patient requests hand mitts

[newone2015]

Newbie here and i had a patient comes into the ER with pancreatic pain due to inflammation. patient suffers from anxiety and must IC every 4 hrs due to nerogentic bladder. While treating for pain, patient informed us that he has a tendency to pull out his foley and has requested that we place him in hand mitts. His reasoning was that while medicated he would be less likely to cause himself any undo pain or destress. What would you do with a request such as this. Never heard of anyone wanting to be placed in restraints

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Am I the only one who cringed, flinched, and crossed my legs upon reading that?????

There's a reason I'm not a primary member of the OR urology team (only had to deal with those cases when on call). I once had to call a urologist for assistance when none of the nurses on my team could get a foley in one of our patients- everyone in the room was mentally cringing and crossing their legs when we watched what the urologist had to do to get the foley in. And we were all quite thankful that the patient was under general anesthesia.