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Whats your least favorite type of patient to take care of in the ER.....
Mine would have to be the drug over dose....had one on my last shift the treatment is pretty much the same What we normally get are the ones that havent done it right only taken enough to make them sleepy or beligerent so they dont end up intubated......Its pretty standard care....Large bore IV's monitor....foley....narcan/romazicon....charcoal...which always ends up all over the place........lol.....and sometimes NG tubes...they can be a real work out of your nursing skills....iv's, foley's, ng tubes...an of course restraints and the restraint paper work that goes with it.............Give me a lunger or MI any day.
My least favorite pt is the psych pt who decided to self medicate on PCP and now ends up in 4 point mechanical restraints with a spit helmet.I don't care what kinda drug a pt takes, at least be quiet, lay down, and enjoy your high without trying to attack everyone in sight.
Wow, self medicating with PCP. Epic. I've yet to see a pt on PCP. Part of me wants to just to see how intense they are, but part of me wants to not ever have to try and put a pt on PCP in restraints.
Oh, it's not pretty.
I've seen a pt who was 4"11, maybe 100 lbs soaking wet, kick out a glass door in our special lock down unit.
It took 3 security guards to restrain her to get her in restraints.
I HATE PCP pts!!! They are so unpredictable and they are so strong. They will attack out of nowhere.
I have notice they attack at the peak of their high. When they are coming down, they crash and will sleep for 12 hours at the least.
brainkandy87
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I think the only patients I really just can't tolerate are alcoholics. Give me a drug addict or a suicidal patient or a vag bleed any day over an alcoholic. They're like one giant combo of *******, needy, wimpy, and whiney. Add in the variable that many are FF's and it makes for quite an annoying experience.