How to remain professional during female/male nudity?

[Duke9023]

I just started as a nurse 2 months ago, I have had to give several baths and insert Catheter, my question is, I had to walk out of a patients room because as I saw his "Member" it had to be the smallest one I have ever saw, pencil thin and maybe an inch and he was no elderly who had shrunk up but was 24 years old. I had no idea how to react without laughing but afterwards all the nurses had a laugh.....has this ever happened to you? and how did you deal with the situation?

[xtxrn, ASN, RN]

Seriously?

[MissKayRN]

Not sure I believe this post, but if it is legit, than you're in the wrong profession. And shame on whoever spread the word to other nurses, and double shame on those nurses for laughing.

[Orange Tree]

Seriously?

I doubt it

[Always_Learning, BSN, RN]

I can't even find the words to dignify this with a response...

Edited to add: I smell a troll...OP's join date is Sept. 16, 2011.

[tyvin, BSN, RN]

You shouldn't be caring for people if you can't have a little respect for people without having to laugh at them. I know it's to make up for some inadequate feeling or experience; you need to get a clue.

[xtxrn, ASN, RN]

I doubt it

LOL- yeah, I was being generous!! :)

[Rob72, ASN, RN]

Honestly? If the individual has "psycho-social adjustment issues", along with a case of small-peter, yeah, I can be pretty sarcastic. In the absence of aberrant, socially maladaptive behavior, its just another patient.

To answer the question directly (and I thought this was going there): 1) Don't laugh. 2) Don't stare. In that order.

We're all outliers in one way or anothers.

[rn/writer, RN]

If this post is sincere, I have to question how the nurses who laughed afterward found out about his anatomy. If you are the one who told them, you crossed a line at your patient's expense and turned him into a joke. This is really wrong.

Most of us would have had no trouble behaving professionally with such a patient, because, a) his size or lack thereof is none of our business, b) we would not wish to embarrass the patient by calling attention to something he is already quite familiar with, and, c) we wouldn't find anything amusing about a matter that might be the cause of unhappiness in another person.

I suggest you find a way to change the thinking that allows you to see your patient as an object of amusement. And do it quickly before someone makes a complaint about unprofessional behavior.

[rn/writer, RN]

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