Robin VS. Impaction

This blog is not for those with a weak stomach!!!

As a nursing student, well anybody in the nursing profession we put up with a lot of well....Shit. When walking onto a floor the smell smacks you in the face as you question is the C-dif poo or bloody poo? We constantly clean it up for those sick individuals who couldn't make it tot he potty in time, we loosen it up with water, we talk about it over lunch, discussing whether it is healthy poo or if someone is dehydrated. It is the never ending job of the nursing staff to make sure that our patients GO! If they are stopped up it opens the door for more problems. Well to get to the name of the blog, last night on clinical my friend Robin's patient couldn't go, Robin had no other choice she had to go in, she donned her latex gloves, maybe doubled but not sure and with the swipe of one finger in the rectum began the humiliating task (for both nurse and patient) of cleaning out the impaction. I just wanted to salute her and all other nurses for going above and beyond so that our patients feel liberated from narcotic laced constipation and can begin their road to normal bowel movements!!!!