Bedpans

After a week, a lieutenant demanded to know what they were doing in the kitchen and sent them to work in the ward, where at first their duties included emptying bedpans, making beds and bathing patients. ❋ AP (2011)

The following summer I cleaned bedpans in a nursing home. ❋ Marjorie Faulstich Orellana (2011)

This in principle relieves the secretary of state of the burdensome job of managing the clanging of bedpans. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Just reading a list this week which claimed that Downton Abbey series two – the one with all the bedpans – was televisual nectar, while snubbing the unique, flawless Game Of Thrones made my eyes throb. ❋ Unknown (2011)

When she could have hired more nurses, she took on extra shifts, and changed the bedpans and the dressings just like they did. ❋ Carol Edgarian (2011)

Food, drinks and medicines were left out of reach; patients calling for bedpans were ignored for so long that they wet the bed, and were left in distress for long periods before they were cleaned up. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Nursing home workers will have to have their palms greased so that Grandma gets clean sheets and her bedpans changed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is mighty Spidey now mundanely laid up, sharing a room and subjected to the same IV bags and bedpans as the rest of us lugs. ❋ Michael Cavna (2011)

I perform tricks for the children at the roadside attraction, mannequins, bedpans and teeth being the main of my draw. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like you, I dress in white; like you, many patients call me angel and I guess I am, administering to their wounds and sighs and bedpans and now, ministering to you, embellishing the chart with your vitals, watching you waste to a shrunken, wheezing vessel. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After a year of back rubs and bedpans, the agency assigned her to Torvald who lived in a musty Bel Air mansion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead of handing out 3D glasses, they should be handing out barf bags and bedpans at the entrance to the theatre. ❋ George Heymont (2010)