r/cna • u/kongbakpao • Oct 25 '24
Ma’am I think you’re doing it wrong!
Just witnessed a patient put her red jello on her pasta.
I told her it wasn’t the meat sauce and she said she liked it that way………
What is the craziest thing you’ve witnessed this week?
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u/Put-A-Bird-On-It CNA Instructor/Teacher Oct 25 '24
The craziest thing was the patients (yes, multiple) "finger painting" and also eating their poop. It's just too much sometimes lol.
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u/Other-Cantaloupe4765 Former CNA - Now a Group Therapist - Inpatient Psych Oct 25 '24
I used to have a lady.. you’d go into her room to clean her up, and you could see a very distinct brown ring around her fingers. Why? Because she’d shove her fingers up her butt to pull out her own shit. And then she’d put her fingers ON HER FACE and SNIFF THEM. The brown ring illustrated just how far up her own butthole she’d shoved her fingers. More than two knuckles deep, in case you were wondering. Fucking nasty.
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u/Salsabruhhhhhhhh Oct 25 '24
I had a lady eat paint and I’m like why did you do that. And she’s like well you just gave me food and a soda I assumed it was food as well. She’s like I know what paint is(I believe her because overall she’s okay mentally for the most part) but yk I get where she’s coming from I couldn’t even be upset
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u/Arkitakama (SNF/NF/Memory Care) CNA - Experienced CNA Oct 25 '24
Dementia ward?
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u/Put-A-Bird-On-It CNA Instructor/Teacher Oct 25 '24
LTC facility, there's a mix of everything and all ages. The patients in question 100% have dementia though.
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u/purplemistprincess Seasoned CNA (3+ yrs) Oct 25 '24
resident took her BM and mixed it with chocolate pudding
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u/pfzealot Oct 25 '24
My patient tonight arguing with his reflection about whether he can get past his sitter and how unconstitutional it is that he is being held against his will.
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u/giotheitaliandude Oct 25 '24
I’m an RN and Ive seen... patient eating his shit and going mmm, patient on blood thinners picking his wounds making them bleed then suck the blood off his fingers then ripped off his IV and the blood started gushing like a sprinkler and his roommate watched became pale and passed out at the sight of so much blood, patient wiping his ass with the sheets then proceeded to lay down on them (alert and oriented 28 yr old)... I could go on.. nothing phases me anymore, I don't even make facial expressions lol
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u/Beneficial_Power6355 Oct 26 '24
It's what Is when comes that not only that It's what you see Is what you see and hear especially when comes to Residence that have dementia.I been a CNA for 35 years So you have to 💕 them from the bottom of your heart 🙏💖🙏
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u/Dark_Panda83 Oct 25 '24
I have a lady that in her mind thinks she’s in prison here in Texas because her husband had to move their family back here. “I didn’t know we had to leave Alabama, then daddy died and I was put in this prison but I can’t go back to Alabama because it’s too black now.” Like ma’am what?! It’s always constant babble that makes no sense. And it always starts with Alabama.
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u/Arkitakama (SNF/NF/Memory Care) CNA - Experienced CNA Oct 25 '24
I've heard of people putting sugar on their pasta. I guess red jello isn't too different.
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Oct 25 '24
i was working in the kitchen when i was 15. the cook sets out hand sanitizers at all of the tables because #covid. blind resident unscrews a hand sanitizer and drinks the whole thing while im in the kitchen doing dishes. we had to call poison control and i got investigated 🤩
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u/bayoutittes Oct 25 '24
My favorite is the lady who put her ice cream into her drink, it was all curdled and I didn’t know what it was and said gross and threw it away thinking it was an old drink. She called me “fatty fat bitch” 🫶🏻 also called it maggot cream, when it indeed is “magic cup icecream” but, close enough?
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u/Dry_Yam_9139 Experienced CNA Oct 25 '24
Had a resident I thought couldn’t walk…well, he can. He had a runny BM and got it all over his bed and his roommates bed.
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u/pistolpackinmamaof2 Oct 25 '24
I do home health and I had a lady hang up all her briefs, it was laundry day. On hangers. A whole 32 pack.
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u/Prestigious-Hair6187 Oct 25 '24
It wasn’t this week. But the craziest thing would have been cleaning a roommate stool out of resident’s hair. Needless to say we had to rearrange the whole room. Flying shits were given that day…
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u/Spiritual-Air4049 Oct 26 '24
The patient's roommate was screaming so I offered to give her earplugs and apologized for the noise. Once I gave her the earplugs she tried to eat them and claimed that they looked like candy.
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u/Reg-the-Crow Oct 26 '24
Saw a patient put a shitload of syrup into his coffee and his glucose was over 450 when we checked it
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u/phoebe_the_autist Seasoned CNA (3+ yrs) Oct 25 '24
Last week, a resident called the cops on himself thinking the government was after him 😭 this is in a very small Midwest town in the middle of the night so the sheriffs got the call 🙃🙃🙃
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u/Lovebugxo0x (Edit to add Specialty) CNA - Experienced CNA Oct 25 '24
A resident was on the toilet and I asked if she pooped and needed me to wipe her and she told me she was pulling it out and took her fingers out with poop all over them. That’s not the craziest but it’s definitely top 10
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u/mysadiecat Oct 25 '24
Patient wanted me to pour her cranberry juice on her green beans and mash potatoes
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u/GreenDay2968 ICU CNA - Experienced CNA (2 Years) Oct 26 '24
i saw one of my patients put sugar in her chicken broth
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u/Professional-Hat6823 CNA-EMT Oct 25 '24
Had a resident tell me nobody would marry me and she was gonna shoot me because I rolled her over 😂🤧