Code Brown

Ugghhh. Last night was so busy!! However, of course the poo hits the floor at around 5 when we're trying to wrap things up for the night.

First, I'm passing meds on one of my patients. As I'm leaving the room I hear from across the hall, "Help! Help!" Usually this is just a person who can't find their call light and needs something. So I pop my head in to see a man sitting on the bed. I quickly realize that this is the man that all the nurses have been talking about weekend as the meanest, surliest person in the world once he opens his mouth and says, "Get in here! I shit myself!"

Sigh.

I get in there and start to get him cleaned up when the aid comes in. Clearly, I pass this task off to her.

The morning progresses, and one of the nurses who is totally slammed asks me to give that same patient some zofran. I get into his room and he goes, "I need to shit again. Get me a potty chair!" Getting him a bedside commode at this time of morning would take about thirty minutes. I tell him this, and he proceeds to jump out of bed and start to walk to the toilet. However, the second his butt leaves the bed, stool starts dropping on the floor. He leaves a trail of c. diff all the way from the far side of the bed all the way to the toilet with me jumping behind him all the way preventing falls and ripped out IV lines. The room was covered in poo. Luckily we have amazing environmental services people who were there to clean it up within 5 minutes.

So glad that night is over.