what are some of the most ridiculous or outrageous things patients have asked of you? i am nurse one of two nurses with 4 patients the other night in delivery. place was hopping. i answered the light of one of the other nurses patients, who was a very immature primip (married), whom we were certain, at some point, due to her clinical picture, was going to be a c/s. she wanted to make certain i knew how to detach her from the monitor and help her to the bathroom. no problem. however, not two minutes after i had left the room, she rang again and began yelling. her nurse was busy (did i mention we had 3 other patients in active labor?) so i went in, expecting some sort of major problem. she asked me to scratch her ass...in those words, exactly...i was taken aback and she had to have noticed my facial expression as she quickly countered that she couldn't reach and her husband, who was wide awake next to her, didn't want to do it....i am ashamed to say that i did put on some gloves and not too willingly scratched it, but when she insisted we start wiping her after trips to the bathroom, i just had to ask how she had managed to reach herself all the months leading up to her current admission. she was also ruptured so there was no way....she was a real trip....i have also had patients ask that we pop zits and in my cardiac unit days, some of the requests from patients are just too risque to repeat, but never had i had such wacky requests on a regular basis, until i transferred to ob...how about all of you?
had a pt once ask me for his "peanut butter balls" told me he gets it every nite. I could not figure out what he was talking about until i read his med list..... Phenobarbitol!!
Once had an OB patient's husband call L&D to ask if it was ok to blow into his wife's lady parts. we told him not to do that. We couldn't even figure out WHY you'd do that. Also once had a labor patient bring in her mucous plug..in a spoon! yuck!
Had lady ask me to scratch her back, under her breasts, and her bum because she itched where her shingles were breaking out...I looked at her and said without a pause, sorry infection control rules will not permit me to do that, turned and walked right out.
Specializes in Trauma,ER,CCU/OHU/Nsg Ed/Nsg Research.
Originally posted by leesonlpn
I wear my cap, white panty hose, white uniform white shoes - you get the picture. (Hey! Who hollered out DINOSOUR from the back row?) Anyway, I was just starting my shift, and a patient came up to me and asked "excuse me, are you a nurse?"
(No, of course not dear patient, I'm from psych just doing my community hours here.Why do you ask?)
OMG!!!! That is hilarious!!!:roll :chuckle :chuckle
I was once digitally disimpacting an elderly lady. After finding a baseball sized lower rectal obstruction and trying my darndest to dislodge said obstruction, it soon became appearant to me that I was going to need more than one digit to get the job done. Nonchalantly, I nudged in first one more digit and then a second and finally started getting the upper hand on the problem. My patient soon started yelling out my name, "Johnny, Johnny!" "Hold on." I reassured her, "I'm almost there." Suddenly she reached back and grabbed my arm in a death grip and asked, "Could you at least tell me that you love me Johnny?"
Specializes in Mostly LTC, some acute and some ER,.
Ok . . . Tonight I was asked something completely outragous. "Do you pass wind on a regular basis?" by an LTC resident.
also,
"Am I allowed to lay down on that there bed?" by an ambulatory LTC resident. DUHHHHHH NOOOOO you have to sit there until your butt developes pressure ulcers and maggots start oozing out, then you can lay in your bed muahahahahahaha
A few months ago I was caring for an elderly gentleman who was scheduled for cardiac bypass surgery in the next couple days. He wrote out a will and asked me if I could type it for him. I replied that I couldn't do that - don't have a word processor at work anyways. A social worker and I both witnessed his signature.
We had a lady call one night on the call light to ask us permission if she could "pass gas". No kidding! We also had an ol'crazy lady that was with it enough to call the hospital from her room and have them transfer her to the nurses desk because we wouldn't answer her call light fast enough. The ward clerk handed me the phone and said "It's 107....". I about went through the roof! :angryfire
Specializes in Mostly LTC, some acute and some ER,.
Originally posted by Luv cats
We had a lady call one night on the call light to ask us permission if she could "pass gas". No kidding! We also had an ol'crazy lady that was with it enough to call the hospital from her room and have them transfer her to the nurses desk because we wouldn't answer her call light fast enough. The ward clerk handed me the phone and said "It's 107....". I about went through the roof! :angryfire
You get some outlandish requests from involuntarily confined mentally ill clients. My 2 favorites: A women who woke up in the hospital on a 72 hr hold "Who's **** do I have to suck to get out of here!!!",,as she pounded on the nurse's stattion desk. (We had attempted to explain to her the best way to be released. She just wanted the fastest) The other was from a 20 yr old with his first psychotic break who had been picked up shoplifting at a Sears "Will you marry me? You have big T***s and I have a new pair of shoes" (stolen from Sears, no doubt)
tattooednursie, LVN
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I had a resident ask me to take off all my lothes and lay in his bed. Then he started crying when I said no.