[
UK
/bˈɛdpæn/
]
[ US /ˈbɛdˌpæn/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛdˌpæn/ ]
NOUN
- a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination
How To Use bedpan In A Sentence
- It's a cloverleaf fountain and it looks like three stone bedpans.
- Miss Ito, who emptied bedpans, gave body baths and held hands through the night with people in pain, was downstairs helping out.
- Your process may not require all 40 steps -- some of which involve offering the patient a bedpan, sponge bathing and replacing protective covers under the bedsheets -- but it surely takes more steps than we tend to think about as we hurriedly make our own beds in the morning. Marki Flannery: 40 Steps to Making a Bed... And Other Lessons in Caregiving
- Of course, there were bed curtains, which the nursing staff seemed to draw with a particularly energetic flourish whenever they bustled in with a bedpan.
- An orthopedic surgeon who asked not to be identified said he also hears increased patient complaints about waiting for bedpans or medications.
- It's not all cleaning up bedpans and vomit; there are plenty of other more appealing activities that fall into the care profession category.
- She was resentful in her work, and if anyone wanted a bedpan or bottle she took ages about it. THE OPEN DOOR
- The ward nurse gave me a list of necessaries, beginning with soap and ending with a bedpan.
- Recalling his hospital visits in his mother's last days, Hugh writes about how he made his beloved mum laugh by wearing her bedpan as a hat and blowing up surgical gloves to resemble udders.
- For women who agree with the reviewer that their next 30, 40 or 50 years are about "the mostly unavoidable humiliation that is aging," then get back into the closet, girls, slip into your boxy overblouse and drawstring waist pants, and don't come out until you're ready for bingo or bedpan duty. Gail Sheehy: Who's Afraid of the Seasoned Woman?