When I am in a room with a precaution patient-wearing a gown, gloves and mask - and I ask the patient if there is anything else I can do for them. Then the patient says they are all set and don't need anything. Then as soon as I take the mask,gown and gloves off at the doorway, the patient says "come to think of it, I could use the bedpan!"
I had to float to a different unit in the hospital I was currently working for. The report I got was the patient was being treated for pneumonia but he was doing so much better. When I walked in the room to introduce myself, the patient is lying in the bed.........dead!