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
The other day we had a patient have an absolute meltdown because one of the TVs in the dialysis clinic wasn't working. He was furious that it had been broken for more than a week and he thought this was "absolutely unacceptable". I tried to explain that someone has to have the broken TV. Everybody wants to watch TV so we have everyone take turns sitting in the seat with the broken TV. After having a complete hissy fit we scrambled things around and moved him to a seat that had a TV. After hooking him up to dialysis he promptly fell asleep.
I get irked when daddies, as I help their son to breast feed, follow my comment of, "Wow, he is really is good at this!" with "Yeah, just like his old man."
Heard a guy say this in clinical. The dirty look the nurse shot him was enough to shut him up. The dirty look was also partially warranted for the husband's previous remark about the 'love stitch'.
i get irked when daddies, as i help their son to breast feed, follow my comment of, "wow, he is really is good at this!" with "yeah, just like his old man."
i've got news for you, buddy, that baby is not doing the same thing nor for the same reasons as you!
how they can equate breastfeeing with their own sexual actions is beyond me. don't get me wrong - i do see pregnancy and birth as part of a woman's sexuality and i do see the two as related, and i have no problems with couples who cuddle to help get the baby out (what gets 'em in gets 'em out), but - for some reason the breastfeeding comment really bothers me.
yup. i had a dad say about his son "he's a boob man, just like his dad!":madface:
unrelated but another thing done---had a parent once bring in a huge bottle of regular milk, and was gonna feed it to his newborn!
grandma asked me in the or, just after the stat section for decels, while baby was on the warmer, "so, he's had his circumcision already?", as she pointed to his intact foreskin.
(yea... i sniped it while i was drying him off and taking footprints)
how big's my cootchie? to which i say, its the same size on the outside, we're checking the inside.
same person didnt want a mirror to watch baby come out, but wanted a mirror to see what her "cootchie" looked like after being sewed up and cleaned off.
I had a 94 year old pt starting my shift by signing papers with her Lawyer. She said to me "I am done - that is my will - I can die now - all they want is my money - so why keep going". This upset me so much that I placed my hands in hers and said "The only will you need now is the will to live - God loves you and so does your family" Then we prayed together for a while. I called some of her family that lived locally on my cell phone and told them to come down and bring the little ones (Her great grand children) I told them that Great Grams needed them this day. We then spent the morning brushing teeth (YES - she still has some of her own!) washing everything up and getting her up out of that bed and walking 15 feet (Dr's orders were to ambulate her if possible, but she had been bed bound for a week). Two hours later she had a room full of family to support her and they let her know that she was comming home with them and NOT being put into a LTC facility just because she signed those papers. Within the week this pt was discharged home to her family's care. I believe that life finds a way - and I can never stress this enough to my patients.
had a 94 year old pt starting my shift by signing papers with her Lawyer. She said to me "I am done - that is my will - I can die now - all they want is my money - so why keep going". This upset me so much that I placed my hands in hers and said "The only will you need now is the will to live - God loves you and so does your family" Then we prayed together for a while. I called some of her family that lived locally on my cell phone and told them to come down and bring the little ones (Her great grand children) I told them that Great Grams needed them this day. We then spent the morning brushing teeth (YES - she still has some of her own!) washing everything up and getting her up out of that bed and walking 15 feet (Dr's orders were to ambulate her if possible, but she had been bed bound for a week). Two hours later she had a room full of family to support her and they let her know that she was comming home with them and NOT being put into a LTC facility just because she signed those papers. Within the week this pt was discharged home to her family's care. I believe that life finds a way - and I can never stress this enough to my patients
i hope you knew this patient's faith and beliefs before saying this. i'd never say anything like that to a patient if i didn't know-what if they were agnostic/muslim/some other faith?
i hope you knew this patient's faith and beliefs before saying this. i'd never say anything like that to a patient if i didn't know-what if they were agnostic/muslim/some other faith?
Yes - I know that she is a God fairing Protestant - I also know that she is on the hospital Chaplan's regular daily rounds list - I also know her family well enough to have their phone numbers in my memory. I believe that a Nurse takes care of the patient as well as the family so I make it my job to learn all I can in order to be an effective care giver for everyone involved. When you do your research you do not have to live in fear of guessing wrong. That is why we as Nurses assess and then research what we do not know - and as professionals I would hope - NEVER guess. I would no sooner "take a guess" at a pts religious beliefs than "take a guess" at what meds they should be given this shift.
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nursejohio, ASN, RN
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good for you!!!