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Reply Wed 28 Jan, 2009 01:02 pm
Survey: Spilling of Male Urinals
After a recent stay in the Hospital ? and first hand experience with products that haven?t had a design improvement since 1950 ? I?m working with a major disposable medical company and I?ve got to do a sanity check.

Portable male urinals and spills there of is the subject. I spilled 1 of every three times I had to use one. A survey of nurses I know (about 10) indicated they experienced at least one spill nearly every shift worked?unless they worked in an area where most patients could walk to the bathroom (like emergency).

So?what?s your experience?
- Spills per shift
- Patients using these urinals per shift
- Area of work
- Clean up time
- Instances of finally resorting to a catheter

Thank you so much for you input?Hopefully, something can be done to increase patient dignity and make this part of your job easier.

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Yep, that?s the one.
 
melscott
 
Reply Wed 4 Feb, 2009 08:55 am
i always wonder how they manage to spill these but they do. i have never seen that particular one but i am guessing that they are not user friendly. could it be they are too big?
 
TeleNurseboy
 
Reply Thu 26 Feb, 2009 09:00 pm
i am wondering if you are going to work drunk? i rarely spilled a urinal. i do not know anybody i work with that spills them very often.
 
vwgirl
 
Reply Sun 22 Mar, 2009 05:50 pm
Urinals.
We have a few of those at work, and yes they DO spill. NOthing like having to do a complete bed change in the middle of the night to throw you off schedule! Anyway..thankfully we only have a few of those, and we have different ones that don't spill at all.
 
vwgirl
 
Reply Sun 22 Mar, 2009 05:51 pm
TeleNurseboy wrote:
i am wondering if you are going to work drunk? i rarely spilled a urinal. i do not know anybody i work with that spills them very often.


I may be mistaken, but I have never spilled one, the patients spill them when trying to use them.
 
TeleNurseboy
 
Reply Mon 23 Mar, 2009 08:00 pm
Re: Survey: Spilling of Male Urinals
SteveSpillsAgain wrote:
... I spilled 1 of every three times I had to use one. A survey of nurses I know (about 10) indicated they experienced at least one spill nearly every shift worked



he said I spilled one meaning him. I have never spilled one.
 
 

 
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