r/nursing • u/kpsi355 RN - ER 🍕 • Mar 29 '22

Nursing Hacks What’s a little white lie you tell the completely confused patient?

I’m always telling the cirrhosis dude his truck is in the shop. Then I tell him his buddy dared him to “shoot” his lactulose and give him a sprite chaser.

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u/turingthecat Mar 29 '22

I’ve just fed Alex and Ben (dogs that died 60+ years ago), and I’m going to take them out for a run in a bit.

This was last night, this ‘little lie’ helped a very distressed lady have a good night sleep. I really hope, when I’m old and confused, if my mind is back to now, someone will tell me ‘I’ve had a cuddle with Turing, Watson didn’t want to be picked up, but he’s had his dinner, and is asleep in his basket’

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u/paddywackadoodle Mar 29 '22

I love the names of your animals!

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u/turingthecat Mar 29 '22

As everyone who gets their first cat as an adult, mine was Scrodinger, after that I decided, cats are named after scientists

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Same here. I don’t care if I forget everything else in the world, as long as my dogs always stay in my mind. And I hope I get a nurse that will be am animal lover and oblige me. 😭

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u/turingthecat Mar 29 '22

A few years back I had so spend 8 months in the loony bin, impatient mental health hospital, I meant inpatient mental health hospital, where my boys weren’t allowed to be (they were staying with my parents, they were happy, they were loved, although apparently Watson would get onto my bed I have there, and cry at night, as he was used to sleeping with me).
Guess what I was most worried about, it wasn’t my flat, it wasn’t my job or my license

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u/turingthecat Mar 29 '22

Turing came to me during pride month, and Watson, well my passport name ‘what did Crick and Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s note book’