For Fun: Weirdest Thing in Pt. Bed

Repat · Oct 9, 2003

Well, not the bed, but the bathtub. We have a new 'service', where the patients can phone dietary and get whatever they want, as long as it matches the dietary orders on file. We discharged a patient, whose roommate was bedbound, and the housekeeper found about five days' worth of food in the bathtub! Don't know why the staff in the room never smelled it, but I saw it, and it was there!!

ktwlpn, LPN · Oct 9, 2003

Originally posted by PlanetCaroline
What is the weirdest thing you found in a patient's bed? Inquiring minds was to know.

--Caroline

The patient's wife-and she was administering oral to genital resusitation:chuckle

Monica RN,BSN · Oct 9, 2003

Not really a weird thing... but ants occasionally....

Nursie30 · Oct 9, 2003

maggots............new admit, just doing head to toe assmt on him, inbetween his toes, tons of maggots...........

SharkLPN · Oct 10, 2003

Tie between -

- A half-eaten tuna salad sandwich. Obese diabetic dozed off during snack time and rolled over on it.

and...

- Little bits of odd fabric in the bed of a 50-something male. Turns out it was the remnants of his childhood security blanket.

wv_nurse 2003 · Oct 10, 2003

Under the breast of a very (I mean VERY) large lady-- a half eaten Oreo---moldy

lateblumer · Oct 10, 2003

oh....dentures in a depend, a graduate, a vibrator, photographs, syringes, and a male who could not get out of bed or dress himself had on a pair of womens panties.

SmilingBluEyes · Oct 10, 2003

in OB we don't see some of the things you all do...

but..

we are our oddities...

one day, i found the patient, her husband and the baby's father in the bed (yes 3 people....didn;t know they could fit)....it was odd to say the least.

mother/babyRN, RN · Oct 10, 2003

The patient's nose...Seriously......Ca.....I had to sit down for about 20 minutes after that just to collect myself.....Definitely the weirdest thing, although there was a time in med surg when I THANK GOODNESS, wearing gloves cleaning up after a supposedly immobile pt, discovered a used condom........

Genista, BSN, RN · Oct 10, 2003

a small calico cat under the covers (pt's husband snuck it in)

SmilingBluEyes · Oct 10, 2003

oh groooossssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

mother/baby