Do Rns Clean The Urine And Bowels

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Hi Everybody,

Im New To This Site. I Have A Bs In Biology And Thinking For Absn ( Accelerated Bsn) . I Have A Question, What Exactly Is The Duty Of A Rn ( Who's Done Absn) . Does She/he Need To Clean The Urine/stool Of Patient Too ? Or They Just Check The Vitals, Give Medicine, Start Drip, Manage Ivs, Manage Injections ? Is It All A Rn With Accelerated Bsn Do? Please Help.

Thanks

Specializes in Junior Year of BSN.

There are MANY managers who are not nurses. Ask an administrator most of them have business degrees. My mother is an Administrator at a hospital she is not a Nurse but has a business degree. You do not need to be a Nurse to be a Manager. You do if you are a charge nurse or a Nurse Manager position. You think CFO's are NURSES? There Finance majors. There are many management positions in hospitals where you do not need to have a medical field background. HR, Finance, Security, IT, Medical Records, etc. All these positions can be found in the hospital. You can find out more about this at this website http://www.ache.org/career.cfm

Or http://www.aupha.org

hehe... funny question..

gloves is a very important tool in protecting urself... especially if you are goin to handle body secretions and excretions... this is very basic... you dont have to be a nurse to know that. also make sure that u always do the proper handwashing. handwashing is very important to minimize the spread of bacteria....

it's all in the fundamentals of nursing and common sense ;-)

Specializes in Emergency Room.

this is a joke. trolling at its best.

Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Because we are a large nursing bulletin board, we sometimes attract those that are less than truthful. Ignoring someone's post that become more bizarre as time goes on is sometimes the best idea.

Specializes in Pediatrics.

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Specializes in Day Surgery/Infusion/ED.
THANKS FOR UR REPLY. WHAT ABOUT THE RNS IN THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE . REMEMBER , THE NURSES WHOM A PATIENT SEE BEFORE MEETING A DOCTOR . I MEAN THOSE WHO TAKE UR WEIGHT, BLOOD PRESSURE, MEDICAL HISTORY AND THEN LET U WAIT FOR THE DOCTOR TO SEE U. ( I THINK THOSE NURSES DO A SIMPLE JOB THAN THOSE WHO WORK IN HOSPITAL WARDS IS IT? )

Would you kindly stop shouting?

Specializes in Day Surgery/Infusion/ED.
Being a CNA when you have a bachelors degree already?

Yeah, what of it? It would give someone considering nursing a good idea of some of the less wonderful aspects of the job.

Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.
Because we are a large nursing bulletin board, we sometimes attract those that are less than truthful. Ignoring someone's post that become more bizarre as time goes on is sometimes the best idea.

Ditto!!! If it's a joke...don't provide the enjoyment...if it's not a joke then it's really really sad. This person has "no" clue about nursing and doesn't even want to learn about nursing unless her hands can stay clean. Hey maybe this person is a germ-o-phobic? Ok....Fess up! Therapy may be needed here. Speaking of therapy.....My Shrink once told me about how in medical school they had to do the bowel program for inpatient quads. Whoops, sorry poster you can't be a Psychiatrist either.

Specializes in Nursing Ed, Ob/GYN, AD, LTC, Rehab.
Many of those folks in the offices aren't nurses, they're MAs. And if they are RN's they went to school and in school, like all nurses, they probably had to clean a patient. Sorry to say, there's no way around it. We deal with caring for people and people poop, people pee, people vomit. It's gross, smelly, chunky, runny, hard, foamy, and all colors of the rainbow. But, it happens, we all do it. Again, if you can't deal with, don't go down that road. There are plenty of other professions that care form and help people (Social Work) who don't deal with it. If you're looking into it for the paycheck, that's the wrong reason and you won't make it with your issue.

~Jen

LOL your post made me laugh, so true so true! what a vast rainbow of bodly fluids people produce, its like a poem!

I've responded with patience on another thread of Dashing's. I think what this person wants is job security and good pay... without the poop. :p

I agree with Trauma, this person is either having fun, or decided s/he wants woke up yesterday morning and said, "Hey, I wanna be a nurse! Lotsa pay and jobs! But what about the poop factor? Better go research this and decide to do this before Monday!" And ended up on allnurses.

At this point, that's the only scenario that makes sense.

My first thought was TROLL, but then after reading the rest of their posts it became clear.

It's over education syndrome. The more post-secondary education the potential nurse has the less he/she wants to deal with bodily fluids...

Specializes in ED.

I am a nursing student, in my first semester of clinicals right now. I have only had 2 weekends of clinicals and have already gotten urinated on, and cleaned many poop messes. I have also given complete bed baths where, yes, you have to clean every area of the body. If you want to get a degree in nursing you will definately have to do these jobs in school. When you first start school you don't have many skills so you are responsible for the basic cares like bathing, bathroom, eating etc. There is no way around it. And the RN's on the floor I am working with also clean up these type of things. Yes, there are CNA's that help but everyone is busy so it is unavoidable. If you don't want to deal with bodily fluids, then nursing probably isn't the best choice. I don't think anyone "likes" to deal with this type of thing, but you have to get used to it and realize it is part of the job. I always try to put myself in the patients shoes and realize how they must feel. If I were them, I would want someone compassionate and kind to take care of these things for me.

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