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Buffets in emesis basins?

Ok, so what pieces of medical equipment have you seen nurses and staff use as eating receptacles? What are you to do when you have a potluck and no one brings utensils? Welll, imagination comes into play. Bedpans, nemesis basins, tongue depressors all can be pressed into service when a rumbling tummy calls. Be honest, what have you seen in your clinical assignments?

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    I've made iced tea in these.

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    We had a pot luck one New Years and my aluminum container for Chicken broccoli Alfredo developed a hole so we used a wash basin. LOL

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    Drink some iced tea or apple juice out of a urinal and let the fun ensue. Good times, good times.:D

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    OK! OK! I'll 'fess up too. Here's a helpful holiday hint...

    If both of your ring molds are already in use, just use two or three emesis basins per punch bowl as ice molds.

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    OK! OK! I'll 'fess up too. Here's a helpful holiday hint...

    If both of your ring molds are already in use, just use two or three emesis basins per punch bowl as ice molds.

    Guilty....:x3:
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    just tongue blades to cut cheese

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    Oh my! Apparently I have not been in health care long enough, as I have not seen any of this yet... and we usually have plenty of plastic forks, knives and spoons on my unit. We never have enough salt packets in the break room - only pepper! - so I always bring a big handful up from the cafeteria when I get food.

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    One of our main water mains broke in a hospital I used to work in, so we had to fill up a bunch of urinals with water for the employees to drink from while they fixed it.

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    When you need something to serve from we use foley bags they hold a decent amount of liquid and work as great wine decanters one for red and one for white.

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    Suction canisters hold a popped bag of microwave popcorn. Had a co-worker who made lemonade in a urinal every night in the ED.

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    Plastic med cup for jello shots

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    Not quite identical but close enough.

    When I was still in high school, my dad was admitted to the hospital so his badly broken ankle could be surgically repaired. Two of his friends who were MDs on staff, had saved some specimen bottles that had surfaced during the hospital's remodeling. The bottles were from the

    1860's. They arranged flowers in one, then had a local florist deliver it, then visited him that evening complete with a bottle of Drambuie (sp.?) and three specimen jars to drink it from. Oh and a to go tray of canapés from a local restaurant.

    They had been frat brothers and gone to med school together and were still Peck's bad boys!

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