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"

Specializes in ER, IR, Endoscopy.

A few days ago had this one....exactly what she wrote on the sign-in sheet...

"I am 9 weeks pregnant and having virginal bleeding"

-jason

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Specializes in ER, HH, Case Management.

How about a chief complaint of new monia?

I just hope that doesn't turn into old monia. I hear that can be pretty rough. ;)

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Specializes in ob/gyn er.

2 funny chief c/o first "my privy parts is twinging" i had to ask if she was braggin or c/o the 2nd is the pt who c/o that every time she drank a 6 pack of beer it made her "pee' a lot

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I had a father sign in that his child had a "sprider bite"

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How about "staff infeksion" caused no doubt by the local killer spiders;)

oh no! not more toxic spiders!!:uhoh3:

they've migrated to Kentucky, as well.

Someone HAS to stop them!!

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Specializes in ED, MS, CC.

Had a pt sign in with "glads swole"

we the triage nurses play a guessing game to determine what it is BEFORE we call the patient. This is what we came up with- Swollen glands, or ass swollen

pt comes to triage- what's the problem ma'am

Swallowed some glass...

darn, wrong again lol

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Specializes in ER, PACU.
Had a pt sign in with "glads swole"

we the triage nurses play a guessing game to determine what it is BEFORE we call the patient. This is what we came up with- Swollen glands, or ass swollen

pt comes to triage- what's the problem ma'am

Swallowed some glass...

darn, wrong again lol

:lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2: That is hysterical!! I would have never guessed, I would have thought the same thing you did.

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had two funny ones last week.. "maguts in ma doodoo" and "i think i eaten a bug in my grits, it was a growlin" .. ??:confused:

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Not in triage but in the room the patient told me "it's my stomach, I'm using it too much." Turns out N/V/D but who would know?!

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"Running nose."

I think the patient meant "runny nose" or we'll have to play catch.

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My all time favorite...

My favorites are the psych pts who manage to act normally until about 75% through triage and make 1 comment that makes you change everything.

Angel

haha, i had one last week, 40yrs old, came in for a pregnancy test "because she was on her period for 6 days" :confused: She then tells me "i might be having a miscarriage, i think i had one out my butt last year" when i asked her to describe this "miscarriage out her butt" she tells me it was "big and brown and hurt like hell".. i'm trying to keep a straight face but can hear the pt advocates behind me cracking up... so i ask her if it looked like a BM, of course she says.. "yeah it did, woulda been an ugly baby i guess" :eek: i TRIED to do some reproductive health teaching but was abruptly cut off with "I know how all that crap works!"

... really?.. are you sure about that? lol

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"Fickling passion"..... fecal impaction

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