Nothing like a good kick in the face

MySimplePlan · Mar 9, 2009

We had a code grey on a little old lady a while back. The big burly guys who arrived to her room to help couldn't believe what they were seeing. The looks on their faces were priceless. No on wanted to touch Grandma.

voraciousj · Mar 9, 2009

I was kicked in the crotch by a hemiplegic who was ticked off that the doc wouldn't let him leave that instant. Boy was I glad I was a girl that day! lol

ktwlpn, LPN · Mar 9, 2009

It doesn't take long to realize that the stereotypical "nice little old lady" and "sweet little old man" only exist in movies,on tv and in literature.I,too have had the snot knocked out of me by a 98 lady-and she laughed...

WalkieTalkie, RN · Mar 9, 2009

LOL, gotta love this stuff. Reminds me of when a little old man tried to beat me with his cane, or when another elderly man who was previously calm attempted to strangle me with my stethoscope when I went in to do his assessment :chuckle

ozoneranger · Mar 9, 2009

The most bizarre things ever to happen to me on the job (in random order):

1. I was helping a midget to the bathroom & she dropped a huge turd on my brand new shoe....... :bluecry1:

2. I was helping an elderly man (CVA) aim for his urinal, (he was sitting on the bedside) he missed & peed in my shoe..... :banghead:

3. A woman with a trach coughed up a big gray loogie, shot it out the trach, and across the room, hitting me in the chest, as I backed to the door, she hit me again....... :bluecry1:

4. We admitted a woman that weighed 512 lbs. it took 7 people to cath her, 4 to hold up the abdominal flaps, 2 to hold her thighs apart....guess who got to dive in the center with the cath........yea.

5. I walked into the a room occupied by combative man in a vest restraint. He informed me that, while the vest was colorful, and stylish, he needed to get back to work. When he realized I wasn't assisting him with his goal, he swung a belt at me & nailed me in the face with the buckle. Once I got reinforcements in the room, I discovered he had a lighter, he'd tried to burn the restraint off, a razor, he'd managed to get the guard off & had tried to cut the restraint off. In short, he's been a busy fella that afternoon.

There are more, but these are the ones that come to mind.

When I gave report to days, the night the log was dropped on my shoe, the day nurse looked at me with this dead pan, serious expression & asked me if I turned in an incident report & had my foot x-rayed...... :yeah:

I miss her.

diane227, LPN, RN · Mar 11, 2009

I am telling you now, those old people are STRONG. They may not be able to walk but they can sure kick the $hit out of you.

mcknis · Mar 11, 2009

I have been kicked, slapped, pinched, grabbed, had stuff thrown at me, bitten, pooped on, peed on, spat on, threw up on. Pretty much everything but being stabbed (been pricked by a clean needle, but that's it). All this in just under 3 years...woohoo. And they all still come running to me when someone is kicking or screaming. All the joys of being a man;)

Magsulfate, BSN, RN · Mar 11, 2009

A few nights ago, at around 0230, an otherwise alert and oriented little old lady beacme confused, combative, and was screaming at the top of her lungs. This was not my patient, but as i rushed into the room to assist the other RN's in physically holding her, I was kicked in the face. It wasn't a serious blow, since I pulled back - But still there was contact. Ahhh, the occupational hazards of Nursing!
Just a vent....needed to get that off my chest.

Yeah, I was kicked in the head before too. It knocked me for a loop. The patient was ventilated and the diprivan was running through a peripheral IV in the patient's wrist. It had gotten clamped off and he was about to come out of that bed when he woke up. There were five of us there, including our security, but I'm the one that gets the head kick. :banghead:

Morettia2, BSN, RN · Mar 11, 2009

I know those nights..one night I was bit by a pt. thank god she had no teeth, so she just gummed my hand literally..hahah..but she did punch me also. We have the boxing glove mitten restraints, they are so funny looking. But she did get a good crack in, then she bit, well gummed my hand.

Another pt on a different night decided her room was too far from the nurses station s we moved her to another room with a roomate. She didn't like that room so the charg nurse told me to move her agian back to the original room she was in...WHAT A PAIN IN THE REAR...I was so angry with the fact that the charge nurse gave into this pt's manipulative behavior, pt. is a repeat offender or frequent flyer...So as we are moving her for the 3rd time, me and another nursing assistant are pusing the bed through the hall the pt. grabbs on to me for NO REASON..I told the pt. not to grab me while we are pusing the bed down the hall...she didn't understand the concept that the nurse, ME, and one nursing assistant are pusing a 500lb+ bed down the hall and not to grab onto the nurse who was ME, during transport. So the pt. literally grabbs me agian HARD, I am at the head of the bed pusing it down the hall, she grabbs onto my shoulder and took me off guard b/c I told her to not grab onto me, but she did anyway,she pulled me down as I jerked up and I dislocated my shoulder. I threw my arm back and made a windmill motion and the shoulder popped back into place. It didn't hurst at first, and it was early in my shift, but towards the end of my shift I decided to report it and go to the ER, spent my morning in the ER getting x-rays and well I was sent home in a shoulder immolibizer b/c I had dislocation. I ddn't take disability b/c I had about 6 days off work anyway and the MD said that's ok and if I had any major problems when I came back from my days off to come back to the ER. Thank god I had no major problems..the pt. wasn't confused at all, the pt. just didn't listen and she is notorious for exerting strength on nurses..I knew this before I had admitted her, from past exp. But no matter what I said or did I still was injured.

On another awesome night, we had a confused CHF pt. pulling at his lines and he had a picc. We got an order for boxing glove restraints (soft mitten), he wasn't my pt., but as we were going to put the boxing gloves on, the pt. took a major swing at me, he got me good and knocked me over. This pt. woud just scream and curse al day and night. But he hit me in the ribs so hard I had this huge bruise.

Once agian I had a pt. that pulled out her IV with her teeth and began chewing on it and spitting blood all over the room. I knew the pt. from previous admitts on my floor. She is non-verbal but a nightmare every time she comes in. All she does is mile at you then do something so outrageous. I admitted her, knew she was a confused cardiac pt. I left the room for aprox 5 min. I came backin and saw blood all over the floor, the walls, and the bed. I looked at all angles of the pt. for a bleed...nothing...I am like What the *** where did this blood come from..I mean it's all over the wals and on the other side of the room. I was so confused..then I look at the pt's mouth and see this little plastic thing dangling out, it's her IV, the angiocath, she's chewing on it and smiling. I said to spit out, she just knawed on it like a bone. I figued out that when the pt. ripped her IV out with her teeth she spit the blood all over the room. I removed it from her mouth, got a 1:1 order. I said to the MD on the phone, "My pt. jst pulled an interview with a vampire and pulled her IV out with her teeth and was found chewing on it" The MD came o assess her and saw the room and was horrified...yea when day shift took over, the pt. had a 1:1 and soft mitt boxing gloves, I was told that the 1:1 left the room for only a min or 2 and the pt. was found jumping on the bed trying to kick and bite...OMG...needless to say I was susposed to come back that night and called out b/c I was sick...

I had another pt. tell me he was able to walk but upon standing he tried to take me to the floor with him..he said to me, "well I haven't walked in about 2 weeks so I figued you are a young nurse and could hold me"...what am I a olympic trainer who spots pt. for ambulation????

ahhhh....

aKyRN81 · Mar 11, 2009

Oh, I have to reply to this one!! The funniest thing that ever happened to me as an IV nurse was when I went to start an IV on a teeny tiny little old lady. I explained carefully what I was going to do and why, and how we were going to make it as gentle and fast as possible. She smiled sweetly and said to go ahead and do what I had to do. All went well until I pierced the vein. At the point of no return, she began hitting me on the top of the head....over and over and over again!! So do you rescue your head and maybe have to start over, or proceed onward and get out of there? I went for proceeding onward while gritting my teeth. By the end, I was seeing stars but she had an IV!!!!

hpygrl01 · Mar 11, 2009

I had my first encounter with a little lady during my med-surg. I clinicals. She was confused and in restraints. Until I understood how to handle her, she kicked me, grabbed my boob and nearly twisted it off, and "TRIED" to kick me. See I said TRIED? I learned really quick!

Hope you're ok.

nerdtonurse?, BSN, RN · Mar 11, 2009

I'm a tall girl (6 foot), and built like the good German stock on my dad's side "Yah, der mule died, so Helga pull the plow...." At 3 in the morning, when someone goes crazy, they come get me to help get the person in restraints....Goodie for me.

This particular night, we had a lady who was completely psycho. We're trying to get her into restraints (now, this is AFTER 10 mg of Haldol x2, 4 mg Ativan IV "fast push"), and it's taking everyone on the floor. I mean, this lady's in wrist restraints, and she's kicking her feet so high and so hard, she's warped the side rails. We had to go to 4 points just to keep her from breaking her own feet, and so I grab her knees (and then climb on top, and we're talking 200 pounds of nurse), and she's STILL kicking. I kid you not, she actually picked me completely up off the bed, and I thought i was going airborne. "AirNerd, fly me!" The ended up putting her in the ICU, and giving her "milk of amnesia" for 3 days. After 3 days, she was back to her prior state (pleasant dementia, but certainly not dangerous).

Know what caused it? She'd had a UTI and was given Cipro. We don't know which triggered it (the UTI or the Cipro or a combo thereof), but we began every shift report on her "For God's sake, DON'T give this woman cipro!" until she was discharged.