We all have lots of stories to tell. I thought it would be fun if we shared a few of our funniest patient stories with each other.
Here's mine...
I keep remembering a particular incident a few years back. It wasn't even my patient.
I was heading down the hallway on the CCU unit in which I worked. I was minding my own business, heading down the hallway and I just happened to glance into a patient room...
I couldn't believe what I saw...
An older gentleman, who clearly was having some post-op dementia after open heart surgery....
he was sitting up in the middle of his bed and with knees bent and feet braced at the bed rail for extra support....
With both hands...
HE WAS PULLING on all of his CHEST TUBES with ALL OF HIS MIGHT!!!
Needless to say, I sprang into action along with all the surrounding nursing staff. It took security along with all of us to restrain this man so he wouldn't hurt himself. Though it wasn't funny at the time....I can't get this picture out of my mind and find it amusing to remember.
oops sorry, pressed the wrong button! I didnt know about Queen Victoria and to the second question, well, they accused me of being Sairy Gamp--in the end I lost my job! The above account is written as fiction but it is actually true. I was stitched up! Its not really a fuuny story but taken from my book of memoires!
Probably the funniest patient story I have was this young Marine that came in with nausea and vomiting. He was in pretty bad shape. I was a Corpsman at the time(Navy Medic for those that done know) so the doctor prescibes phenrgan suppositories for the guy. So we see the guy back in two days he is feeling better but, cant go to the bathroom.
So, we load this young marine up on the table and decide its going to require a digital disempaction to clear out whatever it is thats giving him this problem.
So, I go to work and to my suprise I fined a suppository still in the foil package dig a little more and end up with 6 suppositories still wrapped neatly in there little foil covering and completely intact.
Now, maybe the nurse just took for granted the guy could figure out that you should take the big square foil package off the suppository before he inserted it but, come on how bad did that have to hurt when he put the thing up there not once but SIX times.........
I was sitting here thinking and came up with a kind of crazy story for you guys.
I was working as a paramedic on a military base and got a call in the middle of the night for a car accident patient ejected from the vehicle. So we load up and hit the road lights and sirens. We rarly got calls for off base stuff so we thought it must be in BFE or really bad so we were in a hurry to say the least. We get there to find a single vehicle accident and the patient out in the middle of the field sitting up arguing with the cop.
I do my assessment his right leg is a little questionable we grab the back board and go to put him on it when we just cant roll him. I go digging around and come to find out his femur is staked into the ground beneath him about 3 inches deep....
the guy never complained of pain and to this day I dont know how he is but man was he feeling good that night .....
The next time you go to Ms Betty Mangle's home, I would take a camera and take a picture of her pills, up close and leave her a picture, and yourselves, with the name of the drugs and time and days on the back.... If only the dog could read???? LOL
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Pad a deux--that's great! That's one of the best lines in the whole story!
Doolally; that's another word I'll be using.
I personally thinkyou should rename the place the Slough of Mangle, like in Pilgrim's Progress. Come to think of it, you could probably writ ea whole parody of that and call it "Nurse's Progress".
When i was working at an alzheimers unit as a lpn, big former military man known for starting arguments with other residents got angry and left to go (so i thought) to his room. About 5 minutes or so later this female resident was yelling get out of my room. He had taken her nightgown and stripped out of his clothes so the only thing he was wearing was his socks and her nightgown, which was a lovely pale blue silk thing that went to his knees. It took some major distraction to get him to his room and then another 20 minutes to convince him to change! Many of us working there had to leave due to laughing so hard!
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Greensister, did you ever see the Dr. Who where a werewolf bites Queen Victoria and she banishes the Doctor and Rose from Victorian England?