What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

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Mine was a woman with a severe case of cellulitis in her good leg. It was ulcerated, and wet to dry dressings were applied. The reason I say; "Her good leg," is because her bad leg was one with skin stretched over bone. I asked her how it got that way, and she said when she was an 11 yo, she was hit by a car, and her mom pulled her free before it ran over her entire body, removing the skin from the bone. The skin and the fatty tissue never grew back.

Shows how many years I've been doing this. My first was a "lady partsl stenosis". The girl was getting marries and was still a virgin. The Dr had her in the hospital over night to "stretch " the lady parts. I remember it so well because , the nurses the night before her surg. shaved her. The Dr wa mad because the girl was getting married, and " what in the world would her husband think of her now' . Oh my gosh.....talk about a reduculous DX . Now days that would be considered fraud.

Oh my!!!:trout:

I'll let you know on Wed.!!

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Really nice man in his early 60's w/ Guilian-Barre syndrome, almost ready for dc. Had been on vent and in hospital for a number of weeks, this was in 1985! I hope he did well and has lived a long happy life. What a sweetie he was.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Peds/O.R./Legal/cardiology.

time4me!

GAALEE!!!! That is unbelievable!!!

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Specializes in Tele, Infectious Disease, OHN.
Shows how many years I've been doing this. My first was a "lady partsl stenosis". The girl was getting marries and was still a virgin. The Dr had her in the hospital over night to "stretch " the lady parts. I remember it so well because , the nurses the night before her surg. shaved her. The Dr wa mad because the girl was getting married, and " what in the world would her husband think of her now' . Oh my gosh.....talk about a reduculous DX . Now days that would be considered fraud.

Okay, maybe I don't want to know, but HOW do you stretch it in a hospital???? And how did she know she had it in the first place??? I can only imagine the care plan.

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Okay, maybe I don't want to know, but HOW do you stretch it in a hospital???? And how did she know she had it in the first place??? I can only imagine the care plan.

It was back in 1977, so it's hard to remember all but, I I recall they actually took her to OR and used various sized specs. There is a clinical DX of this but, if I remember, she was just afraid of painful sex. Back then D&C's were hospitalized for 2 days and people came in the hospital just to "rest". Can you imagine turning a claim like that into the insurance co. now. Heck, that Dr would be on the 6:00 news. :idea:

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Specializes in NICU.

A young mom with longstanding liver failure, had had multiple unsuccessful procedures, none of which I remember as I only seem to know NICU stuff these days. Something about bypassing her spleen, maybe? Anyway, she was on-call for a possible transplant, I guess pending confirmation that the liver was good. So I sat there in her room, neither of us knowing if she was going to get this liver or if it would fix her. She showed me pictures of her kids; she was clearly terrified. My clinical instructor wanted us to be practicing manual BPs that day. I told her I'd practice on my family on my own time, but what this patient needed was for someone to help her be less afraid. Funny, that CI never really liked me after that...

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, IM, OB/GYN, neuro, GI.

Pacytopenia first day on the floor from ICU reverse isolation. I was afraid he was going to catch something everytime I went into the room. I swear I washed my hands about 200 times in 4 1/2 hours.

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end stage renal failure, anasarca, CHF, COPD

he died the week after I took care of him, young too...maybe late 40s. Was in comatose the second day I had him. It is funny looking back, I had no real understanding of what was happening with him.

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Specializes in L&D, High Risk OB, OR, Med-Surg, PHN.

];) Got my pt assignment the night before clinical . Fx leg when home did my paper work came to clinical the next morning was told my pt had a stoke went to the unit and he passed away that day while I was in clinical. I never met him. My instructor told me she had never had a pt die before they met their student before.

Lisa

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Specializes in ICU, SDU, OR, RR, Ortho, Hospice RN.

Good heavens you are asking me a question that is over 27yrs old LOL

Ummmmm let me think about this.... $@### Ummmm errrrrrrrrr heck I cannot remember :lol2:

Oh oh oh I think it was a guy with gross fresh gastric bleeding. Ugghhhh :( Hmmm thanks for the memories NOT hahahahahaha

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Specializes in ER, Occupational Health, Cardiology.

Lung cancer with bilateral chest tubes.

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.

My first clinicals were on an orthopaedic floor so I had a 80-something year old with a hip fx.

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