While completing a basic pt care course in my first semester of nursing school, I encountered a usually kind, but very, very confused elderly gentleman. I came on shift one morning, and I was told that J.R. had not slept the night before… nor had he slept in approx. 4 days.

Just then, the door alarm went off. I went over to see J.R. in his wheelchair, trying to get through the door. When I talked to him, he said, “I”M GOING TO THE LABOR DEPARTMENT AND REPORTING THAT I’M WORKING HERE FOR NO PAY!!” At which point, he bolted into another resident’s room, making quite the scene.