Your Call Light is On Can I help YOU?

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he he! i got this idea for a thread starter from a previous post. what was one or more of the funniest or weirdest requests you have gotten when a call light was put on?

here is one to start:

can you change my tampon? (from a perfectly capeable 30 something to a really embarassed male nurse)

Specializes in neuro, ICU/CCU, tropical medicine.
Demented old lady

"call the police, they have me trapped in a warehouse - call the police"

(she did manage to call the police on her own too)

I don't know how many times when I was working the neuro floor I got a call from the police telling me to take my patients phone away!

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Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.

I find the confused patient ones pretty funny, actually. Especially the "someone just dropped that off here" and the "when does this flight land?"

Once I spent several minutes trying to explain to a patient that he had a Foley and shouldn't feel as if he needed to go to the bathroom. Then I noticed the tubing coiled up underneath his leg. When I got things arranged properly again, he drained out about 300 cc's and that urge was all gone. :imbar

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
"Can you tuck me in?"

I work on an ADULT floor...

A female elderly patient rings the call bell, and when I come in, she pats the bed and asked me to climb in with her. Told her I am happily married.:confused:

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Specializes in NICU.

Haha I've had a confused old lady that cried because I wouldn't crawl in the bed with her and hold her.... I felt so bad.. But EWW... This lady had neurosyphillis, a fresh AKA, and had MRSA... I was not getting in that bed with her!! I got her a teddy bear and she was happy after that.

Tiger

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Specializes in ER, IICU, PCU, PACU, EMS.
What is up with these guys anyway. I would think that if he's capable of scratching, he's capable of lifting. Unless he meant for the nurse to do the scratching.

Nah, he liked to do all the scratching. The nurses always warned the nice doctors to not shake his hand!

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Specializes in ER, IICU, PCU, PACU, EMS.
or: (from a man on a clinatron sand bed "what time does this flight land?"

what is with those beds?

the poor man i had asked me at the beginning of my am shift, "ma'am, where is this flight going to land? this is the longest flight i have ever taken."

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"Do you have any diapers and food for my child?" (not the patient)

let me wave my magic wand...

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I went in to answer a call light for a confused little old lady, I found her sitting upright in bed pressing all the buttons on the siderail. i asked her which button was she looking for? She replied " I am looking for the death button":eek:

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Specializes in Neuro /Med-Surg.

ok now that I'm on the right thread.

Thought this one might help you all to smile.

Call light from the room with the sitter

Can I help you?

Yea ummmm this guy keeps trying to pull at his IV

10 minutes later another call

Can I help you?

Well he's pulling at his foley

30 minutes later

Yea ummmm can I have some towels, this guy pulled that thing out of his nose and that stuff wont stop coming out.

and yet another sitter who slept through sitter school

The sweet pleasantly confused old lady comes to the nurses station (the wrong one), IV dripping blood and states may I have a blanket or two? I would like to cover up that sweet young man sleeping in the chair next to my bed. I'd give him mine but it's wet from the water I just couldn't hold any longer while I was climbing old of the bed... you know you really should get mattress that are high enough to fill in the bed frame.

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Specializes in PEDS/NSY/L&D/med-surg.

:Hello, may I help you?"

LOL: "Oh yes those fairies are back, please come remove them."

Nurse: Where Mrs, x are these fairies that are bothering you?

LOL: well, they're back allright, back down there drinkin' water in my lady parts. They're drivin' me crazy.

Nurse: trying not to laugh was so hard here, "Well Mrs. X, see here under the covers, there isn't anything there. It must be the catheter you have in place givin you those strange feelings.:

LOL: "Oh it doesn't feel bad, I just wanted you to know they're back!"

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Specializes in M/S, L&D, NICU.

:bow::yeah:

this is a little different, but i hate it when the answer is "can you send my nurse in?" and the person answering says something similar to "what can she/he help you with?" answer: "i just need to see my nurse!" then the nurse runs in, and what's wrong? "i need some tissues/water/my tv on, etc."

ugh! :grn:

jess

ten thousand thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:yeah:

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Specializes in Emergency Midwifery.

How about....

I just wanted to see how long it would take you to answer.

Nicky.

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