Funny Sign In Slips

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Some ER's have patients who walk in to triage fill out a triage slip with name and chief complaint. they are always interesting due to misspellings and funny things that people write. care to share some funny ones with us?

ill go first, one girl wrote as her symptoms...."east infection"

We don't have sign in slips but a triage nurse once used "broken heart" as a triage diagnosis.

Turns out the guy's girlfirend had just broken up with him.

Devastating...

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"I have a sist in virginia." :eek:

I thought..........well, I have a sister in Nebraska, but I don't go to the ER for that! :rotfl:

(Had a lady partsl cyst) :chuckle

:lol2: :lol2:

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My ex used to work in a hospital taking down complaints as people walk into the ER. He had 2 Mexican men come up to him. When he asked one man what was wrong, the poor guy said in a very think accent, "izzzz dripping", meaning his member was dripping, probably an STD. My ex asked the other guy what was wrong with him, and he said "izzz dripping too". Poor guys!

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Specializes in med-surg,dementia care, management, VA.

No from the ER, but an elderly woman called on a Saturday at my LTC telling me her husband had "Oldtimer's", so he needed to come to the nursing home. along the same lines, we live in a rural area, and many of the CNAs know each other and get their friends/family members to come work there. It is a long standing joke to go up to one of the CNA trainees with a worried look and tell them "Go tell Sue (the RN CNA instructor) we need some Fallopian tubes on Unit 2!" It sounds mean but every one is so good hearted that the one who has it pulled on them is usually the one doing the next time to the "newbie".:rolleyes:

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These are all awesome!!! I can't stop laughing!!

Thanks,

Laura aka nursewannbe:lol2: :roll

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Had a 14 year female "needed a cat smear". She meant "pap smear"! Makes sense to me!:chuckle

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My ex used to be a paramedic in Oakland and told me he would respond on one frequent flyer whose older female relative would run out yelling, "He's havin' a eucalyptic see-jur!"

(epileptic seizure)

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Specializes in ER.
i have a question for all of our "english critics".........has anyone here ever taken a day out of your precious year to volunteer for project literacy to help these people?

it's a joke

do ya get it?

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No from the ER, but an elderly woman called on a Saturday at my LTC telling me her husband had "Oldtimer's", so he needed to come to the nursing home. along the same lines, we live in a rural area, and many of the CNAs know each other and get their friends/family members to come work there. It is a long standing joke to go up to one of the CNA trainees with a worried look and tell them "Go tell Sue (the RN CNA instructor) we need some Fallopian tubes on Unit 2!" It sounds mean but every one is so good hearted that the one who has it pulled on them is usually the one doing the next time to the "newbie".:rolleyes:

On another note:

My son was in the Armed Services. (I can't say which one lol) and he told a PFC to go ask the CO for an ID 10T form.... Get it ::: IDIOT.. And the PFC ran all over the place for one..LOLL

When I worked in a walk in clinic the secretary was not a medical person. So when a patient came in c/o'ing of something in her eyes the sec just wrote eyes on the intake form.

I brought the young lady back ( BTW she was a nursing student no offense intended please) and she said she had "these bugs in her eye lashes".. CRABS... She said "MY mother is a nurse and she says they are CRABS. Honestly, the only thing I sleep with is my cat" I had the heart to tell her then your cat has CRABS.. She was getting ready to open a prescription bottle full of them and I stopped that quickly.

Our doc did open the bottle slightly, poured alcohol in there and put one under the microscope for us to look at...EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

"pressed and pukin"

she meant... depressed and have been puke "ing"

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Specializes in Orthosurgery, Rehab, Homecare.
Also had someone call in and ask if "do that technical shot help if you get exposed to amtrax?" LOL....uh huh..if you are exposed to amtrax, the technical shot will save you!!

OH NO!! The train!!! Good thing I got that injection!

*I'm dyin' here. :lol2: That and the "week long case of the Sh!t$" is killin' me!:roll

~Jen

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