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You know it is going to be the admission from hell when....
1) Pt arrives and hands you a 4 page typed document that lists medications on page 1, allergies on page 2, diseases on page 3, and surgeries on page 4....(and the pages were filled from top to bottom with info)
2) The family arrives en masse and they haven't bathed in a coon's age.....
3) The POA tells you that they want their 95 y/o relative who has lived the past 15 years in a nursing home to be a full code. Never mind that the patient has Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, paralyzed on one side, ejection fraction of 10%, and so on and so on....they still want everything done to "save" the patient.....
4) The patient who has had several anti-emetics in the ER is still projectile vomiting as they are rolled off the elevator.....
I know there are others.....
we had jesus ,god and the queen one week!
and I work med-surg haha
loving this thread
not loving the truth held within it though, sadly so much of that is reality
nice that we can chuckle at it when were not goin thru it haha
in my opinion there are no worse words than "pleasantly confused" in report
cuz you know that its gonna mean jumping out of the bed, pulling out the IV tearing out the foley, unable to reorient once they get to the floor :)
An hour before your shift ends you get a stranger walk up to the desk and order "cokes and sodas" for the room which you knew was empty and you look in and there is a the Swiss family Robinson sitting in there with 6 kids running around and a bucket of chicken, "Waiting on Grandma " to arrive.
Zoe
l.rae
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he's a regular.... :chuckle