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:
My patients say the same thing! They are babies but when the cry in Spanish I don't understand a thing other than "Mama" which I've actually heard newborns make that sound. I always point it out to the parents when they do.
Had a 20 something female overdose patient on the mend in the ICU. Patient said she would marry me,.....her mother was at the bedside and immediately stated she would pay for THAT wedding! I was 50 at the time! 😳 I said I was flattered but it was against hospital policy. 😆
I was working in icu with a patient that was gravely ill. She woke up from a deep sleep one night and looked straight at me and said "you're next" then went back to sleep. I'll never forget that.
While restraining a very combative young man into 4 point leathers with 4 huge security guards and 2 large male ICU nurses helping me hold him down he completely stops everything turns and looks at me to ask "can I tie you up next?" With a big grin on his face. Then right back to screaming kicking and bucking the guys off him. My male coworkers were at a loss. I told him no cause he didn't know how to act. LOL!!!!
"Mother cannot have any ice or any beverages from the refrigerator. We don't even give her ice cream because she could catch a draft and that could lead to pneumonia and then death"
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My purple dinosaur is in his "cave."
Nonetheless, we did a pelvic exam and discovered a plastic purple dinosaur.