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 the admitting nurse at a Alcohol & Drug Rehab ! I was getting some info from the patient who was some what tipsy ! When I asked the sweet older lady who should we contact in case of emergency ! She looked me dead in the eye and stated " Well, 911 I would hope !!! I have never laughed so hard !
Specializes in Cardiology, School Nursing, General.
I had a patient with Alzheimer's who loved nurses/MAs, liked LOVED them. Since this clinic was small and ALL of us were all female, he would always cry out, "This place is full of hot cha-cha's! I like this place! Bring me again!"
Other than that, he was really sweet and made jokes at times but forgot things so easily.
The patient was being asked to consider a pacemaker of which she replied "stop trying to prolong my life I'm 100 years old!"
I had a very similar thing - a guy who was 98 or 99, dropping pulse, sent him to the ER, got a pacemaker put in, and I was glad I did what I did, but after a CNA told me he'd been saying (in Spanish) that he was ready to die, I wasn't so sure. He lived another 6-12 months.
"I think I'm infertile....my boyfriend and I have been trying got a year to get pregnant." I quickly look at chart and ask if she was still taking her birth control pills. "Yes! Every day!"
I asked a pt are you allergic to any medications she said no she was not allergic to anything I told her the doc ordered her tramadol for pain and she said I'm allergic to that I let the doc know so he prescribed a Percocet 5 325 by mouth when I came and told her this is what she would be taking she said she's allergic to Tylenol and she forgot sonic we were going to give her something for pain it had to be in a iv that stuff that really messes you up I forgot the name she said ....drug seekers fun fun
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I was the admitting nurse at a Alcohol & Drug Rehab ! I was getting some info from the patient who was some what tipsy ! When I asked the sweet older lady who should we contact in case of emergency ! She looked me dead in the eye and stated " Well, 911 I would hope !!! I have never laughed so hard !