What does Generate BM list and give MOM mean?

[gatoraims RN]

I am getting my scrubs ready and going over some paper work as I start training at 6:45am in LTC. I am looking at what is expected per shift. 3-11 has Generate BM list and give MOM. I have looked all over An and I cannot find the answer. I am still looking through the paper work so maybe I will figure it out. Or it might be one of those "oh duh" things.

So does anyone know what Generate BM list and give MOM means?

[xtxrn, ASN, RN]

gatoraims, didn't mean to offend. It just hit my funnybone. We seasoned nurses are just well acquainted with MOM on either a professional or personal level, I guess! They used to mix it with Cascara sometimes too! You talk about the "BOMB"!!

We mixed it with warm prune juice (not sure what sadist came up with that, but it did work ) and called it the Black-n-white ; cascara was also an addition, and smelled like what it was intended to expel.

[gatoraims RN]

gatoraims, didn't mean to offend. It just hit my funnybone. We seasoned nurses are just well acquainted with MOM on either a professional or personal level, I guess! They used to mix it with Cascara sometimes too! You talk about the "BOMB"!!

No problem. :) It did rube me wrong but that is what happens with type and not voice.

I passed the heck out of MOM today and even saw how they record BM. Like stated above it is large, med, normal in the chart. And we even had to remind the CNA's. lol

Funny how things that work work well and are done at various locations.

[ebear, BSN, RN]

(((HUGS))) to you, gatoraims

[egglady, LPN]

Good golly. If the resident hasn't made a "icky bm" in 3 days, please do everyone a favor and give the 30cc of milk of mag.

[caliotter3]

At the facilities where I worked it was the responsibility of the CNAs to keep up the BM log. When it was filled out, the PM nurse would use it as her worksheet to know who to give MOM on her med pass. Unfortunately, most of the CNAs usually didn't pay much attention to keeping the log at all, much less with accuracy. I used to ask a reliable CNA to do it. And you could always tell when a certain PM nurse worked. She didn't bother with the BM log either. She gave MOM to EVERYONE and it seemed that she managed to give them an overdose. They would be swimming in liquid BM from one end of the facility to the other in the section where she worked. Strange that no other PM nurse achieved such results. I always wondered how it was that this habitual behavior did not somehow get reported to the State as abuse.

[fuzzywuzzy, CNA]

She didn't bother with the BM log either. She gave MOM to EVERYONE and it seemed that she managed to give them an overdose. They would be swimming in liquid BM from one end of the facility to the other in the section where she worked. Strange that no other PM nurse achieved such results. I always wondered how it was that this habitual behavior did not somehow get reported to the State as abuse.

We have a night nurse who does that. She laxes EVERYONE! They all get MoM, and a lot of them get supps too! And she waits until 6:30am to give them so that her aides don't have to deal with the results. She is always very late finishing her med pass (like, still doing it when I get there) and I think it's because she wastes so much time giving suppositories. Any other nurse I've dealt with that has to give someone a supp always makes a point to give it early enough so the next shift probably won't have to deal with it.

Where I work we don't really have a problem with BMs not being marked. The nurses copy our BM list into the MAR at the end of the day and if it's been a while they'll check with us in case we forgot. And after this nurse works they're always saying, "well I don't know WHY she gave him MoM... it says right here he pooped yesterday..."