Patient Edu

[HeartsOpenWide, RN]

Did your teachers stress the importants of patient education? I will never forget a true story one of my teachers told us to stress the importance of detailed patient education, even when it seems silly.

My teacher was working in a clinic and a patient came in for birth control options. They ended up giving her spermicidal jelly with out really explaining it to her other than use as often as you will have sex...yeadaa yeadda. Well a few months later the patient came back into the clinic vary irate because she was pregnant. After looking in her chart the nurse asked if she had been using her spermicidal jelly... the woman said. "Yes, I put it on my toast every morning!"

:smackingf

Do you have any storie like these?

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

You're kidding

This absolutely a perfect example. Great post :)

I am going to share something similar but not healthrelated. Anyhow, I used to work as a cashier and I often checked out a hispanic lady who was constantly there shopping. She would do anything to get on my checkout register because I spoke spanish. Anyhow, one day she came back and I was engaging in a friendly conversation to which I asked her ("you must have lots of kitties?"), reason was because she was buying oodles of canned cat food. She had a kind of blank stare and said she did not own any pets. I said, "oh ok it's that since you are buying lots of it you maybe did". (They were on sale). She was still puzzled and we finally got to the conclusion that she though it was tuna fish (The one we eat), and since she did not speak the language she thought it was canned tuna rather than tuna flavored cat food

I am glad I engaged in that conversation though. Although this example has nothing to do with the OP, it did remind me of this incident :)

[HeartsOpenWide, RN]

You're kidding

This absolutely a perfect example. Great post :)

I am going to share something similar but not healthrelated. Anyhow, I used to work as a cashier and I often checked out a hispanic lady who was constantly there shopping. She would do anything to get on my checkout register because I spoke spanish. Anyhow, one day she came back and I was engaging in a friendly conversation to which I asked her ("you must have lots of kitties?"), reason was because she was buying oodles of canned cat food. She had a kind of blank stare and said she did not own any pets. I said, "oh ok it's that since you are buying lots of it you maybe did". (They were on sale). She was still puzzled and we finally got to the conclusion that she though it was tuna fish (The one we eat), and since she did not speak the language she thought it was canned tuna rather than tuna flavored cat food

I am glad I engaged in that conversation though. Although this example has nothing to do with the OP, it did remind me of this incident :)

My father was in Canada eating kidney pie. He had about half of it finnished when the waitress came buy to ask how everything was. He told her great, but he had not seen any Kidney beans yet. The waitress laughed and said, "It is kidney pie, as in KIDNEY the body part..." My dad didn't eat another bite. :barf01: