Potty Party
A phenomenon occurring when a hospitalized patient with multiple co-morbidities requires toileting and the assistance of more than one member of the hospital staff to facilitate preparation for, or status post bladder or bowel evacuation. May occur when several extraneous medical devices, such as intravenous lines, wound vac, extra-long nasal cannula tubing, or continuous gastric tube feeding, are attached to the patient, but the patient has orders to ambulated to the bathroom, and more than one hospital staff member is needed to wrangle I.V. poles, carry the patient's train, or generally supervise, May occur when an immobile patient [1] presents with a code brown [2] diarrheal shituation [3] requiring all hands on the poop deck to prevent the patient from drowning in C. diff fudge.
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