Psycho in Psych Unit

[foreverhis]

I once worked in the Psychiatric Unit at a hospital and one day we had a female patient who was a bit psychotic and she had taken a tube of toothpaste and squirted in her ears and all over her head and all I had asked her to do was to brush her teeth!!!After that she went to the payphone in the unit, pretended to call the president of the united states to tell him that she wanted to be realesed since her teeth were clean!! Also she told me when I was making up her bed that I was a piece of nurse and that she could do a better job than me because she use to be a nurse, so I asked her then where are your scrubs and she told me that I had them on (smile). Note this lady was not on medication yet!

[FutureRN~Pookie]

Hmmm.

Kacy

[pugluvnrn]

I remember the psych unit from nursing school!

I came home with such funny stories my daughter wanted me to be a psych nurse.

We had an initial interview with a guy who told us he was from "another galaxy, not unlike other galaxies" when we asked which one he said "Garden Grove"( a city here in O.C.) Then when we told him we needed to take some blood from him, he said he had no blood in his veins, only green shredded paper.You have to laugh (inside) about these events or they will make you really sad. One thing that always came to my mind was that unlike many of our med/surg patients, these patients were not going to get better in any real sense of the word. Also the meds they have to take have terrible side effects- heavy sedation, nausea....See I told you you have to laugh or you will cry!