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Specializes in Med/Surg.

Ok, so I came up with a really great idea last night while working in the ER. Why not make emesis basins a whole lot bigger, and attach to your hand like a baseball glove, so that when someone projectile pukes you can catch it like a fly ball!!!!!! no muss, no fuss, less to clean up!!! :lol2::lol2::lol2:

Let me know what you think?

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Specializes in SICU, EMS, Home Health, School Nursing.
Ok, so I came up with a really great idea last night while working in the ER. Why not make emesis basins a whole lot bigger, and attach to your hand like a baseball glove, so that when someone projectile pukes you can catch it like a fly ball!!!!!! no muss, no fuss, less to clean up!!! :lol2::lol2::lol2:

Let me know what you think?

Oh and attach suction to the emesis basin/glove also, so that you won't even have to clean it, it just sucks up the puke!!

lol...I take it you had someone projectile vomiting

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Those kidney basins are a joke!! The last place I worked didn't even bother with those, they used wash basins as puke pails. We got wash basins as part of the admit kits, then the hospital got extra wash basins by themselves for the pukers.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

Bright pink/green o2 tubing. You would be able to see if your confused patient has his o2 on without going near him and risking waking him up.

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Bright pink/green o2 tubing. You would be able to see if your confused patient has his o2 on without going near him and risking waking him up.

a patient of mine had this idea, though frm the view point of not tripping on it,lol

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Specializes in ER, Occupational Health, Cardiology.

One ER I worked in seemed to tx a lot of overdose or accidental ingestion pts. After the first one or two, I learned to have the suction on with a Yankuer tube, and two washbasins (or a washbasin and a bedpan) plus puhlenty of towels. That way, you are ready if they try to aspirate, can switch out basins when one gets full, and can keep things wiped up that miss the pan. Towels are also handy to keep near the pts face (if you have time to stand there) to capture some of the projectile emesis, when that happens.

For some reason, all of the OD's we dealt with for a while had eaten pizza or spaghetti and drank liquor prior to ingesting their pills.:o It was some long time before I could even smell either one without becoming sick myself, and even longer before I could eat either one.:uhoh21:

BTW, I love the idea of the glove w/the suction.

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I am very proud to say that when I vomitted post op, I used the kidney basin and didn't spill a drop. I even remember apologizing to the nurse for throwing up, but at least I hit my target.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

these ideas are great!!! keep them comin! i didnt have anyone projectile vomiting, but i did have a kid come in that od'd on cipro after she and her boyfriend broke up. she ended up getting the charcol cocktail was admitted to psych 3 or 4 hours later

Jessi

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

A segway for nurses to use while rushing from one patient to another?

Or how about one of those treadmill things like they have at airports?

A way to log into the Pyxis from each patient room and a coded tube system that has stops at each room from the Pyxis or the lab or whatever, so the meds you order are delivered straight to the room, and you can send things or get things from other locations in the hospital direct to each room.

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

Or how about a clear view rubber bubble to put fall risks in? They can fall all they like and cannot get hurt.

(Can you tell I'm really really really tired?)

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Specializes in SICU, EMS, Home Health, School Nursing.
Bright pink/green o2 tubing. You would be able to see if your confused patient has his o2 on without going near him and risking waking him up.

and make it slightly glow in the dark, so you can see it without waking them or tripping over it while trying to sneak in and out of the room at night. Also make it retractable like those dog leashes so that you don't have multiple feet of tubing all tangled up!

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Or how about a clear view rubber bubble to put fall risks in? They can fall all they like and cannot get hurt.

(Can you tell I'm really really really tired?)

Good idea!

I've read about these, but never have seen them used.

http://www.hiprotector.com/works.html

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