Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

jett01 · Jul 29, 2005

One night shift had a patient roll out of bed onto the floor. There were three of us in there talking about the best way to get him back to bed. All the lights were on in the room. I step back from the fallen patient for a moment and the roomate tries to hand me his water pitcher and says, "Hey buddy could you get me some water?" When I responded that we had a guy down on the floor he looks over and says, "Oh, I didn't see him."

jett01 · Jul 29, 2005

Had another fella who had an order for a rectal tube prn with some parameters. He called me in and said he needed it. As I got some things together he rolled over like a little kid with a big grin on his face and said, "boy when they put this in down in the ER that baby cracked like a shotgun!"

Sue7573 · Jul 30, 2005

OK, I'll start by saying that at the LTC facility where I work, some of the incontinent pads are pink. That said, we have one resident who rang the call bell to be changed, because she is 'allergic to pink'!!!!!!:rotfl:

I had a res. once insist that the entire pink pad be covered with a sheet because the moths have already eaten an entire side off the pink.

jonnygirl27 · Aug 11, 2005

Our call lights ring to our portable phones--so we get the joy of talking to the patients without actually BEING there...

From the same (pleasently) confused woman:

--(in complete panic) Help! There's a watermelon in my bed!

--I smell buring rubber.

krob0729 · Aug 11, 2005

Had a woman who was 101. She rung her bell but then just looked at us. Eventually she said "Am I dead yet?".

I would have looked at her as seriously as I could without cracking a smile and said "Yes ma'am, I'm sorry, you passed about an hour ago, the funeral home will be here any second to pick you up". :rotfl: :rotfl:

Well, maybe not, it might actually give her a heart attack knowing my luck.

krob0729 · Aug 11, 2005

I was called to a room in assisted living because we had a 101 yr old man that was terrified because "his plumbing was gone!". Come to find out he must have been cold, and his "johnson" shrank back.

This must really be an elderly issue with the men, because I don't know how many times I have heard nurses talking about this. :chuckle

emeraldjay · Aug 15, 2005

As a CNA I get to hear all sorts of things. My favorite, NOT, is the lady who prefers to be covered with towels, washcloths, well, anything that isn't a bedsheet. She will ring to have her washcloth moved either up or down her hand at most a half inch.

kea6783 · Aug 20, 2005

Not nursing related, but geriatric talk reminded me..

my best friend, Michelle, Her grandpa is getting old and he always talks about dying, and it really depresses her.

Well, it never fails, he'll say, " Sweetie, I'm going../It's time for me to go../Are you ready for me to go.."

She rolls her eyes and says, "where Poppa?"

And he just points to the sky..

DRIVES HER NUTS!

URO-RN · Aug 20, 2005

"pull up my covers." Sheesh.

grace90, LPN, LVN · Sep 15, 2005

Here's a cute one... "There's my empty water glass and (points to his urinal on the window sill) there's some used water." :lol2:

lpnstudentin2010, LPN · Sep 16, 2005

Here's a cute one... "There's my empty water glass and (points to his urinal on the window sill) there's some used water."

that is so funny

curlyfries · Sep 16, 2005

I had a roommate on the ped floor who was in the hosptial for eating disorder. He would constantly ring the nurse and say, "help, I've fallen and I can't get up!." This was back in 1990 when that statement was popular. Yah I was a ped back then too!