People really do go thru this. Patients have called 911 from their hospital rooms more than once. However its hilarious because when you have other patients you cannot continue to go through these things over and over. You definitely cannot reorient them.
You have to go along with what they're saying. For example, when I lived in a group home, X told me how there were crawdads in the back of the truck. I told him we could go after lunch. I chased him down the road a few times, and he always was doing something with crawdads and me. The evil people at the rest home treated those like him horribly, yelling the date and that they weren't going home. This agitated the dementia patients, which was karma to the crappy CNAs. Made their life harder.
I'm a nurse. I always tell my elderly male patients that I'm tying their penises to the bed, when I put foley catheters in. It's easier than the real explanation, and it prevents them from getting out of bed. No man..regardless of age..wants to see their pride and joy torn off. Problem solved.
I see a lot of comments bashing nurses for not dealing with these patients correctly and bragging about being mental health nurses, but none explaining the proper way to deal with these situations. They don't really teach this well in nursing school, and most nurses who work in certain hospital units don't deal with these patients enough to master communicating with them. So please, enlighten those of us not in the mental health field. We really do get frustrated at not knowing how to respond to these patients when they are like this.
Figment43 definitely a good point. I work in mental health and this is hilarious to me. I would never speak to a patient this way or patronize them but humour is my stress outlet. that doesn't mean I don't care or empathize with my patients. the right way to deal with them is the way you would want to be treated but we are allowed to laugh to ourselves or relieve stress how we choose behind closed doors.
I was hoping the responses were some sort of sick joke, but after reading the description I am disgusted. You patronise the patient over and over again, no compassion, the responses were not appropriate, if you work in health care you should know that there is short term memory loss so you saying "your relative just left" is only going to make them more agitated and anxious. Mental health is stigmatised enough, and you working with people who have this should know better. They are not "crazy" they have an illness.
Honestly, this is very funny. But in reality, this nurse dealt with this patient in the worst way. She said the wrong thing at almost every turn. Still funny though lol
This is a heartless video showing a nurse humiliate a dementia patient, even describing them as crazy in the captain. How utterly pathetic and not even remotely funny. Whoever describes this is as 'nurse humour’ are hugely mistaken, if you were educated enough to actually have any knowledge of the progression of dementia, you would empathise for the patient, a lot of people reading this may one day be a dementia patient as it is a increasing problem. For those who do not know, dementia is caused by wide array of conditions and often causes a inability to form new memories, it also causes the person to misinterpret information. Dementia patients will often retreat into already formed memories as this often helps to alleviate anxiety, by dragging them into present, you will make the person feel stressed and scared. If a catheter is causing anxiety you should try alternative treatments for incontinence, rather than a being complete….In conclusion this video is not funny, youtubers who find this amusing clearly lack emotional intelligence and the maker does not deserve to classify themselves as a nurse as they clearly lack the compassion needed to be one.
+Charlotte Davies I think this is just meant to be humorous. She obviously dealt with this patient in the wrong way and said all the wrong things, but it is pretty funny. I doubt this is supposed to be an accurate simulation of what really happened. It's comedy. It's like, "this is what I wanted to say to him This is what I was thinking". lol. I'm a caregiver, and I can relate to this. So many times, I had to hold back manic laughter at the things dementis patients say sometimes. A good caregiver represses the urge to laugh or get angry and frustrated, but that doesn't mean we don't get those urges. We're still human, and the concerns of dementia patients can be veru humorous. Like, I had a dementia patient once, 96 years old, who was quite blind. She was convinced that her incontinence pads were because she was still on her period. She'd say "When am I going to stop menstruating??"Seeing a 96 year old woman convinced that she had her period was quite funny. But you still treat her seriously and with compassion.
I work in mental health nurse, I know about dealing with challenging stituations. I feel on behalf of anyone who has loved ones with or has themselves developed dementia this video whether written as 'comedy' is still incredibly distressing and disgusting. Dementia patients have become again and again victims to poor care and abuse. 1 out 4 elderly people with dementia are victims of elderly abuse. This negative stigmisation make it seem acceptable to treat people with dementia in a immature and unempathic way, thus my dislike to this video. As a nurse or care worker you are binded to a duty of care which includes treating people with respect and dignity tell me how this video encourages either of those two things? I know about venting stress this job is incredibly emotional distressing but it is even more scary to be someone with dementia, or any illness that affects the mind, try understand it from their perseptive rather than being ignorant and stupid
I have a feeling that everyone bitching has not worked in a nursing home nor have they had a 1:50 ratio of these people. The care the receive is better than a lot deserve. Oh how much they leave out. How about being punched, kicked, spit on, had feces thrown at them simply trying to get them changed. How about families expecting one on one care bc obviously they cant do the job so they dump them in a nursing home. i just hope i die before i become so old, bitter, inpatient, and abusive. Blame the facilities they have set up unreal expectations, its not the nurse or the CNAs fault. They do the best they can with the cards they are dealt.
Always Here Learn what a "joke" IS oddball! Dementia and death isn't a joke. Want me to tell you some "jokes" about someone you love? I can do it all day and night, to keep you brutally upset. But, please don't make me do that. Anyone needs a life, you need to jump to the head of the line...
You don't have the right to use the phrase "nurse" this is a cruel and infuriating video of how you are completely void of any compassion. You should go work in McDonald's, your not fit to work with any living being. Vile!
***** people like that?! it is not their fault they have terrifying degenerative disease. This video produces negative stigma towards the poor victims of dementia.
+Never Ending Exactly. Nurses are not compassionate robots. They have the same feelings as anyone. They see the humor in these situations, and sometimes they get angry. If they are good at their jobs, they suppress these feelings and always treat the patient with respect. But that doesn't mean they don't have these feelings.
LOL tied my penis to the bed. I never saw it that way at work. I'll remember that perspective next time while I'm struggling to prevent the Pt wrenching out his IDC.
This avideo is horrible ... I pray you have more patience with your residents , because your interaction was inappropriate and alarming . You dont give a resident a sedative because he annoys you or complains of pain.. This video is a slap in the face to all people dealing with a loved one in a nursing home or assisted living. YOU NEED TO FIND ANOTHER JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not funny, not terribly offensive. But I have to comment on the ridiculous, and pervasive, penis fixation in society, and by female healthcare staff. It's what this video starts off with. If male staff commented on vaginas all over the internet, there'd be an outcry from women.Every nurse's week there are comments about how many penises they see, and how big they are. And constant cartoons and videos about it. From what I see as a male, I wouldn't trust most female staff to "care" for me.
I think is cruel and unnecessary to put this on you tube; there are other ways to lighten up a hard job and share your own experience. Not a smooth move Kristi
Thanks for posting this. I hate to be the one dealing with this kind of shit, but afterwards, it makes for a bloody good story. (If you keep things anonymous, of course, like you did.)
Backpedal, ya know, like the thing someone does by redacting a previous statement and not having the courage to leave it up to show everyone what a twat they are.
few times. I have heard the word Nazi used more than once in such conversations. You should be ashamed of yourself. You have become and are becoming further yet a vicious animal. Keep my comments with you. You have been judged inhumane and undeserving of anything other than guilt, shame, and censure.
To mock it is to do a thing that only someone with severe mental illness would do. People with dementia are not cows, pigs, or barnyard animals. And when they are hurt or ill it is sick and cruel to laugh at them after you have "dealt with them" when you are having a causal conversation with your friends (fellow psychopaths and sociopaths). You would not believe the things that European health care workers say about Americans after they have toured the American health care facilities a
Because anyone who post a video where they call it versus a demented human being is bound to be an abusive psychopath. And LO AND BEHOLD the nurse treats him like trash just like a psychopath would. You see there is this phenomenon in the United States where people with dementia are abused to death by the tens of thousands every year by nurses and nursing aides. And anyone who works in health care knows about it and about how much they suffer.
You people deserve to be dragged out of your homes or the hospitals you work in and beating and burned at the stake. You obviously have little or no sense of humanity and find it so humorous to mock the sick, disabled, elderly, and dying that you make it into a game of who can turn a real situation into a funny mocking one the fastest amongst your colleagues. Don't confuse reality with what you're lies bring you. You're criminals. Each and every one of you if you do this to a demented man.
There have been times, after being with a confused patient, I have left the room feeling confused myself. We would never treat a patient badly or belittle them, but we do have to laugh later or we would go crazy from the stress.
OMG this is hilarious. Those that find this offensive need to be able to take a light joke. I have over a decade of Alzheimer' and Dementia experience and even I saw the need to chuckle at this. This is the exact dialogue I have had with paitients at one time.
Ativan (or Haldol) is the humane thing in these situations- PTs get so distraught and anxious over things that make no sense, and there is nothing you can say to make it better. Both sad and funny- I deal with this almost every shift.
@eskrav very well put. We will all be there someday & these people's callousness to this heart wrenching condition sickens me. I know your job is stressful. Take your frustrations out at the gym, go for a run, swim. Whatever u do remember the golden rule, DO UNTO OTHERS AS U WOULD WANT DONE ONTO U. Your day is coming.
Poor Mr. Smith...❤
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How does this not have more veiws
People really do go thru this. Patients have called 911 from their hospital rooms more than once. However its hilarious because when you have other patients you cannot continue to go through these things over and over. You definitely cannot reorient them.
You have to go along with what they're saying. For example, when I lived in a group home, X told me how there were crawdads in the back of the truck. I told him we could go after lunch. I chased him down the road a few times, and he always was doing something with crawdads and me. The evil people at the rest home treated those like him horribly, yelling the date and that they weren't going home. This agitated the dementia patients, which was karma to the crappy CNAs. Made their life harder.
I'm a nurse. I always tell my elderly male patients that I'm tying their penises to the bed, when I put foley catheters in. It's easier than the real explanation, and it prevents them from getting out of bed. No man..regardless of age..wants to see their pride and joy torn off. Problem solved.
can't believe she did not explain why she tied his penis to the bed
I think this is supposed to be funny, not an example of dealing with these types of patients.
Who tied my penis to the bed
I see a lot of comments bashing nurses for not dealing with these patients correctly and bragging about being mental health nurses, but none explaining the proper way to deal with these situations. They don't really teach this well in nursing school, and most nurses who work in certain hospital units don't deal with these patients enough to master communicating with them. So please, enlighten those of us not in the mental health field. We really do get frustrated at not knowing how to respond to these patients when they are like this.
Figment43 definitely a good point. I work in mental health and this is hilarious to me. I would never speak to a patient this way or patronize them but humour is my stress outlet. that doesn't mean I don't care or empathize with my patients. the right way to deal with them is the way you would want to be treated but we are allowed to laugh to ourselves or relieve stress how we choose behind closed doors.
I was hoping the responses were some sort of sick joke, but after reading the description I am disgusted. You patronise the patient over and over again, no compassion, the responses were not appropriate, if you work in health care you should know that there is short term memory loss so you saying "your relative just left" is only going to make them more agitated and anxious. Mental health is stigmatised enough, and you working with people who have this should know better. They are not "crazy" they have an illness.
It's a joke people. Lighten up!
ghj
Honestly, this is very funny. But in reality, this nurse dealt with this patient in the worst way. She said the wrong thing at almost every turn. Still funny though lol
This is a heartless video showing a nurse humiliate a dementia patient, even describing them as crazy in the captain. How utterly pathetic and not even remotely funny. Whoever describes this is as 'nurse humour’ are hugely mistaken, if you were educated enough to actually have any knowledge of the progression of dementia, you would empathise for the patient, a lot of people reading this may one day be a dementia patient as it is a increasing problem. For those who do not know, dementia is caused by wide array of conditions and often causes a inability to form new memories, it also causes the person to misinterpret information. Dementia patients will often retreat into already formed memories as this often helps to alleviate anxiety, by dragging them into present, you will make the person feel stressed and scared. If a catheter is causing anxiety you should try alternative treatments for incontinence, rather than a being complete….In conclusion this video is not funny, youtubers who find this amusing clearly lack emotional intelligence and the maker does not deserve to classify themselves as a nurse as they clearly lack the compassion needed to be one.
+Charlotte Davies I think this is just meant to be humorous. She obviously dealt with this patient in the wrong way and said all the wrong things, but it is pretty funny. I doubt this is supposed to be an accurate simulation of what really happened. It's comedy. It's like, "this is what I wanted to say to him This is what I was thinking". lol. I'm a caregiver, and I can relate to this. So many times, I had to hold back manic laughter at the things dementis patients say sometimes. A good caregiver represses the urge to laugh or get angry and frustrated, but that doesn't mean we don't get those urges. We're still human, and the concerns of dementia patients can be veru humorous. Like, I had a dementia patient once, 96 years old, who was quite blind. She was convinced that her incontinence pads were because she was still on her period. She'd say "When am I going to stop menstruating??"Seeing a 96 year old woman convinced that she had her period was quite funny. But you still treat her seriously and with compassion.
I work in mental health nurse, I know about dealing with challenging stituations. I feel on behalf of anyone who has loved ones with or has themselves developed dementia this video whether written as 'comedy' is still incredibly distressing and disgusting. Dementia patients have become again and again victims to poor care and abuse. 1 out 4 elderly people with dementia are victims of elderly abuse. This negative stigmisation make it seem acceptable to treat people with dementia in a immature and unempathic way, thus my dislike to this video. As a nurse or care worker you are binded to a duty of care which includes treating people with respect and dignity tell me how this video encourages either of those two things? I know about venting stress this job is incredibly emotional distressing but it is even more scary to be someone with dementia, or any illness that affects the mind, try understand it from their perseptive rather than being ignorant and stupid
I have a feeling that everyone bitching has not worked in a nursing home nor have they had a 1:50 ratio of these people. The care the receive is better than a lot deserve. Oh how much they leave out. How about being punched, kicked, spit on, had feces thrown at them simply trying to get them changed. How about families expecting one on one care bc obviously they cant do the job so they dump them in a nursing home. i just hope i die before i become so old, bitter, inpatient, and abusive. Blame the facilities they have set up unreal expectations, its not the nurse or the CNAs fault. They do the best they can with the cards they are dealt.
Always Here Learn what a "joke" IS oddball! Dementia and death isn't a joke. Want me to tell you some "jokes" about someone you love? I can do it all day and night, to keep you brutally upset. But, please don't make me do that. Anyone needs a life, you need to jump to the head of the line...
Clearly you are not a nurse
You don't have the right to use the phrase "nurse" this is a cruel and infuriating video of how you are completely void of any compassion. You should go work in McDonald's, your not fit to work with any living being. Vile!
***** people like that?! it is not their fault they have terrifying degenerative disease. This video produces negative stigma towards the poor victims of dementia.
+Never Ending Exactly. Nurses are not compassionate robots. They have the same feelings as anyone. They see the humor in these situations, and sometimes they get angry. If they are good at their jobs, they suppress these feelings and always treat the patient with respect. But that doesn't mean they don't have these feelings.
LOL tied my penis to the bed. I never saw it that way at work. I'll remember that perspective next time while I'm struggling to prevent the Pt wrenching out his IDC.
Oh y'all please get a real life....classic nursing humor that only vaguely resembles real interactions. Very funny.
Yeah sort of. There's really no reasoning with people like that. Sometimes you have too humor them to get them off your back.
This avideo is horrible ... I pray you have more patience with your residents , because your interaction was inappropriate and alarming . You dont give a resident a sedative because he annoys you or complains of pain.. This video is a slap in the face to all people dealing with a loved one in a nursing home or assisted living. YOU NEED TO FIND ANOTHER JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really hope you know this video is a joke
You're taking the video a bit too seriously..
This video is awful! Maybe this nurse who wrote it needs to get out of dementia care and go work in anaesthetics.
That's right, nursing humour!
Now just imagine dealing with 20-40 residents like Mr. Smith at a time lol!
How old are you 9?
He's 14 now
And yes some of this video is true
Funny video
Not funny, not terribly offensive. But I have to comment on the ridiculous, and pervasive, penis fixation in society, and by female healthcare staff. It's what this video starts off with. If male staff commented on vaginas all over the internet, there'd be an outcry from women.Every nurse's week there are comments about how many penises they see, and how big they are. And constant cartoons and videos about it. From what I see as a male, I wouldn't trust most female staff to "care" for me.
It's a joke
I think is cruel and unnecessary to put this on you tube; there are other ways to lighten up a hard job and share your own experience. Not a smooth move Kristi
Thanks for posting this. I hate to be the one dealing with this kind of shit, but afterwards, it makes for a bloody good story. (If you keep things anonymous, of course, like you did.)
Backpedal, ya know, like the thing someone does by redacting a previous statement and not having the courage to leave it up to show everyone what a twat they are.
what?
Backpedal some more. Shit gets real when people know who you are.
Dude, i'm not from nebraska. And I was fucking kidding. It was just a fucking joke. Why would I say things like that to a dementia patient?
Theredtail95 aka James Hall from Nebraska. Worked in the medical field. You should watch what you say.
me or my words then pose this scenario to a therapist or an analyst and ask what the implication on you are.
few times. I have heard the word Nazi used more than once in such conversations. You should be ashamed of yourself. You have become and are becoming further yet a vicious animal. Keep my comments with you. You have been judged inhumane and undeserving of anything other than guilt, shame, and censure.
To mock it is to do a thing that only someone with severe mental illness would do. People with dementia are not cows, pigs, or barnyard animals. And when they are hurt or ill it is sick and cruel to laugh at them after you have "dealt with them" when you are having a causal conversation with your friends (fellow psychopaths and sociopaths). You would not believe the things that European health care workers say about Americans after they have toured the American health care facilities a
Because anyone who post a video where they call it versus a demented human being is bound to be an abusive psychopath. And LO AND BEHOLD the nurse treats him like trash just like a psychopath would. You see there is this phenomenon in the United States where people with dementia are abused to death by the tens of thousands every year by nurses and nursing aides. And anyone who works in health care knows about it and about how much they suffer.
You people deserve to be dragged out of your homes or the hospitals you work in and beating and burned at the stake. You obviously have little or no sense of humanity and find it so humorous to mock the sick, disabled, elderly, and dying that you make it into a game of who can turn a real situation into a funny mocking one the fastest amongst your colleagues. Don't confuse reality with what you're lies bring you. You're criminals. Each and every one of you if you do this to a demented man.
As an RN (an intensive care and telly RN) I have to say this video is extremely accurate... and funny ;)
you totally dont feed into illusions of patients
There have been times, after being with a confused patient, I have left the room feeling confused myself. We would never treat a patient badly or belittle them, but we do have to laugh later or we would go crazy from the stress.
OMG this is hilarious. Those that find this offensive need to be able to take a light joke. I have over a decade of Alzheimer' and Dementia experience and even I saw the need to chuckle at this. This is the exact dialogue I have had with paitients at one time.
This reminds me of withdrawal pt.s too.
Ativan (or Haldol) is the humane thing in these situations- PTs get so distraught and anxious over things that make no sense, and there is nothing you can say to make it better. Both sad and funny- I deal with this almost every shift.
LOL
dementia nursing can make u almost insane!
@suzachan01 Cancer is real too. Who loves cancer? BAhahahahahaha!
@eskrav very well put. We will all be there someday & these people's callousness to this heart wrenching condition sickens me. I know your job is stressful. Take your frustrations out at the gym, go for a run, swim. Whatever u do remember the golden rule, DO UNTO OTHERS AS U WOULD WANT DONE ONTO U. Your day is coming.