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Nov 09, 2007, 09:28 AM
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Re: Don't wanna always give baths, clean up feces, etc., where to work?
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Originally Posted by WannaBCRNA
In clinicals we just give baths, clean up poop and puke, and feed patients. I honestly want nothing to do with this once I'm a nurse, so, where/what floors can I work on as a new grad, in order to avoid this? I do have an interest in Psych nursing.
Psych nursing is not a "breeze" either. you dont have to clean up poop or puke or even give baths. However, you DO have the clients who come to your office that need a bath, smell like poop or puke. Not to mention the clients who commit suicide or attempt to do so.
it is very emotionally draining.
you get yelled at on a daily basis about something or other, every thing that happens with your clients is your fault some how.
you are going to have to "work" no matter what you do......if you dont want to work......... DON'T BE A NURSE.
i love psych nursing.........and i've done EVERYTHING as a nurse of 24 years. maybe you should rethink the nurse thing
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Nov 09, 2007, 09:45 AM
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Re: Don't wanna always give baths, clean up feces, etc., where to work?
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Nov 09, 2007, 09:54 AM
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Re: Don't wanna always give baths, clean up feces, etc., where to work?
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Cleaning up poop is a lot less work than when a pt. doesn't move his bowels.  I also concur with the poster that stated that w/more exposure, the shock dessimates. At this point, my take is 'as long as it's out, I don't care'. Nobody likes doing it, but it's only part of the job, not all of it.
Besides, I would rather deal with body fluids the whole shift, than the bs (pun intended) of workplace politics anyday.
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Nov 09, 2007, 10:19 AM
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Re: Don't wanna always give baths, clean up feces, etc., where to work?
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| Cleaning poo bothers you?????
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| Maybe you can get your masters of nursing, and go work for the government setting up guidelines for how bedside nurses clean poo?
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Nov 09, 2007, 10:33 AM
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Re: Don't wanna always give baths, clean up feces, etc., where to work?
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I'm going to say something not so popular but here goes anyway. I graduate in 3 weeks from nursing school and I just accepted a position at an acute care psychiatric facility on a unit that only admits 18-50 y\o males with schizophrenia who are ambulatory and self-care.
I sought this job out because a) I love treating patients with schizophrenia and b) I hate cleaning up feces and I know this type of patient is going to be 99% continent.
Say what you will about me, but I can recognize my own weaknesses and I know that if I took a position in geri-psych or med-psych I would be unhappy because everyday I would dread the "code brown". Lots of nurses do this. Nurses who hate phlegm and mouth secretions probably avoid jobs with a majority of vent patients, and nurses who despise vomit would probably avoid an oncology floor.
I'm not "above" poop, I just don't think I could be happy in a job where is was an everyday reality. I've cleaned up my share during nursing school as a student and as a tech at a regular psychiatric facility. I am taking a pay cut to leave the facility where I am at to go to this new job because I know we have started admitting far to many nursing home patients, and that is just not the patient population I got in to psych nursing to work with. I won't ever "get over it", I know I won't and I'm not ashamed to say that my niche in nursing involves no poop or bathing contact. I'm still a going to be a damned good nurse and I will do everything to help my patients with what they need.
P.S. Too the poster who thought you had to have a BSN to be a psych nurse... thats not true! I am graduating with my ASN, but I do have a BS in psychology, although that is not required. Most every nurse that works on my floor, even our unit supervisor, has an ASN. Good luck!
Last edited by Jelli_Belli : Nov 09, 2007 at 10:55 AM.
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Nov 09, 2007, 10:42 AM
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Oh Goody!
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Re: Don't wanna always give baths, clean up feces, etc., where to work?
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Where else can you work that you actually look forward to someone breaking wind? And if they poo, why that's cause for celebration! 
As far as docs go, I guess I was very lucky... ours would pitch right in if need be.
We love da poo!
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Nov 09, 2007, 10:53 AM
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Re: Don't wanna always give baths, clean up feces, etc., where to work?
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Originally Posted by Hellllllo Nurse
You don't need a BSN to be a psych nurse- but psych pts have bodily functions, too.
I'd rather clean up a bottom than have no clue when they have last had a BM! A psych patient is not always interested in sharing when they've last had a good poop.
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Nov 09, 2007, 10:55 AM
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Re: Don't wanna always give baths, clean up feces, etc., where to work?
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LOL!
Nice you tube clip...  Emmanuel, you crack me up! Thanks for the laugh, I needed it!
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Nov 09, 2007, 11:16 AM
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Re: Don't wanna always give baths, clean up feces, etc., where to work?
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Nov 09, 2007, 11:25 AM
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Oh Goody!
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Re: Don't wanna always give baths, clean up feces, etc., where to work?
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You're quite welcome... but what youtube clip ?
LOL
Originally Posted by Anjann
LOL!
Nice you tube clip... Emmanuel, you crack me up! Thanks for the laugh, I needed it!
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