[–] primar 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Shitlord/lady nurses are the best. When I was in for post op mrsa, they had two fats float to the unit I was in. They couldn't figure out the I.V. setup, so they left it sitting on a slightly higher table with enough bubbles to make up half a foot of tubing. I'm so lucky I managed to bring myself to complain to save my life (If I had only done so earlier, I wouldn't have ended up with eight liters of fluid on my lungs due to a contaminated bar in my chest)
[–] Yulia 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I know being a nurse is your job/career but moving patients that heavy is seriously going to fuck up your back. My mother was a nurse for 20ish years, her back is now mega fucked up. Her 1st lumbar vertebrae is a couple cm out of place, she constantly takes pain medication, she walks with a limb/cane, she's had one spinal ablation done and is now waiting for a second, and she is looking into spinal surgery to fix the disk out of place.
Please, please, please, be careful.
[–] shitlordnurse [S] 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I used to have the mentality that I should make every sacrifice for my patients, that was just the job of being a nurse. No more. When a 6' 300 lb patient refused to let me get help or equipment to help move him out of bed, I stood to the side and let him fall. I no longer will sacrifice my own health and safety for one stubborn patient, when there are so many others in the present and future I could help.
[–] SUPA_FUPA 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Muh bodeh dussn affect othuhs shitlord! It only affects me and me only! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
In all seriousness, I'm going for healthcare administration in graduate school and every time I type papers about bariatric hospitals and bariatric care, things get graphic but I get high scores for that. One hospital in my city used to be a bariatric hospital but because so much resources and money were wasted on these fat fucks, they sold themselves out to a hospital corporation and was told to start taking in more human patients over obeasts which saved them lots of money and increased the quality of healthcare services.
[–] MahLardy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Preach it. I looked after a megabeast in residency and it was so fat, the automatic scale built into the bed was giving us an "Err" message. My idiot preceptor wanted to have it weighed daily and was about to order that when I said "You can't do this to our nurses." The beast "reckon'd" it weighed 'round 300 lbs when the automatic scale topped out at 450, so we knew it had to be more than that for sure to make the scale conk out. Keep up the good work, those of us doctors with half a brain know how much it fucking sucks for you guys to look after these monstrosities.
Edit: the daily weighing would've involved the nurses getting this beast off the bed into some sort of chair and hauling it into the basement to use the industrial scale in our hospital physical plant, then hauling it back up. Being conservative and assuming the beast was "only" 500 lbs, that would've been 125 lbs per nurse for 4 staff - that's the equivalent of one nurse picking up an average-sized old lady patient on their own, which would never be acceptable.
[–] TwoTonTessie 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
So I've always wondered what you wipe their asses with. You'd need at least a beach towel...
[–] SUPA_FUPA 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Beach towels soaked in bleach, alcohol, and anti-fungal solution in them.
[–] papalogia 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Sadly, we get baby wipes. Or thicker "disposable washcloths" depending on the facility. You just have to hope you won't need a third packet.