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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A patient that had a traumatic brain injury was convinced that he was at a bar and all the nurses were bartenders! He kept asking for mixed drinks and telling us how to make them!
My PT who seems completely alert, but has Dementia:I'm going to be getting out of here soon, this is better than them making me stay in the jail, this place ain't half bad!
I've heard alot of wild things as a nurse. One of the wildest things I've heard as a nurse is a patient explaining that the reason he came up positive for cocaine was because it 'flew up his nose'. He was serious too.
Patient came back from Triage and I was going over their allergies.. He replies "I am allergic to antabuse, it makes me nauseated and I vomit!" Lol!!! Really???
Karen can you get me some ice? Karen can you get me a warm blanket? Karen can you get me a bedpan? Karen this is my family, my wife Jill, my daughter Rosie, my son jack and my brother bill. Karen can I have some pain medication? FOR THE 100th TIME MY NAME IS NOT KAREN, IT'S VICKIE!!!
One evening I was sitting at the nurse's station when one of my sweet elderly residents came up and shared with us she was going to marry Joel Olsteen and was pregnant with his baby!
So I'm a visiting nurse RN..when I started a position at this one new job..I had went out to see this big teddy bear of an old man.sweetest..cutest thing. First day I went with an older conservative nurse. He needed to be intermittently cathed 2xweek for a "buried" inverted member with frequent UTIs. He had a history as well. That day was fine. After about 3 weeks he began to get comfortable with me and when ild walk in he'ld drop his boxers and waddle off to the bedroom ..he always had everything set up(as if the site wouldn't kill you inside) . Then one day he member was giving us a hard time..could not get a grasp to catheterize . He then loudly started saying "come on harold..beth needs you..poke your lil head out let's not give her trouble" i was crying inside lol. Then he started telling me just to.wiggle "him" around a bit and quietly talk to.him and he'll listen".. if this man wasn't a bit developmentally challenged and actually one of the sweetest people I've met, I probably would not have gone back. I spent two years doing this with this guy..and I will not forget "harold" or the shock I felt that first day I met harold.
Dodee
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A patient that had a traumatic brain injury was convinced that he was at a bar and all the nurses were bartenders! He kept asking for mixed drinks and telling us how to make them!