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Im currently a nursing student..but I also go to school in the place that I work (if that makes sense), so I figured Id post here.
Now, no one was sucky...but I just need to talk and know u guys like stories..
I was in clinicals today, which basically means i work for free!!! Yay! But, really I have the responibilities of a nurse and an aide combined and Im there for 8 hrs.
I have one Patient in this particular room. Patient A is a very nice lady, just had some major surgery, but is feeling better. I went into the room to take the IV out of her arm and did so, with my instructor staring glaring holes into my back the entire time.
So, I finish this task and I go to wash my hand in the inroom sink...as Im drying I hear a small "help me..help me"
I look around and realize that Patient B (the roomate) is not on her side of the room and must be in the bathroom. So, being the good nursey that I am, I knock and slide the door open.."How can I help you?"
OMG
OMG.
Now I know Im going to be a nurse, and truly, I do have a strong stomach...but sometimes theres only so much a person can handle.
There was a literal shit storm in the bathroom. The poor lady is CRYING her eyes out, shes stuck in a position between sitting and standing. She cant sit b/c the toilet is covered in soupy shit....and she cant stand b/c then her sweater will get shit on it.
Apparenly, she hit the bathroom alarm button which is only visible from OUTSIDE the room so I didnt see it.
My reaction was this:
I tell her "Ma'am..give me sec. Im going to get some towels. dont move.!!"
Shes still crying but obliges...I sprint down the hall (not sure why they dont keep towels in the damn rooms but anyway). I get to her and try to finagle my way around her in this tiny shit filled bathroom.
I get to the toilet and at least wipe the seat off so she can sit. Seriously, and this has never happened to me before, but I started to retch and I couldnt stop. IT SMELLED LIKE CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP..OMG!I was just praying that I didnt throw up.
So, I get her to the point that she can at least sit down. And I exit the room to get the washclothes wet so we can wipe her down.
At this point Patient A goes "I have to use the bathroom".....I wanted to laugh, but told her she would have to wait a bit since it was occupied. She tells me thats ok, but should her IV site be doing this? I look and, Ill be damned if her previous IV site wasnt fuckin gushing blood!
WTF!
So, I wash my hands really quick and run to the bloodbath, get gauze over it and am holding pressure when I hear Patient B screaming for me from the bathroom. From the angle Im standing, I can also see that she turned the bathroom alarm light back on...
LOL..I wanted to laugh...really I did...b/c this was just too much. I finally get it to stop, tape the damn thing down and get back into the bathroom.
Patient B had managed to shit aLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL over the toilet again. How? Im not sure...there should be no possible way for anyone to shit that much at one time.
So, I have to leave to get more towels...left the alarm light on, hoping someone would notice and come to help, no such luck.
So, I come back ....strip this lady down throw a new gown and adult brief on her and get her out of the bathroom and start to try and clean it, b/c remember patient A has to also go potty..
OMG...there was shit: On the walls, in the fathest bathroom corner on the floor,all over the floor surrounding the toilet, underneath the outside of the toilet, ALL OVER EVERY EXPOSED TOP TOILET SURFACE..and I swear to you all, there was shit on the ceiling..
(Golgotha, anyone? )
So, really..I clean it up, it looks spotless, took me over 10 minutes, I throw all the shitty linens in a bag and THEN housekeeping shows up at the door...talk about irony...LOL. I just ask her to use some extra disinfectant..
Patient A looks like she wants to laugh at me, but is too courteous too..but her husband isnt..and hes cracking a smile.. (good naturedly though)
I walk down the hall, dragging the shitty linen bag...Im sweating bullets by now....tired, and hot.
I walk and stand in front of some random fan they have in the hall to give my self a minute of rest and my instructor come up to me and says "What are you standing here for" slightly snarkish....
*Anyone ever see the episode of Family Guy, where someone says something to Stewie, and he turns his head in the slowest most odd fuckin angle thats really not humanly possible?* I did that..she slowly backed away from me.
And this was all before 11am.
so, I finally get down stairs to the cafeteria about 1245 and guess that theyre serving.?
Chicken
Noodle
Soup
I almost walked out.
*I just want to say, Im not saying any one was sucky, it was just sucky for me that no one came to help me. I realize the day was slightly humourous...Ooh..and I got poop on my shoes..
*
Now, no one was sucky...but I just need to talk and know u guys like stories..
I was in clinicals today, which basically means i work for free!!! Yay! But, really I have the responibilities of a nurse and an aide combined and Im there for 8 hrs.
I have one Patient in this particular room. Patient A is a very nice lady, just had some major surgery, but is feeling better. I went into the room to take the IV out of her arm and did so, with my instructor staring glaring holes into my back the entire time.
So, I finish this task and I go to wash my hand in the inroom sink...as Im drying I hear a small "help me..help me"
I look around and realize that Patient B (the roomate) is not on her side of the room and must be in the bathroom. So, being the good nursey that I am, I knock and slide the door open.."How can I help you?"
OMG
OMG.
Now I know Im going to be a nurse, and truly, I do have a strong stomach...but sometimes theres only so much a person can handle.
There was a literal shit storm in the bathroom. The poor lady is CRYING her eyes out, shes stuck in a position between sitting and standing. She cant sit b/c the toilet is covered in soupy shit....and she cant stand b/c then her sweater will get shit on it.
Apparenly, she hit the bathroom alarm button which is only visible from OUTSIDE the room so I didnt see it.
My reaction was this:
I tell her "Ma'am..give me sec. Im going to get some towels. dont move.!!"
Shes still crying but obliges...I sprint down the hall (not sure why they dont keep towels in the damn rooms but anyway). I get to her and try to finagle my way around her in this tiny shit filled bathroom.
I get to the toilet and at least wipe the seat off so she can sit. Seriously, and this has never happened to me before, but I started to retch and I couldnt stop. IT SMELLED LIKE CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP..OMG!I was just praying that I didnt throw up.
So, I get her to the point that she can at least sit down. And I exit the room to get the washclothes wet so we can wipe her down.
At this point Patient A goes "I have to use the bathroom".....I wanted to laugh, but told her she would have to wait a bit since it was occupied. She tells me thats ok, but should her IV site be doing this? I look and, Ill be damned if her previous IV site wasnt fuckin gushing blood!
WTF!
So, I wash my hands really quick and run to the bloodbath, get gauze over it and am holding pressure when I hear Patient B screaming for me from the bathroom. From the angle Im standing, I can also see that she turned the bathroom alarm light back on...
LOL..I wanted to laugh...really I did...b/c this was just too much. I finally get it to stop, tape the damn thing down and get back into the bathroom.
Patient B had managed to shit aLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL over the toilet again. How? Im not sure...there should be no possible way for anyone to shit that much at one time.
So, I have to leave to get more towels...left the alarm light on, hoping someone would notice and come to help, no such luck.
So, I come back ....strip this lady down throw a new gown and adult brief on her and get her out of the bathroom and start to try and clean it, b/c remember patient A has to also go potty..
OMG...there was shit: On the walls, in the fathest bathroom corner on the floor,all over the floor surrounding the toilet, underneath the outside of the toilet, ALL OVER EVERY EXPOSED TOP TOILET SURFACE..and I swear to you all, there was shit on the ceiling..
(Golgotha, anyone? )
So, really..I clean it up, it looks spotless, took me over 10 minutes, I throw all the shitty linens in a bag and THEN housekeeping shows up at the door...talk about irony...LOL. I just ask her to use some extra disinfectant..
Patient A looks like she wants to laugh at me, but is too courteous too..but her husband isnt..and hes cracking a smile.. (good naturedly though)
I walk down the hall, dragging the shitty linen bag...Im sweating bullets by now....tired, and hot.
I walk and stand in front of some random fan they have in the hall to give my self a minute of rest and my instructor come up to me and says "What are you standing here for" slightly snarkish....
*Anyone ever see the episode of Family Guy, where someone says something to Stewie, and he turns his head in the slowest most odd fuckin angle thats really not humanly possible?* I did that..she slowly backed away from me.
And this was all before 11am.
so, I finally get down stairs to the cafeteria about 1245 and guess that theyre serving.?
Chicken
Noodle
Soup
I almost walked out.
*I just want to say, Im not saying any one was sucky, it was just sucky for me that no one came to help me. I realize the day was slightly humourous...Ooh..and I got poop on my shoes..
*
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the entire time. Awesome story. Too bad it actually happened!
)
Im going to miss what I do when I graduate. Good luck with the Nuc Med. 
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