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:
Patient in ICU after cardiac arrest for several days. Intubated patients family visits daily during their stay they put the sports channel on for him. Early-morning patient is weaned off then ventilator for ET tube removal as morning surprise for family. I am his nurse standing holding the patient's hand to keep him calm as he awakes and understands we will remove the tube. Immediately upon removal of tube patient states "I hate tennis was my family trying to torture me" please turn that crap off I have been forced to listen to it for days ! Lol we had a wonderful laugh together
I had a patient who loved to give his nurses and CNA creative nicknames. I went through several before he officially decided on mine. One of the first he gave me was "boomerang" he would yell that from his room to get my attention for anything he needed at the time. Finally I ask him why he called me boomerang. He goes "no matter how many times I throw you away or kick you out, if I yell, you always come running back." 😂
While cleaning up an elderly dementia patient one night, this tiny, frail and very proper lady turned around and said "hey, I think you moved my *******!" Then she burst out laughing at herself.
80 year old woman in ED came in via ambulance from a senior activity center with a broken arm. We asked how she broke her arm. She said "We were having a ho-down at the senior center. And I was the ho that went down."
Specializes in HH, Med/surg- liver & kidney transplant, ortho, ++.
I worked in home health for a few years. I had a patient who would forget to take several doses of his meds a week. He had been treated for a UTI and completed a round of abx. On one of my visits I collected a specimen to make sure the UTI had cleared, when I arrived the conversation went a little like this:
pt: "I put it in a bag"
me: "put what in a bag?" - thinking he was talking about his urine specimen
pt: "I put IT in a bag."
me: "you put your member in a bag?"
pt: "yea, I put it in a bread bag."
Same patient, different visit. While applying a catapres patch to his chest he lifts up his shirt, looks down and side to side and says "you know, I never really understood why men had boobs."
I loved this patient, sadly, he passed away I believe late last year.
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"I checked google and it said I have this, but the doctors say otherwise"