IS THIS TRUE???

[nurse2211]

Recently read on a nursing blog: Nurse (BSN in 2010) said during school clinicals, students disrobed to their undergarments to practice on each other (sponge bathing, other procedures, etc) The few guys in the class practiced on each other, and the gals with the gals but the whole classes disrobed out in the open first. The entire class watched each pair work at their respective station. Don't know where the school was located. No one openly complained, she said. I Never heard of such a thing. Certainly didn't happen in my school.

Does that actually happen?

[NOADLS]

I got to practice on someone with DD implants. Double dayyyyyyummmmmmm!!!

[Nurse Leigh]

Ok, that's worse. YIKERS!

Ok, well then maybe a little bit of my cousins story was true??

[OrganizedChaos, LVN]

I got to practice on someone with DD implants. Double dayyyyyyummmmmmm!!!

LMAO! Hahaha!

[Whispera, MSN, RN]

When I was in nursing school, we were told that student nurses in the past, at my school, practiced all skills on each other. My class used those mannikens. These days that's what simulators are for as well.

[Hygiene Queen]

... it's just as weird for patients but yet we expect them to cope with it. I think it does help do understand how vulnerable someone can feel in that situation.

When I took my CNA class, we had to be in our underwear under a hospital gown to practice bed baths on each other... we also got posied to a wheelchair and left in it for a long time while the other students carried on with clinical.

The point was, indeed, understand how vulnerable our patients feel... not a bad thing.

[FloatRN19]

When we checked off on our full head to toe assessment we had to wear a cut off Tshirt and shorts so that it was easy to do everything, but never had to disrobed.

[ixchel]

We got down to sports bras and shorts, guys shirtless, but we were separated in pairs behind a curtain.

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

We wore shorts and a sports bra or spaghetti straps under a gown. Not that bad. Our professor told us the NP students did breast exams on each other, but when I went through the NP program we did no practicing on each other at all, it was 90% real patients and 10% mannequins.

I read a Buzzfeed article recently about gynecological teaching associates. Interesting read.

How I Made A Career Out Of Showing People My Cervix

[scottaprn]

If I am stripping down there better be someone putting singles into my hospital gown strap.

[Twinmom06, ASN, APN]

We didn't totally take our clothes off or anything but we had to put a gown on and practice washing the arms and legs of our fellow students.

we did that too but we did leave our bottoms on and the women left on their bras.

[canigraduate]

Interesting. My CNA class stripped down to tanks and shorts for bed baths, but my nursing class didn't. I come from a highly prudish/modest area, too, so there was much gnashing of teeth and wailing. I thought it was funny that they had no problems stripping the elderly naked in front of a clinical audience but whined about having arms and legs washed.

[klone, MSN, RN]

In midwifery school (CNM program) the students practice doing speculum and pelvic exams on each other.