This is an old story from my days of nursing school... and one of my more embarrassing.
I was doing my rotation through couplet care... mom and baby area. Nothing I have ANY interest in whatsoever. I'm happy for them... it's great... blah, blah, blah. I like the blood and guts.
Of course, by this point in time I had no introduction to 'incontinence cream.' Also known as barrier cream, baza cream, ect. It's basically a very thick waterproof cream that we use to create a barrier between a patients skin and the bed that they will eventually wet. Wet bedding against skin is a recipe for disaster. So while we check and change beds often, it is still best to protect the patients skin from the moisture all together.
So here I was, this silly little nursing school student in her white pants and university scrub top, wandering around in couplet care looking for an IV to start or something/ anything to make the shift a little more productive for me. (As bottle feeding an infant really didn't interest me!) I washed my hands for the 954,736 time that day and my skin felt like it was about to peel off so I decided to look for some lotion to soothe the sandpaper that my hands were. I found this white tube of cream. Looked like lotion. It said Johnson & Johnson on it... so I squeeze out a large pile of this cream into my hand. I'm excited that I found this thick cream... I'm thinking it will take care of my hands for sure.
So I start rubbing the lotion all over my hands... WTF. My hands are WHITE and WATER-PROOF. I run to the sink and attempt unsuccessfully wash this stuff off before anyone catches me. This is NOT what I had in mind when I was looking for something productive to do! It took forever to get most of the damn cream off... I went home that afternoon with white still under my fingernails (I was trying to literally scratch the stuff off my hands under the scalding hot water), white around my cuticles, and white in the deep grooves of my hands.
I started carrying around a small tube of lotion in my scrubs.
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