True Story: I am an RN that was recently in hospital A.  The nurse doing the admission assessment, said "I hate to ask you this but it is a new requirement on our form."  Do you have Dementia?  Replied, If I did I would not admit and also probably would not know it.

After she left the room, I laughed out loud and called her back in.  Asked where am I?  I came by ambulance to Hospital A, the nurse in the ER had on scrubs from Hospital B on the coast that I had worked at and I am lying under a sheet that has Hospital C that I graduated stamped on it.  We chucled together and after discharge I have enjoyed telling this when I'm asked how I am doing.

Brenda

South Carolinja

ya those admissions have some great questions on them.......do you like yourself?..........do you have any sexual disfunctions?.........how long do you think you'll be in the hospital?...they crack me up.

There have been times when I have wondered about my mental status...like the time I was trying to check a pedal pulse in my R sided below the knee amputee.  I was having trouble locating the right foot. Just about the time it dawned on me, the pt. says, "what are you looking for?"  Uhhhhh, I think I hear a call light....