Did RNs Have To Practice Bathing Each Other In NS

NewmanFamily6 · May 16, 2008

We never had to practice on each other. We gave baths to the mannequins. We did have to practice giving shots to each other though:cry:

momandstudent · May 16, 2008

We did have to test out on bathing with fellow nursing students. We wore shorts, tank top, and a gown. As for injections, we used mannequins for safety purposes.

cardiacRN2006, ADN, RN · May 16, 2008

Yes, we bathed each other and had to brush each other's teeth, and we also had to be fed while we were blindfolded.

elisabeth · May 16, 2008

We just pretended to do faces, arms & hands on each other. We didn't brush teeth or feed each other. We had the option to practice injections and NG tubes on one another.

vicky3269 · May 16, 2008

I am just finishing up my first year of nursing school. We were supposed to do bed baths on each other wearing shorts and tank tops, but luckily that day we ran out of time in lab so we just went through the motion of a bed bath without having to get a washcloth wet.

We also had to brush each other's teeth, feed each other pudding or jello, and it was not an option, we HAD to give each other injections AND IV starts!

Hope this helps,

Vicky :bugeyes:

Daytonite, BSN, RN · May 16, 2008

i was just reading a post in the pre-nursing forum where someone was going for a cna (i think that means assistant, but i'm unsure...)

cna stands for

certified nursing assistant

. it is a designation made by a federal law mandating that all u.s. states maintain a registry of nursing assistants who have been tested and passed minimal standards to perform basic nursing care on nursing home residents. some states use a different title than cna. in ohio they are called stnas (state tested nursing assistant).

at any rate, i wanted to know if anyone who took the rn program had to practice giving sponge baths on other students while in ns? egads.

yes, we did. think about it. do you think a patient is going to appreciate you practicing on them? what other live specimen can you use?

futurecnm · May 16, 2008

yes, we did, in swim suits. It was fine.

our school does not allow injection or anything invasive to be done to each other. I would have liked to try doing it on another person (besides as pt) the first time but oh well, it went fine!

jackson145 · May 16, 2008

Our school doesn't allow any type of practicing on fellow students. We use the dummies and then move on to patients and God help you if your inexperience shows!

lemonlimeEMT · May 16, 2008

At any rate, I wanted to know if anyone who took the RN program had to practice giving sponge baths on other students while in NS?

well, I'm not a RN yet, but hopefully this time next year I will be!! But yes, we did practice bathing each other in NS. Okay, so we only did this for a few hours one day, but we did do it. My instructor gave us this huge speech about maintaining the patient's privacy and comfort, while trying to bathe them; and to make us get a feel for what the patient goes through, we had to gown up and bathe each other.

catzy5 · May 17, 2008

Yes, we bathed each other and had to brush each other's teeth, and we also had to be fed while we were blindfolded.

I get so jelous reading some of these posts, we don't do anything before seeing a patient, I wish we had a proper skills lab worked into class, we can watch videos and do things on our own (my friend and I often practice things by ourselves). No sturctured skills like most of you talk about.

casi, ASN, RN · May 17, 2008

We were expected to already know how to do bed baths by the time we entered nursing school (Being a CNA is reqired), but in school, any non-invasive skill we can practice on eachother we do.

Using a real person is 100% better than a oversized doll.

When we had to use the maniquins one of us in my group would often speak for the doll to make it a little bit more real.