Odd interactions

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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.

Well when I took my nursing diploma course many years ago at a Catholic hospital, we were told that sexuality is one of the basic "needs" and we should respect and recognize that. So masturbating patients are not an issue for me. I just view it as the patient fulfilling a basic need. No big deal. It is their body not mine.

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Well when I took my nursing diploma course many years ago at a Catholic hospital, we were told that sexuality is one of the basic "needs" and we should respect and recognize that. So masturbating patients are not an issue for me. I just view it as the patient fulfilling a basic need. No big deal. It is their body not mine.

I agree, when said masturbation is done discretely. Whipping the sheets back and trying to ejaculate on a staff member is totally disgusting. In my opinion, it borders on criminal.

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Specializes in ICU.
Ketamine is one hell of a drug!

It really is. CRPS is exactly what we use it for - we just admit ours and have them on a continuous infusion for four days. We require family to stay in the room because the patients get so out of it. I love taking care of ketamine patients. You never know what they are going to say, and they're usually the healthiest easy-breezy patients ever, so it's a double win. Except when they are obviously terrified out of their minds and they have me half-convinced that there really is a man in the corner and I spend the whole shift with the hairs on the back of my neck standing at attention.

We had a patient a couple of days back who, upon extubation, immediately screamed for ice cream and his mother. Patient was NPO, and the mother was about 80 with bad kyphosis and gait so unsteady she required a cane to walk. Of course, she promptly did almost all of his ADLs for him. There was absolutely NOTHING wrong with that man other than the alcohol/drug addictions he had! Perfectly healthy middle-aged guy requiring his elderly debilitated mother to take care of him.

The weirdest part of that scenario was that I got in report that he had a girlfriend. Really?! I guess there is someone for everyone, but still...

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The weirdest part of that scenario was that I got in report that he had a girlfriend. Really?! I guess there is someone for everyone, but still...

And somehow I (a person who can do all their own ADLs and everything) am still single. Sigh.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Normal interactions I find are the odd ones out now.

This; although normal interactions are a breath of fresh air amongst the weird dynamic and downright entertaining population that keep us in business. :cool:

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WKSHADOWRN:

One included a burn patient who could not use his hands who rolled over and was thrusting into the bed to appease his erection. But it was creating problems because his leg dressing were getting dismantled and I am sure he was in severe pain. She ended up having to handle it for him because it was so distressing.

:eek:

I guess it could be considered progressive healthcare. Uh no.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

The hallucinating residents can be hilarious. One particular gal that comes to mind regularly has visits from "friends" and even helps herself to snacks to pass around to them. Kind of funny to see about 15 little ice creams scattered around her room all open with spoons in them for her friends. She will also occasionally insist her friend is sick and needs to go to the hospital. She gets very upset that we will not call the ambulance for "Dr Bob" after all, he's right there in that chair, "CAN"T YOU SEE HE NEEDS HELP!"...umm, no I can't see him. Gotta admit I've been kind of tempted to call the ambulance to pick up her imaginary friend just to see how they react.

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Specializes in Hospice.
The hallucinating residents can be hilarious. One particular gal that comes to mind regularly has visits from "friends" and even helps herself to snacks to pass around to them. Kind of funny to see about 15 little ice creams scattered around her room all open with spoons in them for her friends. She will also occasionally insist her friend is sick and needs to go to the hospital. She gets very upset that we will not call the ambulance for "Dr Bob" after all, he's right there in that chair, "CAN"T YOU SEE HE NEEDS HELP!"...umm, no I can't see him. Gotta admit I've been kind of tempted to call the ambulance to pick up her imaginary friend just to see how they react.

I know a nurse on a Memory Care unit who will call one of the extensions, hand the phone to the resident, and the go pick up the extensions. Works every time-she acts like whatever friend or relative the resident is hallucinating about, and the resident is happy.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

I had a family member of a patient who should have been a rapid response but the nurse handled it and did the right thing. The patient had an ortho surgery and was post op and should have been placed in IMC after for monitoring due to desaturating but was not. The nurse on the ortho unit had gotten an order to transfer the patient down, and did so.

After the pt was moved, her daughters stopped me as I was leaving the ICU. They asked me in a rather attacking manner if I worked in ICU or IMU and I told them that I did not. They then proceeded to tell me that the IMC unit seemed substandard. They wouldn't elaborate but kept saying the unit was substandard. I later found out that the one daughter was removed from the hospital for harassing nurses and interfering with her mom's care. She actually was shaking her mother at one point.

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When I was a nursing assistant, I was floated to the peds unit a few times. One day, we admitted a four month old baby girl and while I was taking her temperature rectally, her father asked if I was sexually turned on because I was smiling. That guy gave me the creeps.

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little honeybee said

temperature rectally, her father asked if I was sexually turned on because I was smiling. That guy gave me the creeps.

:cautious: man, there are some serious freaks out there.

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Specializes in Oncology (OCN).
little honeybee said

:cautious: man, there are some serious freaks out there.

True Story!

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