Give me the spoon!

[NursePandaBear]

Finishing up my last couple weeks in my current unit. Transferring out of this craziness to another :) Walked into a room with a patient doing some funny business with illegal substances, 2 saline flushes, and a spoon.

I exclaimed to the patient,"What are you doing?! Give me that!" He drops the spoon (covered in something) and gives me the flush. "Give me the spoon!" Tells me he wasn't about to do anything. Eyes did 360 in my head when he said this. Sure!

In retro respect that was scary situation. One that I thought I would back down from, but nope. I demanded that spoon but now it seems so comical after I think about.

I was so mad. Addiction is such a horrible horrible disease. Don't do drugs kids.

[AJJKRN]

I'd be worried about finding the syringe they were going to use! Doubtful that they would recap or use the sharps bin but hey they might be a conscientious drug abuser.

[iluvivt, BSN, RN]

You can sequester the items...and call security and house supervisor and provider.Is the patient getting any po narcotics or sedatives because they may he saving them.We had a patient do this recently and he was stashing them under his tongue.He was discharged to the police instead of home.

[dream'n, BSN, RN]

Saline flushes?? Guess he was going to use the IV, therefore no needles at least to stick ya :)

[CelticGoddess, BSN, RN]

I'd be worried about finding the syringe they were going to use! Doubtful that they would recap or use the sharps bin but hey they might be a conscientious drug abuser.

Half the time they'll just fish out a syringe from the sharps container. At my previous job, we found a patient and her boyfriend shooting up with a used insulin syringe. They had fished a whole bunch of syringes out of the sharps container.