Odd interactions

[remotefuse]

Some interactions are just plain odd. What's one that will stay with you forever?

Mines is I had a 34 y/o female pt. She would always put her light on to tell us that she had just used her diaper. She had been there about a week using diapers. She has also been DEMANDING us to put in a foley. So early on in my first day with her as I'm changing her I ask her how she uses the bathroom at home. "I just walk" She was in for a lap chole. So I ask her if she can use the restroom right now and she just jumps right out of bed and goes to use the restroom. Turns out she just really really really didnt want to get out of bed. After that she was still very insistent on getting a foley.

[noyesno, MSN, APRN, NP]

The son who used to close the door to wash his mom because no one else washed her well enough. We opened the door to...

TOS prohibit me from going any further. Or maybe my retching does.

She was semi comatose. He was arrested.

Oh! It took me awhile to figure out what happened. Got it, gross! I thought he was beating her up, putting her in the semi-comatose state. She was semi-comatose to begin with and he was taking advantage of it?

[BecomingNursey]

They were Canadian.

God bless Canada 😂😂😂

[Jensmom7, BSN, RN]

They were Canadian.

What would Brian Boitano do??

[EaglesWings21, ASN, RN]

I also had a middle aged female pt who was in from smoke inhalation and COPD exacerbation because she was smoking at home next to her oxygen tank and caught her couch on fire. She leaned over the bed after using the BSC as in she wanted me to wipe her butt. I handed her the toilet paper and told her she needed to do it to maintain her independence. She wiped her own butt while cussing me out underneath her breath and calling me inconsiderate. Oh the joys of being a nurse...

[canigraduate]

I honestly thought this was going to be about Dean Koontz novels...

Odd Thomas... I love you.

Talking to dead Elvis counts as an odd interaction, yes?

Some of the creepiest things I've seen is during the slow decline of elderly people when they're talking to their dead parents. Especially when they're looking at YOU.

You can almost hear the ghosts talking back.

[bluegeegoo2, LPN]

I was rounding on patients in the middle of night shift checking on a patient who was supposed to be asleep when she opened her eyes and asked me to feel the lump on the back of her head. Puzzled because this was not related to her current diagnosis I did palpate her head...she did have a fairly large occipital prominence. She looked at me and said "Jesus Christ lives in there."

I had a bona fide schizophrenic in LTC that pointed out the window one day and said "Do you see that house over there? That's where Jesus lives. He's taking care of our children. We have 1000 children now." spoken as matter-of-fact as you please. Kinda creeped me out to be honest. From that point forward I made all interactions with her as brief as possible.

I have a current resident who has conversations with her long deceased husband every evening. She insists we take his blood pressure as "I'm worried about him." ...ummm...yeah. Got to go now.

[calivianya, BSN, RN]

People on ketamine infusions talking about "the man in the corner." "The dark man." "He's standing right behind you - can't you see him?!?!" Oh god, the hallucinating ketamine patients freak me out. Except for the one who asked me why there was a fish swimming on top of my head. He was great.

Overheard last night:

"I want my Ativan!"

"You had it an hour ago, you can't have it now."

"Why?!?!?!"

"Because it's every four hours and you just had it."

"Well, I want my oxycodone!"

"I just gave that to you five minutes ago."

"That wasn't a big enough dose!"

"That's all that was ordered."

"Can I have more?"

"No, not for six hours."

"What can I have?!"

"Nothing. You've taken every PRN you've got."

"I JUST WANT TO GET HIGH AND GO TO SLEEP!!!!"

[SmilingBluEyes]

Said this here somewhere before:

Had a s/p abdominal hysterectomy pt, somewhere in her 50s. I went to check on her, knocked on the door and went in. It was at this point the patient was pleasuring herself and said to me "I am SO turned on right now".....

I said I would be back and told her I would make a "do not disturb" sign for her door for those times when she felt pleasuring herself was necessary. Odd.

Another time, had a patient who had a baby hours before, and was in the bed, having sex with a guy who not the father of the baby. EWW. I also just backed out. And later, I told her how sex right after childbirth was ill-advised.

Another story:

Patient in labor comes in with 2 men. I go through the usual admission questions and ask her will both be her support people. She said yes, and pointed to the man on the left : "he's the father" and then indicated the man on her right, was "her husband". Both men, tucked in bed with her.

OKaaaaayyy

[SmilingBluEyes]

One more for the "ick factor"

Young patient, about 18, in labor, taking a shower to ease her labor pains. Seemingly nice older guy (late 30s) in there with her. Mistook him for her boyfriend/husband. She was quick to correct me, "He's my UNCLE, not my boyfriend". Not sure if he was the father of her baby.....didn't want to go there at that time and she did not offer that information up.

[Jensmom7, BSN, RN]

Talking to dead Elvis counts as an odd interaction, yes?

Some of the creepiest things I've seen is during the slow decline of elderly people when they're talking to their dead parents. Especially when they're looking at YOU.

You can almost hear the ghosts talking back.

I've been in some very crowded rooms as someone was dying.

Just because I couldn't see them didn't mean they weren't there.

[KathyDay]

Years ago when I was taking a kid and his Dad to an exam room in the ER, the father got all pasty and faint and before I could break his fall, he landed right on his face. He passed out cold. I yelled for help. The ER doc and other nurses came and we stood above him when he was coming around and I noticed his crooked nose. I commented..."oh my goodness, it looks like he broke his nose in the fall". The man passed out again. The doctor told me to be quiet!

WE ended up treating the Dad for a broken nose, and the kid decided his back didn't hurt anymore (the reason for the ER visit). Apparently, the Dad had a huge phobia about Hospitals.

[Britt-RN]

I once had a patient who "Presented Butt". Meaning that when she got herself up from the bedside commode, she would stick her butt out and lean forward on the over-the-bed table to have someone WIPE her BACKSIDE.

RNsRWE,

I had the SAME EXACT situation happen to me but with a male patient. He told me I should have been a stripper instead of a nurse because I encouraged him to wipe his own bottom