Categories: Scrubs

True (and funny!) stories from real nurses

Pain assessment

I was triaging a patient in L&D who I thought to be going into labor. Doing the pain assessment, I asked her, “Is your pain intermittent or constant?”

“What?”

“Does your pain come and go or is it constant?”

“Well, it constantly comes and goes!”

Strange diagnosis –>

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