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/ThisIsMockingjay2020 she/her RN LTC nite🦉 Mar 29 '22

"I got a new dessert recipe, would you like to try it? You can tell me if you think it needs more vanilla or cinnamon."

gives bite of meds crushed in pudding

"What do you think, should I scrap the recipe or should I add more cinnamon? More cinnamon and sugar? Okay."

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

I've got one that is exstreamly hard to give meds to. He's a 1:1, blind, has dementia, fall risk, and has delusions. Needless to say he needs his meds.

Me: "Hey, (resident's name)"

Resident: (yells) "Yeah? Who you??"

Me: "This is your waitress at IHOP and I made you some pancakes"

Resident: (takes meds in pudding, then yells) "Hey girl! These pancakes taste like shit!!"

Works everytime though.

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u/ThisIsMockingjay2020 she/her RN LTC nite🦉 Mar 29 '22

Very creative! I love it.

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u/hmaxwell22 BSN, RN 🍕 Mar 29 '22

I was giving a demented woman her meds in vanilla pudding one day and she got PISSED and yelled at me to quit feeding her wedding cake. She then spewed/spit that shit on my face and hair. Omg that was a bad morning.

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u/ThisIsMockingjay2020 she/her RN LTC nite🦉 Mar 29 '22

Oh, crap.