I must be an idiot

[sharann]

Thats how I feel. I had a patient fool me and good!

Appy, uncomplicated, young adult, and screaming in what I thought was

an abnormal amount of pain. I am no beginner recovery rn here. She gave an academy award level performance. 30mg of MS in 2 hours and some sedation later I learned this. So despite getting reamed by the surgeon for making him come back in to check the patient, I still think I did the right thing. I didn't know she was just acting out until I really got her talking.

Have you ever been fooled by a patient. I should get a Darwin Award for last night.

Ugh:(:angryfire

[lpnstudentin2010, LPN]

I was actually worried my nurses would think I was a drug seeker this last surgery I had (last Friday). I FREAK out after surgery (hyperventilate, crying uncontrollably, and legs moving all over the place despite my brain trying to calm my body down) and I have noticed from past experience that demral calms me down from that state.

So I told the anesthesiologist this and they got an order in before, instead of after like a month ago (I was able to tell my nurse that it helped the time before). I was scared to say it, I was afraid I would be thought a drug seeker. I KNEW it sounded like something a drug seeker would say. Luckily I had the same pre-op AND the same post-op nurse so they knew.

When I mentioned it my pre-op nurse went and talked to my post op nurse from the one a month prior who related that yes indeed I was CRAZY on waking up and demral calmed me down, for some reason.