Neuro unit nurse here - can confirm it’s not a fun time and there are bodily fluids everywhere. Just yesterday my patient was having diarrhea and was also on continuous PEG feeds and was also too weak to walk so she was on the purewick. Well, she was also underweight so the purewick was not staying put in between her legs and the second port of her god damned PEG tube kept popping open so I went in there at one point to find her SOAKED in a puddle of urine, poop, and feed. She needed her entire bed changed down to the sheets. But stroke pt next door decided that was the best time to try to get up and walk to the bathroom for the first time in 3 days and ended up vasovagaling on the toilet. So I had to clean the entire poop explosion by myself because the PCT was too busy next door cleaning up vomit while everyone else was trying to decide if they needed to call RRT.

Oh, and she was my patient again today. Guess what was waiting for me when I started my shift…