Re: Is it true?!?! Say it aint so... Originally Posted by nursemaa We had to do breast exams but not pelvic exams. The teacher stood by and watched- it was disgusting. We wrote to the dean to complain about that and several other things- the teacher was removed from teaching that class.
Hi,
Everyone has varying levels of comfort. For my group our breast exams were not problem at all. The prof did give us the option of having the male student use the prostethic type ones but, my group and I agreed that it would be foolish and invited the two men in our clinicals to come and do our breast exams.
The reality is, one of the guys was loosing his best female friend to breast cancer and it would be absurd to close the curtain and shut him out, also, if they are going to educate their patient's on breast exams, they may want to give a clinical description.
However, we are not NP students, only direct entry MSN.
Gen
p.s. Two school that I know of use models/actors as patients for pelvic exams and from what I gather, they are so well instructed in it that they could give US a lesson or two.
LP 
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