Female here, never the urinal but I had a bed pan. Hated it. I was about 10 years old and had, had a routine and planned surgery, wasn't allowed to get up and walk for a while after.
A blocked foley for a pt of a 'senior' nurse... calls me in to help with flushing it, with an attitude of "never give up until you achieve your goal "... 2 minutes in literally urine was all over the walls, our scrubs and some flew into my mouth, because i was stupid enough not to wear a face shield... but what did i know i was still new back then
I'm a ODO (operating department orderly) and honestly feel bad for you guys at the ER, A&E and EF. every time i go to collect a patient for theatres or request for an item for theatres, you guys tend to have a list of things which makes me wait a good 40 minutes to an hour so you can finally start on the paper work for my patient. My worst experience as an ODO was when a contaminated substance bag (the bag we put body parts or one time equipment such as those urinals or anything that cannot enter the sluice machine) had a rip on the top, so when i had lifted the bag to put into the bin, left over urine (+ blood) inside the urinal had dropped all onto my torso and arms.
My worst urinal story is when I was emptying one in the toilet and it splashed back at me. Guess who had their mouth open at the time?? 🥴 Needless to say, after using most of a bottle of mouthwash to rinse my mouth with, I never did that again! Also, when I started teaching nursing, I always instructed my students to close their mouths when pouring the contents into the toilet. When I told them why, I never had to say it twice.
I was a student nurse and had my first night shift. On one of my last round I emptied a couple of foley bags and walking out of the room to empty them, I tripped. My urinals were in a holder and in my fall this holder went flying. Just imagine a sea of urine spreading very quickly in the hall.
Better down the hall than all over you. I had an elderly patient who would use the urinal and then drop it on the floor. Or spill it in the bed which was always near the end of my shift but that just one of the joys of being a nurse.
I don’t wanna be a nurse and even if I did there will be no chance of me becoming whether or not I really wanted to but anyway I could imagine that and that scares me 😳
In women the urethral opening is normally located in the vulva, not vagina, and it is normally situated about halfway between the clitoris and vagina. That being said, I do enjoy your videos.
I fell asleep after using my urinal after I broke me neck and back and just got home after 30 days in the hospital. I was on a medicine that turned my pee blue for a bladder infection so I woke up in the morning and had blue piss all over my bed and a squished urinal under my back somehow. I still have a giant blue stain on that mattress. It looks like I assaulted a Smurf.
I used to volunteer as an EMR in a tiny, remote Yukon community and the first time I had to help a patient use a urinal, he was a cute, 20 something guy, strapped to a spine board (rollover accident on the Alaska Highway) and was waiting to be airlifted to a hospital . After he told me he had to pee, I looked up to find all of the other EMRs had disappeared. So I put on my professional face, got a urinal from the health unit and helped him maneuver his penis in. Luckily, there weren’t any mishaps and his dignity was preserved. You can bet I gave my colleagues shit for disappearing at that moment😆
No lie…I was holding a urinal for my 94 year old male patient. It took FOREVER. He kept telling me i reminded him of his wife who passed away many years ago. Finally said he couldn’t pee. Imagine my surprise when I moved the urinal and found semen instead of urine. Just yuck. But at that age?????
Idk... this is so wrong. I mean you are sick and in the hospital. How can you get an erection unless you are a complete pervert and whacko? I feel so bad for the medical personnel who has to deal with this.
@@ariesvixen853 used to be a huge issue when patients, young men were admitted the night before surgery at 8pm. No food allowed. No cellphones yet. In hospital for a knee surgery in the morning. They'd get bored fast. Ring their bell and we young nurses go into their curtained area to ask can I help, and there they have their penis out jerking. Asking us do you like it? The older nurses of the time taught me one liners as did my cop fiance, "I've seen better...much better" and walk out. Itvwas a pain. I was glad when they started bringing them in morning of surgery.
You bring the very wet and very cold cloth. No man no man… likes that one. Magic words: let fall, what can’t stand. 22 years if holding a urinal, never fails me😅😅
Worked as a CNA in a nursing home for awhile. I got a urinal thrown at me more than once by an a-whole resident. If you didn’t come with in a minute of him pressing his call button he would do that about 40% of the time. Kinda hard to respond that fast when there’s only 2 CNAs staffed overnight in a 60 bed facility. Staffing problems was the reason I decided I didn’t want to work in the medical field.
I had a clinical rotation in a nursing home and they also had a resident who liked to throw his urinal because he was just a mean jerk who thought being old gave him the right. He was not cognitively impaired, just an A-hole. He also liked to degrade staff as they helped him onto the toilet to drop a deuce. I changed his treatment plan to briefs (adult diapers) to stop the daily urinary assaults on staff. It only took 1 fiber-supplemented, old dude dump in that diaper to make him change his attitude towards staff so he could go back to urinals and toilet assistance.
Its alright, there isnt anything strange about having multiple urinals, theres like three in my house for my brother with cerebral palsy, and even if that wasnt the case, as a woman (or for the nb's and ftm's out there), i would get one for long road trips or camping
Relate! Scout family here. I use a thing called a "Freshette". It looks like a taco with a tube. Can pee standing up. Really nice for long road trips and camping (especially late night or really cold). We also have urinals for my 21 yo son with CP.
How do you seal it to prevent spills afterwards? It doesn't look like there's any lid, and if you're using it for that purpose you wouldn't be dumping it out immediately.
@@TheQuark6789 the freshette doesn't have a container. Just makes it so I can stand next to a tree. When camping, I have a Nalgene water bottle that I wrote a large red circle with a line through it so no one would drink out of it. I make sure the bottle seals really well. When camping in the cold, it makes a great hand warmer (98.6). Hence has to seal well. The "urinal" we use for my son is also another Nalgene bottle with a lid. We don't use typical medical grade urinals.
Took care of someone in psychosis that thought they would die if they stopped drinking water (literally at the point of almost killing themselves accidentally by drinking too much water). We took away all his drinking vessels so he used his urinal, which had been used already, and used it to try to drink water. We had to use everybody on the floor and security to get it from him, because we couldn't just let him drink. By the end we had to turn off all the water to that room until the medication started working a couple days later.
I was working in a hospital when they changed from stainless steel (which had to be autoclaved between patients) to plastic disposable. During the turnover, a friend got his hands on a sterile steel urinal which he took home and drank beer from. One yellow liquid with some foam is pretty much like another.
@@iz2333 right 😂😂😂😂😂😂 i worked two jobs that required autoclaving tools daily, and although I do understand it kills any germs/bacteria.... If there used to be pee in there, I can never un-know that 😂😂😂😂😂
I was the caregiver for many years worked with lots of quadripolegic And paraplegic patients And I'm so glad most of them either had super pubic catheters or could go on their own But I did have one guy who couldn't stand very well and always had me hold the Dang urinal for him and every time I got pee on my hand even if you're wearing a glove it goes down into the glove it's no fun But you just push through and bear with them because It is super embarrassing for them and if you were having someone do that for you It would suck I don't know where I was going with this but thanks for listeningI love your videos keep it up !!!!
My step father was in the hospital. He had to pee he was also delerious but not enough to say I have to pee. No urinal insight or bathroom I had to find a nurse. NOBODY was listening til I said the magical words. You better help him or he's gonna pee everywhere. Himself the bed the floor. When I said piss on the floor like five nurses looked at me and came running. Fwi I wasn't gonna hold his manhood even if there was a urinal
A few years ago as a medical intern on call we were going full speed ahead on CPR for a patient when the resident, rushing past me to get to the other side of the patient, knocked over the patient's urinal hanging on the rail at the corner of the bed. Cold urine splashed down my scrub leg and soaked into my socks and new trainers I had bought particularly for hospital work. I paused for half a second and gritted my teeth before continuing to go for the syringes; the resident swore and apologised before grabbing the ambu bag. We called it after 40 minutes of CPR, and I showered, put my socks in a specimen bag, rinsed out my shoes, and completed the rest of the call squelching my bare toes in my shoes.
If that happens again (hopefully not!), if you’re in a hospital, just ask someone to get you a pair of slipper socks! They work wonders, can be easily found/obtained, & will fix the problem!
Inmates can be tough. One kept trying to flash me even though his hands were cuffed behind his back. He was pelvic thrusting and saying nasty things... just the worst. On the other hand, there was a police brutality incident that I still regret not reporting to this day. I have no idea what happened before they brought him in, but the cops were being extremely aggressive and yelling conflicting commands at an injured handcuffed patient. It certainly wasn't a good look, especially since the prisoner was black and our area is very much predominantly caucasian. That was bad, but I didn't say anything. Then it got out of hand. VERY out of hand. One of the officers ordered him to stand, but he couldn't because of his injuries and fell to the floor. The officer suddenly started beating the absolute hell out of him, right in the hallway of the ER. The other officer joined in, kicking him while the first just punched him repeatedly in the face. Blood started pooling on the floor. Absolutely nobody said or did anything to stop it and I was just a lowly transport worker. I kept looking around at the doctors, nurses, and technicians to see their reactions and they all had their heads down or turned away, like it wasn't happening. Afterwards I had to wheel a different patient down that hallway and the gurney left a trail of blood after passing over that spot. It was absolutely brutal to see something like that and like I said, it still bothers me to this day, years afterwards.
It can be hard to say things sometimes, especially when people in positions of higher power don’t say anything. You said something now, and you understand that you should have said something then. You learned from it, and if something ever happens again then you’ll know what to do
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I'm sorry you had to experience that. But you know we all appreciate what nurses do. Without you guys it would not work out. I'm a physician and know how uncomfortable it can get in the ER
ERs now have this vacuum suction thing for those who can’t, or shouldn’t, get out of bed. (I had a stroke & am partially paralyzed. I also have a seizure disorder, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) & Disautotomia, among other things, all of which make it dangerous to get up to pee when you’re going through an emergency situation) It’s a SUPER WEIRD feeling at first, but it’s like a cooling, airy sensation. (I imagine it being similar to a bidet, though I have no personal experience to reference the comparison) Either way, it’s definitely better than using the urinals you showed or having a stranger all up in your business. Plus, it’s more hygienic as it cleanses while suctioning.
Reminds me when my boyfriend injured himself and asked me to hold the pee bottle. He was off with the fairies from painkillers and was telling me that he was urinating but wasn't and at the same time dozing off to sleep. Let's just say it was a difficult 15 minutes having his privates in the bottle. 😂
What I never understand is that I dream of going to the toilet and in the dream I felt the sensation of peeing. Yet I (happily) wake up in a dry bed. Brains and bodies are weird.
I had an older gentleman weighed maybe 96 lb and he refused to use the urinal. at night of course be on night shift he would sundown. So I would have to walk around the room with him holding him up by the back of his gown as he wandered from spot to spot. Ah the good old days of being a tech
Hi other nurses and potential patients. After 42yrs nursing and still doing mental health assessments in ED it's great to see that the nursing experience and sense of humour is universal, Go Stevie.
I hope the cop next to you had a camera on him recording everything and that was brought to court. That's abuse and you shouldn't have to put up with it.
“And I don’t like getting urine on me” is totally understandable and most people would agree. But when you add that extra “at work” THAT CHANGES THE MESSAGE ENTIRELY!
@@carlablair9898 I was not the first or last person to say something like this. I don’t know why you decided to go and be all pissy about my random comment. It is sad that you took time out of your day to comment something so minor on this random comment from 3 months ago for no reason other than to try and ruin someone’s day. Shame on you. Shame indeed.
I've tried using bedpans or urinals but my brain won't let me go in the bed. Nurses finally had to get me on a bedside potty which finally worked. I thought I was going to explode
I was 14 when I had my first surgery I was way too high to help myself use the urinal, so the nurse had to assist me. Thank you miss nurse for not making it embarrassing :')
I used to be a nurse at a urology practice. I once had a patient that was 6'9'' tall come in for UroDynamics testing. At the end of the procedure the patient released 2 liters of urine (it's measured as part of the procedure). That was a record for the practice
uncapping those urinals to empty them into the toilet has been the reason i had to start putting Vick's under my nose whenever i had to work with a client that had urinals listed on their supply list.
Seen a ton of the male urinals at the old hospitals I used to work at but I've never seen a female one. Knew they existed, though. Just now realizing it's a weird thing to only have a male but not a female version for. Everyone pees.
Thank you! They typically make the ladies lay or sit in bed on a bedpan, at least at my hospital I worked at. A urinal would be cleaner if you could stand up. Not sure about laying down though.
Oh man! Sooooo many surgeries and sooooo many bedpans and nary a female urinal that I recall. OTOH I learned how to pee out of a tent when it was raining at Girl Scout camp. Many many decades ago.
I had a post surg patient. He wasn't urinating so I did a bladder scan (1L+) anything over 1L just shows as 1L+. After getting a review. Him hearing he may need to be catheterized managed to urinate by some grace of good luck I had a second clean bottle in his room he managed to urinate 1 bottle up to the neck + 3/4 of a second bottle. This is the most urine i've ever held in my hands at one time.
A woman that worked with my wife had a bed pan full of urine thrown in her face by a patient on police hold…. She lost her eye due to the syphilis infection from the contaminated urine… What a POS. I hope he got extra time for that👍
Recently in the OR a pain patient was getting his steroid injections and the marcaine she used with it numbed everything from the waist down. Poor guy really needed to pee but obviously couldn’t make himself go due to being numb. So the male RN inserted the straight cath while I held the urinal container. We had to use two containers bc he voided 1250 mL!!!! And bc he was lying down, I had to assist by pressing on his bladder to make sure he had fully voided. Talk about a long time holding someone’s dongle. Well in my case, red rubber. Oh! And it was a 12 fr which made it flow even slower. 😩
Never used a urinal, but used a bed pan. Had been in an accident, and maybe due to pain killers or the shock of it all, I didn’t have the sensation to pee. I realized it had been like 15 hours since I had last gone when they had me try, even though I still “didn’t have to go.” Well, I peed like a full liter and nearly filled the pan. The poor nurse walked it very slowly and precariously to the bathroom while whispering to herself, “whoa… whoa” :…. I felt awful!
That's That's heck of a story man. I did daycare and sometimes running after a kid with poop running down his or her leg while hitting the floor was like really kid just stop!!!! Lol well I'm sure every job has its shit moments too. Have a good one .
Former LTC CNA. Had a dude that couldn't find his genitals, so he used Vicks vapor rub to, "Make it poke out" so I would clamp the urinal over his entire peri-area or end up with urine everywhere. He was also mean af. One time he decided to intentionally knock the urinal, so it splashed all down the front of my scrub pants. Just one of many people that made me burnt out and leave caregiving.
Another reason may have to use them is if they are monitoring your output for whatever reason. I was young, stable, etc and the first couple days of my hospital stay I had to use one so they could monitor volume. Finally after 2 days I kindly asked if I could stop using it and they agreed (I was there for pneumonia, not urinary symptoms).
I had a morbidly obese patient propped up into a shower chair that was a bit too small for her so my foot was almost directly beneath the hole in the chair. She peed on my foot and if I moved she might’ve fallen so I just stood there as she literally peed a River on my foot. Brand new Hokas too. I tried rinsing my shoe as best I could, threw my sock away and washed my foot and put on a hospital bootie but my shoe was wet and I had to finish out my shift in that urine-soaked shoe. Walking with wet squishing up between my toes was not pleasant. Still, I’d rather be peed on than puked on any day. When my oldest was a baby he puked into my mouth once. Smh. So gross.
I've been in the ER, had to use these to measure my output, using a male one when laying down is a pain in the butt. Every other time I figured out a way to lean over the bed and pee into it. The dozen cords hooked up to me made it the worst, which one hurt the most and work around that.
it's a sign of my age and health that I enjoy going to the medical supply stores to see what new things they have that might make my quality of life better.........
A blocked foley for a pt of a 'senior' nurse... calls me in to help with flushing it, with an attitude of "never give up until you achieve your goal "... 2 minutes in literally urine was all over the walls, our scrubs and some flew into my mouth, because i was stupid enough to wear a face shield... but what did i know i was still new back then
We had a new admission, in his late thirties, on the ortho floor years ago who was obsessed with his urinal. He began calling nurses station complaining that his urinal was "Too small ". He tried this multiple times on all three shifts for several days each time hoping to get a different nurse in his room.There was some malfunction in his brain that someone would enter his room and be "turned on". Needless to say, the urinal was the appropriate size and he had fantasy issues.
I was in housekeeping at the time. This old guy decided it was a good idea to set his used urinal on his walker (one with 4 wheels), and just take it with him. He was so clumsy on his feet that he accidentally pushed the urinal, so it fell off the walker... he did that constantly and I constantly had to come clean up after him. He did not understand that putting it on his walker was a bad idea. Then there's the one where a guy had used one and put it under his bed, I couldn't figure out where the smell was coming from. But I figured that it was probably the guy. But then I sweeped under the bed and suddenly this dark yellow urine just covered my feet (I wear sandals). Gotta love my job 😂
I never knew that they had them for women, until I was in the hospital icu last year. I kept calling for a nurse that I needed to go, but sometimes it would take an hour and they had a big pad under me, so I ended up peeing on the bed. Then a new nurse came in and offered it. I was so happy.
In 2018, I was in the hospital for 15 days with pneumonia and renal kidney failure (the pneumonia infection went septic). I was 35 at this time and hours from death when my girlfriend (now fiancé) got me to the ER. Anyway, after being intubated and going on dialysis for a week in the ICU, I finally come out of my induced coma (as I called it) but still needed dialysis. But by this time, I had no trouble urinating. In the middle of dialysis, I tell the technician that I needed to pee. She shows me the urinal but tells me that she doesn't expect me to get much. We were both surprised as I proceeded to feel about 85-90% of the urinal. I should mention that although I had pneumonia for a week that was treated by doctors as bronchitis, the reason I was finally taken into the ER was because of the inability to pee.
I know he just bought it and it's just a piece of plastic... but knowing what the urinal is used for, I felt extremely uncomfortable when he put his mouth next to it for the bird noises 😳
I had ended up in the ER in DKA because in the US insurance companies get to dictate when exactly you can get a refill on you prescription refusing to cover your life saving insulin if it's a couple days early(which can happen if say you went on vacation over did it a bit requiring you to use a little bit more insulin than normal) forcing you to pay the outrageous price of over $480 which I couldn't afford. Well they constantly pump you full of fluids as one of the treatments and I remember having to pee so bad but couldn't get up and go because of the IVs(yes IVs, had one in each arm) and ended up filling the plastic urinal more than twice with the nurse having to go empty it so I could keep going! But the jokes on my insurance company, I may have spent nearly 5 days in the ICU and almost died but they had to pay for it! Which ended up costing around 2000x the cost of the insulin itself!
that’s like the patient i had she was angry no one had time to help her go so i offered she 💩in my hand and said that’s what you get for waiting so long to come help me 😦
What's been your experience with hospital urinals? And what other things are you curious about?
*no* 🧍♀️
I can tell you one time that I was having a dream peeing into one and I woke up and I had pissed myself.
Female here, never the urinal but I had a bed pan. Hated it. I was about 10 years old and had, had a routine and planned surgery, wasn't allowed to get up and walk for a while after.
A blocked foley for a pt of a 'senior' nurse... calls me in to help with flushing it, with an attitude of "never give up until you achieve your goal "...
2 minutes in literally urine was all over the walls, our scrubs and some flew into my mouth, because i was stupid enough not to wear a face shield... but what did i know i was still new back then
I'm a ODO (operating department orderly) and honestly feel bad for you guys at the ER, A&E and EF. every time i go to collect a patient for theatres or request for an item for theatres, you guys tend to have a list of things which makes me wait a good 40 minutes to an hour so you can finally start on the paper work for my patient.
My worst experience as an ODO was when a contaminated substance bag (the bag we put body parts or one time equipment such as those urinals or anything that cannot enter the sluice machine) had a rip on the top, so when i had lifted the bag to put into the bin, left over urine (+ blood) inside the urinal had dropped all onto my torso and arms.
My worst urinal story is when I was emptying one in the toilet and it splashed back at me. Guess who had their mouth open at the time?? 🥴 Needless to say, after using most of a bottle of mouthwash to rinse my mouth with, I never did that again! Also, when I started teaching nursing, I always instructed my students to close their mouths when pouring the contents into the toilet. When I told them why, I never had to say it twice.
Bro I'm soo concious of splashes that i always deal with dirty water carefully.
"I don't like getting urine on me...at work" so cursed 💀
Oooh I see bwahahaha🤣🤣🤣👌🏻👍🏻
I heard it too, Steve knows how to throw curve balls when you least expect them 😂
And "the hard part using .... The difficult part using a urinal"
You spelled based wrong
Right? I was just thinking that.
I was a student nurse and had my first night shift. On one of my last round I emptied a couple of foley bags and walking out of the room to empty them, I tripped. My urinals were in a holder and in my fall this holder went flying. Just imagine a sea of urine spreading very quickly in the hall.
Better down the hall than all over you. I had an elderly patient who would use the urinal and then drop it on the floor. Or spill it in the bed which was always near the end of my shift but that just one of the joys of being a nurse.
I don’t wanna be a nurse and even if I did there will be no chance of me becoming whether or not I really wanted to but anyway I could imagine that and that scares me 😳
lol oh no! 🤦🏻♀️😂
The Tsunami!
My aunts a nurse I feel bad for her she has to do all of this
Only Steve can get away w calling me a MF for almost 2yrs and it brings a smile to my face every single time.
Steve and Samuel Jackson, for me anyways lol.
In women the urethral opening is normally located in the vulva, not vagina, and it is normally situated about halfway between the clitoris and vagina. That being said, I do enjoy your videos.
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Glad I found this comment 🙂. It really bothered me when he said vagina instead of vulva.
Yes!
Thank you for mentioning this💪
@@livi6886 Yep - we don't pee from our vaginas, usually.
Yes. This. And add that Steve knows better! 😉
I fell asleep after using my urinal after I broke me neck and back and just got home after 30 days in the hospital. I was on a medicine that turned my pee blue for a bladder infection so I woke up in the morning and had blue piss all over my bed and a squished urinal under my back somehow. I still have a giant blue stain on that mattress. It looks like I assaulted a Smurf.
I'm sorry for laughing at this! Hope you're doing ok now!
That also reminded me of the blue liquid they use in commercials for menstrual products lol
I'm so sorry for your injury but I had to laugh just as you intended.
I used to volunteer as an EMR in a tiny, remote Yukon community and the first time I had to help a patient use a urinal, he was a cute, 20 something guy, strapped to a spine board (rollover accident on the Alaska Highway) and was waiting to be airlifted to a hospital . After he told me he had to pee, I looked up to find all of the other EMRs had disappeared. So I put on my professional face, got a urinal from the health unit and helped him maneuver his penis in. Luckily, there weren’t any mishaps and his dignity was preserved. You can bet I gave my colleagues shit for disappearing at that moment😆
No lie…I was holding a urinal for my 94 year old male patient. It took FOREVER. He kept telling me i reminded him of his wife who passed away many years ago. Finally said he couldn’t pee. Imagine my surprise when I moved the urinal and found semen instead of urine. Just yuck. But at that age?????
Wait was he touching it
@@chloem5851 nope
@@chloem5851 he used the force.
I hope I can perform at that age!
@@justmenotyou3151 💀
My favorite while I was a floor nurse was seeing a patient use his urinal as a flower vase. 😂
Did he keep the flowers in his piss?
It's better than the other way around.
As a women, I was sometimes faced with men, which got an erection while helping them with the urinal. Also not my favourite part of the job…
How awkward and uncomfortable, esp if they were trying not to get turned on! Totally gross for those who got into it for real though
Follow the outlet I'd always mutter to myself! As I'd be chasing the half risers needing to pee.
Idk... this is so wrong. I mean you are sick and in the hospital. How can you get an erection unless you are a complete pervert and whacko? I feel so bad for the medical personnel who has to deal with this.
@@ariesvixen853 used to be a huge issue when patients, young men were admitted the night before surgery at 8pm. No food allowed. No cellphones yet. In hospital for a knee surgery in the morning. They'd get bored fast. Ring their bell and we young nurses go into their curtained area to ask can I help, and there they have their penis out jerking. Asking us do you like it? The older nurses of the time taught me one liners as did my cop fiance, "I've seen better...much better" and walk out. Itvwas a pain. I was glad when they started bringing them in morning of surgery.
You bring the very wet and very cold cloth. No man no man… likes that one. Magic words: let fall, what can’t stand. 22 years if holding a urinal, never fails me😅😅
Worked as a CNA in a nursing home for awhile. I got a urinal thrown at me more than once by an a-whole resident. If you didn’t come with in a minute of him pressing his call button he would do that about 40% of the time. Kinda hard to respond that fast when there’s only 2 CNAs staffed overnight in a 60 bed facility. Staffing problems was the reason I decided I didn’t want to work in the medical field.
Wow, he really was an a-hole!
I had a clinical rotation in a nursing home and they also had a resident who liked to throw his urinal because he was just a mean jerk who thought being old gave him the right. He was not cognitively impaired, just an A-hole. He also liked to degrade staff as they helped him onto the toilet to drop a deuce. I changed his treatment plan to briefs (adult diapers) to stop the daily urinary assaults on staff. It only took 1 fiber-supplemented, old dude dump in that diaper to make him change his attitude towards staff so he could go back to urinals and toilet assistance.
Its alright, there isnt anything strange about having multiple urinals, theres like three in my house for my brother with cerebral palsy, and even if that wasnt the case, as a woman (or for the nb's and ftm's out there), i would get one for long road trips or camping
Relate!
Scout family here. I use a thing called a "Freshette". It looks like a taco with a tube. Can pee standing up. Really nice for long road trips and camping (especially late night or really cold). We also have urinals for my 21 yo son with CP.
How do you seal it to prevent spills afterwards? It doesn't look like there's any lid, and if you're using it for that purpose you wouldn't be dumping it out immediately.
@@TheQuark6789 the freshette doesn't have a container. Just makes it so I can stand next to a tree. When camping, I have a Nalgene water bottle that I wrote a large red circle with a line through it so no one would drink out of it. I make sure the bottle seals really well.
When camping in the cold, it makes a great hand warmer (98.6). Hence has to seal well.
The "urinal" we use for my son is also another Nalgene bottle with a lid. We don't use typical medical grade urinals.
@@beccapeck5102 🤯 that's kind of genius, using a (well-sealed!) bottle of fresh piddle as a hand-warmer!
Took care of someone in psychosis that thought they would die if they stopped drinking water (literally at the point of almost killing themselves accidentally by drinking too much water). We took away all his drinking vessels so he used his urinal, which had been used already, and used it to try to drink water. We had to use everybody on the floor and security to get it from him, because we couldn't just let him drink. By the end we had to turn off all the water to that room until the medication started working a couple days later.
I was working in a hospital when they changed from stainless steel (which had to be autoclaved between patients) to plastic disposable. During the turnover, a friend got his hands on a sterile steel urinal which he took home and drank beer from. One yellow liquid with some foam is pretty much like another.
Omg just no... That crosses certain lines that shouldn't ever be crossed 😂
Sterile is sterile...just not my choice of drinking vessel.
@@Just1Nora Sterile isn't sterile if you know what's been in there before 💀
@@iz2333 right 😂😂😂😂😂😂 i worked two jobs that required autoclaving tools daily, and although I do understand it kills any germs/bacteria.... If there used to be pee in there, I can never un-know that 😂😂😂😂😂
@@iz2333 …yes, it is. that doesn’t change the definition of the word ‘sterile’, you absolute dope.
I was the caregiver for many years worked with lots of quadripolegic And paraplegic patients And I'm so glad most of them either had super pubic catheters or could go on their own But I did have one guy who couldn't stand very well and always had me hold the Dang urinal for him and every time I got pee on my hand even if you're wearing a glove it goes down into the glove it's no fun But you just push through and bear with them because It is super embarrassing for them and if you were having someone do that for you It would suck I don't know where I was going with this but thanks for listeningI love your videos keep it up !!!!
My step father was in the hospital. He had to pee he was also delerious but not enough to say I have to pee. No urinal insight or bathroom I had to find a nurse. NOBODY was listening til I said the magical words. You better help him or he's gonna pee everywhere. Himself the bed the floor. When I said piss on the floor like five nurses looked at me and came running. Fwi I wasn't gonna hold his manhood even if there was a urinal
Oh my word! You brought back so many memories- ones I never wanted to remember! 😳 psych ward and intoxicated patients ugh!
“The hard part about it-… . . . [cut] the difficult part-“
😂😂😂😂
A few years ago as a medical intern on call we were going full speed ahead on CPR for a patient when the resident, rushing past me to get to the other side of the patient, knocked over the patient's urinal hanging on the rail at the corner of the bed. Cold urine splashed down my scrub leg and soaked into my socks and new trainers I had bought particularly for hospital work.
I paused for half a second and gritted my teeth before continuing to go for the syringes; the resident swore and apologised before grabbing the ambu bag. We called it after 40 minutes of CPR, and I showered, put my socks in a specimen bag, rinsed out my shoes, and completed the rest of the call squelching my bare toes in my shoes.
If that happens again (hopefully not!), if you’re in a hospital, just ask someone to get you a pair of slipper socks! They work wonders, can be easily found/obtained, & will fix the problem!
Oh god, the squelching 🤢
Inmates can be tough. One kept trying to flash me even though his hands were cuffed behind his back. He was pelvic thrusting and saying nasty things... just the worst.
On the other hand, there was a police brutality incident that I still regret not reporting to this day. I have no idea what happened before they brought him in, but the cops were being extremely aggressive and yelling conflicting commands at an injured handcuffed patient. It certainly wasn't a good look, especially since the prisoner was black and our area is very much predominantly caucasian. That was bad, but I didn't say anything. Then it got out of hand. VERY out of hand.
One of the officers ordered him to stand, but he couldn't because of his injuries and fell to the floor. The officer suddenly started beating the absolute hell out of him, right in the hallway of the ER. The other officer joined in, kicking him while the first just punched him repeatedly in the face. Blood started pooling on the floor.
Absolutely nobody said or did anything to stop it and I was just a lowly transport worker. I kept looking around at the doctors, nurses, and technicians to see their reactions and they all had their heads down or turned away, like it wasn't happening. Afterwards I had to wheel a different patient down that hallway and the gurney left a trail of blood after passing over that spot. It was absolutely brutal to see something like that and like I said, it still bothers me to this day, years afterwards.
I hope the first one got his...... chopped off
It can be hard to say things sometimes, especially when people in positions of higher power don’t say anything. You said something now, and you understand that you should have said something then. You learned from it, and if something ever happens again then you’ll know what to do
jesus fucking christ, i wouldn’t be able to NOT report that shit. and police wonder why people hate them…
Silence = complicit
Thank you for all of your amazing content, I just found this feature where I can give thanks like this and you deserve it 100%! I'm glad I can support you like this. Sorry it's such a small amount, I'm trying to save money rn. But again, I'm really glad to be able to do this for you!
I'm sorry you had to experience that. But you know we all appreciate what nurses do. Without you guys it would not work out. I'm a physician and know how uncomfortable it can get in the ER
ERs now have this vacuum suction thing for those who can’t, or shouldn’t, get out of bed. (I had a stroke & am partially paralyzed. I also have a seizure disorder, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) & Disautotomia, among other things, all of which make it dangerous to get up to pee when you’re going through an emergency situation) It’s a SUPER WEIRD feeling at first, but it’s like a cooling, airy sensation. (I imagine it being similar to a bidet, though I have no personal experience to reference the comparison) Either way, it’s definitely better than using the urinals you showed or having a stranger all up in your business. Plus, it’s more hygienic as it cleanses while suctioning.
I like that your worse story is because he was an asshole not because you had to help someone pee.
I’m sorry. I love this story!
It’s a VULVA! The vagina is the inside part. Vulva is the outside part which includes the urethra!
Insert meme of guy talking to the wall
I hope you all have a blessed day and make sure you eat and get a good night sleep we all have someone who loves us out there❤️
Thanks for reminding me to eat lunch. That sounds so passé now that I read it, but I still feel your sentiment. Thank you, beautiful one!
Right back at you, my dear person! 🙏❤️
We do? I mean Iove myself...
@@adedow1333 no problem stay strong angel
@@missnaomi613 thank you stay healthy!
Reminds me when my boyfriend injured himself and asked me to hold the pee bottle. He was off with the fairies from painkillers and was telling me that he was urinating but wasn't and at the same time dozing off to sleep. Let's just say it was a difficult 15 minutes having his privates in the bottle. 😂
What I never understand is that I dream of going to the toilet and in the dream I felt the sensation of peeing. Yet I (happily) wake up in a dry bed. Brains and bodies are weird.
I had an older gentleman weighed maybe 96 lb and he refused to use the urinal. at night of course be on night shift he would sundown. So I would have to walk around the room with him holding him up by the back of his gown as he wandered from spot to spot. Ah the good old days of being a tech
Oh my god I have had these patients several times. Why can they never stay in bed 😭😂
Steve, you are a joy of laughter during depressed days. Thank you!
Your hair looks great that way.
Your videos are fun and informational lol
Hi other nurses and potential patients.
After 42yrs nursing and still doing mental health assessments in ED it's great to see that the nursing experience and sense of humour is universal,
Go Stevie.
The funniest story was the guy that forgot to lift the lid off before he let loose and as you may know. Once a man starts he can't just stop !!!🤣😂🤣
I guess that's a female superpower
And due to certain medical issues, some women cannot stop the flow either.
I’m a man and I can stop mid flow. So not true for all men.
Respect to you for not saying anything back to the drunk guy i woulda probably lost it
I would have spilled it on his shoes. (RN btw)
@@theresas740 Haahaha and top that with an innocent "oops" at the end, would be priceless I bet 😂😂
@@Ice.muffin come to think of it, I believe there's a decent chance the cops would have understood.
I hope the cop next to you had a camera on him recording everything and that was brought to court. That's abuse and you shouldn't have to put up with it.
“And I don’t like getting urine on me” is totally understandable and most people would agree. But when you add that extra “at work” THAT CHANGES THE MESSAGE ENTIRELY!
Yeah, we got it, ok?
@@carlablair9898 I was not the first or last person to say something like this. I don’t know why you decided to go and be all pissy about my random comment. It is sad that you took time out of your day to comment something so minor on this random comment from 3 months ago for no reason other than to try and ruin someone’s day. Shame on you. Shame indeed.
I've tried using bedpans or urinals but my brain won't let me go in the bed. Nurses finally had to get me on a bedside potty which finally worked. I thought I was going to explode
Well, there goes my exciting ER career. I don't think I could stay so calm when a drunk arrestee starts crap with me.
little do you know that was a rental medical supply store ;-;
Thank you for your work/service/ethics.
I was 14 when I had my first surgery I was way too high to help myself use the urinal, so the nurse had to assist me. Thank you miss nurse for not making it embarrassing :')
I’m just kidding. I sleep in my bathroom 💀🤣
I’d rather have a catheter
Exactly!!!! Less trouble
I wish I can have him as my ER technician lol
Had to use one of these when I had a surgery a year ago. Here in Brazil, the nurses called it "papagaio". It means "parrot" in Portuguese
I used to be a nurse at a urology practice. I once had a patient that was 6'9'' tall come in for UroDynamics testing. At the end of the procedure the patient released 2 liters of urine (it's measured as part of the procedure). That was a record for the practice
uncapping those urinals to empty them into the toilet has been the reason i had to start putting Vick's under my nose whenever i had to work with a client that had urinals listed on their supply list.
You are one crazy dude!
Seen a ton of the male urinals at the old hospitals I used to work at but I've never seen a female one. Knew they existed, though. Just now realizing it's a weird thing to only have a male but not a female version for. Everyone pees.
Thank you! They typically make the ladies lay or sit in bed on a bedpan, at least at my hospital I worked at. A urinal would be cleaner if you could stand up. Not sure about laying down though.
Oh man! Sooooo many surgeries and sooooo many bedpans and nary a female urinal that I recall. OTOH I learned how to pee out of a tent when it was raining at Girl Scout camp. Many many decades ago.
I agree.
I had a post surg patient. He wasn't urinating so I did a bladder scan (1L+) anything over 1L just shows as 1L+. After getting a review. Him hearing he may need to be catheterized managed to urinate by some grace of good luck I had a second clean bottle in his room he managed to urinate 1 bottle up to the neck + 3/4 of a second bottle. This is the most urine i've ever held in my hands at one time.
A woman that worked with my wife had a bed pan full of urine thrown in her face by a patient on police hold…. She lost her eye due to the syphilis infection from the contaminated urine… What a POS. I hope he got extra time for that👍
😥😳😲😲😲😲😲😲😲
Omg!
Recently in the OR a pain patient was getting his steroid injections and the marcaine she used with it numbed everything from the waist down. Poor guy really needed to pee but obviously couldn’t make himself go due to being numb. So the male RN inserted the straight cath while I held the urinal container. We had to use two containers bc he voided 1250 mL!!!! And bc he was lying down, I had to assist by pressing on his bladder to make sure he had fully voided.
Talk about a long time holding someone’s dongle. Well in my case, red rubber.
Oh! And it was a 12 fr which made it flow even slower. 😩
I think the word you're looking for is vulva
At work 😂🤣😂🤣😂
At work....😲....😬....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can I have your beer when you're done with it?
Never used a urinal, but used a bed pan. Had been in an accident, and maybe due to pain killers or the shock of it all, I didn’t have the sensation to pee. I realized it had been like 15 hours since I had last gone when they had me try, even though I still “didn’t have to go.” Well, I peed like a full liter and nearly filled the pan. The poor nurse walked it very slowly and precariously to the bathroom while whispering to herself, “whoa… whoa” :…. I felt awful!
I'm calling it "my bird" from now on
My 'Hoo Ha Bird....'
The hard part for male patients is....😳🤣
Thank you for your great job as a ER tech
That's That's heck of a story man. I did daycare and sometimes running after a kid with poop running down his or her leg while hitting the floor was like really kid just stop!!!! Lol well I'm sure every job has its shit moments too. Have a good one .
Everytime he said "scoop/scooping" 😂😂😭
Former LTC CNA. Had a dude that couldn't find his genitals, so he used Vicks vapor rub to, "Make it poke out" so I would clamp the urinal over his entire peri-area or end up with urine everywhere. He was also mean af. One time he decided to intentionally knock the urinal, so it splashed all down the front of my scrub pants. Just one of many people that made me burnt out and leave caregiving.
I was a student nurse and forgot to take the cap off the male urinal. Tbh, the guy wasn't very endowed and I thought he was in there.
At 0:37 the emphasis on "at work" makes it sound like he doesn't mind in private
Cun. nilingus
If you said its too quiet in the hospital
Get ready for CPR 20 fires 20 heart attacks
And cuss words
This kid's a riot !
Ooh. Brought back memories!
Another reason may have to use them is if they are monitoring your output for whatever reason. I was young, stable, etc and the first couple days of my hospital stay I had to use one so they could monitor volume. Finally after 2 days I kindly asked if I could stop using it and they agreed (I was there for pneumonia, not urinary symptoms).
Better pissed off than pissed on.
I had a morbidly obese patient propped up into a shower chair that was a bit too small for her so my foot was almost directly beneath the hole in the chair. She peed on my foot and if I moved she might’ve fallen so I just stood there as she literally peed a River on my foot. Brand new Hokas too. I tried rinsing my shoe as best I could, threw my sock away and washed my foot and put on a hospital bootie but my shoe was wet and I had to finish out my shift in that urine-soaked shoe. Walking with wet squishing up between my toes was not pleasant. Still, I’d rather be peed on than puked on any day. When my oldest was a baby he puked into my mouth once. Smh. So gross.
I've been in the ER, had to use these to measure my output, using a male one when laying down is a pain in the butt. Every other time I figured out a way to lean over the bed and pee into it. The dozen cords hooked up to me made it the worst, which one hurt the most and work around that.
As soon as I saw that male urinal I got the flashbacks
it's a sign of my age and health that I enjoy going to the medical supply stores to see what new things they have that might make my quality of life better.........
The hard part. Lol
Speaking as an older guy... yeah it can. lol
God bless all nurses! 🕊
A blocked foley for a pt of a 'senior' nurse... calls me in to help with flushing it, with an attitude of "never give up until you achieve your goal "...
2 minutes in literally urine was all over the walls, our scrubs and some flew into my mouth, because i was stupid enough to wear a face shield... but what did i know i was still new back then
We had a new admission, in his late thirties, on the ortho floor years ago who was obsessed with his urinal. He began calling nurses station complaining that his urinal was "Too small ". He tried this multiple times on all three shifts for several days each time hoping to get a different nurse in his room.There was some malfunction in his brain that someone would enter his room and be "turned on". Needless to say, the urinal was the appropriate size and he had fantasy issues.
Can you do a video tips from the ER high heart rate??
I was in housekeeping at the time. This old guy decided it was a good idea to set his used urinal on his walker (one with 4 wheels), and just take it with him. He was so clumsy on his feet that he accidentally pushed the urinal, so it fell off the walker... he did that constantly and I constantly had to come clean up after him. He did not understand that putting it on his walker was a bad idea.
Then there's the one where a guy had used one and put it under his bed, I couldn't figure out where the smell was coming from. But I figured that it was probably the guy. But then I sweeped under the bed and suddenly this dark yellow urine just covered my feet (I wear sandals).
Gotta love my job 😂
I wish my worst memory in the ER was something as mild as that. That's just a Thursday night for me 🫣
I would love more of these stories
Lol you saying specifically "I don't like urine on me at work" makes me think of a kink joke in there.......😂
Female urinals? We just got purewicks here
I don’t like getting urine on me
… at work. Hahaha what a twist, Steveioe.
I never knew that they had them for women, until I was in the hospital icu last year. I kept calling for a nurse that I needed to go, but sometimes it would take an hour and they had a big pad under me, so I ended up peeing on the bed. Then a new nurse came in and offered it. I was so happy.
In 2018, I was in the hospital for 15 days with pneumonia and renal kidney failure (the pneumonia infection went septic). I was 35 at this time and hours from death when my girlfriend (now fiancé) got me to the ER.
Anyway, after being intubated and going on dialysis for a week in the ICU, I finally come out of my induced coma (as I called it) but still needed dialysis. But by this time, I had no trouble urinating. In the middle of dialysis, I tell the technician that I needed to pee. She shows me the urinal but tells me that she doesn't expect me to get much. We were both surprised as I proceeded to feel about 85-90% of the urinal.
I should mention that although I had pneumonia for a week that was treated by doctors as bronchitis, the reason I was finally taken into the ER was because of the inability to pee.
Living in my van…years ago ….. I’m thankful for my urinal for that year…….
"At work" LOL
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is strong with this one
Never heard of that before. What is it?
I know he just bought it and it's just a piece of plastic... but knowing what the urinal is used for, I felt extremely uncomfortable when he put his mouth next to it for the bird noises 😳
Exact same.
it reminded me of his skits where he drinks out of them, lol
its clean..unused...
Twenty minutes is the longest I’ve had to hold a male urinal.
I had ended up in the ER in DKA because in the US insurance companies get to dictate when exactly you can get a refill on you prescription refusing to cover your life saving insulin if it's a couple days early(which can happen if say you went on vacation over did it a bit requiring you to use a little bit more insulin than normal) forcing you to pay the outrageous price of over $480 which I couldn't afford. Well they constantly pump you full of fluids as one of the treatments and I remember having to pee so bad but couldn't get up and go because of the IVs(yes IVs, had one in each arm) and ended up filling the plastic urinal more than twice with the nurse having to go empty it so I could keep going!
But the jokes on my insurance company, I may have spent nearly 5 days in the ICU and almost died but they had to pay for it! Which ended up costing around 2000x the cost of the insulin itself!
that’s like the patient i had she was angry no one had time to help her go so i offered she 💩in my hand and said that’s what you get for waiting so long to come help me 😦
Nobody's gonna talk about how he did this at 1:18?
For reason the way he said scoop it made me think of scooping fish out of an aquarium...