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.
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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 pleasantly confused with dementia. I was discharging her and her husband had been by her side throughout her hospital stay. I commented to her as I was going over her discharge instructions that she was blessed with a good husband who took good care of her. She replied (with him standing near us) .."a good man is hard to find....or was it a hard man is good to find?"....I just kept right on with my discharge instructions and didn't slack up! I was speechless! ...i'll never forget that! Lol
Our hospital overlooks a fairly busy highway, and one night we had an elderly, confused female patient. When we went into her room, she was flashing an imaginary man down by the highway. When we asked what she was doing, she said, "Well he flashed me first, so I had to flash him back!"
I admitted a patient for pancreatitis, he looked like a bit of a drinker. I explained his NPO status several times and he continued to ask me for a drink, and I continued to tell him he could not have one. As I was sitting at the desk charting, I looked up and saw him in the doorway of his room taking a big chug from his urinal while he flipped me the middle finger and said "look! I got a beer anyway!" He was very proud of himself for getting one over on me.
I recently had a patient say to me can you see if is time for my pain medication either the Percocet or the delorean? I'm still wondering if she just wanted to time travel to a time when she had no pain in the delorean.
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
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!
That's something, Dodee!
Back in '76, while riding my motorcycle, I was hit head-on by an intoxicated fella in a pickup and spent three weeks in a comatose state from a closed head injury before awakening in the ICU.
I remember believing the ICU became a lounge at night, the doctor became a bartender, and the nurses became waitresses!
I had help take a 101 year old lady, who was very prime and proper, to the bathroom and helped her sit down on the toilet when all of a sudden she had passed gas very loudly and she look at me and said, " Well that's another country heard from!" Then just laughed. I lost it and was laugh to.
ZinaKlein
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My HTN was gone so I didn't need to take the medication anymore