Greatest code brown stories!

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Please share with me your greatest code brown stories!

Mine happened too be when i was a nurse's aid and i was taking care of a woman who would call her bms her babies. She would only pass once a month and they were the size of a large grapefruit, the actual bm had to be broken up to go down the toilet when flushed.

Or........Maybe it was when my dear nursing school days when a nurses aid was doing an rectal irrigation ordered by the doctor and i was told, "oh the bm wouldn't come out right away, shouldn't be too big of a mess". It shot right back out and almost right into my face.

Only a nurse could work through puke in his/her mask! LOL

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I had a pretty awful one... when I was working at a physical rehab hospital (35 beds) one of my patients was a 22yo female who had a severe head injury as a result of a car accident. Her family at first spent the night each night but then gradully changed that to just coming in in the morning and checking on her, then returning in the afternoon for a couple of hours. You know the type- the ones who insist everything be perfect. Well, one morning they called and said they would be a little late which would put them there at 0630 (usually came at 0600). Well, at 0520 I had had the CNAs give her a shower, including washing and brushing out and drying her almost waist-kength blonde hair. Well, when I got the call I went back to the room to check on her... and the creature from the black lagoon stared back at me. Apparently she had had a large semi-loose stool and given herself a shampoo that really put the POO in shamPOO! She had massaged it in every inch of that gorgeous freshly washed hair. I grabbed another CNA, we got her into the shower and scrubbed and scrubbed... we must have washed her hair and rinsed 10 times before the odor was mostly gone. We were done when the family walked in, but just barely. They did complain that her hair had not been "dried properly"! We told them what had happened, but I don't think they believed us... :rolleyes:

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:rotfl: Some of these stories are hilarious. I only hope to God that I will be of "sound" mind (as much as possible for me, anyway), until the end. And for my loved ones, too.

I love reading these stories. But when it comes to actually experiencing some of this stuff, oh God, I cannot handle it too well! It makes me gag!

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Specializes in Med Surg, House Manager.

Ok, here's mine.....WAAAY back when I was a noc shift cna working my way through Nursing School on an acute dementia/geri psych ward in a large hospital we had a male patient with dementia who was able to ambulate quite well. It was his day 3 with no BM, and I guess he really had to go. The call light came on in the room across the hall from his, and the female patient there told us there was a "strange man" in her bathroom.

Another aide and I walked in to see the ENTIRE bathroom covered in poop, on the floor, walls, ceiling(!) and especially all over the patient, where he had been happily playing with his "choclate pudding".

As we stepped forward to help him off the pot to get him cleaned up, we watched in horrified silence as he reached up and proceeded to PICK HIS NOSE with a thoroughly poo covered finger.:imbar

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.

Oh my goodness, this thread is so good. Keeps me coming back ;-)

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Specializes in Med Surg, ER, OR.

This stuff is just downright funny! I just wonder how I will act when this stuff happens to me?

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Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

Okay, while I haven't been doing this as long as some of the others, I do have one

A COPDer with osteoporsis who took oxycodone chronically for pain. Had not pooped in almost a week, (my first day with him). Abd distended patient uncomfortable writhing all over the bed. An earlier dose of lactulose is producing bad cramps. I procure oder for enema, and patient will not allow me to give it, he is scared it will hurt to pass the stool. I get another order for a small dose of fentanyl 25mcg. I give the fentanyl which relaxed him, and I go to administer a HHH enema. As soon as the tubing which I am guiding with my finger enter, he bears down and I kid you not a two foot long impaction passes. I didn't think it would stop, and my student almost hit the floor. He wakes up with a loud OH MY GOD which gets the doc to stick his head in as I remove the stool from the bed. I ended up throwing it in the biohazard since it was too big for the toilet:uhoh21:

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Specializes in too many to remember.

I was working as a CNA on an acute care floor during LPN school and we had a 16 y/o with APAP overdose who rec'd Mucomist p.o., and the resulting BM is something I will never forget. She was pretty sedated, and thankfully, when she did wake up, she didn't remember the incident.

A few years later, I was working as an LPN in LTC, and smelled an odor when I was doing a hall check. I went into this ladies room, and said "Do you need to go to the bathroom?" knowing full well I would have a present in there waiting for me. So I got all the stuff ready to clean her up, and she starts singing "Back home again...in Indiana..." I have not been able to watch the Indianapolis 500 without remembering her and laughing my butt off!!

Any profession where these stories both amuse and disgust is the profession for me!!

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Specializes in Cardiac/Telemetry.

Man!! I hope I'm not one of those students who hit the floor if something like that happens!!! This thread is disgusting, but IT IS SOOOOO FUNNY!!!!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

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We had a pt who was mentally challenged and in hard active labor, no anesthesia. As the baby was crowning, understandably she was not being very cooperative, she kept pushing her knees together. Of course as she is trying to push, code brown is in progress . . . large one at that! One of our resident MDs on call that night jumped onto the bed with her to try and keep her legs apart, at which time he landed knee first into the mess. Got there just in time for the baby to skid right through it into his arms. Baby taken to warmer . . . got my first look at him as I went to dry/clean it off. No kidding the kid had a poo mustache!! We laughed forever that night and even now. Definitely rememberable!!:Snowman1:

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i have a couple of stories:

- i had a hospice patient who was on a high dosage of narcs followed by a rigorous bowel regimen. yet she remained impacted. you could see the part of her colon where the stool was lodged. one noc i gave her a cocktail of mineral oil & lactulose, followed by an enema. a few hrs later the stool had moved to the rectal vault. i started to disimpact her, removing hard balls. suddenly and w/o warning, she expelled a lg amt of gas followed by projectile diarrhea. it landed in my face, hair, neck and part of my scrubs!! i swear, it seemed to be close to a gallon's worth of liquid stool. from thereonin, my reflexes have improved tenfold.:)

- another hospice patient who consistently disimpacted herself and would prefer to eat her own stool rather than any meal offered. one day i had to go into her top drawer, where i found approx a dozen napkins. in each napkin was dried, hard stool....probably for a midnight snack.:imbar

leslie

Now these stories take the cake!!!:chuckle

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First year I became a CNA, we had an alzheimer's patient who we sat up in bed and fixed her meal tray, which was a hamburger with fries. I heard one of the other aides laughing and went in to see what was going on, the lady had removed her hamburger patty and replaced it with a hamburger patty shaped turb...both of us started laughing and before getting it cleaned up we wanted to show the nurse so we went to get her. When we all came back in the room the hamburger was gone, and the woman was chewing.

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