Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

tvccrn, ASN, RN · Jul 22, 2008

How do you even know if they are on medicaid? Maybe it's the area you live in, but here we don't care about the financial stuff. We just care for the patients.

admorn03 · Jul 22, 2008

Never pull out your NG tube and state " don't need that any more" and proceed to state "this is the worse doctors office I have ever been in" when you have been told several times that you are in a hospital and why you have the NG in the first place.

Never tell your nurse that you are not having any SOB, chest pain or numbness and tingling, the whole 12 hour shift, then proceed to tell the doctor when he rounds in the morning that this occurred twice lasting for 40 minutes each during the shift, eventhough the nurse rounds honestly ever hour as protocal.

Never tell your nurse that you have taken lorazepam before in the past and proceed to pull out your PICC line, strip naked, and then pull out your foley, while standing at the side of your bed, with your roomate watching, after only having 0.25mg lorazepam IVP. Filling out an incident report is no fun.

Don't bend over to pick up an item off the floor at the waist when you have been admitted for hypotension, lightheadness and dizziness, and been told by staff to not do this. You might end up kissing floor. Again incident reports are no fun to fill out.

Don't be on vaction in Florida and call you doctors office in the other state 2,000 miles away because you have been having slurred speech with receptive aphasia and numbness and tingling with facial droop for 3 days because you did not want to ruin your holiday vacation with the family.

Don't call your doctors office 5 minutes before closing, after you have been having SOB and chest pain all day and thought it would go away or because you don't want to get admitted again. PLEASE CALL YOUR DOCTOR RIGHT AWAY.

Never leave a tampon in and have sex over a 2 month period and wonder why you have a raging lady partsl infection.

Never call your doctor's office with complaint of severe asthma exacerbation several times over the last 3 weeks, not use your inhalers, and proceed to tell the triage nurse that you wantt to wait until the following week to see your doctor because you have a project due for work that you have to finish over the weekend.

Clinics cna be just as interesting as any ER, especially when patient's call you for advise and don;t want to follow thru. Can't make the patient go to the ER.

nursebabygirl 08 · Jul 23, 2008

never pull your g-tube out and say "it's not in there right!!

never swallow a quarter while you're drunk and come to have a endoscopy

never put your stud earrings in your shirt pocket along with your pills and when it's time,put them all in your mouth.

never give your entire family your laxative prep and tell them to drink it it's kool-aid thats good for you:uhoh3:

never bend down to pick up something with the pt's butt right in your face:barf01:(you may get a surprise)

Hey guys can you tell i'm a GI nurse?

rph3664 · Jul 23, 2008

How do you even know if they are on medicaid? Maybe it's the area you live in, but here we don't care about the financial stuff. We just care for the patients.

In retail pharmacy, the patient must present their Medicaid card every time they come in. It's not a bad idea for people with private insurance to have their cards with them as well; should we run into a problem, it makes things MUCH easier to resolve.

Roy Fokker, BSN, RN · Jul 23, 2008

BTW, what is "car surfing?"

Car surfing is when someone rides on the roof of a car while a "friend" drives like a maniac, and other "friends" tape the event.

Some friends.

Sooooo,

of 'car surfing'.... does it?

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cheers,

Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP · Jul 25, 2008

Equally stupid, IMO Roy!

(But you have to admit, it must take talent.)

southlandshari · Jul 25, 2008

If a practitioner of any type is irritated by a patient being on Medicaid, they have no business being in health care. Did you know that most Medicaid dollars are spent on the elderly in nursing homes, and younger people who reside in group homes and other care facilities? My grandmother was on it for the last few years of her life, because she was eligible.
I have been censured for being nice to Medicaid patients:madface: but as long as I had to deal with them face to face, I did my best to treat all my customers the same. I often went out of my way to treat the parents of young children well, because it was really obvious that many of them had not experienced a lot of kindness in their lives.

Thank you.

:bow:

Daywalker · Jul 26, 2008

workingforskies...I have to ask, are nurses usually irritated when a patient is on medicaid or only if they are insultive to the nurse/staff?

It's reading things like this that remind me why it's great to be Canadian.

grace90, LPN, LVN · Jul 29, 2008

Sooooo,
of 'car surfing'.... does it?
cheers,

Oh....My!!!!! :eek:

That's pretty much car surfing, or darn close to it, anyway. Sheesh!!! :yeah: :clphnds:*wine

prmenrs, RN · Jul 29, 2008

Reminds me, once again, that males ages 12 to 30 (and some females) do not have a tight grasp on human mortality as a concept that applies to them personnally.

Atheos · Jul 29, 2008

Reminds me, once again, that males ages 12 to 30 (and some females) do not have a tight grasp on human mortality as a concept that applies to them personnally.

Oh we do... We just don't care. :)

Call it our 'hormones!!!'

I would so car surf if it were a sport in America! Bungie jumping and skydiving gets old....

lpnstudentin2010, LPN · Jul 29, 2008

Reminds me, once again, that males ages 12 to 30 (and some females) do not have a tight grasp on human mortality as a concept that applies to them personnally.

It is the "it will never happen to me" phenominon. People my age think nothing bad will happen to them or those they know, just "other" people. They do not realize those "other" people are thinking the same thing. STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!!!