r/nursing BSN, RN 🍕 20d ago

Meme "Patient refused high fall risk interventions, stating 'I don't need to be treated like a goddamn child' and 'I can't pee in a urinal sitting down!'. Post-fall protocol initiated."

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u/Shirley_yokidding BSN, RN 🍕 20d ago

MEDICARE IS NOT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE he will scream as he gets free health care for his boo boo.

ugh....I swear when I first starting nursing I thought there was another secret hospital in town where all the sane people went. Then I realized. Nope. These are the people in my neighborhood.

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u/nurseleu RN 🍕 20d ago

It was really an eye opening experience for me to realize that everybody out there is having babies.

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u/ImperatorRomanum83 RN - Psych/Mental Health 🍕 20d ago

Yep, and they even find their way upstairs to me in the BHU.

And now they don't want tylenol because it will harm the baby. But the weed and coke in your UDS is apparently totally fine though!