What not to say / do while you are in the ER...

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If you come in to be treated for a STD, don't hit on the nurse

Had a situation yesterday that fits thread...again!!...

Ok...here's the scene...

VERY busy in the ER...of course!

18 patients in the main ED that has 14 beds...

6 patients in the fast track side...has 6 rooms

5 ER and 7 fast track patients waiting in Triage/Waiting area.

3 squads en route...1 with an unresponsive, 1 with a trauma with open fractures and 1 with a drunk-of course!

Got the picture?!!?

So out front is a 20-something girl who is pregnant...doesn't know how far along (is that important?!?)

She's been bleeding...

How much bleeding? Her response..."Who cares!! I'm bleeding!

Ok, so you got her PLEASANT attitude.

Mom is with her and is an OB nurse at another hospital in the area.

(WHY didn't they go there?!!?)

Mom is decent, so I think she didn't want her co-workers to see her LOVELY daughter!

Patient is PI$$ED off that she has to wait.

Very pi$$ed off.

Very LOUDLY pi$$ed off.

I was the charge nurse...as I go to bring back a little old lady who was syncopal just PTA and again in the waiting room...Happy-Girl begins shouting...

"I am fu@#ing bleeding outta my crotch...does anyone give a $#it here?"

Ummmmmm...

No.

By the way...she had pink tinged discharge...no bleeding. Poor baby.

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My Daughter ever behaved like that in any ER, would have been slapped

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My Daughter ever behaved like that in any ER, would have been slapped

Ahhhhhhh...

What a lovely thought...

Were it only possible anywhere but my mind!!!

But in my mind...she was slapped all around my triage room!!

:rotfl:

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My Daughter ever behaved like that in any ER, would have been slapped

You said it!! My kids act like that ANY WHERE and they're gonna catch it!!

Can't blame the mom for not going to HER hospital! Wouldn't want people I know to witness THAT!!

Congrats for your level of control!! Isn't the mind a lovely place -- where ANY THING is possible! :chuckle We have a nun here who tells us that she can read our minds -- "Be careful of your thoughts -- I can read your mind you know" I don't think so or Sister would stop talking to me all together!! ( Either that or slap my hand with a ruler and send me to detention)

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You said it!! My kids act like that ANY WHERE and they're gonna catch it!!

Can't blame the mom for not going to HER hospital! Wouldn't want people I know to witness THAT!!

Congrats for your level of control!! Isn't the mind a lovely place -- where ANY THING is possible! :chuckle We have a nun here who tells us that she can read our minds -- "Be careful of your thoughts -- I can read your mind you know" I don't think so or Sister would stop talking to me all together!! ( Either that or slap my hand with a ruler and send me to detention)

My daughter knows it would happen also

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So out front is a 20-something girl who is pregnant...doesn't know how far along (is that important?!?)

She's been bleeding...

How much bleeding? Her response..."Who cares!! I'm bleeding!

Ok, so you got her PLEASANT attitude.

Mom is with her and is an OB nurse at another hospital in the area.

(WHY didn't they go there?!!?)

Mom is decent, so I think she didn't want her co-workers to see her LOVELY daughter!

Patient is PI$$ED off that she has to wait.

Very pi$$ed off.

Very LOUDLY pi$$ed off.

I was the charge nurse...as I go to bring back a little old lady who was syncopal just PTA and again in the waiting room...Happy-Girl begins shouting...

"I am fu@#ing bleeding outta my crotch...does anyone give a $#it here?"

Ummmmmm...

No.

By the way...she had pink tinged discharge...no bleeding. Poor baby.

It's nice to see that my ex-girlfriend is out of jail and doing very well, thank you. :coollook:

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So out front is a 20-something girl who is pregnant...doesn't know how far along (is that important?!?)

She's been bleeding...

How much bleeding? Her response..."Who cares!! I'm bleeding!

Ok, so you got her PLEASANT attitude.

Mom is with her and is an OB nurse at another hospital in the area.

(WHY didn't they go there?!!?)

Mom is decent, so I think she didn't want her co-workers to see her LOVELY daughter!

Patient is PI$$ED off that she has to wait.

Very pi$$ed off.

Very LOUDLY pi$$ed off.

I was the charge nurse...as I go to bring back a little old lady who was syncopal just PTA and again in the waiting room...Happy-Girl begins shouting...

"I am fu@#ing bleeding outta my crotch...does anyone give a $#it here?"

Ummmmmm...

No.

By the way...she had pink tinged discharge...no bleeding. Poor baby.

It's nice to see that my ex-girlfriend is out of jail and doing very well, thank you. :coollook:

Yea...well could ya keep her out of my ER!!!??!!

:rolleyes:

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out of mine also

we get enough strange ones to

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had a 16 yo fem c/o HA and Hyperventilation

got labbed and CTed

when results back parents were still upset

Telling us to give them the bad news first

They could take it and they would tell her

Tears in their eyes, they were so scared

Wanted to tell them

Your Daughter has Acute Pneumoencephalopathy

I restrained myself

thought about it

but didnt do it

Finally told them there was absolutely nothing wrong with her, just anxiety over her bf leaving her

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Better yours than mine......

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How about this one.

DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM??? (usually screamed at the top of the lungs) .

Ahaaaaaaahh .............heard this one many many moons ago when I was working in the ER back home.

DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!!!!. This was a finance minister of the country.

I said........... yes , so?!!!!!!!!

I AM THE FINANCE MINSTRY OF THE CROWN??!!!!(yelling)

That got me clouded, ...........So whats the difference does that make you from these very very sick people we have, I will be seeing them first and you LAST!!!!!

I WILL REPORT YOU TO THE MEDICAL SUPRITENDENT!!!!!!!!! and he stapped his feet and left steaming.

Waited for the complains nothing came over.

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Heres one ...............many moons ago as well.

20- something carried by his 2 friends and G/F trotting behind.

Overdose, overdose (at the top of the voice for everyone to see that hes about to die).

Zoom in and put him on the OD bed.

Assessment done,

hello MR, check check ...vitals normal.........very conscious.

G/F Cried , he took 20 chloroquine tablets( antimalarial tablets) hes going to die, quick!!!!!

what time?

30 minutes ago....OMG ......must do something fast here.

Told his friends and G/F to go to the WR

And we're saying Mr we'll going to put this tube into your stomach to wash out the Chloroquine.

And then he shouted noooooooooooooooooo, we asked him again how many chloroquine did you took ( 8tabs can zapped you off) I only took 4 tablets of paracetamol..........I felt sorry for the liver.

Found out later...G/F had slept with his brother.

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