Poop Chute Paranoia

stpauligirl · Apr 11, 2006

You never know when you will be on the receiving end..........compassion is called for here

LOL Vicks

Fun2, BSN, RN · Apr 11, 2006

LOL Vicks

.....Can't take the credit. I read it on another thread on AllNurses. :chuckle

stpauligirl · Apr 11, 2006

.....Can't take the credit. I read it on another thread on AllNurses. :chuckle

thanks for the good tip anyway....

madwife2002, BSN, RN · Apr 11, 2006

The patient is the one I feel sorry for not the nurse.

Fun2, BSN, RN · Apr 11, 2006

The patient is the one I feel sorry for not the nurse.

Most definitely! We are choosing to do this, the patient *usually* doesn't choose to be in the situation they are in. If the patient is coherent, I'm sure they are more embarrassed about the whole situation of a stranger having to clean their bums.

stpauligirl · Apr 11, 2006

Most definitely! We are choosing to do this, the patient *usually* doesn't choose to be in the situation they are in. If the patient is coherent, I'm sure they are more embarrassed about the whole situation of a stranger having to clean their bums.

I am not afraid to share that I've been through it after my hysterectomy....very embarrassing to the patient:o

Still traumatized from it.....

Boston-RN, RN · Apr 11, 2006

yeah at least you're not the one getting it....

After the first person poops all over you you'll realize its not that big a deal. Good luck and may the commode be with you.

Lurksalot, BSN, RN · Apr 11, 2006

Is anyone else (pre-nursing student with little/no/limited actual hands-on health care experience like myself) kind of dreading having to give enemas? I have some experience with bodily fluids (via a dental assistantship with a periodontist), and I'm fine with blood, pus, and other nasty stuff found in people's mouths. I'm thinking I'll be fine with vomit, poo, urine and innards. What I'm kind of sketched out about is having to administer an enema. I don't know what it is exactly about it that bothers me (it's just another orifice, right?), and BY GOD I will give them if that is what's required, but ...*sigh* not looking forward to it.
Does this mean I am not cut out for nursing? I hope not, because mostly everything else about it seems pretty kick ass (ha ha no pun intended) and I'm super excited to be working towards a new career as an RN. Anybody have any words of wisdom?

:lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

It will get better, the more you see/smell, the easier it gets. One of my best buddies had the same concern in the beginning of nursing school, and she's a bang up-bum cleaner if I ever saw one. Practice makes perfect! :mad:

RRTtoRN · Apr 11, 2006

yeah at least you're not the one getting it....
After the first person poops all over you you'll realize its not that big a deal. Good luck and may the commode be with you.

OH Lord help me! :uhoh21:

lisabeth · Apr 12, 2006

yeah at least you're not the one getting it....
After the first person poops all over you you'll realize its not that big a deal. Good luck and may the commode be with you.

I'm afraid I might just :barf02:

MyReign1 · Apr 12, 2006

I graduate in about 3 weeks and I never had to give an enema during clinicals. Once in my med/surg clinical I was supposed to. I had it in my hand and walked to the patients room. Wouldn't you know it, he was on the toilet. I was a little disappointed. Does that make me weird? LOL

madwife2002, BSN, RN · Apr 12, 2006

You know when I was a new RN I worried about how I'd react in an emergency situation.

When I was a new midwife I was worried that I'd drop the baby.

I never worried about poop because by that time I'd been covered in it too many times to worry lol. I remember once I was looking after this v confused man, and when I went to check on him he had painted himself and the room in yep you guessed more poop than I ever thought was possible to produce. :rotfl: I must admit my stomach did turn slightly, and I will leave it to you imagination the horror of cleaning it up-we took the pt to the bath there was no way we could do it with wash clothes.