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 was called to a room to help a nurse who had a catheter "stuck" in a 95 year old male patient. I used a few "tricks of the trade" to get the catheter properly placed. As I finished my co-worker thanked me. The patient said, "Some girls just know their way around a member"!!! OMG! I almost died!
A dementia patient asked why he had to be here (locked unit) i asked why do i have to be here and he replied bc you get paid to be here its that simple
Once I was starting an IV on an elderly lady. Thin framed and white hair. I noticed as I was inserting the needle, she close her eyes in pain. I said, " sorry my dear, I know no one likes pain, but sometimes it's necessary." She calmly looked at me with a flat expression and said, "Sadist do". I wasn't sure if I should laugh or run......
"I dreamed of being able to...you know...keep it up this long my whole life - but, now....
Nurse, is this going to kill me?"
- In reference to a patient presenting to the ER I was working in and having had taken a friends Viagra without checking with their doctor first and having passed out due to a heart condition and then having an erection lasting over 4 hours.
He a female patient 98 yr old yelling like she was dying, went to see what was wrong. She replied" get it out! Hurry! I ask what she was referring to, she said I'm having a baby, hurry get it out!
Psych patient with disheveled hair sprawled out in different directions, and a wide eyed kind of stare, "I haven't slept in seven years". She would say it every day, like a mantra. Of course she's observed sleeping every night.
Ha ha. I have a similar resident who almost gets angry if I wake her up to check her blood sugar in the evening - not because I'm waking her up, but after I say 'Sorry to wake you up', she almost angrily says "No, I never sleep!". Snoring is often heard before this pronouncement...
Katme0w
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A resident of mine called me into her room and when I walked in she was angry and in tears.
She said "Make Alexa shut up please, her and I aren't getting along and I hate her."
Confused, I asked her who Alexa was. She pointed to her new Amazon echo that was now speaking again.
"ALEXA oh please NO" my resident yelled.
I could barely hold back my laughter!