Day 2: 2016 Nurses Week Fill In The Blank Contest

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I walk in and find him covered in BM, up his back down his legs on his hands and smeared all over the bed frame because he tried to get up by himself

That the patient and his girlfriend aren't having sex on it !

Bed bugs crawling around.

Another request to talk to the doctor. Again. For the 5th time.

When a patient pushes a call light I hope I don't find the combative patient slipping out of restraints.

Them holding their dislodged NG tube

stool all over the bed

projectile vomiting

A dirty vibrator on the bed

out that the CA could not get vital signs, that my patient took a turn for the worse.....

Specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatrics, Wound Care.

anything unexpected on the floor.

An alert and oriented patient who has pulled off his condom catheter for the third time and expects me to replace it again. (I sent in the male CNA in to replace it, and miraculously, it didn't come off again that night.)

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