Do I have to take off my clothes?

[Yossy]

Hi. I'm a student in a Japanese Nursing School. Our school starts in April, and I just made it through first three months. I am facing a big problem, and I need to know the situation of the Nursing Schools in other countries.

We are learning how to wash and clean patients' body on bed. ( I suppose this is common in every nursing schools in the world.) BUT, when you learn and practice, do you wipe (clean) eachother in class? My teacher says the nurse-role students will be wearing the nurse uniform, and the parient-role students will have to take off all clothes except undear-shorts and lay in bed. We will have to take off bra too.

Is this common in your schools??? Is it?? Don't we have the basic human rights??

I have discussed this with some of the nursing students in other Japanese nursing schools. Some schools do not let students take off their clothes, but most schools are doing the same thing. Can you believe it? I never expected this. I was expecting to use a dole to practice.

What do you think??

[ghillbert, MSN, NP]

I am in an ACNP program and horrified that we even have to do abdominal and cardiac assessments on each other - and they didn't tell us until we turned up at lab. I don't need to know my classmates that well. Thank goodness we had dummy breasts for the breast exam.

Rachel - I just renewed my ACLS on Friday, and we watched a video of RNs and MDs practising intraosseous access on each other's shins - ow!!

[BabyLady, BSN, RN]

OLD POST ALERT!

No doubt a troll.

[stripec30]

OLD POST ALERT!

No doubt a troll.

Yeah, I know...

[Student4Now]

I think that in our program it is kind of frowned upon if you don't volunteer to get needle sticks, but other than that, I think we use the mannequins.

[caffreak]

Just saw this post & it turns out today we did breast exams on each other with bras on.

[ErinJane]

I am in an ACNP program and horrified that we even have to do abdominal and cardiac assessments on each other - and they didn't tell us until we turned up at lab. I don't need to know my classmates that well. Thank goodness we had dummy breasts for the breast exam.

Rachel - I just renewed my ACLS on Friday, and we watched a video of RNs and MDs practising intraosseous access on each other's shins - ow!!

I think the big issue is choice. I chose to work with a guy on the thoracic/abdominal/GI assessment days because he was the odd guy out (and I'm not super shy). However, they wouldn't have made any of us. Also I declined the lab on blood sugar analysis because many of my classmates were making me uncomfortable by constantly trying to convince me that I had diabetes (this was early on in NS when everyone wants to diagnose everyone).

Nursing school may put you in uncomfortable situations, but it should never ever make you feel like you are violating your moral beliefs of social boundaries. Experience is ideal, but you can learn lots of ways.

[prodigy]

Breast exams are perfectly OK in school on eachother. I am not sure why people freak out about them, but then again I'm a male nursing student;)

All kidding aside some schools go to far...

[metal_m0nk, BSN, RN]

Hmmm...I don't think I'd be comfortable with that. If this issue comes up, I will ask to remain clothed.

[beth66335, BSN, RN]

I can't imagine this! That is what clinicals are for! At my school we have dummies for everything including arms to stick and start IV's on. We don't practice baths and beds at all. They show us on a manikin and then we read up on how to do it and practice our technique on pts in clinicals. The only thing we use each other to practice on is getting a pt OOB or from chair to bed, and bed to wheelchair. The manikins we use are electric and therefore much heavier than a person...and also expensive to drop!