Wierdest thing you've found in a bedside table?

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I found this article, and had a good laugh:

http://www.medhunters.com/articles/theBedsideTable.html

What's the wierdest thing you've ever found in the

bedside table?

Eli.

Specializes in NICU.

I started as a new grad in the NICU, so I never did adult nursing... I learn more and more every day on this site about how truly dirty adult pts can be! New nurses must just about fall over when they see something like poop wrapped in a tissue in a bedside table!

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I've been snooping around this site for about 2 weeks now and never posted but I just had too on this one... It wasn't in the bedside table we found this but, a resident who was very obese and was suppose to be dieting had stashed an unwrapped honey bun under her breast ,for a midnight snack she had gotten from the vending machine.. LOL:chuckle Thank goodness it was wrapped....:rotfl:

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I started as a new grad in the NICU, so I never did adult nursing... I learn more and more every day on this site about how truly dirty adult pts can be! New nurses must just about fall over when they see something like poop wrapped in a tissue in a bedside table!

krv,

this little lady was extremely demented, extremely sweet, sweet lady.

she certainly did not mean to be dirty.

only God knows what she was thinking.

and i mean, only God.

leslie

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Specializes in NICU.

Oh, earle58, I totally believe you!

I only mentioned the poop because so many of the other responses were about poop incidents!

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I took care of a little boy years ago who had spina bifida. When I would come in in the morning he'd have a row of little round bowel movements on his night-stand & he'd say "Pam! Look what I made for you!"

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poop, in a cup. how can they be so demented, yet have such good aim?.....................:uhoh3:

roflmao!!!! i have thought the very same thing!!!! what is up with that???

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Specializes in Emergency/Anaesthetics/PACU.

As a graduate nurse, I had the joy of looking after a delightful young man who was admitted for treatment of cellulitis of the left arm and an absess in the same area from intravenous heroin use....

He had a delighful array of drugs and paraphernalia in his bedside table... including a dirty bong and syringes... as well as some marijuana....

Not so much weird I guess... just shocking for me as a new nurse... I have however become "hardened" over the last few years... and nothing shocks me anymore... (well not much) :)

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Wound Care.

This was years ago , but still sticks out in my mind. We had a lovely older gentleman in o room and when I walked into the room it smelled like it was on fire(burning rubber). We felt walls and ceilings for heat,crawled under beds to check the electric. Finally called maintenence who checked everywhere and couldn't find anything. They decided to have the fire department come over on a slow ride to check it out. No fire!! Later that night I went into the bedside table for this gentlemans glasses and low and behold almost knocked out by the smell of burning rubber! Turns out it was his "new slippers" still in the wrapper stinking to high heavens!! The fire department go quite a laugh out of it when we called to tell them what it was.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

I went looking for em at the patient's request and I found em...his teeth, NOT in denture wash. dirty. Ick.

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dentures in a bag of cheetos......

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Not on/in the table but on the bedrail. Very sick + patient with dementia would "pick" his nose and line the results up on the bedrail. Then he would try to kill these "bugs" walking there with a plastic fork. He would return to visit sometimes always clean and neat and mentally clear. On his last admission he repeated his bug killing and then passed away.

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I walked into a patients room and she kept leaning over the side of the bed a little and looking (so I thought) on the floor. I walked over there thinking she dropped something. I found sitting in the bottom drawer with the drawer pulled out was her "spit can". This lady chewed tobacco. All she did was sit on her front porch at home and chewed and spit, so when she came to the hospital, the can came with her. It was one of those big metal coffee cans. It grosses me out to this day.

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