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:
Post Op patient opens eyes wide and wild looking and says where's my baby doll over and over. Drifts back to sleep and wakes up says the same thing. Family comes in and says her sister did the same thing. I got her one of the stuffed animal we give the children. She takes it and says there's my baby doll. So bizarre
"You've really lost your mind this time!" says the patient with bugged out eyes in wrist restraints attempting to bite me...she's doesn't realize I lost "it" many moons ago.
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
A 90-something PD patient said, as she was just about to fall asleep, "Don't worry about that supper we had tonight, honey, the meat wasn't spoiled after all."
While getting ready to roll a GU patient to the OR, the circulating nurse came to the stretcher after patient ID by surgeon. I had set up a good rapport with the patient and proceeded to give Versed and begin the roll to the OR. I again asked the 46 year old man what we were doing for him that day when blurted out; "we are going to free Willy!" Maybe more Versed was in order!
I don't want to say, "I'd like to see that happen," but . . . Nah, it's still impossible.
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Post Op patient opens eyes wide and wild looking and says where's my baby doll over and over. Drifts back to sleep and wakes up says the same thing. Family comes in and says her sister did the same thing. I got her one of the stuffed animal we give the children. She takes it and says there's my baby doll. So bizarre