Funniest Nursing Stories
Miracle Drug
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Working in the emergency department one night we had an elderly lady come in from a local nursing home with stroke like symptoms. She had a decrease in LOC. During the exam we noticed that she had two fentanyl patches on with two different dates on them. So we removed them and told the physician. He told us to give Naloxone 2 mg IVP. As we went into the room to administer the Naloxone we saw the local priest doing the last rites or anointing of the sick or something. The nurse I was working with whispers to me “Watch this” and discretely pushes the Naloxone pretty quick. Just as the priest is doing the sign of the cross, the lady opens her eyes and takes a huge breath in and started to flail her arms around while speaking a bunch of words that don’t make sense. The priest almost passed out! We had to leave the room it was so funny. Afterwards he was convinced that we had experienced some divine intervention.
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