Published May 14, 2009
care_baer
63 Posts
I have a woman in my unit that we're trying to push fluids for. She's had chronic urinary tract infections. Well, during the night she isn't very coherent. I try to get her to drink, but she will only take a drink or two and then not open her mouth (even if she says that she wants another drink). So, last night my manager asks me if I got her to drink anything, and I told her exactly what I just said at the beginning of this post. Her reply was "Doesn't she sleep with her mouth open?"
donsterRN, ASN, BSN
2,558 Posts
Oh. My. God.
I can only echo you... "Wow.... Just wow"!!!
This is a classic "thing that makes you go hmmm".
SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN
10,263 Posts
Yeah, waterboard the old bat. She'll swallow.
mncna08
80 Posts
O my...some people!
wouldnt we all like such a wake up call!!