Non-therapeutic nursing communication

Nurse messing with a patient's head, Google image

Psych patient, emerging from anesthesia: 'I feel strange, like another person.'

Nurse: 'That's just the feeling from the medication. You gradually get less floaty as it wears off.'

Patient: 'This may be a strange question, but, what is my name?'

Nurse: 'Julie.'

Patient: 'Julie.' Again: 'Julie.' Patient, raising her hands in front of her face and watching them turn this way and that: 'Julie.' Wistfully, crease on forehead: 'Julie.'

Nurse, glancing down at chart, quickly: 'Oh, sorry, Janey.'