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'm hungry when can I have fried chicken", said a patient after a gastric sleeve surgery. Someone didn't do their research and needs a lot of education.
When explaining to a patient that we are going to insert a NG tube to give her nutrition: "...so how am I supposed to eat a cheeseburger through my nose?"
I once had a patient break the sharps box off the wall and walk out into the hallway with her bare arm stuck inside of the container. She was looking for left over drugs in the container of hundreds of used dirty needle and syringes. After getting her safe and settled down..as I'm hooking up her IV, she states..."Make sure you scrub the port with alcohol first, I don't want to get an infection."!!!!
A gentleman came came into the ER one afternoon, walking stiffly. He was wearing skin-tight jeans, cowboy boots, and his body was one large tattoo. Chief complaint: lower back pain.
The M.D. ordered two injections, one for each hip. When I entered the room to give the medications, the patient refused. He said simply, "I am afraid of needles."
Lucas RN
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"Thank you Lucas"