Just Go Pee!

[Huganurse]

There are 280 million people in the United States. Of those it is estimated that 13 million are incontinent. I started a poll on this BB asking about GU problems that nurses have. I am very surprised that more than 2/3 of the votes were for problems. 21 out of 29 votes. I know this is not a scientific poll and not many have answered it but I'd like to suggest that we take on the campaign for nurses to "Just Go Pee"! Like the just say no or just do it campaigns. We need a nurse who can just go around the hospital and hang a couple of minutes with our patients so we can actually go to the bathroom to void! LOL. Ha Ha, we know that would never happen! Maybe you union nurses can work it into your contracts! Seriously ladies and gents, lets all "Just Go Pee". Later we can focus on "Let's Go Eat". Perhaps some of you whizzes could come with more slogans for our campaign? How about a gif or JPeg for us to print up and hang at work! :)

[mother/babyRN, RN]

Sooner or later those transitional epithelial cells just give out...It is not always a time management problem, but if you are in the middle of a csection, code or what have you, when the urge strikes, or in the middle of a bed bath or something similar, you can forget that you have to go..And, it doesn't happen all the time but it does happen, what ever the staffing or time management issues. Not supposed to use a patients bathroom, even if the room is unoccupied...Some facilities ( no bathroom pun intended), have bathrooms for staff located away from where the staff works. Can't really leave to go void if you are the only staff member who knows how to read the monitors, whether telemetry or efm...

Hey, it happens often enough to be analyzed here...Has always happened and will continue to occur periodically with or without a nursing shortage....Have to pee!

[Curlytop]

Originally posted by kewlnurse

I can't understand it when nurses say they don't have time to pee. I have never gone 15 minutes longer than when i have first felt the urge, whether it was on a med surge floor with 12 patients or the unit with 2 or 3 vented patients. More of a time management issue I suppose

Just Go Pee is the correct title of this subject. I get so tired of nurses saying "i've been so busy I haven't even peed today!" PLLLLEEEAAASSSEEE-- It takes 3 minutes top to pee and wash your hands and I'm sure there are restrooms on your unit.

----AND it's absolutely disgusting to watch someone coming out of the bathroom as the toilet IS STILL FLUSHING!!!--- obviosly didn't wash their hands--- just plain NASTY!! I also always make time to go to lunch for 30 minutes, preferably off the unit to get away from the madness!

[Nurse_Bonita]

Hey Huganurse,

Love the webpage! It is so true even though I am still a PCT and pre-nursing student. When you gotta run to ER to get patients b/c ER is jam packed and transport is off for the weekend, them potty breaks get few and far between.

Oh and the thing about the med students using texas caths, I know a nursing student who was actually talking about doing the the next time he goes to the bar just so he doesn't have to get off his bar stool.

Miranda

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

Howdy Yall

from deep in the heart of texas

There comes a time in every persons life. Where you just have to stand back, look at the world, and everything around you

and it is time to proclaim.

OH ,,, PISS ON IT ALL

Best kept in the short grass yall

teeituptom

[illya]

i go pee at work since i had melloe yellow spots on my white scrub pants.

[Huganurse]

This is too funny....Don't let this thread die yet! From me to all of you! :chuckle

[Fervous]

It's hard enough to go once during your shift. But I always make time. My problem is that there is this little bundle of joy in my belly that likes to use my bladder as a jumping ball. I usually end up going to the bathroom 4-5 a shift. It's hard to tell the pt or the family that they're going to have to wait a few minutes while I relieve myself, fortunately though, most are understanding. And if it's something that can't wait and I can't either, that's what my colleagues are for. We are all very good about helping each other out, no matter what the situation is.

[nursejer]

Ok in my opinion, we nurses do not have a problem with time management, or put urinating low on the priority list. We simply tell ourselves, ok I have to go pee and then we get distracted and forget for that moment, until we have to pee so bad that we our eyes are turning yellow and we are secretly thinking of a good way to disguise the yellow stains on our WHITE scrubs when we lose it.

But at the same time, we have to be good to ourselves too. This was kind of a silly topic wasn't it? :chuckle

[wildfire11]

It's not a matter of time management. It's a matter of taking care of your own health. If you have to go, then ask someone to watch your patients and go. I agree, if I am in the middle of someone having chest pain or starting a drip or hanging blood, then I won't leave and I will have to hold it. But I make it a point to go at least three or four times a shift, I am not good to a patient if I am out with a UTI.