upset with me that I hadnt called over her "seizure" and I assured him that I had seen NO seizure activity. So he ordered an EEG stat. Of course it showed nothing. She even told me it would show nothing.."it never shows anything." Then to top it all off, I go into her room and she has picked the dressing off her port and as Im re-dressing it and adding IV extension tubing, she starts fluttering her eyes, she wont answer me for about 10 seconds, and then looks at me and says "what are you waiting for". I took her vitals, all WNL, made dang sure that I called the doc. He comes to see her. She tells the doc that I told her she had a seizure, I said NO SUCH THING. He assessed her, tells me she is crazy and leaves. I felt like :selfbonk: by the end of the shift. I ran out of that place as fast as I could. Its people like that who make me HATE my job.