bedpan


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a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination

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A A bedpan is a good solution for people who are confined to bed after surgery or an accident, or who are immobile for other reasons.
Dawn Henry, 36, who worked on a children's ward at Leeds General Infirmary, also complained about the smell of a seven-year-old boy she left on a bedpan.
So maybe, at the age of 78, it's time for Bernie to retire to a nursing home, where he can rage about 'the ethnics' all day long to the nurses who change his bedpan.
She said: "It was a very emotional experience for us both to witness her pass her baby into the bedpan."
"Book of Etiquette": What was I after / in the orchard the / roots What was the lesson / he missed the rhetoric And / on the bed the eiderdown / And on the plate the urgency / the peat the impossibilities What / was the string that snapped the golden/plectrum the bedpan the syllables / an unstrung bowl of unripe / the rinds the bracelet the bare wrist
Prof Wenger, who was admitted to the mixed ward with bowel problems, described having to wait to give a nurse a bedpan of samples while patients and visitors circled around.
She asked nurses on her floor for a bedpan. Nurses allegedly told her that because there were neither bedpans nor bedside commodes on the rehabilitation floor, she would have to walk to the bathroom.
Mason Medical's LS9900 Low-Air-Loss mattress system enables the use of a bedpan without compromising resident comfort or safety.
Bedpan Park is always fun--it's a triangle park with no real grass, just a bunch of sand and a fountain in the middle of it that's dedicated to Mildred P Flagardly--or something like that is her name--supposed inventor of the bedpan.
IN these vulgar days you might expect a pub near a hospital to be renamed the Cough and Sputum or the Bedpan and Urine Sample.
According to Valldosera, this piece is an ironic metaphor for the corporeal; the light reveals what would be the head (made up of medicines), followed by the spinal column (cleaning products, ordered by size), and finally reaching the extremities covered by pants that are filled by a prosthesis; all of this ending in a bedpan.
"When you're done, could you take my towel and put me on the bedpan?" she asks.
Attitudes about bedpan use are another example of change.
Mr Hunt surely faces a backlash after emptying the political equivalent of a full bedpan on idealistic young carers who retain public support.
We were unable to visit on a regular basis due to the wards being closed because of norovirus and, on the couple of occasions we were allowed in, we always found him in a state of distress due to food or drink being placed on the table out of his reach and on one occasion when he needed a bedpan his buzzer was ignored.