I don't know why but that statement makes my jaw clench up everytime I hear it.
I had a patient the other day ask me how I was going to insert a foley since "the head is down there, wont that hurt the baby?" For the love god, people .... come on .. 2 HOLES! SERIOUSLY!
and my favorite of all time ...
"Does that machine beep everytime I dilate?" .. this one left me speechless
Please share your "omg, no she didn't say/ask that" quotes
How about when you go in a patients room and spend 5 minutes trying to get their baby on the monitor and as soon as you do, they say "I've got to go to the bathroom!". Now I'm always careful to ask first, but it is soooo frustrating still.
I can NOT tell you how many times I have heard this one from dads of little preemies..some like 22 weeks...
"When you gonna have him circumcised"
Yeah, tomorrow dude....when I get Tom Thumb in here with his weenie wacker!
:rotfl: :rotfl: I always had to stop myself from laughing from things like that--and all the while my colleagues are running to the break room, busting a gut. I would take a deep breath and say, Well, we'll probably need to get him off the ventilator first.
Parents, esp dads, are just in such shock @ the situation! They don't even know what they're saying!
*Smiling ear to ear* "Hi I'm in labor". -Wow you must have incredible pain tolerance. This wouldn't happen to be your first baby would it?
LOL! That was me! With my first! First, I had to convince them I really was full-term (I was tiny, not dd), and then that I really was in labor, because I didn't throw a fit with each contraction, just said "hang on" and went all quiet and limp for a while (at least, that's all *they* could see). But, truly, they were 4 minutes apart and regular and had been for 2 hours at that point, turned out I was 3cm/80%, and baby was born about 3-4 hours later.
(Sorry, no stories to share, still a student nurse ;-)
when they walk to the nurses desk with a empty water pitcher and say"can mother have some water"??? Well who the heck is Mother? Do they not know how many patients we are taking care of ??? The other one is when a female patient acts like she is gonna faint at the sight of blood,,, come on honey ,,, what do you do monthly?
:) I understand exactly what you're saying and most of the time I'm the first to say let people get things off their chest in peace, so I'm trying to decide what it is that has rubbed me the wrong way about this post... It's funny tho, I felt the same way when I was in the OR observing nursing staff disparaging their unconscious patient... I guess I'm just able to put myself in the shoes of the patients she is describing and can imagine just how humiliated I would feel for placing trust in this nurse by exposing my ignorance and then finding out that instead of compassionate interest in helping me to learn more about my situation she's feeling superior and ridiculing my lack of understanding. Again, I agree my feelings are probably over the top here and I'm really not sure why I'm taking it the way I am... I'll have to think on this some more. In the meantime, carry on...
I'll help, I've got one you all will LOVE. When I was 18 I worked in a path lab. The first time I saw a uterus from a TAH I thought the woman would no longer be able to have sex... thank the Lord I never actually exposed my ignorance and asked for clarification on that one, they would have had a field day in the break room I'm sure. Instead I went to the library and looked through a couple of books and learned more about female anatomy on my own.
So I guess it's all a lie, there really are stupid questions aren't there?
Good to know...
I don't consider you a buzz kill MarieDoreen, this thread struck me the wrong way when I first saw it as well. But I do admit many of them have made me chuckle. I appreciate all the work that everyone does here, Happy New Year!
I am sorry ,you might have taken that wrong... I meant the patients that are so prissy, they want you to do everything for them, even change their pads for them, or the ones that are taking care of their older mother and hold up something and say "ugh what is this" and it might have a little blood on it.. or the patients wife that is full of diamonds, fake nails, tons of makeup and ask you questions about blood?
Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN
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I's typically the idiots that are the Fertile Myrtles.