I went in to see my first patient at the beginning of the shift only to find he had been incontinent of urine - the entire bed was soaked. I rounded up all the linen and bathing supplies and got one of the other nurse to help me. She rolled him over and I washed his back and bottom and pushed the dripping wet linen underneath him, usually I would start the dry linen but his old stuff was so wet we elected to roll him completely off of it to avoid getting the clean stuff wet. I reached across him and grabbed his shoulder and hip and rolled him to face me. He was kind of a big guy and ER gurneys are notoriously narrow so I had to roll him up against me to give the other nurse enough room to get the linen under him. Suddenly I felt a warm flood going down my leg and into my shoe. He was peeing and it was running off the mattress and all over me.
The sad thing was the rest of the day was so bad being peed on was the high point.
Friday, May 9, 2008
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I feel for you, my wife called me at work tonight, she is a ER nurse, and said the all her patients were peeing there selves.
Must be something in the air.
..."being peed on was the high point."
Sweetheart, we need to reset your standards.
;)
Yeah. Butter Biscuit got me this morning, right after I had showered.
NEVER pick up a nekkid baby.
I hope tomorrow is a better day for you.
When being mistaken for a urinal is the high point of the day, I hope this is not a typical day.
Hope you had the next day off. Sounds like you need some recovery time!
oh man...we've all been there...thats the time when you say: "I love my job, I love my job..."
Well, at least he did evacuate his bowels on you. We just had that happen here onto one of the tech's pants. Yum.
I meant "did not"!
I know it's not part of the thread but..Happy Mother's Day ;)
i never had pee--poop/vomit/massive blood/ drainage from a leg post code helping move the 700lb pateint for the furneral home crew--i scrubed my leg raw, before returning to duty. of course my scream made everyone think i injured myself and i replied"i got slimed!" i feel bad that the prior nurse did not prep the patient right, since he was incont., leaving you such a mess to come into.
that sucks for you and the patient both!
Such a nice blog. I hope you will create another post like this.
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