Nursing Students General Students
Published Sep 12, 2005
Rocky_LPN
83 Posts
in class today a girl offerd to let our teacher drop a ng tube, and well she did. girl vomited everywhere. just wondering if anyone else has seen this in class.
Chicklet2
163 Posts
In my LPN program we wanted our instructor to do that to one of us, but she said the school would no longer let them do procedures such as that on students anymore.............
Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN
11,304 Posts
OMG!!! We weren't allowed to do anything like that, even give shots or start IV's. Too expensive for insurance.
Yikes - that instructor was nuts. What if she had damaged the girl?
steph
kpmadonna
17 Posts
oh wow that is crazy!!! we have such strick rules that we can only insert tubes into plactic patients that is so wild that the school would allow your instructor to do that, what other things does your teacher do I am interested to know bc that is interesting but helpful I guess just to show you up close and personal what happens.
truern
2,016 Posts
We practice SQs, intradermals, and IVs on each other...but no way in heck would I let someone, even an instructor, insert a NG
Tweety, BSN, RN
34,333 Posts
My ex (who went to school in the 80s) had to put NGT's down each other. So it's not unheard of.
But that instructor was taking a big risk, suppose she started a bleeder or something like that.
Fun2, BSN, RN
5,586 Posts
OK, this is where I would have to draw the line, I think.
I've let students give me SubQ's, IM's, Intradermals, and even venipunctures in medical assisting school.
I don't think I would allow someone to do an NG tube on me.
grinnurse, RN
767 Posts
I can't stop laughing for some reason after I read this...................poor girl--does she get an A for that portion of Lab??? I have offered numerous times for students to start IVs on me in the hospital both as a student and now as an RN, so far no takers. We weren't aloud to do that in school, nothing invasive at all b/c of insurance.
lol teach gave her a ribbon, said perfect lil helper. btw there was some bleeding caused by trauma apon insertion.
wonderbee, BSN, RN
1 Article; 2,212 Posts
So who's going to volunteer for foley insertion????:uhoh21:
Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN
12,126 Posts
I had it done to me. I wanted to be able to have a better idea on what to tell the pt. what NG tube insertion felt like.
Danianne
158 Posts
I had one done too but not by choice yech! didn't spew though