Hospital Diapers

[diaperboyMKE]

I went to urgent care this morning at my doctors request to get an ultrasound (irrellivant).. Well, while I was in the ER room, I was doing a LOT of waiting! I thought to myself "they MUST have a diaper around here somewhere" so I started poking around. Well they had a supply cart with a drawer labeled "Diapers/Kleenex" I thought JACKPOT! The cart was LOCKED! It dawned on me, the drawer above it had all the needles in it, so they must have to secure that sort of stuff. I was so bored out of my mind, I was tempted to ask a nurse for "a fresh diaper to change into please" but I was too scared it would somehow end up on my med record or something crazy, I thought of asking for a Kleenex just so I could check it out once they opened the drawer, but I chickened out.

Damn, did I miss out on anything? Think they were any good?

[Baby Tom]

In the UK, they use the cheap Tena nappies.

How do I know? Experience, caught short without a change and a very embarrassed nurse having to fetch me one.

What brand of diaper do you normally use? did the nurse help change you? I often wondered if you would be changed by a nurse if you needed it when in the "ER".

[diaperboyMKE]

What brand of diaper do you normally use? did the nurse help change you? I often wondered if you would be changed by a nurse if you needed it when in the "ER".

My guess is, if you were incontinent, and you were mobile and active they would offer you the diaper and some privacy. If you immobile, elderly, disabled etc, they might assist you. If you were really messed up (after an accident etc), they'd prob just cath you.

What I wondered is, a cath is a procedure, if you were in-patient and refused the cath, would they diaper you? Especially if they didn't want you to be ambulatory. Maybe there's a nurse or Dr here that could chime in.

[diaperboyMKE]

No the nurse did not change me, I'm a big girl and can do it myself.

That is the fantasy of most but deft a reality.

I had no spare pads and asked the nurse in the outpatients to go and fetch me one, she did, well a tena nappy, brought it back in a concealed green hospital bag, I changed myself, threw the old pad away, washed my hands and left thanking the nurse.

I have to ask, what's your signature all about? Who's the NHS and why did you ask them for help? and why does the link advertise a vacation?

[DL88]

Mike:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service_(England)

[dl420]

I was in an ER once after a car accident, not hurt of anything just a precaution. I had the same idea about diapers being around so being the curious person I am I checked some drawrs and low and behold I found some! They were nothing special but I did sneak out a couple!

[redneck diaper boy]

From personal experience, I can tell you that hospital diapers suck!

If I ever go back, I will take my own and have my wife do the changing.

I went to urgent care this morning at my doctors request to get an ultrasound (irrellivant).. Well, while I was in the ER room, I was doing a LOT of waiting! I thought to myself "they MUST have a diaper around here somewhere" so I started poking around. Well they had a supply cart with a drawer labeled "Diapers/Kleenex" I thought JACKPOT! The cart was LOCKED! It dawned on me, the drawer above it had all the needles in it, so they must have to secure that sort of stuff. I was so bored out of my mind, I was tempted to ask a nurse for "a fresh diaper to change into please" but I was too scared it would somehow end up on my med record or something crazy, I thought of asking for a Kleenex just so I could check it out once they opened the drawer, but I chickened out.

Damn, did I miss out on anything? Think they were any good?

[DL88]

Now it does make me curious, do the "Urgent Care" places have access to your medical records? I assume they do, probably somewhere in the waiver you sign it gives them access and though they might not get it that moment, they can fax info over to your GP and the treatment gets added to your medical records.

Just something I'm curious about, if you happened to ask for a diaper to change yourself would they have your records and question it or add it in later and then you gotta answer to your GP? If anyone knows for sure please reply with answer.

[diaperboyMKE]

Now it does make me curious, do the "Urgent Care" places have access to your medical records? I assume they do, probably somewhere in the waiver you sign it gives them access and though they might not get it that moment, they can fax info over to your GP and the treatment gets added to your medical records.

Just something I'm curious about, if you happened to ask for a diaper to change yourself would they have your records and question it or add it in later and then you gotta answer to your GP? If anyone knows for sure please reply with answer.

I don't think anyone here can answer for SURE.. but I can safely say, that with as many questions as everyone who handled me asked about my "business" working properly, if I were to ask for a diaper, it would red flag a ton of questions like "do you have bladder problems?".. it might have been because of WHY I was there in the first place "discomfort in my testicles", I must have been asked a dozen times "do you have any problems urinating, or have any bladder problems?"

[DL88]

I don't think anyone here can answer for SURE.. but I can safely say, that with as many questions as everyone who handled me asked about my "business" working properly, if I were to ask for a diaper, it would red flag a ton of questions like "do you have bladder problems?".. it might have been because of WHY I was there in the first place "discomfort in my testicles", I must have been asked a dozen times "do you have any problems urinating, or have any bladder problems?"

Haha ya that's normal questioning when you complain about testicular pain! I'm gonna have to find out somehow and get back to you guys with answer on this one.

[curiositykilledthecat]

No the nurse did not change me, I'm a big girl and can do it myself.

That is the fantasy of most but deft a reality.

I had no spare pads and asked the nurse in the outpatients to go and fetch me one, she did, well a tena nappy, brought it back in a concealed green hospital bag, I changed myself, threw the old pad away, washed my hands and left thanking the nurse.

rofl, somebody reads too many stories. Most nurses here where i live are not the type i'd even want to change me. Hell my dietician was morbidly obese. I had to do everything I could to keep from laughing.

[sarah_ab]

hey hey just because the dietician was morbidly obese doesn't mean they didn't eat healthy foods.. just they ate way to many healthy foods!

[DL_DB]

As far as diaper changes in the hospital go, BM and urinary output get charted, and if you are wearing a diaper but aren't incontinent, yes they are going to ask you awkward questions. Charting requirements vary from hospital to hospital, but some will add it to your record if you are diapered, and if you show up in a diaper but denying incontinence, don't be surprised if you are given a psychiatric consult. If you are incontinent, and are alert and oriented you can refuse a catheter. Usually a CNA will assist in changing anyone who cannot change themselves, which is most incontinent patients in a hospital. For those of you with nurse/doctor fantasies, please keep it to yourself while in any healthcare setting.

In the emergency department, if a patient is somewhat incapacitated but can be assisted using a urinal or bedpan, that is usually what they'll do. If they're not alert, intoxicated, require immobilization, etc, they'll probably receive an indwelling catheter. More or less anything appropriate goes for drunk or otherwise incapacitated people, under the doctrine of implied consent, and a catheter is usually considered appropriate.

[Frogboy]

I have to ask, what's your signature all about? Who's the NHS and why did you ask them for help? and why does the link advertise a vacation?

The NHS is the "National Health Service". All our healthcare is provided for by the government. We pay National Insurance and Income Tax on our pay cheques, part of which goes to the NHS. It means that all citizens of the United Kingdom get "free" health care without having to have extra insurance. We do have private health care (BUPA etc) but you have to pay for that yourself with a seperate insurance.

Not sure what the rest of Abrera sig is for... You'll have to wait for her to reply!

Froggie

[DiaperNewb]

We have "hospital diapers" in the Infirmary at the prison. When inmates get to a certain destructive level of crazy and get strapped down to the restraint bed, a diaper is the only bit of clothing they get. Every couple of hours they'll have Special Security Team members do "range of motion" procedures (unrestraining one limb at a time for 10 minutes and moving/rotating it), but they don't get out of the bed until the Mental Health Dr says they can. There are bedpans, but the nurses hate messing with them so they just stick the inmate in a diaper. They are basically a very, very thin cotton layer running down the middle, with a thinner blue plasticy backing. I haven't witnessed anyone getting a diapie change, but they don't look like they would hold much at all.

[DL88]

DL_DB: You have me all wrong, I'm more curious about the circumstantial part of how everything would work with all of the Dr.-Patient confidentiality stuff. I'm not at all interested with the fantasy part, I can get a girl for that

We pay National Insurance and Income Tax on our pay cheques, part of which goes to the NHS. It means that all citizens of the United Kingdom get "free" health care without having to have extra insurance.

Checks*

So if you are paying a bunch of taxes upwards of 60%+ of your actual paychecks, for the HC, it really isn't "free" is it.

[redneck diaper boy]

So what do you need the NHS to do for you?

The American healthcare system is about to become like Britan's. It would be interesting to see what we are in store for. 6 month is a long tome to wait for any medical service.

No the nurse did not change me, I'm a big girl and can do it myself.

That is the fantasy of most but deft a reality.

I had no spare pads and asked the nurse in the outpatients to go and fetch me one, she did, well a tena nappy, brought it back in a concealed green hospital bag, I changed myself, threw the old pad away, washed my hands and left thanking the nurse.

[loopy]

DL_DB: You have me all wrong, I'm more curious about the circumstantial part of how everything would work with all of the Dr.-Patient confidentiality stuff. I'm not at all interested with the fantasy part, I can get a girl for that

Checks*

So if you are paying a bunch of taxes upwards of 60%+ of your actual paychecks, for the HC, it really isn't "free" is it.

I think thats why froggie said "free". Free at point of service is the term usually used. Don't know where you got that tax figure from :X. There would be a riot if we paid that much .

Redneck: As I understand it it won't be the same as the NHS..... Just in principle.

[rusty pins]

I've had to go to walk in clinics a couple times when I've been hurt or sick and the emergency room was not an option. The doctor always asks the name of your regular doctor and often after treatment advises you to follow up with your regular doctor. That makes me feel that the record of your walk in clinic visit will be either sent to your regular doctor to be included in your records or else made available to your regular doctor. That's not a bad idea so there is a record of any medications you may be precribed or any medical procediurs done on you in your file. For that reason (and also being nervous and scared) I'd never wear a diaper to a doctor visit, even a one time walk in clinic visit (Although I admit the idea of sitting on an exam table in a diaper in front of a cute woman nurse seems kind of interesting)

[AutieAB]

What I wondered is, a cath is a procedure, if you were in-patient and refused the cath, would they diaper you?

I don't know. I've always had a thing that if I find myself in a hospital and the word 'catheter' comes up, I'd decline consent for it if at all possible. Not because I want the nurses to diaper me (I'd find that more embarrassing than exciting, I think) but because the concept of sticking something 'up there' gives me serious heebie-jeebies. I'm really bad in general at dealing with sticking pretty much anything into my body that doesn't belong in there (I've fainted after a jab before now.... as an adult )

I'm sure that if the paramedics have just scraped me off the tarmac when the situation arises, I'll have bigger things to worry about but if it's elective and scheduled, they probably won't have permission to cath me unless I really have no choice (medically).

[Frogboy]

I think thats why froggie said "free". Free at point of service is the term usually used. Don't know where you got that tax figure from :X. There would be a riot if we paid that much .

Redneck: As I understand it it won't be the same as the NHS..... Just in principle.

'tis indeed why I said "free". I personally would quite happily pay less NI/tax and go with with a private healthcare provider. I would still be happy to pay a certain amount for ambulance service etc as these are vital, but at the moment, the NHS is an abomination. Nurses are being told to ignore patients to spend more time inputting data on their beloved system1 database. The whole of the NHS now runs on targets and figures which can be manipulated to make it look like they are performing better without actually achieving anything. My mother is a community nurse so I get an insider view to the NHS and some of the stuff she tells me about whats going on actually makes me feel sick!

Oh and the UK income tax brackets are:

£0.00-£37,400 20%

over £37,400 40%

National insurance is about the 4% mark, but there are so many variables it's hard to pinpoint a more precise figure.

Froggie

[d_drew12]

Hospital diapers are cheap, garbage you really wouldn't want anyway. It's often a fantasy of many here to go into a dr. and:

1. Get told a cath will be put in but you refuse and get a diaper instead.

2. Get the diaper put on by an attractive female nurse.

3. Get your diapers changed by attractive nurses.

4. Wear a diaper and have them question you about why and then have someone diaper you.

5. The hospital diaper will be thick and babyish

Pretty much none of that in the "real" world is not going to happen. If you are too hurt, they're not going to give you options on diapers or caths. If you do, expect to maybe even put it on yourself just as you would be expected to put your robe on yourself, and it be a thin piece of crap. You may even wind up having a male nurse put it on you or some unattractive female which would ruin your whole fantasy idea. Most hospitals want you to get up and move around after surgeries unless you are incapable so they're not going to keep you diapered or cathed for very long. The moment they feel you can stand and walk, expect it to go away or even if you can't, expect a bed pan. Diapers to most are a taboo, gross thing so it's not the norm to use a diaper and you'd better have a good reason to needing it.

As far as doctors discovering you in diapers say at a check-up and then charting you wearing diapers, I really can't say for sure either way but I think you may get asked but depending on your answer, nothing more said. If you say, it's because when you cough or sneeze you leak a little, they may refer you to a specialist or something but you could just say I'm working with someone or whatever. I'm sure you could answer in a way to prevent them from going any further with it. If you go to the dr. for something else and they discover you have a wart or deep cut or something unrelated to your visit, they aren't going to document that probably. They really just want to get you in and out ASAP so give them a short answer or reason on why you have one if they ask and that should be the end.

[Guest toddler82uk]

I was a&e the other day and was there for nearly 7 hours and because i was very wet that i ask the nurse for a all in one pad and all they gave me was a insert with line pants to go over it and they said thats all they supplie there which was stange but i was little scared for them to change me

[Goerge]

In the UK, they use the cheap Tena nappies.

Huh? Tena nappies are some of the best on the market, certainly not cheap. If you want cheap visit a local disability shop and buy there nappies.. They are so cheap a finger nail would rip the plastic cover....

[loopy]

I don't think the NHS is all great... always been good to me on the few unfortunate occasions I've had to be in a hospital. The problem I think is not the concept of NHS its the government sticking their hands in and making targets, spending money on middle management instead of nurses and doctors, and just generally making a big feck up with the whole thing. They managed to do the same with the police and destroy any faith I had in them.

As for expensive.... the government is wasting far more money on other things that we really don't need (ID cards anyone?)

I for one can't wait for the general election. No idea who I'm going to vote for, or even if I will vote, but the shower of piss we currently have in power will be gone

I hope I haven't started another argument about health care on here :X