With some of the things patients say, Nurses sometimes wonder if they are on a hidden camera TV show! Weird, wacky or even touching, those phrases stick with us. Think of your favorite thing a patient has said, submit it in the comments below and you'll be entered to win a $250 amazon.com gift card!
Winner will be announced May 16, 2017
UPDATE June 5, 2017
The winner of the $250 amazon.com gift card for favorite thing a patient has said from allnurses.com is user jndmj30 for:
"I need to go shopping for new clothes. Do you think they will allow me to leave for like an hour and then come back. I have a job interview Monday and I really need to land this job" - a psych patient who just got admitted. (Honey the answer is no and you will still be here Monday )
Once I worked 7A/7P, although I'm days. My patient had several antibiotics to be hung, which I could do fairly easily by the light from the hall. She never once woke up. I tiptoe in with the final ABX of the night and all of a sudden she blurts out "Do you know anything about the Portuguese language?" I almost wet my pants! I said "No, do you?" She said "No, I just thought you might."
As a patient was waking up from a recent colonoscopy, I asked her how she feels. She stated "I have to poot". I replied with "ok". She let one rip and said "there you go, now let me go home". 😂😂
Worked in busy urgent care. Took a patients blood pressure who was there for a sore throat. Blood pressure 200/110. She said oh that's probably because I just shot up some heroin. Seriously lady had worse problems than a sore throat.
I am an OR nurse and one night while on call we had a patient that had shot a nail gun into his knee. He came to the OR on an ER stretcher and we asked him if he could move himself to the OR table or if he would like us to assist him. He was able to slide from the stretcher to the OR table on his own. After he was on the OR table we told him that he did a great job sliding over and his reply was "Yeah I nailed it"
Mestayerlisa
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"I need to go shopping for new clothes. Do you think they will allow me to leave for like an hour and then come back. I have a job interview Monday and I really need to land this job" - a psych patient who just got admitted. (Honey the answer is no and you will still be here Monday )