ripping an arm out of a socket...is this true

[lpnstudentin2010]

Ok I was just in the hospital...I was still having trouble getting myself up out of bed, off the toilet, etc and a nurse I had who was helping me said that I had to do it myself because using her arm to get off the toilet would rip her arm out of the socket. Is there any truth to this?

[lpnstudentin2010, LPN]

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[lpnstudentin2010, LPN]

Thanks for all your responses. I also am not much inclined to like this nurse because the night before my IV alarm was beeping for 45 min I called the nurses station 3 times and my roomates boyfriend called 2 times and she NEVER CAME. a Clinical Assistint came in to take my vital signs and said o why didnt you call us for that. I told her i had and the boyfriend said that he had also. so i dont like this nurse much anyway

[ktwlpn, LPN]

Thanks for all your responses. I also am not much inclined to like this nurse because the night before my IV alarm was beeping for 45 min I called the nurses station 3 times and my roomates boyfriend called 2 times and she NEVER CAME. a Clinical Assistint came in to take my vital signs and said o why didnt you call us for that. I told her i had and the boyfriend said that he had also. so i dont like this nurse much anyway

Ive got to tell you that there really is no way of knowing what else was going on during that 45 mins-the crap could have really been hitting the fan with another patient...However-if you have a good crew of nurses working together anyone will respond to a simple IV pump alarm...I don't like that "It's not MY patient " attitude....As for telling you her arm would rip out of her socket if she lifted you-could she have been joking abit? Maybe you had not been as compliant as you should have been and she was jollying you along to get moving? I don't like to make sweeping generalizations but patients around your age have been some of the most challenging I've cared for -too old for the pediatric unit but really not fully adults-(specially after abdominal surgery -yikes...)

[lpnstudentin2010, LPN]

Ive got to tell you that there really is no way of knowing what else was going on during that 45 mins-the crap could have really been hitting the fan with another patient...However-if you have a good crew of nurses working together anyone will respond to a simple IV pump alarm...I don't like that "It's not MY patient " attitude....As for telling you her arm would rip out of her socket if she lifted you-could she have been joking abit? Maybe you had not been as compliant as you should have been and she was jollying you along to get moving? I don't like to make sweeping generalizations but patients around your age have been some of the most challenging I've cared for -too old for the pediatric unit but really not fully adults-(specially after abdominal surgery -yikes...)

I see what you are saying and for all i know other things were going on. I was doing my best to be compliant but I was still weak from the surgery, had an IV board on my stronger hand so i was unable to use it as readily, and my head was aching from having had reconstructive surgery on my face. but i DO see what you are saying

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

I can go along with a nurse encouraging you to do some of your ADLs yourself, but using the excuse of the possibility of ripping her arm out of the socket is really off the wall! What she was referring to is dislocating her shoulder. That is a very real kind of injury where the joint dislocates. Once it happens the ligments in the shoulder are usually weakened and it is much easier for another dislocation to occur again. Even if something like this had happened to this nurse in the past it was very inappropriate and unprofessional of her to say it to you like she did. There are more tactful ways to get people up and moving without bringing one's own personal health problems into the situation.

Ever have a chicken that you literally tore the drumstick off of? We had a patient some years ago who was in a auto accident. He happened to have his arm sticking out of the open window of his car when he was hit from behind. His arm was literally torn apart at the shoulder joint much the way that would have happened with an uncooked chicken where you bend the leg and it snaps out of it's joint. Hope you don't have nightmares tonight with a vision of that.

[P_RN, ADN, RN]

I had a slip and fall onto my outstretched arm and yes indeed it dislocated my shoulder. However, I think the nurse was a little less than tactful saying that to you.

I was able to come back on light duty because I was an RN. LPNs and techs would not have been given the option. I really don't know why.

It really, really, really hurt I might add.

[LoriAlabamaRN]

Some people have a shoulder condition that makes it very easy to dislocate. I had a friend with this, and he dislocated his once pulling himself out of a pool while I was with him... he was totalyl calm and explained to me exactly how to position his arm and what to do, and it popped right back in. I was very shaky after though!