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10 Crazy Things Patients Say
Steve Berman | NursingLink
6. Could you hurry this up? I have a nail appointment.
You could switch “I have a nail appointment” for “I have to pick up my kids from school” or anything else, but it’s still rude. Patients seem to think that going to the doctor’s office or the hospital is like the DMV, full of people who do things slowly and almost relish the fact that they’re making people wait. If only patients knew what happens in between a nurse’s consultation and the doctor coming in to see them. If a patient says this, the best thing to do is say, “We’ll do the best we can” and then work exactly as you would normally. And if you’re feeling vindictive, you may want to put a patient or two ahead of them in line if their issue isn’t an emergency.
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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.
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almost 2 years ago
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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.