Ok everyone I feel like a big fat loser right now. We have a videotaped skill for this section due this Friday and I cannot figure it out. I have looked in several nursing procedures books; in my lab module; have asked nurses.... and I cannot do it.
What is this mind-bogglingly difficult skill that I cannot master? Applying anti-embolism stockings. That's right, freakin' ted hose. I just can't do it. If I bunch up the end I can't get it over the toes. If I leave the foot part right side out and the rest of it inside out like it says, then I can't get it over the heel. If I try to pull it far enough to get it over the heel, then the opening is halfway down the foot instead of over the toes. Arrgggghhhhhhhh! I have tried to do it so many different ways and I feel like I'm so stupid because I can't do this simple thing.
Nobody else is having such difficulty with this. I'm usually relatively coordinated. I just can't get this. Not to mention that the dummy has huge bolts on her ankles and joint spaces that will take off a finger.
Please...... can someone explain it to me in easy to understand terms? Does anyone have tricks?
Or you could just tell me I'm not a big fat loser. That would help.
I am now in the process of soothing myself with beer and I am taking the day off from WORK tomorrow so I can learn how to put stockings on. How did they ever let such a moron into the nursing program is beyond me.
