first of all, let me introduce myself, i'm new to the forum, i'm a cna of a little over a yr. now, working in home health, always have worked in home health. i have a new patient today (filling in fo ra call-out) but he is *male*. i've only had female patients before, and in my cna training course, they didn't go over male perineal care, at all. i have no idea what to do. the scheduler didn't give me much info. on how independent he is, so i don't know if i will just be supervising his shower, or if he'll be able to clean his perineal area himself. if he *can't*, can someone please describe to me the correct procedure for providing male perineal care? thanks so much!:confused:
To be honest i have never see the male pene before so if i have to do the male perineal care i'll be scare and embarrass cos i'm a very shy person.
My question is, when i do clinical or when i working at work, can i tell the nurse or higher one that i dun wanna working w/ male patient cos i'm scare to take bath or do perineal care for them. Can i working w/ female pt only and refuse to work w/ male pt?
You definately have to work with both sexes, but as Busia said, after the first couple of times it really isn't a big deal and you won't think of it as anything but cleaning the individual that needs your help. It may be uncomfortable the first couple of times but I promise you they (most of the time) are not thinking woo-woo this woman is touching me! They are thinking thank god for this angel that does the tasks I could never do on my own. What if every female refused to care for males and ever male refused to care for females? We would probably have a mess on our hands love!
Kinda harsh isn't it? By mentioning that she doesn't have relationships with men, she's probably just trying to demonstrate that she's not familiar with male parts. As for CNA class- in my class we only had two dummies, both female. I had male residents in clinicals, but never did pericare on a female. So it is very possible. I think your comments were really uncalled for.
I may have been harsh, but it was out of trying to give a wake up call. It would be nice if we could pick and choose what makes us most comfortable.
It is a wake up call for me to read that some CNA classes do not cover both male and female anatomy in giving pericare. I am floored, just floored. My class covered both, in detail, along with cath care for both, and I can not see any class not doing that. That to me is just, well, I have no words.
There's actually a girl in my class I'm pretty sure my instructor is gonna fail because she won't/can't do peri-care. She's run out of the room twice and today she THREW UP when our instructor was changing a brief while we were giving a bed bath. she was trying to blame it on my instructor smoking a cigarette on our break, but it's total bull because she was on the other side of the courtyard and our instructor was in the gazebo. plus our instructor has smoked on all our other breaks...and all of a sudden, an hour and a half after the break, she's gonna puke coincidentally during a brief change? YEAH RIGHT. she just has excuse after excuse and it's like...why are you even taking this class if you absolutely can't handle this stuff?? she also tried to blame it on her religion, but if it's *that* important to you not to see other people's bodies, then you really shouldn't be doing this job.
(Not directed at any of the posters here--it's one thing to be nervous and unsure, but it's another entirely to just not even try and then blame it on other people.)
everyone covered mostly everything. its pretty much the same care as for females but thing is do be prepared if someone wakes up and winks at yah. i wasnt. dont know if im alone at this, but it happened to me before. the facility where i worked at was like a rehab center, that had both elderly and mid ages. and alot of them, sorry to say are men who are perverted.
it can be very uncomfrotable especially when the patients tries to test your limits.
CaitlinLiz
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You definately have to work with both sexes, but as Busia said, after the first couple of times it really isn't a big deal and you won't think of it as anything but cleaning the individual that needs your help. It may be uncomfortable the first couple of times but I promise you they (most of the time) are not thinking woo-woo this woman is touching me! They are thinking thank god for this angel that does the tasks I could never do on my own. What if every female refused to care for males and ever male refused to care for females? We would probably have a mess on our hands love!