I am reading my syllabus correctly???!!!??? Foley Cath's

Jack245 · Aug 21, 2012

I do not believe you would practice foleys on classmates. I'm pretty sure you'll use mannequins or other instruments. Foleys are a bit of a cauti risk I doubt the school would have you inserting them willy nilly on classmates.

Stephalump · Aug 21, 2012

I'm sure you'll be practicing in a lab with a manikin. You'd be amazed what those suckers can do. We have one in sim lab that actually gives birth :)

Kelsey2015 · Aug 21, 2012

I had a Nursing skills lab last year (my freshman year), and although we did not cover foley catheters (we will learn this in a later course), all of our invasive skills were practiced on dummy's. I am positive you will be working on a SIM man. We perform how to give an enema for one of our demos, and this was performed on a sim man. Actually, all of our skills were performed on them. So, no, I highly doubt you will have to insert a catheter into a fellow student. If you did, you would be seeing a LOT of permission and consent forms needing to be filled out! Like the previous respondent said, these mannequins can do all kinds of things! They can have computerized symptoms, can respond to treatments, etc. You will be using these quite often throughout nursing school, so if you can, definitely take the chance to become familiar with them!

Best of luck :)

DisneyNurseGal, BSN, RN · Aug 21, 2012

Thank you for indulging my irrational fears. My left brain told me this was no possible but my right brain was planning on running for the hills.

Stephalump · Aug 21, 2012

Thank you for indulging my irrational fears. My left brain told me this was no possible but my right brain was planning on running for the hills.

Hah! I would be freaking out for sure if it was required! We had to practice bed baths, feeing, oral care, and vital signs and that's about it on each other, and even the vital signs we practiced on a Sim man first so we wouldn't kill each other's arms with the cuffs. So most everything will be on a sim!

eleectrosaurus · Aug 21, 2012

Getting all up in your classmates junk! :eek: that was a good LOL

QuarterLife88, MSN, RN, NP · Aug 22, 2012

We practiced on dummies. Detachable member, included.

I would never let any of my classmates look at my genitalia, not unless I was being paid for it

ER Night Club · Aug 22, 2012

My fellow-student's 5th intercostal space midclavicular line (heart apex) fell right under her large boob. I lifted that up, placed the stethoscope, and she cracked up laughing. We had to do this on video, later to be watched by an instructor. Many good laughs followed this day.

Related to catheters;

Say you accidentally insert a catheter into the lady parts. Do you know what is the next CORRECT action?

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Leave it in. Use it as a reference point, and insert the catheter correctly into the urethra. This will probably be a test question someday in your future.

- Andy, RN

eleectrosaurus · Aug 22, 2012

We practiced on dummies. Detachable member, included.

I was looking through the skill lab for some equip and found a drawer full of detachable memberes. :eek:

theantichick · Aug 27, 2012

I can't speak for every program, but we didn't practice foleys on each other - just a mannequin and then onto live patients. They also didn't allow us to practice venipuncture or I.V. starts on each other, even if we were interested in that. (We practiced on each other when I was a paramedic student 20 years ago and I thought it was beneficial.) There's an infection risk, as well as some legal concerns I believe about doing an invasive procedure on someone for whom it's not medically necessary.

SE_BSN_RN, BSN · Aug 28, 2012

I'm sure you'll be practicing in a lab with a manikin. You'd be amazed what those suckers can do. We have one in sim lab that actually gives birth :)

Yep. Our mannequins give birth, too. And pass clots, haha. And have seizures from eclampsia.