For Fun: Weirdest Thing in Pt. Bed

[PlanetCaroline]

Clinical instructor told us newbie students about not putting anything on a patient's bed (eg. syringe cap) b/c it might get lost under pt. She then said we wouldn't believe the things found in patient's beds...

So I am asking...

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

--Caroline

[kellilou3]

Originally posted by FutureRN_Mandi

once i found some corn, next to a turd.

:roll

[perkines212]

This was actually my fault in the first place. I had been sent to er for a short bit. I would go back to my own floor with the next admission. I dropped pt off and took the stretcher back to er. I realized that my cigarettes were not in my pocket. I look around even though I was sure I had put them there before going up with the pt.

Went into pt room to start admission vitals and she is complaining of her back being uncomfortable.....well you can guess what was bothering her, my cigarettes

[crazedredhead]

roaches. Everywhere. The patient had been on long term hyperal, and the situation was ridiculous.

[Blanche]

:roll Here is a TRUE Halloween story. My patient's F/C was dry and she was retaing urine I encourged to tap gently over her bladder and apply gentle frim pressure. The Foley bag began filling. She knocked over a glass of water on the side of the bed. after a moment the bed mechanism started to raise he head of the bed with nothing touching it. I immediately unplugged the bed and it stopped. I checked all of the touch controls to be sure nothing was beong pressed accidentally, then plugged the bed in and lowered her hed. The head of the bed immediately started up again , I unplugged the bed.

We transfered her to another bed and took that one out of service. She was frightened but now has a marvelous story about the bed that tried to"eat her" I am so glad she was uninjured, She had 8 days before had a procedure to stablize a shattered vertabre.