Odd requests

[CapeCodMermaid]

We had a resident today ask the CNA to shave his pubic hair. When she declined he complained to the social worker. Really? We don't have enough to do?!? I suggested to the social worker she speak to him and tell him to ask his wife to do it. Yikes!

[RTsoonRN]

Now i'm not an RN yet so I don't have all the funny stories y'all have, but, I did have a pt tell me (and she had one of those ortho beds with the assist bar) that i'll just hop in the bed and grab onto the bar and you can go to town on me....and she was dead serious. Borders on SH but I just had to walk out of that room laughing.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

Back when I was in school I worked as a nurses' aide one summer. One day I was assigned to an older woman who was, I believe, suffering from dementia. All in one day, she told me that she was late for her hair appointment, was in a play that afternoon and then asked me to go get her a copy of the newspaper so she could read her own obituary because "I died last night. They brought me back to life but it was too late to stop the presses."

Another old woman with dementia one time accused me of trying to poison her by feeding her her dinner, stated that the applesauce on her tray was meant for my baby who I wasn't feeding and that my husband was insulting her. (I have no husband and no baby.)

Geriatrics was too sad for me. Needless to say, I work in pediatrics.

[Poi Dog]

A certain resident always requests that we tell her the size of her BM and then she grabs a mirror to 'observe' it. All righty then.

[mazy]

Ah, that's almost what happened to me the other week! I'm a nursing student, in my first semester, and my first patient assignment was an 87 year-old man who had been prescribed an ointment be applied to his testicles. I had to do it for him, and he told me I had to apply it to "the tip" as well because he felt like it was getting a bit red! haha That part was not in the TAR at all.

Which part? The tip?

[cebollita]

Haha his words. This was in acute rehab btw

[Munch]

I had a patient who was in pretty bad looking shape after 1 day post op after having major brain surgery(bruised eye, blood crusted under her nose after having a nose bleed. blood showing through the bandages wrapped around her head and a few other unpleasant looking things). The patient wanted me to take numerous pictures of her(after I had brain surgery I did NOT want any pictures taken of me, I looked like a human punching bag) and when I changed her bandages she wanted to keep them. Of course before putting a new bandage on the patient wanted me to take multiple pictures of her large scar(she had a Frankenstein like scar). Every bandage she had changed she wanted to save. Oh and of course she wanted pictures with every staff member that came in her room(myself included), the house keeping workers, ANYONE that came into room...why would you want a picture with the person that brings you your meals?

I guess she wanted them for her brain surgery scrap book?

[WhistlingNurse]

These are hilarious!!!! LOL!!!

[nerdtonurse?, BSN, RN]

I had a patient who was in pretty bad looking shape after 1 day post op after having major brain surgery(bruised eye, blood crusted under her nose after having a nose bleed. blood showing through the bandages wrapped around her head and a few other unpleasant looking things). The patient wanted me to take numerous pictures of her(after I had brain surgery I did NOT want any pictures taken of me, I looked like a human punching bag) and when I changed her bandages she wanted to keep them. Of course before putting a new bandage on the patient wanted me to take multiple pictures of her large scar(she had a Frankenstein like scar). Every bandage she had changed she wanted to save. Oh and of course she wanted pictures with every staff member that came in her room(myself included), the house keeping workers, ANYONE that came into room...why would you want a picture with the person that brings you your meals?

I guess she wanted them for her brain surgery scrap book?

I was thinking...for her lawsuit scrapbook. The only way I'd let a patient take a picture of me is if I was in L&D, and even then, I'd try to escape.

"See, your Honor, this is the first woman who ever held Little Jimmy, and he's been terrified of red hair ever since...I want a million dollars."

[LovelyPracticalNurse]

I've had strange requests before. The only time I will do what they ask is when they physically can't, as long as what they ask isn't inapropriate (like asking to hold a vibrator LOL that's a winner in this thread). When it comes to cream, if I have to insert it inside a woman, even though I am a woman, I always bring a female CNA. We have had patients with historys of molestation/rape and I do not want to trigger an old demented lady into thinking I am trying to hurt her and then have no witnesses to the situation. As for topical creams to the genital area I usually apply that myself mostly because the elderly are not so great at washing their hands :\ and it becomes a hassle. I will not put any cream anywhere unless ordered, if they have it ordered for their testicles, and want it on their member. I will let them know I have to get an order for that first. Usually ends that issue.

[DedHedRN]

There was this one woman where I work who always tells the CNAs that they have to put barrier cream up inside her lady parts with there fingers. She also demanded the nurse come insert finger in orifice to see if she was inpacted after three large loose BMs, and a big helping of MOM. Bleh... Ox4 and always threating to report too.