Forgot about a bed pan
Okay, so yesterday I had an AOx4 patient who was immobile due to a L femur fx. She hadn’t had a BM in 10 days and the provider ordered lactulose. She ended up being an awful patient to care for because she was claiming we didn’t care for her and started taking videos of me- of course we were and she received all that she needed and charge got involved with the situation. She was then DC’d and was just waiting for ambulance to pick her up.
Anyways, when I went back in to check on her after to see how she was doing she said she needed a bedpan because she felt like she was going to go finally- great! I get her the bed pan and tell her hey I’m going to grab a pct to help me turn her since she was obese and in a lot of pain. She didn’t like that and demanded I give her the bedpan to place herself. So I did and she placed it and I left the room-that was 6ish. Things got hectic and 7pm came around and ambulance finally showed up. I told night nurse I would stay and assist them before I left.
When we went in the room she had the BM, but neglected to use her call light to let us know. We went to clean her up and I realized omg it’s been an hour that she was on this bedpan. Of course her bottom was red, but too soon to tell if it was a PU or just redness from being on it. Pt showed no concern except for that she wanted to be cleaned up. EMS took her to a SNF and now I’m panicking wondering if she has a PU and if this SNF or the pt is gonna come after me for it.
Sincerely, mortified new grad scared of losing her license and hurting people