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Just got home from my evening shift and had a couple things happen that were just too funny to keep quiet. First, as soon as I arrived I learned that my middle aged patient down the hall just urinated in the closet. ..still unsure what came over him! He was lucid mostly the whole night except peeing all over the room! Secondly while charting at the desk at the end of my shift a younger pt. came and informed me that he wanted moved to a private room due to his roomate massaging the young man's feet and "praying for him" Sometimes dont you think you work at a psych. facility?

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Specializes in Med/Surge.

:chuckle :chuckle :chuckle The first one was just "marking" his territory........can you imagine his house??? :rotfl:

The second guy.............what's he complaining about? Prayers and a foot massage................I will find something to get me into your hospital with the massager any day!!

I have only worked on MS unit for 5 shifts and I agree that this past sunday I did feel like I was in a psych unit!!! We had a pt from the local psych hosp that ripped her iv out and then proceeded with escape attempts running down the halls with her whole back side exposed!!! :uhoh21:

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Specializes in Community Health Nurse.

Too funny! :rotfl:

Med/Surg IS Psych to me. :rotfl:

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Sounds like a typical shift to me. Be glad you could get a smile out of this, sometimes patients can be really nasty.

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Specializes in Telemetry, ICU, Resource Pool, Dialysis.

It's even funnier when 2 confused people talk (or yell) at each other from different rooms. "Hey! Keep it down over there!" "Who the H*** are you? Get outta my house!" "Ethel! WHO is that MAN in there?"

Don't get me wrong - it's not funny that they ARE confused, it's just they say the funniest things sometimes!

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Specializes in Med-surg > LTC > HH >.
Too funny! :rotfl:

Med/Surg IS Psych to me. :rotfl:

HEY CHEERFULDOER, I LIKE YOUR AVATAR, BUT IT SUR DOESN'T MATCH YOU NAME.:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: . SORRY IT'S JUST AN OBSERVATION I HAD TO BRING UP.:p
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Specializes in Community Health Nurse.
HEY CHEERFULDOER, I LIKE YOUR AVATAR, BUT IT SUR DOESN'T MATCH YOU NAME.:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: . SORRY IT'S JUST AN OBSERVATION I HAD TO BRING UP.:p

Thanks! :) I bring cheer to children every chance I get. So many children are suffering in our world, and many of those children are our neighbors, classmates of our own kids, kids in the churches or synagogues we attend, hospitalized children, children on the playgrounds we pass all the time when we take our own kids to the park to play, kids that are related to us who suffer in silence.....the list is endless. I wanted to display that avatar in memory to those children I hold dear in my heart whether I have personal knowledge of them or not. I want to remember them this week with that avatar. It's the least I could display publicly as well as taking the time to get involved to stop the wasting of our future...our children. For one week, that avatar is my way of displaying the sorrow in my heart for all little children who are without a voice to escape their pain. :crying2: Feel free to borrow it if you want. I don't mind at all. :)

Next week, I'll display a different avatar. :balloons:

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Specializes in Med-surg > LTC > HH >.

Hey cheerfuldoer, I wish I could borrow your avatar but I'm not a paying customer:crying2: , but it is a beautiful one and represents alot of sadness now that you mention it. I love children too. There is sooo much sadness in the world. But I really do like your avatar.:p

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Specializes in ACNP-BC.
It's even funnier when 2 confused people talk (or yell) at each other from different rooms. "Hey! Keep it down over there!" "Who the H*** are you? Get outta my house!" "Ethel! WHO is that MAN in there?"

Don't get me wrong - it's not funny that they ARE confused, it's just they say the funniest things sometimes!

Too Funny!!! :chuckle

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.
Too funny! :rotfl:

Med/Surg IS Psych to me. :rotfl:

You got THAT right........between the detoxers, the psych pts. who stop taking their meds, and the demented/confused NH residents, Med/Surg is loaded with mental patients!! :uhoh3:

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Specializes in Peds, PICU, Home health, Dialysis.

A few years back I was shadowing nurses in a nursing home, and they had the setup where all of the patients had little ankle braclets on so if they left to go outside, an alarm would go off letting everyone know that one of the patients had "escaped". There was this one elderly lady who must not have been any taller than 5'3" who had amnesia. She was a sweet old lady and it was sad to see her deteriorate so quickly, but she was trying to make the best out of her last days. During her "bad" days, she would get disoriented and attempt to escape. Although its sad to think that this lady had no idea what was going on and all she wanted to do was get away, it was a comical sight to watch her. She would take a walker from some other room (she didn't need a walker), and she would pretend to slowly walk out to the front lounge thinking none of the nurses would notice that she had a walker. In her confused mind, she thought everyone knew that she always had a walker, when in reality she never used one. So when she got the walker out, they knew she was going to try and run. So she would slowly walk to the lounge with her walker pretending to be crippled and walk very slowly, and she would all of the sudden throw her walker and run as fast as she could out the front doors. Sometimes she would put on her tennis shoes but keep her gown on to make the appearance that she was just going out to the lounge. It was a comical sight, but always sad when they had to drag her back in fighting and crying because she wanted to go "home" to see her husband (her husband had passed away many years ago).

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.

Yes, very funny. :)

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