We've all been there. In our time as nurses, we've heard patients say some pretty wild things. Whether it's off-the-wall reasons for how they came to need medical care or something as seemingly mundane as a catchphrase which a patient uttered that resulted in you having a laughing fit; those memorable phrases, reasons or moments could win you one of two $250 Amazon.com gift cards courtesy of relode.
Dust off those memories and leave them in the comment form below. The two grand prize winners will be announced during National Nurses Week but have no fear - even if you don't win one of the grand prizes, we are giving away some cool runner-up prize packs to two more lucky winners!
We all know that patients say the darnedest things, let us hear your best! Thanks for all that you, our nation's nurses, do and Happy National Nurses Week!
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I had a patient that was confused and would not let you get near him for anything. I wasn't even able to do an assessment. He would yell at me "don't you come near me lady. Get up against the wall!" So, I had finally decided to slowly approach him with his medicines to see if he would take them. I handed him the cup with my hands visible, showing that I wasn't going to hurt him. He took the cup and was looking them over with suspicion when I stepped back, knocking into the shower chair which skidded across the floor. He jumped, effectively dumping his medicine and threw his hands over his chest, yelling and then pointing, "SHE SHOT ME! [insert son's name], do you see that gun! She shot me!" I never convinced him that I didn't.
Yesterday, after a procedure, my pt (who spoke another language ), said to me smiling, "You are without price!" It made me stop and think then I realized...he thought I was "priceless"! I love those kind of compliments!
Our units toilets are pretty low especially for critical care. I took my 85 year old male patient to the bathroom and when he sat down he said "well I didnt think my balls would get a bath today" i laughed so hard and he said "laugh it up, one day some of your parts will hang lower than you expect them too"
Patient hits call button, when answering via intercom, he yells "HEYYYY MACARENA", so loud that everyone at the nurses station hears. We couldn't help but laugh.. what the heck. Another patients family member was using our galley microwave. Myself and a couple other nurses were having a conversation and I say "it smells like tuna" and another one says "ummm it smells like something is burning". She goes and checks in the galley, to find it full of smoke, she runs in there, shuts the microwave off and runs out coughing. The family member comes back to say he put the fish sandwich in the microwave for 15 minutes! The package was completely disintegrated and only a little black burnt sandwich was left. Oh night shift.
A patient, she was about 5, came in the urgent care with a broken bone on top of her foot. She was going to be in a walking boot for couple of weeks until healed. While the tech was sizing the little girl, he explained when she's walking, she might feel like she's wobbling more like a duck than walking and that's ok. She looks at her dad and says I hope mommy doesn't mind having a duck at home for a little while. Hopes off the table and starts quacking out of the room.....I couldn't help but giggle.
I was triaging a man and he was there for an in grown nose hair. I was just about done the triage and proceeded to tell me he one more thing. He said " I have another in grown hair it's down below, you know I have to keep it trimmed up down there. I have white man syndrome and I have to keep it shaved so it looks bigger". I legit just shook my head and said I'll add that.
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This is a mistake, there was a bubble in the iv and that is what they see on the scan... It was a 9.0 cm aneurism :/