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?
how do you know that "a good portion of your peers" are voting for Obama??
Unnecessary and uncalled for, indeed.
I don't think that's what she meant. There are people here, like me, who did not vote for Obama-yet still find your comment to be totally out of place. Now back to our regularly scheduled thread
Specializes in Leadership, Psych, HomeCare, Amb. Care.
A social worker careplanned on a quad. patient & his needs for sexual gratification...she expected nursing to perform oral sex on him! That is one dumb thing I'll never forget!
I wonder if someone then told her that that need was not a treatment need, but social...
I don't think that's what she meant. There are people here, like me, who did not vote for Obama-yet still find your comment to be totally out of place. Now back to our regularly scheduled thread
oooh, the one about missed orifices made me remember my first year out of school--
i was working in a pacu and we often had people come in with et tubes in place who could have them out as soon as they woke up enough not to like them . we would put an inch or two of a o2 catheter in it and secure it on the side, sort of like taping an ng to the side of the nose. i was in charge one evening when we got one like this, and the lpn went to admit her. i looked over a few minutes later and this woman is almost flying off the guerney, purple.... i ran over there and found that the o2 tube had been secured with so much tape that the end of the et tube was completely airtight.
after ripping that off and bagging the heck out of her and getting her settled down and extubated, i calmed myself as much as possible and took the lpn into the office off the main room and asked her how she expected this woman to breathe with her et tube sealed off. "through her nose, silly," she said. after retrieving my mandible from the floor i turned to the big sagittal section picture of the head and neck and made her show me where the tube went, where the balloon was, and then tell me again how this woman was supposed to breathe. omg. this story makes me short of breath even now.
so many things wrong, starting with how this one got through the first day of lpn school.....
Specializes in med-surg, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP.
I think she deserved a 'show and tell' of exactly what she did to that poor woman, let HER not breathe for a minute or so. Oh, and don't forget to stand by and say..."Your nose! Breathe through your nose, silly!".
Maybe I'm just in a mean mood today, but that starched my underoos.
I think she deserved a 'show and tell' of exactly what she did to that poor woman, let HER not breathe for a minute or so. Oh, and don't forget to stand by and say..."Your nose! Breathe through your nose, silly!".
Maybe I'm just in a mean mood today, but that starched my underoos.
Hear ya Some things are just plain unacceptable with someone who actually has a license :)
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
okay, this whole "I have no idea of basic human female anatomy" thing is just bumming me out...my 9yo DD knows that she has a urethra & a lady parts and they are 2 different orfices with 2 different purposes!! my little son knows that girls have lady partss for babies to be born and urethras to pee out off...i am flabbergasted by these people!
truly i am ashamed for humanity:o
Different generations, maybe? Things just weren't spoken of not too few years ago. Kids now know more. On another thread I mentioned my 3 yr. old niece explaning to her dad's friend the difference between a girl getting her period and a female dog being in heat.
Again, on the female anatomy...I remember listening to a Bill Cosby record at a friend's house, and it was the bit about 'natural childbirth' and the breathing exercises. We were about 8 or 9, and my friend insisted that natural childbirth meant the baby came out of the mom's butt. When I corrected her she said I was wrong because, "babies don't come out wet, they come out all goopy." I tried to explain that pee comes out the pee-hole (didn't know the word for that until age 12 or so), and periods and babies come out the lady parts, but she was having none of it. Pee comes out the front, everything else comes out the back. Okay fine.
Different generations, maybe? Things just weren't spoken of not too few years ago. Kids now know more. On another thread I mentioned my 3 yr. old niece explaning to her dad's friend the difference between a girl getting her period and a female dog being in heat.
That's how I got to stay up later at night- ask Mom loaded sex questions at bedtime!! I was 7 !! :dncgbby: :hpygrp:
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I don't think that's what she meant. There are people here, like me, who did not vote for Obama-yet still find your comment to be totally out of place. Now back to our regularly scheduled thread