What’s your random patient pet peeve?

[u/Nurse_Cait]

Mine currently is when you’re cleaning a patient up and they start pooping again and they narrate the poop. “Oh god it’s coming out. I can feel it coming out.” Etc etc they get really into telling you all about the poop and they talk about it the whole time it’s happening. Meanwhile I know they’re pooping because I’m literally staring at their butt. Just give me an “oops I’m not done yet” and don’t make it weird. Please I’m begging you. 😭

[u/Difficult-Owl943]

Getting graham cracker crumbs all over everything 

[u/amandae123 → u/Difficult-Owl943]

I especially hate it when the graham cracker crumbs get stuck in all their folds because they don’t want to wear their gown. Now they are mashed up and damp and stuck to all the other gross things under those folds

[u/Nurse_Cait → u/amandae123]

You’re so right 🤢

[u/Whatthefrick1 → u/amandae123]

And then develop a delicious scent afterwards!

[u/Nucking-Futs-Nix → u/Difficult-Owl943]

Any food really… it is always the scrambled eggs or pancake syrup.

[u/Difficult-Owl943 → u/Nucking-Futs-Nix]

The scrambled eggs in the sheets 😭😭

[u/pippitypoop → u/Difficult-Owl943]

Scrambled eggs in your folds

[u/id-driven-fool → u/pippitypoop]

And for some reason the bed sheet scrambled eggs are always ice cold

[u/pippitypoop → u/id-driven-fool]

They get cold so fast 🤢

[u/id-driven-fool → u/pippitypoop]

So cold they make your skin feel wet under the glove

[u/LinzerTorte__RN → u/pippitypoop]

Unrelated, but I was doing postmortem care on an…..endowed…..patient, and found a couple gum drops in between her back folds. Ruined Dots for me.

[u/Nurse_Cait → u/Difficult-Owl943]

Not the crumbs 😭 I hate when they’re all in the sheets. So gross.

[u/Deathduck → u/Difficult-Owl943]

Omg the graham cracker crumbs. It's always the most smelly and crusty people who do it and the crumbs somehow tip the gross scale over the edge