Just Go Pee!

[Huganurse]

There are 280 million people in the United States. Of those it is estimated that 13 million are incontinent. I started a poll on this BB asking about GU problems that nurses have. I am very surprised that more than 2/3 of the votes were for problems. 21 out of 29 votes. I know this is not a scientific poll and not many have answered it but I'd like to suggest that we take on the campaign for nurses to "Just Go Pee"! Like the just say no or just do it campaigns. We need a nurse who can just go around the hospital and hang a couple of minutes with our patients so we can actually go to the bathroom to void! LOL. Ha Ha, we know that would never happen! Maybe you union nurses can work it into your contracts! Seriously ladies and gents, lets all "Just Go Pee". Later we can focus on "Let's Go Eat". Perhaps some of you whizzes could come with more slogans for our campaign? How about a gif or JPeg for us to print up and hang at work! :)

[nurs4kids]

lol..this reminds me of an experience I had during labor with my last child.

They'd just broke my h20 and started the epidural about 10 minutes prior and suddenly I had this overpowering urge to pee. So, I hit the nurse call button and ask for the nurse. She came to the room and I told her I either needed a foley or a bedpan. She laughed and left the room. Well, fifteen minutes later, I still have to pee and have not seen the nurse again. Soooooooo, I call out again. After five or ten mins, she comes to the room. I told her again that I needed to void. She told me I was just feeling the sensation from my h20 being broken. I finally said, "Look, honey..I know you're a nurse, and not accustomed to going to the restroom and although you know I'm a nurse, right now I am a PATIENT and I have to PEE. Either get me a bedpan or I am going to pee in the bed and then demand you change the bed with me in it!!!". She says, "That's not an option..". I said, "Oh, really???!!!" This is where hubby starts to laugh and steps away from the foot of the bed. She quickly said, "give me a second!". She left the room and immediately returned with a bedpan...

[mario_ragucci]

Well, it's easy to take pssin for granted. Some folks can urinate without it being a problem, and it's tough. Plus, doesn't it feel good to get to go after you've held it in? I'm kidding :-)

[CANRN, MSN, RN]

I don't think it's time management either, my bladder could care less whether or not the 'time is right', which it rarely is. Have you ever had the little lady who just had her foley removed say for the ninth time.."I THINK I can go now?" and SIT THERE all the while your bladder is SCREAMING..LET ME SHOW YOU HOW!!!! :)

[judy ann]

There are times when the task at hand can't (or won't) wait even 5 minutes. Say, a precipitous delivery. What do you say to the kid. "Hey, wait a minute, I need to potty"? Doesn't work. Say, you are scrubed on a surgery. What do you say? "Hold that knife Doc, I need to take a little personal time"? I agree that most of the time, we could (and should) take those few minutes to answer nature's call, but there are others that it behoves us to hold off as long as we can. So far as the Charge Nurse releiving you, I have been in both of those situations above and been the charge nurse at the same time. Not the best situation, but this happens often in smaller hospitals, and routinely in rural hospitals.

[P_RN, ADN, RN]

My dears, Haven't you ever heard of the CLINICAL BLADDER, and you paint your selves a such *whizzes*.!

I amost declared myself a smoker once, just to get to go outside! Almost, but didn't. Lunch, what is that? Sit? You are speaking mysteries to me.

I'll sign any petition that has a "P"Clause in it.

[micro, RN]

i just say gotta go.........go.............

[dawngloves, BSN, RN]

got urine?

[CEN35]

originally posted by traumarus

i'm the night charge nurse in busy, level i ed and i do go (routinely) 10 hours into the shift before i get potty break. it is not a time management issue for me, but what does one do when one always is short nurses, most recently six nurses short on sunday night?

what does one do? be glad they don't work in that er in mapleton, il :chuckle

just kidding trus

me :)

[CEN35]

ok all this urine talk has reminded me of something. clearly, this would have been the place to drink, for all the nurses with bladdermegally, secondary to their career! :chuckle yes even the quick tinklers!

there was a bar that used to play a game called the drain game.

the way this worked is at 5pm on a friday evening, the doorman at the bar started to allow patrons to come inside. you were stamped on the right hand, with a fairly permanent ink (it would wear off over the next 3-5 days).

once stamped, if you left the bar you could not get back inside, until the game was over.

drinks and shots were like 50 cents, and beers 25 cents. everybody could drink at this price until someone went to the bathroom! the bathrooms were locked! if you left the facility your out of the game, prices back to normal! once the first person cannot hold it anymore, they let them in the bathroom and prices then too go back to normal.

this seemed to be the place to go early on a friday night, for the college crowd and some of us others. it went all to well after a while, as med students, interns and residents took texas caths, and leg bags to play the game! :chuckle

once thing to be sure of! nobody with leg bags was blamed for the end of the low prices!!! :chuckle

me :)

[Cascadians]

We're always so relieved to see an empty pt room when we come on shift :)

We arrive early and clean the bathroom (always gloved of course!) and beeline there whenever opportunity arises.

Of course we keep the door closed and lights off in the room so nobody else thinks to use that bathroom that shift ...

Nothing worse than squeezing out 30 seconds to void and having to clean a bathroom first!

Watching a pt try to pee when you've been holding it for hours, or feeding a feeder who's being fussy when you haven't had a chance to eat for 12 hours -- these are situations requiring heroics! :imbar

[Dr. Kate, BSN, RN]

The wisedt advice I ever heard was that of Lord Montbatten to Prince Charles "never pass up an opportunity to relieve yourself." Or as I tell our new grads, you've got to take care of yourself because nobody else will.

[night owl]

You said it the best Dr. Kate! And I might add, "We are the sunshine of our lives, and micturating when we have to, makes our lives even more brighter!" :chuckle