Nursing Nuggets » Nursing Humor http://nursingnuggets.com 40 Years of Nursing in Stories, Tales and Quips Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:55:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A Typical Day in the ER – Patient Faking a Seizure http://nursingnuggets.com/a-typical-day-in-the-er-patient-faking-a-seizure/ http://nursingnuggets.com/a-typical-day-in-the-er-patient-faking-a-seizure/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:55:54 +0000 Susan http://nursingnuggets.com/?p=77 Sometimes patients will arrive in the ER triage and you know they are not really sick, and they have an agenda.  Unfortunately many times it is to acquire drugs.  Sometimes the same person will come over and over again for the same reason, but with a different ailment each time.

Sometimes these people require confrontation by a physician to get them to realize their efforts are not going to work, but other times it is just too funny and there really is nothing that can be done. If you come to an emergency room with a specific complaint you WILL be worked up and treated for what is found related to that complaint.  If nothing is found, all your testing is normal, then you will not be treated.

The following is just a funny (or maybe not) video someone on YouTube put together to typify these kinds of folks that visit ER’s habitually.

You Just Never Know What Patients Are Going to Do Next

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