Nursing Home Soap Opera

We've survived another week of clinical, but not without some measure of drama. It's comical really... It seems that one of my male students has found a new "girlfriend" in the Alzheimer's unit. A little lady follows him about spouting out comments like "I'll have me a piece of that" and "Isn't he delicious!" This is also the same woman who takes a drink of water and says "There's something wrong with this, it's not spiked." My other male student rescued a dementia patient from out of the bushes where she had lost herself a few hours earlier.
Another one of the student's patients significantly improved after being placed on hospice and taken off of all of his medications. It seems he now talks, walks and eats all of his meals without help. He couldn't do any of these things before he put on hospice care.
One of my young ladies received highest compliments from for the administrator for getting her severely obese patient with anasarca and terrible venous stasis ulcers on her legs into a recliner. This woman had apparently been in her wheelchair almost constantly for several weeks. She even slept in wheelchair refusing to get into bed which of course made it hard to elevate her terribly swollen legs.
It turns out that another students patient had been a medical assistant in a doctor's office. She coached the student through taking her vital signs and testing her blood with great joy and excitement. Ironically it was the sweetest girl you could ever know that was the one who made her patient cry. However, the bout of crying was brought on by a "goodbye" at the end of the day. It's such a privilege to work with the next generation of nurses, the ones who aren't jaded and haven't developed bad habits yet. How refreshing!