I hate bedmaking

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This may prove to be the only thing that I won't like about nursing school/being a nurse. Give me pathophysiology, give me assessment, give me risk factors....give me all of the hard facts of the human body, and I will feel like I'm in my game - but ask me to miter bedcorners and I just lose all patience like there's no tomorrow. lol. Maybe it's just a guy thing. Any other guys (or females, for that matter) who don't like bedmaking?

On a more serious note - I know I'll get the hang of it before check-off time, but right now it's just the only thing I think I don't like so far. lol.

Couldn't care less about bed making, just as long as it's clean.

My mitered corners look like my failed attempts at wrapping christmas presents. I now go the gift bag route, thank you very much.

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Couldn't care less about bed making, just as long as it's clean.

My mitered corners look like my failed attempts at wrapping christmas presents. I now go the gift bag route, thank you very much.

Hmmm. Maybe bedbags are the answer!

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Specializes in ER.

I can make a great bed, with pleats, and tucks, and the pillow facing the correct way with seams in their rightful positions. But I still can't wrap a decent Christmas present for love nor money. I buy lots of sparkly ribbons and cover em up.

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Specializes in Psychiatric Nursing student.

I am not a big fan of bed making myself,but it is a necessary skill...a wrinkle free bed does make an immense difference in preventing pressure sores,it will also show your intructors that u have some attention to detail as well when it comes to evaluation time....once u learn the correct way u will never forget it..learn to do it the same way everytime and u will be ok,lol.......like everything practice over and over again!..............Nik

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Specializes in SICU/CVICU.

I feel the same way and I am a female....I can't even make my own bed. haha.

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Specializes in OHS, Emergency medicine.

I am an EMT, was able to get a job in the ER to up my skills since I am also in BSN program. As an ER tech person you get to make lots of beds. Good practice.

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I agree, I don't like doing a lot of the patient self-care stuff. I to can do the science aspect all day long. Wiping patients down is another. Are class is doing clinicals in an ECF this quarter and I've never felt so inept. I am horible at giving a bed bath and always ask for help.

I'm with you. My interest in nursing is the medical skills involved, knowing the procedures, drugs, tools, etc. I have no interest in wiping butts, giving baths, back rubs, or any of that. I will put up with it to get the skills, but it is not something that interests me.

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I feel the same way and I am a female....I can't even make my own bed. haha.

Ironically, after boot camp I was an accomplished (and very fast) bedmaker, but I never make my bed at home. Never have, never will, but I'm good at it!

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hey you're not the one who's hating it!!!! but remember it's part of it and whatever happens it'll always be there. so you must have determination and acceptance

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Specializes in ICU. Med/Surg: Ortho, Neuro, & Cardiac.

I really despise making beds, but I relate that to the fact that we have fitted sheets at our facility. Yes, it would seem that would make things easier, but not so much since laundry does something as intelligent as sending us like, 10 trashbags full of wadded up fitted sheets each day and expects that we're gonna not have wrinkles on our beds.

Also, I don't much like washing female pt's only because of the horror stories I've heard esp. when a pt is confused (or sometimes not) and it's...ohhh my male aide molested me. I know of this happening at least twice when it wasn't even true.

Don't get me wrong though, I complete my baths, male or female and I'm totally professional about it. But the thought is always in the back of my mind for some reason even though I know -I- wouldn't do that...it doesn't stop someone from accusing you of it.

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Specializes in LTC Geriatrics.

I guess looking at bedmaking in the technical aspect seems mundane and not related to anything significant. Wiping people's butts, cleaning emesis, serving meals, etc seem to also fall under this category even though we aren't being tested on it. I personally hated CNA training and even so I hated the work of a CNA. Might as well just wipe off all of this from the nursing curriculum for time better spend on actual nursing skills. But then isn't healthcare really a service industry with Nursing being the forefront of it? Its just the same as a soldier being able to properly march in the first weeks of bootcamp before going off to defend our country. If we can't make the beds look nice for our patients, which may give them a piece of mind in their time of disparity, then I don't think you can be called a nurse without really being one in the core. What good is it being a nurse if we can't humble ourselves to serve our patients.

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Bedmaking was not my favorite skill I learned in nursing school.

But it really comes in handy when you are a nurse, you are understaffed, you have no techs on the floor, and your bedridden patient has a BM in the bed for the umpteenth time on the overnight shift, and you have to make the bed with her in it.

In nursing school, I learned a gazillion things. Some of them I use every day, some of them I don't.

I use the bedmaking bit a lot more than I would care to admit.

They tell you that you'll have techs to do the dirty work. . . . . .although I won't necessarily say that they lie. . . .. I will say that they are overly optomistic at times. . .

Bedmaking is just as important as knowing what a low potassium level will do to a patient, I have found. . ..

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