P1_06 Sick Child

[rebeccaS]

I am a nurse in an emergency room. I have a new patient which is a young child maybe 4 or 5. They are with their parents in an isolation room. The doctor has ordered urine testing so I go in to collect the sample. The parents have helped the child collect and placed it on a table right inside the door. I walk in, I'm in PPE (personal protective equipment but not hazmat, just normal stuff you wear in an isolation room and the things the CDC has recommended) to collect the sample. The parents and child are across the room (it is really large for an ER room); the parents are holding the child which is lying listlessly in their arms. The parents look defeated or scared. Probably scared. I look at the table where the urine is already in a specimen cup, there is blood on the table. The urine is bloody and is a strange color of red. Not any shade I have seen before.