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Have you any weird experience at work?
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Posted 8 months ago Each nurse is provided with handheld phones. Everytime I go to a pt and seems I am always caught of something that can't pick up the phone when it rings. So most of my patients especially the geriatric patients pick up their phone everytiime my phone rings and say "hello? can you fix my phone" I tell them, it's not yours, it's my phone. And one time, I went to a patient, I flushed his j-tube and came off the room, the phone rang again. I checked my phone after the flushing and it's not in my pocket, not in my folder or in the server, so i checked in each patient's room and I called my extension thru the clerks phone. All my time was only searching for my phone. I heard a ring somewhere but in a very low tone, seems like its inside of something. I check in each pt's room and sound's coming near the sink, i opened the garbage bin, I dug deeper in the biohazard bin, huh! it's there at the bottom. How on earth did it happen? eeeee!! I didn't tell anybody that I found my phone in the red biohazard bin....embarrassing...heehehe |
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| Posted 8 months ago I work in a gastro office in the recovery area. One day I had an 18 yr. old girl for a patient. She was groggy from the medication and was talking up a storm. She kept asking for a cup of water. We have to make sure patients are not nauseated before they can have something to drink. She kept bugging me and I kept saying No. I heard her and her Mom whispering behind the curtain and went in to see what was going on. She was trying to get her Mom to produce saliva so she could put it in her mouth because her mouth was so dry. I had never heard this one! I must admit she was resourceful! |
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| Posted 8 months ago this resident has been coming to our facility on and off. she was discharged before because she accused the facility of letting her fall. after few months she came back again, this time in my side. her son approached me and whispered to me that i overdosed her mom with morphine, that she is very nauseous and sleepy. i told the son that i can't overdose her because she is only taking .4 ml every 6 hours. as soon as the son is out of my sight, i came to see my resident. she was very alert, denies any nausea but admitted very hungry. i immediately informed my staff, the social worker and don about the comment. of course, i have to chart it too. |
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| Posted 8 months ago Just to add to another 'phone' story. We had a ward phone we gave to patients when relatives called so they could talk, it was a handheld portable. One day I couldn't find it, and went to the last patient who had used it. He swore he gave it back, but I still could not locate it. After and hour or two, with a little searching here and there in between I got really frustrated and backtracked again to where it could be. I phoned it from another phone to see if I could track it down. I heard a feint ring from the initial patients room but could not locate it. I looked through his sheets, blankets and his shelves. I left again and called it and ran back to his room... again I could hear the feint sound of it. "It has to be in here" I said. He was irritated by now and adamant I was hearing things. He was quite obese so I asked him if he could get out of bed and let me have one last look. He rolled his eyes and sat up, and sure enough it was hidden between his butt cheeks or close to it... and I couldn't believe he didn't feel it vibrating (ooh or maybe he did?) yuck. I got an alcohol wipe onto it asap and he was still annoyed at me. Go figure? |
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| Posted 8 months ago christianwoman said: bad deal, some people just have to have drama all around. I work part time psych, many frequent flyers. Most need to be. One woman sounds like your pts sister and the reason i quit giving to the special olympics. She has absolutly nothing wrong with her physically, but gets paid vactions with the special olymics all over the state for bowling. She stated that one of the staff just left in the middle of the compatition (gee I wonder why, they do not even get paid). She also has to have her own hotel room at the events. She has also treid to sue the hospital for falling (but can bowl just fine)...ahhhhhh. But I tell you what she is one of the most unhappy people I have ever met, truely. When she comes its minimal verbal interaction, lots of handouts, behavior contract, keep her busy, clear and consistant nursing. We have her questions, complaints referred to her primary nurse only. We change her nurse after a couple days because we are nurses, not Job. We do not asign floats to her. |
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| Posted 2 months ago I worked as an medical assistant in a gastroenterology office and we were doing a flex sig on a guy and he turns and asks the doctor. "I won't be gay after this will I?" The doctor says (in a serious voice), "Well you might." That scared the heck out of the guy, but the doctor told him he was joking. We all wanted to laugh so bad. It took the doctor a minute to get the guy calmed down. It was too funny. |
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| Posted 2 months ago I was interviewing this tiny,slender silver haired lady in the ER. I knew the procedure, but was puzzled because rarely is a hysterectomy an emergency. And quite frankly, she certainly was not bleeding, in pain etc. So I asked her, why are you having surgery. She said......."I got me a vine growin out ma virgina." and proceeded to pull the sheet covering her back so I could see what she meant. She did have a vine growing out of her vagina. I asked her then how this came about. Well, it seems her female parts were hanging out and was using a piece of a potato as a pessary. Now, the process is this, you take a piece of a potato without an eye, ( apparently she didn't see the eye in her chosen piece) by the light of the waning moon, after midnight, insert the piece of potato, causing your female parts to go back in but she stressed to me, you had to do this exactly as you're told. Her problem was she forgot to remove it after a few days and when the vine started growing she couldn't remove it. So, while visiting her daughter, (she called herself an appalachian and was from West Virginia) she told her daughter what was going on and her daughter freaked out and brought her to the ER. Meanwhile, I heard giggling and turned around and looked down. There were four pairs of shoes standing behind the curtain, listening to this conversation. The residents loved to set me up because I usually had something to say. So I proceeded to explain what would happen in the OR, checked over her consent, answered her questions, and interviewed her. As I walked through the curtain to go back to the OR, I turned to the chief ob/gyn resident and said....I'll make sure the pruning shears are available and with a grin and a wave I went back to the OR Deb |
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| Posted 2 months ago I work for an ob/gyn and I think daily we have weird experiences at work. One of our NP won't let husbands in with their wives while they are waiting for their annual exam. She walked in on one of her patients and her husband having sex while they were waiting. His response, well it was taking you a long time...... I was filling in for some of the staff in the front office, and I received a phone call from a patient stating she believed she had a yeast infection. I had asked her the normal quesitons, she repsonded to one by saying, "I gave my self an exam." Now there are test kits that can tell you if you have a yeast infection out there, but that was not what she was meaning when she said exam. She told me she climbed up on the toliet seat and put a mirror in postion and said she saw the yeast.....to which she told me I could quote her saying that on my message to the Triage nurse.
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| Posted 2 months ago That was TMI (too much info)
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| Posted 2 months ago MamaDawn says ...
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| Posted 2 months ago I apologize if I offended anyone.... |
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| Posted 2 months ago Well, that didn't offend me Navy, because I have worked in a nursing home, because it was something that normally wouldn't go on at work, but it wouldn't surprise me. |
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| Posted 2 months ago We were supposed to allow for privacy if two of the residents wanted to "experience the loving feeling". (Being that they were both consenting and in their right minds). |
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| Posted 2 months ago vwoods says ...
Thanks...I guess you just become use to the calls and patients, and so I didn't realize that maybe to those who aren't exposed to things like that, it may be offensive. I mean there are worse things I have come in contact with....LOL, those were tame compared to some of things that have come in our office. |
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| Posted 2 months ago I have also worked in a nursing home for a while....we also had to allow patients to have special private time, but that is there home....in a doc's office that is pretty nasty. Very poor taste if you ask me on the part of the patient and her husband. Sorry to get offended, but sometimes my like to look at funny stories with me. Don't worry about it. I shouldn't have said anything I guess. Dawn Michelle |
