Nurses General Nursing
Published Mar 22, 2003
OK , I'll start. Last night I had a post partum patient tell me "I keep passing out in my sleep" could someone please explain this one to me??????? Lets hear some of your strangest pt complaints.
gwenith, BSN, RN
3,755 Posts
Had a great Aunt tell me she was admitted to hospital because her "heart was revolving too fast" (Perhaps I should/nt have admitted to the relationship}.
Had an MI patient the other night tell me that eating pork fat is good for you if you eat enough cabbage (HHHMMMM talk about your myocardial infarts)
Then there was the guy who wanted 2 "depositories" for constipation
Had apatient complain of "Asparagus veins" in his legs but the topper was the patient who told teh MO he had had "hairy Syphallus" in his arm
WTF???
mamabear
194 Posts
My mother-in-law had a friend who had all her sinuses removed so she wouldn't get sick.
nurseleigh
188 Posts
Had a pt that was told by the doc she had emphysema and COPD. Right after getting report I am told that she wants to speak to her nurse. I go in and her and her son are sitting there. They tell me what the doc told them and have some questions. First the son asks me if I will tell his mother that if she doesn't quit smoking, she will be dead within 5 years. Uhhhh, no. I cannot make that statement.
Next she asks when she will be able to go downstairs to smoke. I tell her that is up to the doctor and when he comes in tomorrow morning to ask him. Then she asks. . . will I have this COPD for the rest of my life?
I am pretty sure that the cigarettes aren't going to make it "go away."
I have also had the ones that want to be woke up at midnight to get their sleeping pill.
Leigh
Oh yeah, she is only 45
Pamelita
92 Posts
where I work we had family members saying thinks like:
-I demand a psych consult to my husband! I think he is depressed!! -patient is comatose w/multisystem failures, has been comatose for almost a year!!
that one almost killed me and I cannot get over it!!!
10MG-IV
120 Posts
I'll start. Last night I had a post partum patient tell me "I keep passing out in my sleep" could someone please explain this one to me??????? Lets hear some of your strangest pt complaints.
Betsy, Do you remember the dude that came into the ER
0200 "I am turning blue" po2 100% RA no resp distress,
says, loook I am turning blue, sure enough his legs are
B L U E pulled down his socks, no blue. DX: NEW BLUE JEANS, before "prewash" in the '80s.... we Laughed out loud and called every nurse in and supervisor too to come see this:cry:..... which lead to a patient complaint...
Dumb (*&
jennifers
205 Posts
Pt complained that they had been waiting in the ER for 7 hours. Yes, i know their throat really did hurt. No, we only have 1 dr. Yes thats right only 1! I can't help it that we have had 2 traumas and just had to also send someone out in a helicopter. Yes, this is the ER not medpoint. Yes, there are really people will real emergencies that come first. No it is not first come first serve.