Bedpan capersTeams of student nurses, nursing lecturers and visiting nurses from South Korea recently competed in the inaugural Bed Pan Derby at CQUniversity Rockhampton (July 11).

In this game of strategy and stupidity, the nurses passed the baton, or in this case a bed pan, to each team member while undertaking various ‘roles'. The team with the most contents in the pan at the end of the race were judged the winners.

The ‘stations' included: Mictuation, Defecation, Ambulation, Immobilisation and Sterilisation. Eight teams were registered to compete.

Senior lecturer in nursing Dr Lorna Moxham said the event was organised to give the first-year students a boost of confidence before they saw patients in hospitals for the first time, to give second-year students a morale boost and to celebrate the last term for the third-year students before they became registered nurses.

And for the nursing academics it was just plain fun.

More action from the event 
More of the participants 
Luckily it was just pretend 
All hands on deck 
Racers had plenty of support 

 
Racers came from far and wide