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.....
:roll I haven't been satan's nurse yet, but I've had Jesus and all of his relatives. Haven't met Elvis, but I admitted Lisa Marie. Too Bad, the police had to come pick her up!
Just a sidline thought I had.... Has any one had a genuine nutter? Not brought on by substance abuse etc? We never seem to see them any more, real bonafide nutters that is. Always the abusers, never the mad, wonder where they all went?
Just a sidline thought I had.... Has any one had a genuine nutter? Not brought on by substance abuse etc? We never seem to see them any more, real bonafide nutters that is. Always the abusers, never the mad, wonder where they all went?
In this country they're all out wandering the city streets and living under bridges ever since the big "deinstitutionalization" movement some years back. A good 1/3 or more of the homeless are former mental patients.
In this country they're all out wandering the city streets and living under bridges ever since the big "deinstitutionalization" movement some years back. A good 1/3 or more of the homeless are former mental patients.
I'm starting to think that it was a way for the gov't to unburden itself with the cost of their care in the name of "patient rights."
sad.....veryvery sad....
they can get no help from the system because of the nature of their illness. we oughta do something about that.
When the little old lady brings not only a book with her entire medical hx as previously stated but a week of polaroid pictures of her shyt laying in the toilet. She wanted to show the Dr. how different it was every day.(at least she didn't actually bring it to the ER)
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and my first words in reply are: "want to make a bet???":(