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 checking blood sugar for a nice lady, newly diagnosed type 1. Didn't phase her at all and she asked for the reading. I stated clearly "your blood sugar is 103." She got an unhappy expression and said "No! I want it to be zero." Her friend says, "I think you'd be dead."
Patient (with his wife in the room) who recently had ativan... says "You are the prettiest nurse Ive ever seen" Then to his wife "Give me some singles" He thought his IV pole was a stripper pole! LOL
I walked into my patient's who room that was receiving dialysis and eating Cheetos. I told her to give put the Cheetos away because she is NPO and can NOT eat until her Gap closes (frequent DKA patient)... She yells at me saying "Cheetos gone close my gap!".
I was translating for a doctor once and I asked the patient if she had done any drugs. She was maybe 75 years old. She said no at first, then said "a little marijuana" and after a few seconds of golden silence, she said "ok I smoked a little meth"
Educating patient on ambulation with her walker. It's a hospital rolling walker with springs in the front. She looks at me and says, " I got hydraulics now!"
"If you don't learn to behave, we're going to have to put you in some kind of home!" Said one resident to another in the locked memory care facility where I worked.
Ha ha - I heard something similar a couple of weeks ago. A guy with Alzheimer's said to someone he was arguing with in the dining room that 'you should be in some kind of FACILITY!'.
Making rounds with a surgeon one evening, he asked a confused elderly man if there was anything he wanted or needed. Not missing a beat, nor cracking a smile, the old man says " a colt 45, a Marlboro and some *****..."
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ReadyToListen, CNA, EMT-B
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I was checking blood sugar for a nice lady, newly diagnosed type 1. Didn't phase her at all and she asked for the reading. I stated clearly "your blood sugar is 103." She got an unhappy expression and said "No! I want it to be zero." Her friend says, "I think you'd be dead."