Any other healthcare workers here get poop on you?

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After 2.5 years it unfortunately happened. This marks a tragic time in history. Pray for me friends
If you are the “proud father“ of a child or pet, you have surely had poop exposure before this. Get used to it.
 
If you are the “proud father“ of a child or pet, you have surely had poop exposure before this. Get used to it.
It's definitely different when it's your kid vs a stranger though, and I think getting used to getting pooped on shouldn't happen commonly enough for one to get used to it.

I'm serious about the question because I want to hear others stories but I was being dramatic with the post to be funny. It does suck that it happened but I'm really not that distraught over it as I'm wearing surgical scrub pants now instead 🙂
 
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If you are the “proud father“ of a child or pet, you have surely had poop exposure before this. Get used to it.
Ditto

You're also going to patients vomit on you, cry on you, bleed on you, pee on you, assault you (or try to) scream at you, sue you, and ignore you. And on top of that, die on you, or expose you to dangerous infectious diseases
 
Ditto

You're also going to patients vomit on you, cry on you, bleed on you, pee on you, assault you (or try to) scream at you, sue you, and ignore you. And on top of that, die on you, or expose you to dangerous infectious diseases
I've had alot of that happen already lol. I was just trying to make light of a crappy situation and hear some similar stories
 
I've had alot of that happen already lol. I was just trying to make light of a crappy situation and hear some similar stories
Sorry we are being sadly unsympathetic and telling you it's all part of your duty.
 
I've had alot of that happen already lol. I was just trying to make light of a crappy situation and hear some similar stories
I can see that it's your duty to do this. But I want to hear the real poop of the situation. It was probably a real pain in the butt. Just be nice and don't be a turd about it, otherwise it will raise a big stink and be fertilizer for many SDN trolls. Then the mods will come in and it will bite us all in the ass. I'll bet some here will even go lie in a fecal position!
 
The best is when you're wearing a white long sleeve under your scrubs, and a coworker asks, "aye is that Mrs. XYZ's poop on yuh elbow". That marked my first and certainly not my last
 
The best is when you're wearing a white long sleeve under your scrubs, and a coworker asks, "aye is that Mrs. XYZ's poop on yuh elbow". That marked my first and certainly not my last
The fact they knew whose poop it was makes it so much funnier. That's when your throw the whole shirt away
 
After 2.5 years it unfortunately happened. This marks a tragic time in history. Pray for me friends
I worked in daycare for 3 years and I've never gotten poop on myself. Come to think of it, I've also prevented fidgety/curious kids from getting poop on their hands too. Get your sh#t together guys!

On a serious note, you have my prayers. Hope it wasn't c.diff!
 
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It wasn't long ago when applicants relished the opportunity to eat poop hotdog(s) to get into their first choice schools: C diff, melena, Miralax toxicity and all. The caliber of our applicants has truly fallen when mere fecal exposure is seen as "tragic". But then again, I'm a dog. Woof!
 
I got a patient's poop all over my uniform pants once as a paramedic. At the hospital, I told a nurse and asked her where the disinfecting wipes were. She saw the mess on my pants, then handed me a tub of wipes. I opened it, and just as I was about to start wiping my pants, I got a whiff of bleach. "Do these have bleach in them?" "Yeah," she said, barely acknowledging my existence. "Oh... but it won't take the color out of my uniform, right?" "Oh, it definitely will." "But... I told you this was for my pants. Why did you give be something that would bleach my uniform?" She just shrugged and walked away
 
I worked in daycare for 3 years and I've never gotten poop on myself. Come to think of it, I've also prevented fidgety/curious kids from getting poop on their hands too. Get your sh#t together guys!

On a serious note, you have my prayers. Hope it wasn't c.diff!
Lol great catches! It was unavoidable honestly. We were transferring the pt from the chair to the bed and they started going and it hit the floor and basically splatted and got on my pants. If I moved we would have dropped the pt because they were pretty much dead weight
 
This would be more appropriate for a nursing forum. They deal with a lot more **** than doctors.
 
This would be more appropriate for a nursing forum. They deal with a lot more **** than doctors.
I was about to say, if I learned anything about bodily fluids working as a tech, it's that bedside nurses and CNAs are the ones who have to deal with literal ****ty situations every day for their whole career; if nothing else, having this burned into your mind is helpful for empathizing with the nursing staff. I feel you though, one day I was *this* close to passing out from the smell in a patient's room (namely 'infected wound smell'). You get desensitized to it pretty quickly the more you're exposed. Also I always carry smelling salts in my purse now just in case.
 
As an EMT I've had my fair share of vomit, poop, blood, oh my! Healthcare isn't pretty despite all the sterile settings and white coats. I know docs who skipped the white coat on the daily completely for scrubs for this very reason.
 
On my unit, the lactulose would flow like water... as would other things. Gotta keep the cirrhotics from going bananas. Now that I'm matriculating this year, I guess I'll be putting my pro butt-wiping skills to rest, though I guess manual disimpaction will be in my scope soon...🤢
 
My last day of third year IM rotation the resident made me manually disimpact a patient's bowel.

I don't know what I did to piss the resident off, but he's not one of my favorite people. 😆
Yikes double glove it is! I have another story. I had a dementia pt smear poop all over her bed and kept a ball of it within arms reach and kept threatening to throw it if I got closer. I had to wait until she was distracted and solid snake sneak over to the other side of the bed and take the poop away from her.
 
On my first day as a CNA. Luckily our scrub tops were white and so I could run it through the washer with bleach and hot water which took care of it.
 
On my first day as a CNA. Luckily our scrub tops were white and so I could run it through the washer with bleach and hot water which took care of it.
Yikes first day that's rough. I didn't get poop on me my first day but I almost passed out the first few times I did blood draws on patients which was embarrassing
 
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