Not wanting to take care of male resident

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I have take nursing assistant for my prerequisites. I wanted to take the class during spring,so can a request to only take care of female residents. By the way I am a female and freshman in college.I feel uncomfortable seeing anything(grooming,bathing,changing) below a male residents belt. Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can I makeup a reason like religion(I will be any religion or sexually orientation for that class...

You are going into the wrong field if you are not comfortable with nudity of males.

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....to which I laugh and respond..."I've seen bigger and better"

LOL ... ESME!!!

xD This really made me giggle.

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

It gets to be so old hat, that when a confused 6'3" large male climbed past his side rails and came out of his room toward the desk, we all yelled "get back to bed before you fall!",

and only then realized he was also stark naked.

Fortunately, there weren't any kids around that section of the ER just then.

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I'm a male student nurse and the looks I see on my female classmates during clinical were priceless. Not only have some of them never seen a live one, a lot of the older patients we took care of were uncircumcised and these ladies literally had no idea what to do with it.

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I'm a male student nurse and the looks I see on my female classmates during clinical were priceless. Not only have some of them never seen a live one a lot of the older patients we took care of were uncircumcised and these ladies literally had no idea what to do with it.[/quote']

That is hilarious. I used to be a medical assistant and you know giving a man a shot in his butt, he so timid! Once you have seen one, you have seen them all. Doesn't phase me one bit. It's like drawing blood or giving an injection, nervous the first couple of times, after that it's like a everyday thing.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

My very first day in clinical, I received my introduction to nursing in all it's glory. We were only supposed to communicate with our patients. No actual care. So I am sitting on a bench in front of the elevators with my patient. I start off asking my patient what he is in the hospital for. He proceeds to lift up his gown, right there, to explain to me all about how his bypass site in his groin had gotten infected and had made his scrotum swell up to three times it's normal size.

Trial by fire I guess.

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My very first day in clinical I received my introduction to nursing in all it's glory. We were only supposed to communicate with our patients. No actual care. So I am sitting on a bench in front of the elevators with my patient. I start off asking my patient what he is in the hospital for. He proceeds to lift up his gown, right there, to explain to me all about how his bypass site in his groin had gotten infected and had made his scrotum swell up to three times it's normal size. Trial by fire I guess.[/quote']

That is hilarious. Well you asked and he told you, didn't he? Lol. And sometimes it is patients like that, that truthfully make your day.

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Mental Health.

When I was on my first med-surg rotation as a student in the 70s I was assigned to an older guy, WWII veteran, double amputee, and he had a few issues with behavioural limits. I was still a teenager.

I walked into his private room and introduced myself. He got a huge grin on his face, flung back his blankets, raised his gown up to his chest exposing an erection, and announced, "I feel MISCHIEVOUS!"

I think I squeaked. I know I turned right around and found a nurse, any nurse, to rescue me!

On the up side, from that time on I was able to deal with anyone's parts without getting into a flap.

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