The Weekend of... 7-26 to 7-29-19

I was working with the same tech tonight and he used the staff toilet. He said when he went to flush the toilet, it erupted like a volcano. "I've never seen anything like it", he said. He described the bathroom looking like one described to Martin Lawrence's character in the movie "Wild Hogs": "Some truck driver must've crapped and entire cow in there, man!"

Maintenance was summoned and the tech and I cleaned up and disinfected the over spill into the hallway. Maintenance came and went while I was doing other things, did their job, and mentioned to the tech that housekeeping would need to clean things up.

Since I was also busy cleaning up an incontinent patient when housekeeping arrived, I did not see them come and go. The tech informed me that two young giggling girls from housekeeping open the staff bathroom door, looked inside, stopped giggling, closed the door, and left.

"They didn't clean it up?" I asked. "No", he said, "They just left".

So I called housekeeping and spoke with a couple of dudes with whom I am on a good basis. "Maintenance has to clean that mess up before we go in there", I was told. "I said "Noooooo, maintenance is for maintaining and repairing. Housekeeping is for cleaning up- you know: housekeeping?"

"We're not going in there until maintenance does their job". "Wow", I replied, I don't like to do this, man, but I've got to report it to the house sup". "Do what you have to do" he replied as a matter-of-fact.

So I let Mandy know and she basically said "What?!" "Just let me know if there's anything I need to do", I told her.

Time went by and nothing happened, so I went to gain empirical knowledge to see if maybe, some way, somehow, I could clean up this mess described to me as something akin to a volcano erupting or the brutal slashing of a Poop Person.

I opened the door and saw a puddle of standing water in the middle of the floor and three turds on the toilet! Not even big ones! Breakfast sausage-sized turds!

So, I donned my gloves, got some bath towels and Dispatch and tackled the overwhelming feces flow of the erupted Mt Toilet!

Sheesh!

6 hours ago, Daisy4RN said:

?DaveyDo makes me proud
Lord, don't he make me proud
he never makes a scene?

* Choke!* *Sob!*

(That's beautiful, Daisy!)

Yeah- I contacted Mandy after I'd cleaned the restroom twice over, taking me all of 10 minutes, and said, "I just wanted to let you know the damn toilet is cleaned!"

Mandy came to the floor later, and thanked me for cleaning the toilet. She said she was going to do it had I not. Mandy is like that- always there to help with no job being beneath her.

Mandy said that she has had other situations where housekeeping personnel has refused to clean any body fluids. She asked one housekeeper what they did in OR or ER and the housekeeper said, "I don't know. I don't work in OR or ER".

Probably because it's a higher pay grade due to possessing the housekeeping training, experience and rare proven ability to clean up body fluids.

21 hours ago, Davey Do said:

Due to insufficient staffing, I worked three different psych units in two shifts. But maybe more about that later...

I was pulled to the men's psych unit Friday night and was scheduled back on my home unit of geriatric psych Saturday night. At about 2230, Mandy telephoned me and said, "You can yell and scream and be mad at me but I'm going to have to pull you to the women's psych unit at 2300!"

It seems that I was the only male staff member on the 2300-0700 shift and the patient who had sent two staff members to ER had orders for the 1:1 staff to be male only.

A bump in the road is nothing when working with a great supervisor like Mandy and I was glad to help out.

But still- I bargained for a future favor:

Having used one previously with Mandy, I know this card will be honored !

2 hours ago, Davey Do said:

Mandy is like that- always there to help with no job being beneath her.

There are several full time and fill in house supervisors on the psych side of WRMC and they are Chandelier, Mandy, Jason Hiney, Ranger Rodd, Bestica and Valerian.

I've mentioned Ranger Rodd in a few other threads, on how he was a decent staff psych nurse but epitomized the Peter Principle once elevated to the level of his incompetence. For example, Rodd believes that saying patients' first names in a public place is not a HIPAA violation and being a door is more important than patient safety. There are more, but I'm in a good mood and don't feel like Rodd bashing right now.

The woman's' psych unit patient who had sent staff to the ER, whose name is Miralax, also injured a nurse with whom I'm quite fond, Lil Orphan Annie, LPN.

Last week Miralax walloped Annie in the side of the head to the point she experienced pain, hearing loss, and some other symptoms. Annie requested to be seen in the ER, but Rodd denied her request all the while sending extra staff home on low census.

Annie had a few choice words for Ranger Rodd!

On 7/30/2019 at 8:14 AM, RNNPICU said:

I always enjoy hearing your weekend updates - almost feel like a Saturday Night Live skit sometimes

Thanks, RNNPICU!

That gives me an idea...

On 7/30/2019 at 9:48 AM, Daisy4RN said:

Mandy sounds like a great House Sup.

I say "Amen!" to your whole post, Daisy. We are consensual.

Mandy said something along the lines of "It takes no knowledge in order just to make an effort".

Shortly after Mandy began working as a house sup, she was helping me out when I was pulled to the women's psych unit. There were three psychotic acting out patients, one of which had to be sent and received back from ER (and put in restraints and get a chemical restraint), a couple of admissions, and all the other stuff one has to deal with during a shift.

Mandy called the doc for the chemical restraint order, entered it into the system, did routine charting, and other stuff that I can't remember right now.

When the smoke had cleared and we were sitting in the NS, charting, I turned to her and said, "Mandy, professionally speaking...

...I love you!"