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

[blondnursey]

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??

[blueheaven]

someone snuck in a cup of dirt one time that they said was a seedling.

it was a cup full of crack rocks, covered in watermelon seeds and dirt.

clever.

Wow...how creative. Suprised they didn't stick a dandelion or fake flower in it too :)

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

No, it was something infectious. Not cholera. Typhoid? Something else? I just can't remember:confused:

Was it e-coli? When I lived in the Berkshires, an E-coli outbreak near Albany was traced to a contaminated well.

[SmilingBluEyes]

the funniest/oddest? Well, how shall I put this delicately?

It was a toy of the adult novelty persuasion. Oh, and YES she was caught using it when we rounded (we were unaware)......I just closed the curtain and said, "ring the light when you are ready for me".

whatever works and helps you feel better, I guess.

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

just recently someone brought in a standard poodle, all draped in a "service dog" cape -- could tell by the behavior, however, that it was not a service dog! first thing it did was tip over the medical waste bin and go looking for food.

i've seen a few clearly fake "service dogs." it amazes me that anyone would be that attached to their dog. there needs to be some kind of service dog registry, and fake service dogs should be treated like fake handicap parking dogs.

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

:imbar I meant they should be "treated like fake handicap parking tags."

[asgirl]

Thank you for this post. I so agree with you. My veins are like yours also. One day I was in the ER for a test. Nobody was able to get blood from me. They weren't even able to insert an IV port in me, so the physician on duty admitted me for the test. Early the following morning, there stood my very favorite nurse. She knows my veins the best and I just knew that my vein would be accessed without pain. (I have fibromyalgia) She is my angel when it comes to inserting IVs. She is the head of the IV team for a very good reason.

When I'm in a traumatic situation though, that's a different story. Even my arteries won't give blood then.

Aahh, I know what it's like to have terrible veins. I have literally 2 veins that are easily accessible that have any hpe of getting any blood out of, and only one of which is exactly reliable. One particularly fond memory, was an ER doctor ordering outpatient IV antibiotics for 3 days, come second day when I went in and they had trouble finding a vein did they realise I wasn't joking when I said I had terrible veins.

[tattooednursie, LVN]

lmao...at glow in the dark, thing, .........

hysterical:yeah:

:yeah::yeah::yeah:

LOVE IT!!!

But serisouly how could they . . . .and why would they . . . .you know . . . in a hospital. Maybe it was just being used as a massager.

:bugeyes::bugeyes:

I havn't seen anything too interesting being snuck in.

Just sweets for diabetics :BDCk: Booze *wine and Marajuana