In what universe would a 37 year old woman who is not disabled in any way thing that it was perfectly OK to crap on the bed and then expect someone to clean her up?
No way sister, here is the linen - there is the sink.
BTW, she had driven herself to the ER and walked in under her own power so was obviously able to get up and walk to the bathroom.
What is the matter with people?
Saturday, August 30, 2008
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*sniff* Smell that?
In addition to shit, you smell passive-aggressivity.
I bet it has a hit of corn!
In the universe of drug and/or alcohol withdrawal?
Second question: Why would anyone want to crap in their bed and lay in it? And why wouldn't she find that humiliating? I hope you really did make her clean herself up. Yuck.
You have got to be kidding. What sane person would do that!?!?!? GROSS!
Usually you have to pay cash up front for that kind of thing, or so I've heard. :-)
Then I won't tell you about the 16 yo girl that shat all over the floor all the way into the bathroom...and mom sat there peacefully munching on her Big Mac.....
Steve
The sad thing is that she'll write a complaint letter to administration about how she wasn't helped and then the nurse will actually be the one in trouble! Happened to me...
There is something about that hospital stretcher that magically removes the ability for a person to care for themselves...like the crappy mattress, squeaky wheels and lumpy pillow makes you suddenly incapacitated with your illness.
My favorite is the families who bring in their 300-lb granny who is flaccid on one side from her stroke three years ago and contracted on the other from immobility. Apparently, they provide all of her care at HOME themselves but suddenly become helpless to get her on a bedpan or wipe the spit oozing out of her mouth and by the way, could we give her a bed bath...in the ED? All four of them insist on staying at her bedside but expect all 120 pounds of you to care for her every need single-handedly (right now) and don't even offer a hand. I have actually overheard family whispering behing the curtain, "Don't worry yourself about that, the nurse can do it". That's when I decide to suddenly become busy somewhere else.
The young and able-bodied that mystically become incontinent...that really takes the cake. If they weren't remotely near death before that, they will wish they were after I am through with them. If I absolutely must assist in thier personal hygiene issue they get the most thorough, skin-stinging pericare I can manage along with a tube to either orifice that caused the offense (all in the interest of preventing skin breakdown, of course).
-A fellow ED RN in the trenches
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