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/EllzTrap RN 🍕 Mar 29 '22

Told someone “keep your arm safe like a baby” “what do we do with babies?” She responds “we throw them in the river”

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u/kpsi355 RN - ER 🍕 Mar 29 '22

Oh my god.

Sometimes crazy people are crazy because bad shit happened to them.

I hope those weren’t facts she was spitting.

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u/EllzTrap RN 🍕 Mar 29 '22

I think she was being cheeky, she had one of those cheeky smiles on her face

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u/celaeya RN - Dementia Unit 🍕 Mar 29 '22

God I love old people 😂

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u/alphabet_order_bot Mar 29 '22

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.

I have checked 676,315,867 comments, and only 136,982 of them were in alphabetical order.

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u/adjoopoopie RN Pediatrics/HH/UC/ER Mar 29 '22

Good bot

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u/celaeya RN - Dementia Unit 🍕 Mar 29 '22

Hmm I don't think d comes after g and o, but okay

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u/WindWalkerRN RN- Slightly Over Cooked 🍕🔥 Mar 29 '22

G…i…l…o…p

It’s a silly bot

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u/MegannMedusa Mar 29 '22

It’s the order of the words, not the words themselves.

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u/celaeya RN - Dementia Unit 🍕 Mar 29 '22

Ah, I see, thanks for actually explaining haha. Thanks for all the downvotes for not knowing how it works tho, appreciate it 💕

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u/Wolfensnatches Mar 29 '22

It definitely could be worded better. I remember thinking the same thing when I first saw this bot, that each word was alphabetical. But no, it's the sentence as a whole whose words are in alphabetical order.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Cute old men are my kryptonite

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u/indrid_cold BSN, RN 🍕 Mar 29 '22

Yeah this one old dude from Europe kept asking me " where did you take all those people in the railroad car ? " He was about the right age to have been young when the Holocaust happened.

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u/deirdresm Reads Science Papers Mar 29 '22

Oh god, of all the things to keep remembering. You can tell that haunted him for decades.

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u/InadmissibleHug crusty deep fried sorta RN, with cheese 🍕 🍕 🍕 Mar 29 '22

I thought it was bad enough that my da had flash backs to being sunk in the war when he was on hospice.

Not one person present clicked that it might have been the complete lack of a blanket in a cold facility, poor old bugger was freezing his arse off before I rocked up.

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u/crazy-bisquit RN Mar 29 '22

I’m sure it is in some cases. But I have such a wild imagination I fear what I will say when confused.

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u/NurseNikNak RN - OR 🍕 Mar 29 '22

I love this! I had a confused patient that we gave a baby doll to do she could care for it. Kept her entertained for about forty five minutes before she looked at it, asked who the mother was because they wouldn’t stop crying, and then tossed it across the nurses’ station.

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u/BongEyedFlamingo RN - Retired 🍕 Mar 29 '22

Oh please don’t ever give me a baby if I’m confused. I’m 90% sure I would throw it at you.

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u/TeamCatsandDnD RN - OR 🍕 Mar 29 '22

🤣🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

😂 😂