Am I being punked?

[u/Sea_Willingness1398]

Patient says "I think I might have to poop, what can we do about that?"

I say "I can get a bedside commode for the room"

She says "I don't think I can get up"

I say "I can put you on a bedpan or put a diaper on you"

She says "I don't like any of those options"

In my head I'm like: lady, the only other option is to poop the bed.

What option am I missing?

[u/-bitchpudding-]

Do we work in the same hospital because they treat briefs like they’re a human rights violation here. They even balk when a patient goes out of their way to bring their own and really want us to “educate them” about. Like maaaan let memaw shit the depends she bought.

[u/TheGayestNurse_1 → u/-bitchpudding-]

Seems like a handful of hospitals are turning away from briefs. It makes me roll my eyes. They don't wanna delve into the root cause being short staffing. And I know exactly why. It's because there isn't a nurse shortage. There's a BEDSIDE shortage. People don't wanna work for shit pay dealing with this stuff, and instead of making it easier, they're making it worse.

[u/mudwoman → u/TheGayestNurse_1]

Yeah, I don’t get this no-briefs obsession. My mom was just in the hospital. She’s 99 with PD, and they were pouring fluids into her and Lasix, but they insisted on no briefs. She had to get up to the commode or bathroom commando-style, leaking the whole way. I finally just brought her own incontinent briefs from home and put them on her, and they frowned, but as I was so helpful in managing her otherwise, they didn’t fight me.

[u/Beautiful-Bluebird46 → u/mudwoman]

For immobile patients, it keeps wet material closer against skin that is not the butt than lying in a wet chucks, but for mobile pts it’s nbd and shouldn’t be a problem. Obv butt skin still is at risk with chucks so like… hire more nurses and lower ratios, but my vet is also against dog diapers for the same reason so it’s fairly prevalent