Word: bedpan
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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...
This is a genial, laconic account of the road back from disaster. Six years ago, when he was 51, Tex Maule, a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED editor, had a massive heart attack. He almost died then and there, mainly because he stumbled out of bed rather than accept a bedpan and crashed into his own oxygen supply...
...program to "revolutionize ward culture" had an unmistakable impact. Told to deal more firmly with whimsical requests, which are actually signs of anxiety, the nurses talked bluntly to troublesome patients. "Mrs. Jones," a nurse would say, "you really don't need that bedpan again, do you?" The free-and-easy approach had its understanding and mellow side. Sensing that a patient was particularly troubled, a nurse would ask if she could help, even if her charge had not rung...
...national health, safety or interest"-usually in hospitals or non-profit social agencies. About 5,000 C.O.s are engaged in such chores in the U.S. and nine foreign countries. Says a selective service official: "You have to be sincere to do the jobs they do. Pushing a bedpan around a mental hospital soon begins to wear pretty thin if you aren...
...locker. In fact, it is technology's latest answer to one of the oldest but least discussed of all the problems of hospital care: how to let patients perform natural functions in relaxed privacy, without waiting for an assisted trip to the bathroom, or the discomfort of the bedpan. For when they are faced with so inhibiting a situation, many embarrassed patients develop elimination difficulties severe enough to require extra medical and nursing care...