Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

[RN06-NP09]

You guys always crack me up, so I came up with this question to hear more funny weird stories.

What were some funny, stupid, or weird reasons patients push the call light for?

Are you supposed to go to the room right away or how does it work? I will be an RN next year and interested in knowing more about the actual daily life w/ pt.

Here are some of the best...

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[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

Some of our more confused pt's just bypass the call light system and dial the ER for assist. Then the ER will call us to go check on the pt in room ......

[nurse 18]

i work in er and had pt come in with pimp who told me i was cute and he put me on streets lol i told him 50 cc of this needle which was empty of course you work for me:yeah:carma played role 45 mins pimp came in someone beat him up lol guess who stiched him up yep wah

[rkitty198, BSN, RN]

I had a new colostomy patient who was in his early 40's.

He would call me on the call bell asking for a Nurse to check his rectum because he "felt something pop."

Of course I go and look to only find a sutured up rectum and nothing else.

Again and again he called that day saying the same thing.

The last time I went in he had his mesh underwear pulled down around his ankles and was masterbating and he had a Foley!

He said "I am feeling like something is gonna pop."

Then he said "its okay I am a Baptist."

I walked right out of there and was so happy that my shift was over. I never had to see that again!

[jaijin]

My girlfriend was always called by this spanish patient she had, asking her to pick up his soiled "jockeys" from inside the toilet bowl.

[poopRN]

I work on a stroke unit and there was a lady one who couldn't understand the concept of the call light so as a result she would bang her spoon against her plate and yell help as loud as she could to get my attention. You would have thought the lady was dying by the way she was yelling. So I run in the room and she asks me to hand her her right hand (stroke pt so she is unable to move the right hand on her own. I follow her orders and hand her right hand to her left hand and she proceeds to move her left hand in a way to where her right hand is scratching an area on her face. She told me she had a really bad itch. I suggested to her that she should use her left hand to scratch the itch since that is her strong side. She looks at me for a second and then agrees that is a good idea so she drops her right hand and continues to scratch the itch with her left hand.

[manjaNurse]

A few times while I was on duty, the call lights beep on their own....from empty rooms or empty toilets....and the doors were locked from the inside! now, what's up with that?!

[manjaNurse]

Oh ok i remembered one man! He had a lung transplant, not from a human, but from a pig. he did it in some country and seeked treatment in Singapore because he was not really functioning well.

He was a famous patient, always in and out of the hospital and somehow always ended in my ward. He would press the bell every 5 minutes for EVERYTHING!!

sometimes just to shout at you to go out!

We all just called him a PIG...heheheh

[LPNnowRN]

I work in LTC and had a very busy evening shift. One of my favorite COPDers rang one night around 22:30 and when I went in he said "I just wondered if you want to watch this John Wayne movie with me." Boy--sitting down and watching sounded SO GOOD! I smiled and said that there was nothing else on Earth I'd rather do right then, but that I couldn't because I was so busy. He died a few months after that...I miss him!

[ackiepieRN]

A newly diagnosed lung cancer patient with mets, almost everywhere , rings the call bell. I go in and ask what I can get for him. He wants some water with lemon. Okay, no big deal. I get it for him and leave. Light goes on again. The water isn't HOT. Uhhhh, okay. I warm the water with lemon. I give it to him and wait for him to take a sip before leaving. "THIS IS NOT HOT ENOUGH!" He screams at me. I ask him, very confused "Do you want it near boiling? Like almost burning hot?" To which he replies, "Yes, of course!" I do as he requests and bring the water, and wait for him to sip again. He makes a face and growls, "What are you trying to do, BURN me?"

... what the f***.

[Oklahoma101010rn]

I had a resident ring her bell and ask me to flush her toilet as she moved her bowels so that when she moved her bowels the water wouldnt splash her rear end....I had to turn my head so she wouldnt see my giggling

[Bellasmommy]

I had a lady push the call light for water. (Not funny, right?) I took her water and left the room. She rang the call light again and said I didn't get her water, I gave her purex. About an hour later she asked me to be her private nurse and that she'd pay be $400,000,000 a year. Lol.

[Jenni811, RN]

I had a patient put his call light on and asked me to itch his foot.