What's the meanest thing a patient has said to you?

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Just curious, what's the meanest, rudest, nastiest thing a patient has said to you? Tonight I had someone tell me they wished I would die and go straight to he!! Then they said they hoped it rained everywhere I went. They also told someone they were a son of a b. What's your best line?

Scariest and meanest things ever said to me was by a patient the day shift nurse started report off with saying "Girl, you are going to love this patient. She is just the sweetest little thing ever". Before she could even finish giving report, that sweet little thing could be yelling "F you you Fing N-word" down the hall at anyone who passed her room. I start thinking to myself maybe sundowners is a thing just as day shift nurse informs me she DC'd her order for restraints (because why would anyone possibly restrain such a sweet little thing?!) and that she was currently up in the chair that happens to have a broken chair alarm. AWESOME.

I figure the first thing I should tackle this shift is getting grumpy granny back in bed, so I head over to her room where she is just shouting vile and nasty things at passerbys and the television. I walk in her room and am immediately pelted with a full, but open can of pepsi and told to "get the F out" before I even completely enter the room. Now soaked in pepsi, a bruise already growing on my chest and neck...I venture in further to see what kind of IV access I have to give the haldol I had the good sense to bring with me. As I lean behind her chair, she grabs me by the stethoscope stupidly hanging around my neck. She pulls me in and starts clawing at my neck screaming "I WILL PAINT THE WALLS WITH YOUR BLOOD, B____!" Which thankfully attracts the attention of some coworkers. They help untangle her talons from around my neck, which is now bleeding. As four of us endevour to get her carried over to the bed and strapped down in soft wrist restraints she yells out threats against us including such classics as "I will make you drown your babies in the river with your own hands", "I have shot 3 people dead and I ain't afraid to add your @ss to the list" and perhaps most perplexing, pleading for someone to "remove the sorghum from her lady parts". All this between the most unholy, animal like howls and screams you ever heard.

I called her husband to see if maybe he could come down and calm her down a bit. He hung up the first time I called. The second time he said it was our problem now, and that he is so scared of her himself he locks himself in his bedroom at night. Evidently this behavior was not new. Somebody needed to order that patient a young priest and an old priest and to chuck the walls against the green vomit that would later ensue....

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Scariest and meanest things ever said to me was by a patient the day shift nurse started report off with saying "Girl, you are going to love this patient. She is just the sweetest little thing ever". Before she could even finish giving report, that sweet little thing could be yelling "F you you Fing N-word" down the hall at anyone who passed her room. I start thinking to myself maybe sundowners is a thing just as day shift nurse informs me she DC'd her order for restraints (because why would anyone possibly restrain such a sweet little thing?!) and that she was currently up in the chair that happens to have a broken chair alarm. AWESOME.

I figure the first thing I should tackle this shift is getting grumpy granny back in bed, so I head over to her room where she is just shouting vile and nasty things at passerbys and the television. I walk in her room and am immediately pelted with a full, but open can of pepsi and told to "get the F out" before I even completely enter the room. Now soaked in pepsi, a bruise already growing on my chest and neck...I venture in further to see what kind of IV access I have to give the haldol I had the good sense to bring with me. As I lean behind her chair, she grabs me by the stethoscope stupidly hanging around my neck. She pulls me in and starts clawing at my neck screaming "I WILL PAINT THE WALLS WITH YOUR BLOOD, B____!" Which thankfully attracts the attention of some coworkers. They help untangle her talons from around my neck, which is now bleeding. As four of us endevour to get her carried over to the bed and strapped down in soft wrist restraints she yells out threats against us including such classics as "I will make you drown your babies in the river with your own hands", "I have shot 3 people dead and I ain't afraid to add your @ss to the list" and perhaps most perplexing, pleading for someone to "remove the sorghum from her lady parts". All this between the most unholy, animal like howls and screams you ever heard.

I called her husband to see if maybe he could come down and calm her down a bit. He hung up the first time I called. The second time he said it was our problem now, and that he is so scared of her himself he locks himself in his bedroom at night. Evidently this behavior was not new. Somebody needed to order that patient a young priest and an old priest and to chuck the walls against the green vomit that would later ensue....

Really makes you wonder what the day nurse was smoking.....

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Specializes in Registered Nurse.
Really makes you wonder what the day nurse was smoking.....

Snort!

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Scariest and meanest things ever said to me was by a patient the day shift nurse started report off with saying "Girl, you are going to love this patient. She is just the sweetest little thing ever". Before she could even finish giving report, that sweet little thing could be yelling "F you you Fing N-word" down the hall at anyone who passed her room. QUOTE]

Not sure what was wrong with your "sweet little thing", but I remember one from med/surg while reading this. She was not too little. Probably about 180 or 190 pds and mean. She was also incontinent. It took 4 of us to restrain her long enough to get her clean....meanwhile, while trying to handle her, she would dig her claws into us anywhere she could....I still can see another nurse's face trying to get the woman's fingernails out of her own fingers.

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

Elle28 & T-bird78 -- yeouch! I oneed had a casual NS acquaintance, while discussing our current rotations, ask me when I was going to be on his unit. He was on his OB rotation. My baby was 3 mo. old. :sniff:

T-bird, unfortunately, I think HG is something that some people don't *get* unless they've been there. I remember on a pregnancy forum a couple years ago, when the news hit that Princess (Duchess?) Kate had been hospitalized for HG. Some of the women on the forum said, "Must be nice to get hospitalized for morning sickness." Really ticked off the HG sufferers! I have a friend myself who had to get a PICC so she could give herself IV fluids at home. Another had it so badly that she got an abortion. She regretted it, so then had that to suffer with; next time she got pregnant, her dr. put her on basically every antiemetic available. She was still miserable, but not SO miserable that she felt it was a matter of end the pregnancy or go insane. I cannot even imagine.

NGYSUN...yeah, because we whites *were* here first, ya know. :sarcastic:

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Specializes in psych, medical, drug rehab.

I had a person with Psychosis ( but looks fully functional, so more Cluster B traits) call me an incompetent nurse (I was only going to take his Blood glucose via glucometer before he ate) and then say I was probably an incompetent wife as well!

Oh yes, I am disgusting too!

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Ortho, Subacute, Homecare, LTC.

A old 97 year old with bad dementia once screamed, "your mother was a wh**e and you'll be one too"! I almost died laughing. The look on her face was awesome...

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Specializes in SICU / NSICU.

I had a charming "seasoned" woman who said "You're just like your father and make your mother cry" ( I am but she doesn't know him, nor does he make my mother cry); that I was a Big dumb A-hole; and that I was running around like a little cockroach haha she instantly became one of my favorites. I had a gentleman however who attempted to "compliment" me by saying "you have the magic touch" when I put on a condom cath....That in turn made me want throw up in my mouth. You win some ya lose some I guess..

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I had a 20 something male who was admitted for BAL 400, threaten to kill me, my "retarded" kids, and my ******* dog.

NO! Not the DOG! :cyclops:

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Scariest and meanest things ever said to me was by a patient the day shift nurse started report off with saying "Girl, you are going to love this patient. She is just the sweetest little thing ever". Before she could even finish giving report, that sweet little thing could be yelling "F you you Fing N-word" down the hall at anyone who passed her room. I start thinking to myself maybe sundowners is a thing just as day shift nurse informs me she DC'd her order for restraints (because why would anyone possibly restrain such a sweet little thing?!) and that she was currently up in the chair that happens to have a broken chair alarm. AWESOME.

I figure the first thing I should tackle this shift is getting grumpy granny back in bed, so I head over to her room where she is just shouting vile and nasty things at passerbys and the television. I walk in her room and am immediately pelted with a full, but open can of pepsi and told to "get the F out" before I even completely enter the room. Now soaked in pepsi, a bruise already growing on my chest and neck...I venture in further to see what kind of IV access I have to give the haldol I had the good sense to bring with me. As I lean behind her chair, she grabs me by the stethoscope stupidly hanging around my neck. She pulls me in and starts clawing at my neck screaming "I WILL PAINT THE WALLS WITH YOUR BLOOD, B____!" Which thankfully attracts the attention of some coworkers. They help untangle her talons from around my neck, which is now bleeding. As four of us endevour to get her carried over to the bed and strapped down in soft wrist restraints she yells out threats against us including such classics as "I will make you drown your babies in the river with your own hands", "I have shot 3 people dead and I ain't afraid to add your @ss to the list" and perhaps most perplexing, pleading for someone to "remove the sorghum from her lady parts". All this between the most unholy, animal like howls and screams you ever heard.

I called her husband to see if maybe he could come down and calm her down a bit. He hung up the first time I called. The second time he said it was our problem now, and that he is so scared of her himself he locks himself in his bedroom at night. Evidently this behavior was not new. Somebody needed to order that patient a young priest and an old priest and to chuck the walls against the green vomit that would later ensue....

Doesn't this just make you wonder what would pass for a DIFFICULT patient with that nurse reporting off to you?!?

Evidently this behavior was not new. Somebody needed to order that patient a young priest and an old priest and to chuck the walls against the green vomit that would later ensue..

And now this....THIS is priceless :D

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I work at a jail. I've been called it all. I had a diabetic inmate who was hypoglycemic last night tell me to bend over and kiss his ass as I was trying to get him to eat.

I was doing a DUI blood draw on an inmate about a month ago and as I was drawing his blood, he says "oh my God, you have a double chin" then looks at the cop and says "I thought you said there wouldnt be any fat people here!" (He was very flamboyant).

My favorite line was to a coworker. The imate told her she smelled like oven cleaner, but even that didn't hide the smell of her her black heartless soul.

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I was told by a hard stick patient as I was trying to find a vein that she hoped I never had children because I wasn't gentle (this was said on my first shift back after I had a baby that was stillborn)

I was told that I deserve to be eaten alive by maggots when I told a patient that no he couldn't have another sandwich (after bringing him 5).

I've been told that the patient was going to kill me and feed me to the other nurses because I had to place a catheter in him.

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