Thursday, August 14, 2008

It's like Magic!

When I took the crazy guy in room 11's vitals at 0330, he had a full urinal.

When I brought him a new urinal and a Coke at 0345, he had an empty urinal.

There was no puddle on the bed or floor.

I didn't bother giving him the Coke or the new urinal.

I did, however, get him some mouthwash.

23 comments:

Unknown said...

Thank you for this blog... as a student nurse, I feel I am learning more reading here than in practice!

RT Scribe said...

There's thirsty and then there's ,"I'm so thirsty I could drink my own urine". I hope I'm never that thirsty or that crazy.

Ben said...

ewww..

I hope it was a kinda watery urine, not the smelly yellow/brown one.

Unknown said...

Did you check the sink?
Also, keep a close watch on any plants in the room. If they wither and die in the next week or so, you'll know where the urine went.

Sarah said...

Aughhh! I don't wanna know what happened to the pee.
But you know that urine is sterile...initially.

Anonymous said...

Did the urinal have one of those "recycle" triangle logos on the bottom? Maybe he took it literally.

Anonymous said...

Probably had a head on it...(as I've occasionally seen on urine specimens) ...in that case I could see how someone could mistake it for something else. ewwwwwwwww!...NOT!!

Cheating Death said...

I had to read this twice to understand.... yup, I'm a medic!

all I can say is... um... wow.

Anonymous said...

Oh no.....I hate when they do that!

Ladybug Crossing said...

Umm... ewww...
In a sick sort of way, that's hysterical!

Christine said...

I would assume that *gasp* the aid took care of it. Cause our aid rocks like that.

knitalot3 said...

That kind of recycling makes me green. Eewwwwww.

Joeymom said...

He seriously needed that Coke.

Seriously.

:P

Bianca Castafiore? said...

Crazy like a fox! Actually a health nut, he was just trying to get in his 6-8 glasses a day... Golden showers and all that.
On the other hand? Ewwwww.

ERP said...

Maybe a tech came in a took it, or drank it themselves.....

cellar_door said...

Wait till you've seen a gut eat his own faeces. I see a lot of snot eaters too. I love my work.

Anonymous said...

Hahaha.... oh wow, I'm about to start my first mental health clinical this fall - is this what I might be able to expect?

Great story, I can't wait to share this with my fellow nursing students when I go back in the fall!

Yours is one of the first nursing blogs I've found, and i've been inspired to start my own. Thanks!

Amanda said...

See, I read the medblogs partly because they're great for my diet...

eewwww!!! and LOL.

WardBunny said...

Ewwwwwwww...... I will never tell my apple juice / urine sample joke EVER again.

Please say there was a sink in the room... please?

Anonymous said...

OMG.
I always put the urinal away from the pitcher for the fear of . . .

KiKi said...

Hey, in some cultures drinking urine is medicinal. Bottoms up.

911DOC said...

i have nothing to add.

Anonymous said...

CLASSIC