Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

JeanneRN83, BSN · Aug 19, 2009

And of course, there was the gun found by environmental services underneath the dental chair.

Ok, so it wasn't "found on (or in) a pt" but you get my drift...

Guess he was afraid of dental procedures!

squeakykitty · Aug 19, 2009

A patient once gave me a urine sample that had ants in it. I didn't even ask why, where, how ... ?! The lab guy's face: priceless!

Okay-----------!?!

I don't think I really want to know how this happened. :eek:

morte, LPN, LVN · Aug 19, 2009

A patient once gave me a urine sample that had ants in it. I didn't even ask why, where, how ... ?! The lab guy's face: priceless!

be ye sure they were ants? lol

Editorial Team / Moderator · Aug 19, 2009

be ye sure they were ants? lol

LOL! Yep, pretty sure, just by the looks of 'em. I didn't pull them out and send them to an entomologist!

Editorial Team / Moderator · Aug 19, 2009

Oh, and I almost forgot about this one: big ol' clove of garlic in the lady parts. NOT the same pt as the ant lady, though. It was this one doc's first day in our ER, and I went in with him to do a pelvic. I thought he was going to fall over laughing, but he held it together until we got out of the room.

emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B · Aug 24, 2009

Yesterday ----

Morning - psych pt brought in from facility for removal of fb from lady parts, pencil removed. pt sent back to facility.

Evening - same pt sent back to us for removal of fb from lady parts, playing card removed (one of the techs won the betting pool on which card it was). pt then requests to use toilet, facility staff with allows her into bathroom. fb then has to be removed from lady parts, rolled up wad of toilet paper. pt sent back to facility. In restraints......

Editorial Team / Moderator · Aug 24, 2009

Yikes. You have to wonder what happened to a person who does that ... or maybe it's best not to know.

bluebird123 · Aug 26, 2009

To Lunah about the garlic clove....I heard somewhere that its a "home remedy" for yeast infections.

gross.

Editorial Team / Moderator · Aug 26, 2009

To Lunah about the garlic clove....I heard somewhere that its a "home remedy" for yeast infections.

Yeah, I've heard the same. The doc had never heard of it, though. Ha! It was too funny.

Jerry 75 · Aug 28, 2009

I am working evenings as RN in Busy ED. Guy comes limping in and another Nurse puts him in a gown and checks him in. A few minutes later Doc talks to him then sends him into my room OB/GYN room.

C/O stomach pain. Doc just did a rectal and felt some thing hard and it was not a turd.

Pt. states I was at work and sat on the toilet and something slipped into my ass. On abd film we saw what turned out to be a 10 " Craftsman ratchet extension. I was wondering if this was workmens comp or not?

Jerry 75 · Aug 28, 2009

I used to work on the Bowery in Manhattan both as an EMT then Medic and finally ER Nurse there. Bums would take off there 3 or 4 jackets and sweaters and all sorts of dust and roaches and junk would come out. Lice in thier hair and maggots in their Toes. This Junkie who used to work for us as a transporter loved to get the maggots off Pt's cause he could get high on the either used on the maggots.

squeakykitty · Aug 28, 2009

I used to work on the Bowery in Manhattan both as an EMT then Medic and finally ER Nurse there. Bums would take off there 3 or 4 jackets and sweaters and all sorts of dust and roaches and junk would come out. Lice in thier hair and maggots in their Toes. This Junkie who used to work for us as a transporter loved to get the maggots off Pt's cause he could get high on the either used on the maggots.

I'm probably not going to want to know this, but just how did the guy use the maggots to get his high?