Specialties Emergency Nursing Q/A
And did you have to treat them?
I am just curious. Your stories always seem to either crack me up or shake my head in amazement.
Thanks for sharing ?
OlivetheRN, ADN, BSN, RN
382 Posts
Pt came in by EMS b/c she ran out of colostomy supplies. She had it her ostomy for years but her supplier went out of business and she didn't have the foresight & planning to look for a new supplier. Plus she wanted us to clean her up when she was fully capable and supply her with a months worth of ostomy bags
We had a guy call EMS because a fast food place kicked him out cause his colostomy bag was leaking and he was covered in feces. He HAD supplies with him. Argh.
jallen326
48 Posts
The words lazy and crazy comes to mind
PAjama_Mama
11 Posts
Wow - 10 years and this post still thrives! If I may add to ridiculous visits:
C/O: Toe fungus.
Time of Day: 04:15.
NOT. KIDDING.
TrevyRN, BSN, RN
115 Posts
It's the middle of the night, and your entire family might have a cold (mom, dad, and two kids).
QUICK! CALL 9-1-1 ! FOUR AMBULANCES respond to their home. Two leave and two take the family into the ER. Dad has a legit flu or bad cold, everyone else is fine. *siiiiiiiiiiiiigh*
TheGooch
775 Posts
It's the middle of the night, and your entire family might have a cold (mom, dad, and two kids). QUICK! CALL 9-1-1 ! FOUR AMBULANCES respond to their home. Two leave and two take the family into the ER. Dad has a legit flu or bad cold, everyone else is fine. *siiiiiiiiiiiiigh*
LOL-what idiots.
sharpeimom
2,452 Posts
Part 1:
Our neighbor owns a drugstore. A mother, three little kids who are much too sick to be in school but not too indisposed to run errands, present their medical assistance card for a Rx for one of the kids. She finds out there is a $2.00 copay. After mumbling unprintables under her breath, they leave without the Rx.
Part 2:
She goes to her class which the hardhearted state says she must enroll in if she can't find a job. Guess who is teaching her class?!
The kds sit in the back of the room and play. Their mom's mean heartless old prof reports the situation to the nurse, who takes it from there.
Part 3:
They head to the ER and cough and sniffle for them. They leave with cough syrup samples, a Rx, and a food voucher for a local charity. On the way out, Mom remarks that if you know what to do, you'll never pay a thing.
The Mom bragged about it loudly in the next class. My husband came home and asked me, "Isn't there something we can do?"
guest769224
1,698 Posts
Triaged as "DOES NOT WANT TO GO TO JAIL"
We got a kick out of that.
Apparently, arrestee's make up bogus excuses all the time to try to get out of jail-time.
Lunah, MSN, RN
14 Articles; 13,767 Posts
Triaged as "DOES NOT WANT TO GO TO JAIL"We got a kick out of that.Apparently, arrestee's make up bogus excuses all the time to try to get out of jail-time.
Yep. The "vacation from incarceration" as I call it.
Christy1019, ASN, RN
879 Posts
Or "Incarceritis" lol
emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B
2,942 Posts
Or Graybar fever.
Anna Flaxis, BSN, RN
1 Article; 2,816 Posts
"Horrible rash" x2 days to left upper extremity. "9/10" pain. No rash noted on inspection, just a slightly pink spot from where the patient had been rubbing it. Doc even came out of the room to ask me what I saw in triage, because he couldn't see anything.
psu_213, BSN, RN
3,878 Posts
I love it when people say "don't see this horrible rash." Or, they put their arms next to each other and say "look at how swollen my right arm is! It is like 3 times the size of the left one." Umm, no.