stitches
I have a scar on my forehead from a patient throwing their clipboard at me because they didn’t want to fill out new patient paperwork. Needed 5 stitches.
glove and ky
As a young nurse I worked in a hospital on a cardiac floor, but we did have some overflow patients or patients with a Gl consult. This one Gl doc
allergic
I once had a patient tell me she was allergic to alcohol. Her reaction: it made her laugh and feel funny. But she was committed and wouldn’t even let us
call if
When I worked in SICU, there was a CT surgeon who had a page long set of “call if” orders. He yelled at the wrong night shift nurse and from
just drag
I once had to drag my patient in his wheelchair with an oxygen tank backwards across 5 lanes of traffic. He was an alcoholic and was trying to escape to
psychic
About 6 months ago we had a patient come in for chest pain and they refused everything. I mean EVERYTHING. They refused vitals, the EKG, bloodwork, chest xray, medication, and
cowboy
When I worked as a nurse tech we had a 62 year old cowboy who was involved in an MVC. He only had scrapes and bruises. He was going to
you just don't listen
In the ICU, we had coded the guy for about 10 minutes after a few PEAs MD called it. The doc left the room, the RT pulled the patient from
stripper
One of our Hospice patients’ last wishes was to see a stripper, so one of our young, male volunteers went and stripped for her. She talked about it every day
45 threat
As an ER nurse I had a 45 pointed at my head and the husband of the woman we were working on threatened to kill every healthcare worker in the