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10 Crazy Things Patients Say
Steve Berman | NursingLink
Patients can say the craziest things, and that’s not even counting the ones in mental health institutions. Whether it’s a fear of hospitals, doctors, or needles, or the vulnerability that comes with health problems and wearing a hospital gown, nurses hear wild statements from patients’ mouths on a near-daily basis.
Whether inconsiderate, inappropriate, or just plain weird, here are 10 of the wackiest things that patients say.
Whether inconsiderate, inappropriate, or just plain weird, here are 10 of the wackiest things that patients say.
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anniemadison
almost 2 years ago
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It`s interesting to work as a nurse because you meet a lot of people, get to know and help them. I work as a nurse and hear a lot of crazy things patients say, yesterday a patient with a head trauma told me to give him Anabolic Steroids because he thought they would ease the pain. It`s hard to convince patients that they don`t need different medicines, some of them are very stubborn.
afterwop
almost 2 years ago
58 comments
My first year of bedside nursing was the most difficult because patients tend to be very acute. When you are used to doing two patients in school and then you get 6 or more patients in the hospital. Schools do not prepare you for bedside nursing, that is why nurses leave. And patients today look everything up on the internet and they question the treatment they're given. I once had a patient who insisted we prescribed him pharmaceutical grade vitamins for his illness, just because he had read an article on them. There are so many other things to do, that's why not everyone works through school at a hospital.