JWaldron

JWaldron

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  1. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JWaldron replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Pretty sad. I hated it when those frequent fliers wold come in, the ones who really knew how to make you look bad. Would complain dramatically of chest pain at the doorway on their third visit of...

  2. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JWaldron replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    bet she really wanted her brows plucked, or a bikini wax!

  3. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JWaldron replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Oh, yeah, I remember on of those. Most expensive manicure she ever had when the doc cut her fake nail off. I'm quite sure her insurer rejected that claim! Came by ambulance, too!

  4. Charting Bloopers

    JWaldron replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    Your post reminded me of the time I got 'corrected' for a data entry I DIDN'T make - and it would have been pretty strange if I had. I had a patient who was a left BKA and a right AKA, and I didn't...

  5. Charting Bloopers

    JWaldron replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    She came to my ER too! >laugh

  6. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JWaldron replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Oh-Oh! That's dangerous. You should have done something! Many years ago when I still worked in the ED, we had a young guy come into the dept. several days running, w/ that complaint. The doc told...

  7. Charting Bloopers

    JWaldron replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    And I love the 'balony amputation' I've seen a couple of times. It fits right in w/ Eurospesis. Gotta love those folks in Admitting. Oh, that's right, it's called 'Patient Access' now, whatever...

  8. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JWaldron replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Awful. When I still worked in the ED, we had a self-castration too. Guy felt that sexual thoughts were the work of the devil, and he was going to see to it that the devil couldn't drive him to sin....

  9. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JWaldron replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    These are the same ones who want to know when meals are, and how soon the TV can be turned on as soon as they get to their rooms, too.http://images.allnurses.com/smilies/angryfire.gif --- And then...

  10. Charting Bloopers

    JWaldron replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    I've seen adm. Dx like this too, and they make me laugh. how about Eurosepsis, or Baloney Amputation, two of my favorites!

  11. # of patients

    JWaldron replied to EToThePri's topic in Rehabilitation

    I work in an IRF in a hospital, a 32-bed unit. Occasionally we have 33 patients overnight. The RNS and LPNs work 12 hr shifts and the aids work 8 hour shifts. usually we have 8 or 9 patients on the...

  12. Charting Bloopers

    JWaldron replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    Well, I DID have a patient come back from the OR w/ an order for foley to intermittent wall suction...and an NGT to bedside gravity drainage! Maybe the doc's mind and fingers weren't working at the...

  13. Charting Bloopers

    JWaldron replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    Haven't you heard people say they have to go so bad their eyeballs are turning yellow? This is one way of dealing w/ the situation!

  14. Charting Bloopers

    JWaldron replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    Just last night at work I checked an H&P - the admitting Dx was CVA, but the history stated that the patient tripped and fell at home, hit his head, had a subdural hematoma, a subarachnoid...

  15. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JWaldron replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    BUT: ERs have to treat all, regardless of ability to pay. Urgicenters don't. Sounds to me like a job for a social worker in conjunction w/ ER staff, maybe a PA. But there will always be abusers...

  16. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JWaldron replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    There's always 'bad bronicals'. Surely someone has come in w/ that!

  17. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JWaldron replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    I no longer work the ED, but somebody came in for removal of blackheads when I was working there. Now THAT was pretty silly - right up there w/ hangnails!

  18. Charting Bloopers

    JWaldron replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    I think the idea is to inflate the balloon and apply pressure w/ it. That's the way I've seen it done. I don't understand what you would do w/ suction cath except to remove the blood, which wouldn't...

  19. Charting Bloopers

    JWaldron replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    I got pulled off my unit to work as the Unit Clerk on another floor (at RN wages, how's THAT for cost-effective planning!?!), and got this one to transcribe: "Pt may walk on floor". Must have brought...

  20. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JWaldron replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Oh, and then there was the patient wanted to know it he had 'roaches of the liver' (cirrhosis) because if he did, it was too late to stop drinking, and if he didn't, why stop?

  21. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JWaldron replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    And then want a ride back home. "Aw, come on, man! Waddya mean I can't get no ride home? You brought me here! I don't got no cab money. I know my rights!"

  22. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JWaldron replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Blackheads A pierced earlobe ripped through when caught by a hairbrush (15 years earlier!) Tattoo removal (on Christmas Day, of course) "I think I have dandruff, I need an antibiotic." The guy w/ a...

  23. Charting Bloopers

    JWaldron replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    Don'tcha just love it? That's as good as our recent RHB admission w/ a baloney amputation!

  24. Charting Bloopers

    JWaldron replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    I've seen this too - the inflated balloon does a great job of controlling epistaxis. I saw it more when I worked ER than I do now, but I had a pt in RHB a few months ago w/ a gusher, and I wanted to...

  25. Ever had a nurse or doc as a patient?

    JWaldron replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    Did you say 'walk her around the stalls'?:Snow: