"Potty Talk"

Nurses General Nursing

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.

Just a slight rant.

One cannot even use the restroom in peace at my place of employment. Every employee bathroom, nurse's station, break room, copy room, pt's rooms, hallway, elevator, cafeteria, locker rooms etc; are flooded with cutesy reminders and hospital news of some sort. Whatever happend to putting in an email or maybe one or two designated areas?

I just about had it yesterday when sitting on the toilet and not one spot of the four walls had an empty spot. All sorts of reminders, press ganey mantras and reprimands posted everywhere. What put me over the edge was a small reminder taped to the toilet roll dispenser! :uhoh3:

Then, as I was was washing my hands in the lower left corner of the mirror was a cutesy little reminder........."Did you sign the sheet acknowledging you read the latest issue of Potty Talk". :rolleyes:

It is sickening! Sorry, just feeling particularly crabby today and I am home :eek:

Btw, Did you wash your hands? Did you check your emails? Did you finish your dot Edu's, Did you smile to all your guests today? Did you sign up for extra shifts? Did you note all your orders? :D

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

We can't have anything hanging in our bathroom and I say, I do find it refreshing! I can concentrate on what I really came there for. lol.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

CAN I PLEASE TAKE A POOP IN PEACE!!! :lol2:

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Specializes in Cardiovascular, ER.

LOL, that is so degrading! I would feel the same way you do.... at least you have some extra backup in case the toilet paper roll runs empty :D

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.

Please tell me this is only at my place of employment? Sometimes I wonder if they names it potty talk due to all the cursing that goes inside the bathroom due to the overwhelming amount of news, rather. LOL

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Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.

Yes. I hear you. And then there are the "live" distractions in the restroom and lunch room. Last week I couldn't go to the restroom without hearing my name being called, repeatedly. I was taking 10 min. to eat lunch and our MD comes into the break room with a stack of charts. He had something to cover w/each one, then left the stack of charts by my plate. On the table. Gross. There is no getting away, even for 5 minutes. Not even in the restroom. Yes, I hear you.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

There are usually 3 or 4 things in our bathroom but they usually mysteriously "disappear".We have some lovely butterfly decals that someone recently added and a poster with the saying "Life should not be measured by the number of breaths we take but the moments that take our breath away".We usually have some really lovely scented soap as well. Strictly forbidden of course. One day our manager used the washroom on our unit and came out complimenting us on the lovely soap.Then she stopped and said "oh I guess it shouldn't really be there should it?"

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Specializes in Float Pool-Med-Surg, Telemetry, IMCU.

I think you should get a poster-sized copy of the Bristol Stool Scale and hang it over all the other crap!! (I can say crap on here, right?) :devil: Happy pooping!

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We call it "potty training" where I'm at...

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Specializes in CMSRN.

I can't stand the papers on the walls in the bathroom. Especially the ones that are warped from moisture.

Untill recently we had papers everywhere. Nursing station, break room, bathroom etc. Some dated back to 3 years and some obviously no longer valid. I have been known to go through and take stuff down. It is annoying. After awhile no one sees the notifications (even new ones). It becomes too much and we naturally tune it out.

One day I came in and someone cleared all the papers except the relevant ones. Looked so much better and I could actually focus on the pertinent info posted.

Thank you to whomever follows up and removes/updates papers.

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Specializes in ICU/CCU.

We usually have one or two notices posted on the back of our bathroom door. Often they are announcements of the time and date of the next unit meeting. My favorite was the flyer advertising free pap smears offered to hospital employees that week during breaks. I can't think of anything I'd less like to do on a break than have a freaking pap smear. Nothing like holding your pee for six hours and then getting socked with that message when you finally get a moment to relieve yourself.

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We have to carry phones. Patients, doctors, etc. are instructed to call us for any thing. I have also carried an arrhythmia alert beeper.

Pretty frustrating when those are going off while your taking a speed pee.

Talk about multi-tasking!

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