Wiping Butt...

mced · Dec 30, 2006

To answer your question, I spend zero time wiping butts, I work in the OR.

Anticholinesterases aren't given by CRNAs in your OR?

lannisz · Dec 30, 2006

The most butt wiping I ever had to do was in critical care with the most seriously ill, unconscious and intubated patients. Isn't that interesting? Other areas of nursing - like labor and delivery, hardly any (except for cute little baby butts!)

Pompom · Dec 30, 2006

There is a big difference between "wiping butt" and "kissing butt". Nursing involved critical thinking skills, time management, great organization skills, ability to remain calm under extreme pressure, having a major back bone in order to stand up for what is right vs. what you are told, the art is how you carry it off. If your only concern is "wiping Butt" then I doubt you have the maturity, skills, education to become a nurse.

RNOTODAY, BSN, RN · Dec 30, 2006

Anticholinesterases aren't given by CRNAs in your OR?

Of course they are,but I'm tellin ya, I havent had a code brown in a year and a half!!!!:uhoh21:

watch, I will have 5 in a week now..... :lol2:

austin heart, BSN, RN · Dec 30, 2006

Your pts. never poop or pee during any of the cases?

No, don't you know that it always happens as they are wheeling them back into the unit not during the case. Same with radiology, they never poop there either just in the hallway on the way back from radiology, lol.

As far as OP, I think that you need to find another profession to look into if this is one of your major concerns. If you are afraid of a little butt wiping then nursing is not for you. Hey the way I look at it is, everybody has got to take a dump sometimes and everyone needs a helping hand sometimes. If I have to be that helping hand so be it.

meownsmile, BSN, RN · Dec 30, 2006

LOL just spoke to a coworker today who had 2 patients in for bowel disimpaction. So i guess id rather wipe the butt than be reachin into the butt. I guess the OP might want to think about that, it may NOT just be wipin she spends some time on. LOL

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Dec 30, 2006

Take care of infants bottoms and adults bottoms...payback for all the great care I've received and given over the years.

Give and ye shall receive....ensuring great care for my golden years.

RunningWithScissors · Dec 30, 2006

Wiping butt, kissing butt, and kicking butt pretty much takes up my whole shift.

:yeahthat:

And while we're on the topic, I think patients considered for ANY elective surgery should have to pass the "can you wipe yer OWN butt" test. :idea:

NurseguyFL · Dec 30, 2006

And 'wiping butt' is sometimes the least grossest thing you'll do in a day.

I have to agree. When I first got into nursing I used to be grossed out by this all the time. I was always putting Vicks vapo rub under my nostrils to avoid the smells, especially with the C-dif patients and when doing bowel preps with messy enemas. Now I don't even think about it because its just another part of the job. Isn't it weird how you can get used to some things you thought you never would?

SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN · Dec 30, 2006

Does anyone except me think that this question is a joke?

GardenDove · Dec 30, 2006

Does anyone except me think that this question is a joke?

:groupwelcome: :yeahthat:

grace90, LPN, LVN · Dec 30, 2006

40% of my time is spent wiping a patient's rear end, 40% is spent wiping a doctor's rear end and 20% of my time is spent wiping the previous shift's rear end

honestly, peri care, poop, pee, is not a big deal once you get used to it

although I am known as the bedpan bandit to the patient care assistants because golly darn it I just can't seem to get a bedpan placed under a patient right and it always friggin' spills all over the bed:monkeydance: :uhoh3: