The Scoop on Poop: Episode 51

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🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

I always laugh and laugh and laugh when I hear stories of nursing students who think they'll never have to deal with poop and that toileting and bowel care is a job for the nurses aids or techs. Pause here while I insert a lot of really loud laughter...because to even think that for one tiny little second is hilarious. Like really? Do you know what nurses do? Nurses help people and one of the things we help people do is poop! Say it loud and say it proud, people!

In this podcast episode Nurse Mo talks about all things poop. When there's too much, when there's not enough, all the different shades (from grey to red to black) and what you are going to do about it.

If there's nothing else you learn from this podcast episode, it is to treat your patients with dignity. As you help them with this most basic function, do so in a way that preserves their pride, their comfort and their grace. That is your job as their advocate...never forget that.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone it's Nurse Mo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:15.3	podcast this is episode number 51 and today we're talking about number two
0:22.1	yep you guessed it. We're talking about poop today. So get
0:29.6	ready. What started out as going to be a very simple topic really I think is turned out to be
0:36.1	one of my best ever so I'm actually really excited to share this with you today. So let's first just do a brief anatomy and physiology
0:46.0	review so we have the main organs of digestion and elimination.
0:53.4	So of course there's the stomach.
0:55.9	I'm not going to start all the way up in the mouth
0:57.4	with the chewing and all of that,
0:58.6	but we'll get down to the nitty gritty.
1:00.4	In the stomach, we have the secretion of the hydrochloric acid and the
1:04.7	pepsen turn in that food bolus into kime from there it's going to drop down
1:11.0	into the duodnum.
1:13.5	And this is a key component in digestion
1:16.9	that Kaim is going to get further broken down
1:19.8	with enzymes from the pancreas,
1:21.9	the liver, and the gallbladder. Then it's going to go from the duotenum into
1:27.1	the jijunum. Most of your nutrients are going to be absorbed here. And then from the jijunum into the ilium where any remaining nutrients are absorbed.
1:38.6	Then we go into the large intestine and if you think about the function of the large intestine you can use
1:46.1	the acronym A.P. E.S. A is for absorption, P is for protection, E is for elimination, and S is for secretion. So basically the
1:56.8	large intestine, it's going to be helping maintain good gut flora, it's going to be absorbing water, minerals, maybe a few vitamins, and forming that waste product to be eliminated.
2:10.0	So there are a lot of factors that affect elimination.
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