How To Use Bedpan In A Sentence
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It's a cloverleaf fountain and it looks like three stone bedpans.
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Miss Ito, who emptied bedpans, gave body baths and held hands through the night with people in pain, was downstairs helping out.
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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
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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.
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An orthopedic surgeon who asked not to be identified said he also hears increased patient complaints about waiting for bedpans or medications.
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It's not all cleaning up bedpans and vomit; there are plenty of other more appealing activities that fall into the care profession category.
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She was resentful in her work, and if anyone wanted a bedpan or bottle she took ages about it.
THE OPEN DOOR
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The ward nurse gave me a list of necessaries, beginning with soap and ending with a bedpan.
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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.
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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?
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The slightest thing which jars with the colour co-ordination of Little France stands out a mile - even bedpans are a tasteful shade of teal as they are whisked by.
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I will retrieve my rusting Raleigh Roadster from under the junk in the garden shed, wire brush it down, oil the chain, don the Lycra, strap on the bedpan helmet and look a complete wally like the rest of them.
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Johannes looked around the tiny room, saw the narrow bed with its musty blanket, the reeking bedpan.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Besides being a financial burden who has reduced their living space, the family as a whole has to deal with all the rituals of bathing, bedpans, feedings, and doctor visits.
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I found a steel bedpan in one load and a pair of surgical shears in another the bedpan was of no practical use, but the shears were a damned handy kitchen implement.
On writing by stephen king
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They'd stoked and banked the fire for the night, drawn the purple drapes, and put a hot bedpan in between her sheets to warm it ready for her.
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For any caregiver, wash hands and change gloves after coming in contact with something potentially unclean, such as a bedpan or unchanged sheet.
Marki Flannery: 40 Steps to Making a Bed... And Other Lessons in Caregiving
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There had even been, the nurses told Anastasia's mother, a terrible collision involving a bedpan.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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I'll help out in a hospital, as long as I don't have to do the bedpans.
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I suppose whenever a bedpan is mentioned, there will be a certain amount of snickering.
THE WIDOW'S TRIAL
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Mike got really good at getting the bedpan to me in seconds when I croaked that I needed it and switching them out for clean ones.
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Whenever standards fell short – whenever, in Aneurin Bevan's phrase, a bedpan was dropped – the echoes would reverberate through Whitehall.
Medical care: The non-national health service | Editorial
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He was comforting, even lighthearted as he held the bedpan while Geraldine vomited, and when he rubbed her neck and legs to relieve their deep, persistent pain, smiling and making jokes to lessen her embarrassment.
O: A Presidential Novel
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Also at any time, bedpans and urinals are available for prolonged treatments.
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While rupture of the membranes is carried out under strict asepsis, we do not transfer these women to the delivery room, but perform this simple act in the labor room while the patient is on a bedpan.
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Life quickly became a routine of pain killers and bedpans, but there were small achievements worth celebrating: getting out of bed and standing for the first time, taking that first step, and walking again.
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He peered outside, seeing the backside of a cursing orderly as he bent over to pick up a heap of empty bedpans.
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‘Oh, you know,’ Jesse said, ‘cleaning bedpans, giving patients sponge baths.’
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Making up the bed begins with offering a bedpan and includes a sponge bath and a change of clothes, so both the patient and the bedsheets start out fresh and clean with every change.
Marki Flannery: 40 Steps to Making a Bed... And Other Lessons in Caregiving
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They empty bedpans, give people bed baths (not as nice as you might imagine, especially for the washer), spoon food into mouths and care when families can't.
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There had even been, the nurses told Anastasia's mother, a terrible collision involving a bedpan.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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A bedpan, a urinal, a washtub, a bucket, a table, a bed, the chair by the window… everything was crammed into that small space.
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The main types of equipment on offer are wheelchairs, backrests, bath seats, bedpans, walking sticks and frames.
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These boxes were placed at the end of each row of tents or wards, and were so arranged that both the dejecta and the bedpans were thoroughly disinfected. 181 This proved itself so useful that it came subsequently into general employment in the hospitals at Salonika.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
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The nature of my injury meant that, for several days, I could not move or be wheeled to the lavatory, so bedpans were the only option.
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When she comes on duty at 11 pm, she makes rounds, checking the residents for skin tears and helping them go to the toilet or use a bedpan.
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There had even been, the nurses told Anastasia's mother, a terrible collision involving a bedpan.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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After all, who will empty the bedpans in nursing homes?
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The donation of medical equipment included items such as sterilisation trays, bedpans, operating tables, hospital beds and bedside lockers.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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After all, the drugs, brain-scanners, bed linen, bedpans and other hospital paraphernalia are provided by private companies earning a profit, but there isn't anyone saying they should be banned from the NHS.
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‘I have to change the bedpan now,’ she said, in a slightly louder voice than was necessary.
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If you visit, I implore you to steer clear of the white-flour buns, the sugary sodas and the piles of "flatliner fries" that accompany the burgers in the restaurant's signature bedpan plates.
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An electronic sweep of the Palace had found bugging devices concealed in the most bizarre locations - flowerpots, bedpans, jodhpurs, a pair of lovingly restored Victorian camiknickers, and even implanted in one of the ears of the royal corgis.
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These kids will be up close to dawn, ready to clean bedpans and dress bedsores.
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He owned a shop in Southampton which also sold bedpans and surgical appliances.
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And finally, be really nice to your family and friends, you never know when you might need them to empty your bedpan.
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Even the low-skilled workers who distribute the hospital meals and disinfect the bedpans must be highly trustworthy, for if they do their job wrong, patients will die.
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The ward nurse gave me a list of necessaries, beginning with soap and ending with a bedpan.
