whats the worst or funniest item family has snuck in to your pt?

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i have been a nurse a long time & familys can make or break your day.

was wondering what items you have seen family sneak in to pts?

i have had candy for diabetics, shavers with blades for cutters (omg), marijuana for grandpa...even had one man bring heroin in for his buddy........

what about you??:bugeyes:

Specializes in Critical Care, Operating Room.
This pt wanted me to sneak something in for her...

During my clinicals in nursing school I had a 97yo pt try to hand me a signed blank check and ask me to go to the adult toy shop to buy her some things becuase she was bored.

hahahahahahahaha omg I just snorted diet coke out my nose!!!!! well.... sex IS one of Maslow's basic physiologic needs hehe

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Specializes in ICU.
Anyone ever seen the Scrubs episode where a box of kittens are ordered STAT haha :lol2:

Haha, that's one of my favorite scenes!:lol2:

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
Lets see ---

1. A rabbit and a fifth of whiskey

2. A mistress

3. Cigarettes for a COPD pt. Had been off the vent for maybe 2 hours.

4. Salad tongs to attempt removal of the condom that had been lost earlier that day. Or maybe the night before.

5. Narcotics to an overdose patient. Girlfriend was caught removing them from her lady parts in the patients room.

6. Mace

There's probably more, I've been doing this for a while.

Combine those all together in one room:

  • rabbit
  • fifth of whiskey
  • cigarettes (probably with an o2 tank nearby)
  • salad tongs / condom retrieval
  • narcotics in lady parts
  • mace

and you've either got one heck of a soap opera about to unfold, or a blockbuster Will Ferrell movie! :D

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OMG that's funny!!!:lol2::lol2::lol2:

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of the chicken, or the patient?

hahahaha....:yeah:

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Long Term Care.
My dad snuck their toy "teacup" poodle in to see my mom. Scared the nurse when she saw moms covers moving around.

Speaking of covers moving around, the worst thing I ever saw was a patient getting oral attention by his gay lover... it wasn't even a private room!

Owww, my eyes!!:uhoh3:

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Long Term Care.
A pistol.

OMG!!!!!:uhoh21:

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We had a severely neutropenic patient sneek out and drive the a grocery store to bring back fried chicken and potato salad for dinner. His nurse almost popped herself when he came walking down the hallway with a grocery sack of goodies.

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Specializes in cardiothoracic surgery.

Alcohol for a post-op lobectomy

Domino's pizza delivered for a CABG patient

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Specializes in Ortho, Oncology, Med/Surg, Critical Care.
Speaking of covers moving around, the worst thing I ever saw was a patient getting oral attention by his gay lover... it wasn't even a private room!

Owww, my eyes!!:uhoh3:

I had something like that happen to me when I was a CNA in an orthopedic rehab center. I walked in on a lesbian couple doing that to each other. Lucky for the patient it was a private room!!:bugeyes:

Another time, as a nurse, a pt on my unit in the hospital was caught smoking crack in her room. :smokin:

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
Lets see ---

A mistress

Woo hoo!:pntlft::yeah::hhmth:
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Specializes in Women's health & post-partum.

A big jug of spring water from his property. No one minded until the water was tested and found to be the source of his illness! (I wish I could remember what they were treating him for...)

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