Odd interactions

Farawyn

lavenderskies: Did you knock?

Haha! I don't recall exactly but I said something along the lines of "well ok. He needs to go back to sleep too."

Farawyn

Haha! I don't recall exactly but I said something along the lines of "well ok. He needs to go back to sleep too."

Hahahahhahaha!

I was trying to place a Foley in a "turtled" old man

I totally get this! Can we make this a new AN Favorite Phrase, Please?

We have to ask Acute. He's in charge of that department. I don't know if this makes the cut.

I had a TB read the other day. This woman handed me a paper that had a 90's birth date/M on it and she was clearly late thirties/F. I asked if it was her name, and she told me it was her son....

....who was at home.

She wanted me to read a TB on a person that she didn't bring to the clinic. I'm pretty awesome at keeping a straight face but I had a hard time trying to not laugh.

I can't make this stuff up.

The Jesus one is still making me giggle.

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.

She was there for an ORIF of her ankle.

I asked what she did at home when she needed her butt wiped, who did it there? She said she did. "Okay, then, you can do it here, too" and handed her the toilet paper, left to see to someone else.

She actually complained about it....unit manager not amused, told her that since her ARMS were not affected by the surgery, she should have no trouble with her personal hygiene....and *I* had the pleasure of following up with her to let her know that it was our job to keep her functioning at the maximum level of ability she had. Which, in this case, included wiping her OWN butt!

Seriously, can you imagine REQUESTING that kind of personal care when it isn't at all necessary??

Why was the lap chole in the hospital in the first place? We let most of our lap choles go home unless they were already inpatient to begin with. In some cases I've even discharged formerly inpatient patients back home after they finished with the lap chole.

Why was the lap chole in the hospital in the first place? We let most of our lap choles go home unless they were already inpatient to begin with. In some cases I've even discharged formerly inpatient patients back home after they finished with the lap chole.

Lap choles are commonly 23 hour admits. So...you get them overnight.

Farawyn

The Jesus one is still making me giggle.

It mostly weirded me out.

I had two other weird experiences at the same place.

30-something guy in for a LE fx. Nights again, I was rounding in the middle of the night and found him with a clean cut IV line IVF and blood everywhere.

I turned on the lights to investigate the mess and I'm thinking ***. He's laying there all innocent with no comment. I found bandage scissors at the bedside (not immediately obvious because he had other things there) left from day/evening shift. Ugh.

And another super weird. I took an admit on nights for I forget what exactly. Three times she pulled out her IV when I was out of the room and "no idea" how it happened when asked. WTH? OK when I woke up from sleeping after that shift the light bulb was clear as day she was having early DT Sx but at the time no clear indicators from her history or otherwise. Ugh. Night shift in that hospital only lasted 4 (too long) months for me. It was in a very wealthy area and the patients were unpredictably odd. Had one surgeon that would do "complimentary tummy tucks" when you were getting your chole' or other unrelated non plastics procedure. Yes this was a loooong time ago. Weird weird weird.

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.