Word: bedpan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those who feel it is beneath their dignity to give a person a back rub or remove a dirty bedpan find some other name for their profession. Leave the nursing of the sick to nurses...
...have thrown yet another overflowing bedpan in the face of nursing. I did not enter the field seeking to make big bucks or to become a pseudo physician. Most of my fellow nurses and I wish only a wage scale in line with our training and responsibilities and the opportunity to practice the most basic human care services we have been trained to deliver...
...Bean Blossom, pup tents and trailers were parked at random in the 100-acre park that is owned by Monroe and serves as the festival site. Away from the stage, a concessionaire offered bargain prices on dusty fruit jars, secondhand cookware, some 1950s sheet music and a chipped enamel bedpan. Other vendors sold straw hats, hard-to-get bluegrass records, Martin guitar strings and $1 plates of sausage gravy and biscuits. Red-white-and-blue garbage cans stood under the trees, next to inelegant eight-seater outhouses...
...compared with a typical ten-day hospital stay in the U.S. For these Auckland patients, however, hospital care continues at home. Nurses pay them regular visits. Family members are trained to meet their special needs. Patients may even borrow hospital equipment. It may be an everyday item like a bedpan or cane-or more complicated gear: a respirator, wheelchair or even an electrical hoist like the one that helps Susan Foss...
Although Zasetsky could still speak in those simple phrases and sentences that had become reflexive, he could no longer remember anything he had learned. In the hospital he tried to decide-while attempting to muffle his rising urgency-whether to ask for a bird, a duck or a bedpan...