Got to thinking about this one today, and was reminded of it when I read another thread on here...what's teh dumbest thing you've ever heard in nursing, as an explanation for a malady?
For example, the one that sticks out for me is one that I heard as a new nurse, many moons ago. I was doing an assessment on a patient, and a family member of said patient had her sone with her, who was profoundly mentally and physically handicapped. Of course, I would have never presumed to ask the nature of his complaint, but she was only too happy to volunteer it.
"When he was born, the nurse in the room had long fingernails and she scratched his head. That's why he's like this. It's all her fault. We tried to sue her, but the judge threw out the case."
I was stunned, to say the least, and didn't challenge it as hogwash outright, but I did ask,
"Did she puncture his scalp with her nails?"
"No, she just scratched him on the head. It didn't show, but she did it."
You can bet money I was VERY thorough with that assessment. Heaven forbid the lady get staph or some other dread condition because my hair or eyelashes were too long.
Anyone else ever heard a completely absurd reasoning for someone's ailments?
In my A&P lab, my instructor was talking about the differences between hormones and pheromones. As he's explaining pheromones, a hand goes up in the back of the room. This girl says, "so you're saying that if I'm talking to a guy on the phone he can tell if I'm on my period? What if I use a cell phone? Can he still smell my pheromones?" (and she said it like "fur-mones")!
I don't know how the class kept it together and didn't embarrass her by laughing, but we did!
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
In my A&P lab, my instructor was talking about the differences between hormones and pheromones. As he's explaining pheromones, a hand goes up in the back of the room. This girl says, "so you're saying that if I'm talking to a guy on the phone he can tell if I'm on my period? What if I use a cell phone? Can he still smell my pheromones?" (and she said it like "fur-mones")!
I don't know how the class kept it together and didn't embarrass her by laughing, but we did!
In my A&P lab, my instructor was talking about the differences between hormones and pheromones. As he's explaining pheromones, a hand goes up in the back of the room. This girl says, "so you're saying that if I'm talking to a guy on the phone he can tell if I'm on my period? What if I use a cell phone? Can he still smell my pheromones?" (and she said it like "fur-mones")!
I don't know how the class kept it together and didn't embarrass her by laughing, but we did!
OMG... and this was a nursing student??? LOL :rotfl::smackingf
We were told in class of a patient who presented to ER with a potato in rectum. According to the pt, he slipped and fell in the bathtub.
I have tried several times to imagine how a potato could lodge itself in there in a bathtub of water.
C'mon son! (Ed Lover voice)
The second thing is not dumb (I loved this pt), just funny.
A patient told me to "go in the kitchen and fix her something to eat." Keep in mind we are in LTC facility and I have no access to kitchen, she has Alzheimer's. She then said that she has no problem with my kind and "they" may not like my kind in the kitchen (I'm African American) but to tell "them" that she sent me:).
We were told in class of a patient who presented to ER with a potato in rectum. According to the pt, he slipped and fell in the bathtub.
I have tried several times to imagine how a potato could lodge itself in there in a bathtub of water.
C'mon son! (Ed Lover voice)
The second thing is not dumb (I loved this pt), just funny.
A patient told me to "go in the kitchen and fix her something to eat." Keep in mind we are in LTC facility and I have no access to kitchen, she has Alzheimer's. She then said that she has no problem with my kind and "they" may not like my kind in the kitchen (I'm African American) but to tell "them" that she sent me:).
I had a former co-worker, who at the time was a nursing student working as a CNA....she went on to work in OR, and told me about a guy who had a mustard jar up in the nether-regions.... Got the buns and the weiner- guess he needed condiments
That is really bad !!
:rotfl::smackingf
C'mon son! (Ed Lover voice)
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I SWEAR, I couldn't make this up if I tried...
During the L&D part of nursing school, a fellow student was convinced, and argued, that uncircumcised man could not get you pregnant.
I mean, really. REALLY! SOMEBODY LIED TO HER!