Condom catheters!! Getting them to stay on !!!

[passing thru]

How do you get these things to stay on? What do you think of the ubber band thing with a button on it and holes in it??

[Dave ARNP]

A few points...

YES, as a man I can honestly say that we CAN make a certain body part retract at will.

As far as prepping... If a nurse came in with a razor for "trimming". I would be going out the window "leaving". Trimming I can understand. We mow our lawns, we cut the hair on heads (not a word) so logic says other things need trimmed. I know we men don't like to breach this subject, but fact is most of us (well, alot of my... you get where I'm going) do this. Trimming and shaving... BIG DIFFERENCE.

Finally. DEARMABOND? Ouch! Paging Dr. Bobbit to the floor for cath removal.

Dave, who says ya'll are some of the best nurses I've had the pleasure to talk to. But ain't a none of you'ins condom cathing me.

[Chaya, ASN, RN]

Our best CNA swears by good ole' body heat- she gently sqeezes for about 20 seconds to get it to adhere to the Skin Prep...sound warped, but when she puts 'em they stay put!

[Loppear, RN]

In our facility you can't even find a condom catheter..and when I mentioned it to one of the RNs, she had to even think about what it was! She thought and thought, I explained and then she called a Texas something-or-other....! Anyway, small place, we don't seem to have much use for them. A few of our outpatients tend to self-cath. But I have used them in clinicals, and yes, putting them on the dummies is not realilistic. But then again, practising cathing a women dummie is definately not realistic either..........real women are HARD to catheterize. The opening is never as big as that dummies! LOL!