That's What I Get....

I've got a a story for you......the other night I worked with another nurse who is a LPN. She's a great nurse, but one of our protocol's at the hospital is an LPN cannot assess a new admit. A RN has to take a look first and then report off any strange findings. So I told this LPN I would assess her patient because I had time. The patient was a 21 year old, male, who had a laparoscopic appendectomy.

So I went in to assess him. He had a few friends in the room, but I did my best to get around, listen to his heart, ask him a few questions, from which I learned he has a very low pain threshold, but that's besides the point. I made small talk as I did this, talking to his friends and inquiring about what symptoms he had the night before that prompted him to come to the ER.

Here's where I made my mistake. When I was finished checking him out, looking at his incision, I said, "Well you look good." To which he responded by saying, "So do you." I did a little uncomfortable laugh while all his friends did their young twenties male laugh that goes something like this, hooh huh hoooh huh in a very low deep tone. Then the patient said, "It's the morphine talking."

I set myself up for that one.

Happy November!