Mistaken Beliefs

I overheard a discussion between two student nurses and one was talking about why she decided to become a nurse. She had been working in an office for years and no one ever said thank you to her at the end of the day. I was waiting to hear what that had to do with becoming a nurse, but that was it. I'm guessing that she thinks that someone says thank you to nurses at the end of the day. How funny is that?
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Many of our knee replacement patients get polar care, which is a type of cold pack treatment that keeps their knee cold after surgery to reduce swelling and pain. A few days before surgery, patients go to the clinic, pay a deposit and take the machine home with them with the plan that they will bring it to the hospital with them on the day of surgery.

It is amazing how many people forget to bring the polar care with them to the hospital. It's even more amazing how many patients say that this is our fault. They will say that no one told them that they needed to bring the polar care to the hospital with them.

Even if no one told them, how did they think that the polar care was going to get from their house to the hospital if they didn't bring it?

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One of the nurses got hit in the head with a phone by a patient who believed that she was being held prisoner and that the nurse was planning to kill her. (Morphine delirium is not pretty.) She also called 911. The 911 operator then called us and asked us to check on the patient. This happens fairly frequently. Little do patients know that 911 operators are in on the conspiracy to hold patients against their will.