I was walking through the hallway today and a family member of one of our patient's was talking on their cellphone-- apparently giving an update to someone about the patient. This is what I hear: "Well, no, he's not very awake today. I think they seduced him while they did a procedure."
If I had milk in my mouth at the time, it would have come out my nose!
We do a lot of things in the ICU, but seducing is not one of them!
OK, now it's your turn! What crazy things have you heard?
My mom, bless her heart, is proxy for my grandma who's in a nursing home and has called me on numerous occasions to say nana is admitted to the hospital again for " growing another urinary track from bacteria". Poor thing... She tries and I feel bad correcting her... And my cousin who's baby got burned posted on facebook that they were happy he wouldn't need any "graphs".
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
My mom, bless her heart, is proxy for my grandma who's in a nursing home and has called me on numerous occasions to say nana is admitted to the hospital again for " growing another urinary track from bacteria". Poor thing... She tries and I feel bad correcting her... And my cousin who's baby got burned posted on facebook that they were happy he wouldn't need any "graphs".
my mom does the same thing. She totally butchers every medical word known to man kind.
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
I've posted this on another thread, I think, but a patient once told me, "My doctor told me I have loose blood." I don't believe I've ever quite figured it out. I thought it might have to do with the tendency to bleed, but at the time nothing about her history indicated that. And my husband, when he can't pronounce or remember some medical diagnosis, just says that "it's Koukamongus of the Bingus."
i'm am a cna & i went into a patient's room to check her blood sugar and she wasn't too happy about having it done. she had 3 other fam members in the room and a guy says, "You guys like experimenting on us generics!!" i guess he meant geriatric lol
Totally forgot about this one: A rather snooty unit secretary I work with told me to prepare a room for this diabetic individual because "s/he's coming in AGAIN with BKA". I looked really surprised, and she asked why, "s/he's always here with BKA; how long have you worked here?".
Somebody was telling me how her boyfriend would act when he'd been drinking. She talked about what he would do "once he got emaciated" - I guess she meant intoxicated?
Im a student nurse and recently had a tonsillectomy. I was prescribed difene, when I got home I wasnt feeling so well so my mom rang a local health centre. She was talkn to the nurse and I could hear her saying that I had a sick tummy. Then the nurse asked her what tablets I was on.......she told her i was on ''deaf-y-lin'' I croaked out ''no no mom im on difene'' she replied...yah i said that ''deaf-y-lin''........*shakes head* Gotta love my mom apart from her not being able to pronounce drug names, she took great care of me! :)
pedicurn, LPN, RN
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the 90 day flu ...and the 30 day flu...the 90 day cough etc etc