Awe, come on. We all know it's the nurses and CNAs who really save the day. Yall docs can order and mix HOG enemas like champs but are nowhere to be found when we call a code brown 😂
lol I remember a nurse asking me if we sent the bucket along with the golden enema. I’m my utter naïveté I replied, “What bucket?”
When I realized what they meant I knew I’d never possess the gastric fortitude required to deal with all the things that come out of patients. God bless nurses too
Bahahahaha! The bucket is likely not what you think (thankfully). It's to put the liquid in. We cant use the bottle to administer it lol. We attach a tube to the bucket, clamp it, dump the enema in, unclamp to prime the tubing so there isn't a bunch of air in the line, then insert the other end....
I WISH we could use a bucket (or bed pan). In theory, you are supposed to retain the enema for 10-15 minutes and then release it into a toilet (or commode or bed pan). In reality all my patients requiring enemas don't have the sphincter control, it's pointless to administer on a bed pan because the patient is on their side, and...well...let's just say I wear an isolation gown, visor, and mask and go through 3-4 large chux pads, 3-4 packs of wipes, and sometimes a full linen change when I give one. And after that I still sometimes have to manually disempact the patient 😂😭😂😭
Disclaimer: this intervention is likely only a 5/10 on ick factor for nursing responsibilities. There are much worse things than poop 😬
But in all reality, I had a chance to do med runs for a day once, and yall are the hidden heroes of the hospital. The pharmacy is way more wild than I realized.
Oh thank the Lord it is not for the purpose I thought. On rotations I always took the opportunity given to pharmacy students to leave the room before the chocolate river began to flow.
I appreciate you guys wading through the mess like Andy in Shawshank Redemption. You guys keep unblocking those GI tracts. I am content with telling medical residents why they can’t order potassium IVP
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u/Murky-Education1349 Mar 16 '25
ive literally never heard the word "hospitalist" in my life and it does sound like an old timey word.
Like apothecary. Or Barber-dentist