Daily you are responsible for cleaning out the bed pans, otherwise known as chamberpots of your patients.
Chamberpots are small dishes that would be kept by a bedside so that one would no have to get up and go out to go to the bathroom. In the middle of the night, this is the most convenient place to relieve oneself. For someone sick and dying in a hospital bed, this is often the only place to relieve oneself. This work is putrid and smelly, but you are thankful that most of the patients are able to use the chamberpot, as opposed to the alternative. |