It's hard cause when I tell stories, I'm not allowed to use names, for the patients sake. After all, we live in a small world, and following around nurses, you see a LOT.
It was my third day as an intern and the Charge Nurse had me follow some one different around than I usually follow. Different is good, I thought . . .
The first thing she says to me is, "Oh good, I was just about to do a bed bath. You can help me."
So we go in, get all of the soaps and towels and a change of linens and gowns. I don't know what I was thinking this was going to be like, but it was nothing like I thought.
We walk into this room with this very frail looking old man. The PCT I'm following around informs him what we're doing, and says to me, "Come put some gloves on."
She walks me through the steps of preparing the water, and tells me to go on the other side of the bed.
What I wasn't ready for came next. The old man whips his blanket back to expose him in his nothingness but a thin, white top.
"Oh sir, we're going to have to take that off so we can wash you up."
AH! Luckily the old man fell asleep...(sigh.. of definite relief) so it wasn't too awkward . . . until she showed me how to clean off the catheter.
Oh, but we didn't stop at that man. She bathed an old lady, we had to help someone use a bed pan, and there was this nutty old man that kept taking his clothes off and trying to get out of bed. He kept trying to grab one of the nurses butt's, he said to another one, "Are you gonna help me, or just stand there and bitch at me", he told us he was going to call 'state farm' on us because we were 'throwing him to the ground', and if we didn't let him leave in exactly fifteen minutes he was going to call someone on us.
This continued on until some smart nurse gave him a nice needle to the arm to calm him down.
I'm definitely not going to be a PCT. As much as I now appreciate those lovely ladies and men that do that, there is no way!
&it also made me realize, there is no way in heck I wanna get old. I'm gonna vacation to Never Land, and I'm not returning!
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