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.
Thank you for the compliment about my thread. I knew everyone would know what a code brown is! by the way, how do I become a premium member, that sounds very authoritative.
Back in the late '80s when I was a CNA I was working the night shift. We were doing our q 2hr rounds when we heard this gawd awful moaning and groaning. We tracked it down to this little 90+ year old lady. We asked her what was wrong and all she would say is "the baby is comin, the baby is comin'". We tried the ol' reality orientation bit to no avail. So we went about our business, checking her attends to see if she was wet or such. Well it turned out she was starting to have a bm. So, we got her up on the commode, pulled the curtain to give her some privacy and waited for her by the sink in the room. After about 5 minutes we hear this loud THUD:stone ! We peeked around the curtain, expecting to see her on the floor. But there she was smiling away....."I think the baby is here" We got her off the commode and lawd have mercy there it was!!! This GIGANTIC chunk of poop!! All we could do was stare in amazement. (no kidding, it was the size of a brick:eek: ) How in the world this little old woman ever passed that is beyond me. I could not even flush it down the toilet. I had to to reach in the toilet and break it up by hand to get it to go down. Funny how some things ya just never forget! btw....we named it Bertha!
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:
i agree...i can read them but i dont know if i will be able to deal with them
My CNA instructor told me this one: There was a sweet-but-confused resident who would hand out chocolate candies to anyone who would take them. One day, a student handed a chocolate to the instructor and commented that it looked stale. The instructor looked closely at the candy, thought it looked familiar, sniffed it...
The little old lady would scoop up her BMs, put them in a candy mold, dry them out, wrap them in foil, and hand them out. The nurses searched her bedroom, found a drawer and purse full of BM candies, and confiscated her candy mold. To this day, my instructor uses that story to emphasize that we should not take candy or gifts from residents or patients. What escapes me is how she managed to pull this off without people being suspicious of the smell.
If she was confused, how did she know to do all that when "manufacturing" her candies?
- 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
OM goodness. I am currently a NS on a cardiac floor. Its the first time to get meds right so me and my two partners (yes partners) go into give our pt's room to give her meds. She is on a tube feeding, has Alzheimers,etc. My partners and i see a long order of laxatives, stool softners that she must get. We are like "is this normal"? Anyway, we give her the meds one of which was Colace. I kid you not we stepped out of the room for 20 minutes and she exploded. As we were doing our assessment i told my partners MOUTHING the words " i think she had a BM". WHOA! it was so runny that it was at her ankles.It was all over her foley all the way up to her belly button. The smell was so raunchy that i had to go by the window, get a breath, and dive back in to help clean her up. Meanwhile my partners are both gagging till tears come out. It took us a good 30 minutes to get her cleaned up with 4 people including our instructor. Lesson learned if you feel that a pt. should not be given a laxative, and her own nurse doesnt know, call the prescriber.
my worst code brown happened at home. I was changing the baby's diaper-holding the feet up to elevate his little hiney. I bent over to retrieve the diaper I dropped and was "shot" by projectile diarrhea. It was on my face and in my hair! I finished changing the diaper while I was dripping w/ poo and got in the shower to clean us both up. Then my little bundle of joy proceeds to let loose again- all over his momma! EEEW!:uhoh21:
OM goodness. I am currently a NS on a cardiac floor. Its the first time to get meds right so me and my two partners (yes partners) go into give our pt's room to give her meds. She is on a tube feeding, has Alzheimers,etc. My partners and i see a long order of laxatives, stool softners that she must get. We are like "is this normal"? Anyway, we give her the meds one of which was Colace. I kid you not we stepped out of the room for 20 minutes and she exploded. As we were doing our assessment i told my partners MOUTHING the words " i think she had a BM". WHOA! it was so runny that it was at her ankles.It was all over her foley all the way up to her belly button. The smell was so raunchy that i had to go by the window, get a breath, and dive back in to help clean her up. Meanwhile my partners are both gagging till tears come out. It took us a good 30 minutes to get her cleaned up with 4 people including our instructor. Lesson learned if you feel that a pt. should not be given a laxative, and her own nurse doesnt know, call the prescriber.
on a cardiac/telemetry floor, you absolutely want to avoid constipation at all costs....that's why so many laxatives i would imagine.
on a cardiac/telemetry floor, you absolutely want to avoid constipation at all costs....that's why so many laxatives i would imagine.
You're so right Leslie. Everytime a patient gets on the call light from the bathroom, I think "Oh no..either he's on the floor from vasovagal syncope, stroked out, or having a heart attack." And then I pray on the way to the bathroom to see what's up LOL...
as a ns i had a non-compliant pt who had cirrhosis, hep. encephalopathy (very high ammonia levels) and was on lactulose q2h via ngt. and she had to be restrained b/c she kept trying to pull the ngt. so i was in there almost every hour cleaning her (with restraints, no less). anyway, the next morning i walk into report and when they got to my pt, they said she had left ama. her sister came and took her and the staff said that before they left, the pt (obviously-hopefully-still confused), went into several rooms and left rather large runny presents all over the floors.........:imbar
You're so right Leslie. Everytime a patient gets on the call light from the bathroom, I think "Oh no..either he's on the floor from vasovagal syncope, stroked out, or having a heart attack." And then I pray on the way to the bathroom to see what's up LOL...
:chuckle i laugh knowingly, zac......even if it's really no joke.
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