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10 Crazy Things Patients Say

Steve Berman | NursingLink

10 Crazy Things Patients Say

5. Okay, but you have to take everything off, too.

You just have to love the patients who think sexually harassing nurses is okay. While generally a laugh and/or a firm, “That’s not going to happen” will usually suffice in this situation, if the patient’s leering ways are giving you a bad vibe it might be better to make sure to bring a coworker in with you to deal with this patient. Also, make sure to warn the other nurses on staff that this patient has a problem with boundaries.


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    giftideasformen

    over 1 year ago

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    rajkumarjonnala

    over 1 year ago

    100 comments

    Good One... dental implants

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    anniemadison

    almost 2 years ago

    12 comments

    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.

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    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.

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