In most states, we can check and see if you're licensed for free online. I don't get why people think pretending to be a healthcare provider is a smart idea.
A patient went from being a nursing student to being a nurse. Patient also claimed to have gone to nursing school for five years and then additional year after that. I looked online and they had mutiple closed applications for a LVN license but no license!
I accidentally asked her if she graduated after she through ot the amount of time she was a nursing student. She said yes and then I followed up with are you actually a nurse. Someone lied.
Although she is not the weirdest person to claim to be a nurse. I've had one person back when I was a student who claimed to work in the same ER where I worked 48+ hours a week. He was clearly not a nurse or working there as a CNA. No one knew him.
The two things I've seen that work well when people show up unwanted at your door are: imply that you're a polygamist & answer with a firearm in sight. In neither case have the unwanted visitors returned.
Answering the door naked also works.
I once had some church folk come to my door trying to get me to come to their new church. They were talking with me and left rather quickly when my wine of the month club shipment was delivered and the box was marked all over with FRAGILE: CONTAINS ALCOHOL. Apparently they don't appreciate wine like I do. *shrugs*
You have to be careful answering the door naked or armed come to think of it. The last time I went tearing through the house, large angry dog at my side, wearing nothing but an extreamly thin robe intending to yank open my door and tell off whoever was reapeatedly banging on it. There was a police officer on the other side. I don't know which one of us was more shocked. I stood stock still, he stepped back and put a hand on his gun.
I grabbed the dog and turned behind me to look at my clock. Then I looked at him and said. "My work called you didn't they" to which he replied "yeah, you want to call them and let them know your ok." I had overslept for the first time in fourteen years. My phone was apparently not working. When I didn't show up and they couldn't reach me they thought I was dead or injured. That's what HR told me anyway.
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You have to be careful answering the door naked or armed come to think of it. The last time I went tearing through the house, large angry dog at my side, wearing nothing but an extreamly thin robe intending to yank open my door and tell off whoever was reapeatedly banging on it. There was a police officer on the other side. I don't know which one of us was more shocked. I stood stock still, he stepped back and put a hand on his gun.
I grabbed the dog and turned behind me to look at my clock. Then I looked at him and said. "My work called you didn't they" to which he replied "yeah, you want to call them and let them know your ok." I had overslept for the first time in fourteen years. My phone was apparently not working. When I didn't show up and they couldn't reach me they thought I was dead or injured. That's what HR told me anyway.
Most of us don't PLAN to answer the door naked or toting a gun . . . It's something that just seems to happen, what with the adrenalin of being woken from a sound sleep. Or perhaps the shotgun was planned, but the naked was not? I sleep covered just in case, ever since I woke up after a night shift to find the building manager in my bedroom watching me sleep. He said he was there to "fix a plumbing issue" and swears up and down he didn't know I was home. Perhaps that is true. Maybe the white noise from my huge, industrial fan drowned out the noise of him actually knocking. At any rate, I've never slept naked again, at least not when I was alone.
I've sent the police to a colleague's door. Usually was just someone oversleeping and the land lines being down in their area. In fact, at least twice, the police discovered obvious problems with the phone lines in making their "safety check". Once, a tornado knocked the lines down and in another case a drunk driver hit a telephone pole. (OK, it's obvious that this was a LONG time ago!). Once, though, a colleague who had just lost her boyfriend had suicided and the police we at work at sent to her house found the bodies of her and her pets. Another time, I floated to the other ICU, and my relief (the guy who had given report to me 12 hours ago) didn't show up. The charge gave me his number and asked me to call his house. The phone was answered by his very distraught SO screaming that "I can't wake him up! He's not breathing". Both of those were very sad situations.
What freaking plumbing was he fixing in your bedroom?? Heads would roll, as they should be giving you 24h notice before entry. Not staring at a sleeping woman. That is one scary wake up.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
What freaking plumbing was he fixing in your bedroom?? Heads would roll, as they should be giving you 24h notice before entry. Not staring at a sleeping woman. That is one scary wake up.
Yeah, it was one scary wake up. But it was in the 1970s, and things were different then. I was young and stupid, for one thing. I was fresh off the farm, quite literally. I didn't know anything about 24 hour notice before entry, and was hesitant to ascribe nefarious motives to folks without a whole lot more proof than that. My father pooh-poohed my concerns, but it did help me install a security chain.
You have to be careful answering the door naked or armed come to think of it. The last time I went tearing through the house, large angry dog at my side, wearing nothing but an extreamly thin robe intending to yank open my door and tell off whoever was reapeatedly banging on it. There was a police officer on the other side. I don't know which one of us was more shocked. I stood stock still, he stepped back and put a hand on his gun.
I grabbed the dog and turned behind me to look at my clock. Then I looked at him and said. "My work called you didn't they" to which he replied "yeah, you want to call them and let them know your ok." I had overslept for the first time in fourteen years. My phone was apparently not working. When I didn't show up and they couldn't reach me they thought I was dead or injured. That's what HR told me anyway.
To be fair, I wasn't totally naked, and I knew it was JW's on the other side of the door that I had politely asked repeatedly not to come back before answering the door. But I was just naked enough to make them hella uncomfortable and I haven't seen them since.
OlivetheRN, ADN, BSN, RN
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Answering the door naked also works.
I once had some church folk come to my door trying to get me to come to their new church. They were talking with me and left rather quickly when my wine of the month club shipment was delivered and the box was marked all over with FRAGILE: CONTAINS ALCOHOL. Apparently they don't appreciate wine like I do. *shrugs*