A phantom poo

See, this is why I want to work with babies.......

i had a patient that was continent of bowl and bladder and instead of using the restroom or asking for assisst to go to the restroom he would just urinate on the walls < spelliing out his name > when asked why he was doing that he told us that he was leaving us something to remember him by.

I had one where the lights in the room were off and the only light on was the one under the bed, well it looked like a huge! soft poo right on the floor by the foot of the bed, the pt was demented! Turns out it was a cup of chocolate pudding the other nurse had left on the bedside table got knocked onto the floor by the pt! Talk about relief when we turned on the light and found the pudding cup!

I'd rather find pudding anytime!

When I worked on the Alzheimer's units, we would find poo in the strangest places, closets, trashcans, planters. I found a lady climbing out of one of the huge laundry baskets where she had left a suprise. Another lady (non-verbal) came up the hallway holding something in her hand. It was part of a giant terd! She looked like she had no idea where it came from, so then we went out on a "poo" treasure hunt to find the rest. The funniest was when we were rounding people up to come to dinner. The CNAs had just wiped off the tables and were escorting people to their seats and in the middle of one table was a huge pile of poo. The nearest pts were both wheel chair bound and not even able to throw. I know with Alzheimer's they forget the appropriate way to use things, which is why they use trashcans and such, but after climbing up on a table, undressing yourself, pooing, and then climbing back down, at some point, wouldn't they think to themselves that it seems more complicated to use the bathroom than it used to?

I hate poo.... My first semester in nursing school poo seemed to be the theme. I would become nauseated and gag if I have to clean somebody up, now, last semester, it has become part of routine. My fellow students still make fun of me if I have a code Brown.
Yuk!

Didnt have a problem with poo til some nice patient grabbed a handfull and started to mould it into a shape ,guess he was a sculpter ,reminded me of close encounters

I agree with hopefull2009 about thats why I want work with the babies. I think I can handle cleaning up after a baby better then I could an older person.

At the beginning of day shift, a PCT found a large pile of poo in the shower with a thermometer stuck in it. We decided someone was conducting a test to see how long it takes poo to come to room temperature.