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Dafab....Well that is the difference between you and me I am not doing anything I wasnt taught in school or have been in serviced on as a new and accepted technique in nursing. Cardiacfreak ..I'd Love to have the old scoop cath but my facilty says not in budget. I just reposition the buttocks a couple times and have them cough hard it usually pops under. But no its not a prostate issue. Also if resistance continues I send to ER. I was taught not to force.

Call me indifferent but my graduate coworker nurses claim the DON told them to put the foley in the freezer to firm it up, not the refrigerator, not cold water, but the freezer, before inserting into a difficult male client, because he proved impossible to cath with a flimsy catheter. Seems to me this could fall under many titles such as abuse, it could cause perhaps shock, and this is a LTC skilled facility not a OR or carefully monitored situation. It Seems wrong and I would like someone to prove different.

Love the way you put this. I've been doing nights for 8 years but really almost all of my 22 years of nursing, give or take a few jobs working 3 to 11p. However I'm feeling the wrath of it now as I grow older 54 years older, I'm okay if I stay on this schedule on my nights off, but if I try it stay up all day I am totally beat. I take one whole day to recover from my 4 night stretch as I work Thursday through Sunday, coming home Monday morning I'm beat, so I do literally nothing, I do rarely see family and I feel my life is flying by with never having the energy to live. I have done all the things with diet and water, but with little success.