Peeing In The Wrong Hat

One of my patients peed in another patient's hat. Not the kind of hat that you wear on your head, but the kind of hat that goes in the toilet and is used to measure urine. It's called a hat because if you turn it upside down, it looks like a hat, sort of.

Normally, going in the wrong hat wouldn't be such a problem, but one of the patients had MRSA. The patients should not have been in the same room, but we had no other beds available. This is the kind of thing that happens when you combine infectious and clean patients.

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The day shift nurse was introducing me to my patient and mentioned that she had given him a suppository earlier for constipation. She asked him if he was able to poop. He said yes, so naturally, she asked how big it was.

He just looked at her with big eyes. Seeing how uncomfortable he was, I felt the need to say something. With mock indignation, I asked if that meant he didn't measure it for us. I don't recall his answer exactly, but it had something to do with how odd nurses are. Since when has it been considered odd to ask people about their poop? Don't all people have these discussions?