A little concerned

Nurses General Nursing

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I was mixing fake stool for my students to do an occult blood test out of chocolate pudding and applesauce. I was surprised it came up positive. Multiple times. I'm trying to place what would cause a positive. Any ideas? For some reason I'm blanking rationale of what would cause a positive.

Specializes in ICU.
It's the chocolate causing the positive results. Awesome teaching skill though. In the hospital I work for only doctors can read the result. Only time nursing is involved is to collect the sample and hand the card over. Yay us.

At my hospital training, they made fake poop out of chocolate for both the negatives and the positives. Just added some (real) blood for the positive samples.

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Specializes in ICU.
No I was wearing gloves and I used a spoon. Just concerned cause this was from my pantry at home and ate 3 from same batch and now I'm a little creeped out

This made me LOL too, bc I can see myself doing the very same thing!! Haha!

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