bedpan
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Among the new finds are an anchor, glass bottles and a bedpan, according to a statement from the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024
She reserved her deepest attention for the orderlies who came in to change her bedpan and her sheets.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2023
But after one of my colleagues said it looked like a bedpan, I just couldn’t unsee the resemblance.
From The Verge ● May 28, 2022
The curriculum covers the practical aspects of working in a nursing home: bed-making, catheter care, using a bedpan and transferring residents from a wheelchair to a bed.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2022
She brings the bedpan and a basin of water for me to wash my hands.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
Even as the labor market has softened, healthcare jobs have stayed plentiful: People spend on healthcare in good times and bad, and thus far, the ability to change bedpans and insert IVs hasn’t been automated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
"To be told the NHS no longer provides you with bedpans, and have to go to Amazon to have one delivered - that's not right," she said.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2024
Her Little Sisters of the Sick Poor are prime examples, as the name suggests: They spoon-feed the toothless, comfort the grieving, scrub floors, clean wounds, change diapers, empty bedpans.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021
I was the lowest form of nurse, taking the bedpans, and I met a kind of different person than I had before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2016
She emptied and sluiced the bedpans, swept and polished floors, made cocoa and Bovril, fetched and carried—and was delivered from introspection.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
