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Why such hatred towards me all I was doing was asking for was simple advice but if I can't find that here I guess I will have to look elsewhere to further my training and look for friendship and fellowship where I won't be constantly judged. I though...

I am having trouble with my young patients both boys and girls open up to me about such sensitive subjects especially about there genital health if any fellow np have any tips or suggestions to get my patients to open up and feel comfortable talking ...

as part of the yearly well child checkup begining when the patient is 12 or 13 I try and set aside some time with just the patient without the parent in the room so If there is anything the patient wants to discuss without there parent there they can...

Sorry I am asking so many questions I am just comparing what we do at our pediatric practice to other pediatric offices with well child checkups. What i try and do is keep the patient as comfortable as possible during the checkup and just remove clot...

Do you have your patients undress for their yearly checkup or do you keep them dressed and just do the checkup over there clothes and just move clothes as needed?

Even though not necessarily part of a genital exam in older adolescent girls as they develope as part of the yearly checkup do you perform a breast exam on the female patient or just ask her about her development?

For older adolescent girls once they do reach puberty and get there periods do you do a little more compressive exam other than looking at there Tanner stage and just pulling out the waistban of the patients underwear? Do you try and counsel them and...

I work in a pediatric office and want to find out from other nurses who work in pediatric offices if you have your patients change into a gown when they come into the office for their yearly checkup or they stay clothed for their checkup? If you do h...

Please dont get me wrong i am very sympathetic towards any of my patients that i see being either male or female. I just find it hard being a male nurse working with children and giving them instructions ( i misworded my saying earlier when i said i ...

I am sorry if my topics are not interesting to comment on by fellow nurses i was hoping to connect with fellow nurses and start a conversation about these topics and see how othee nurses deal with difficult patients and the cloth vs paper gown issue ...

Thank you for your response it was appriciated i would also like to hear from other nurses experience with cloth vs paper gowns and how they handle that situation. I am also dealing with difficult patients especially with adolescent girls not wanting...

Just a question does your hospital use mainly bedadine for vaginal prep in a patient who is getting ready to deliver vaginally or do you use soap and water to prep the patient. The hospital i work at uses mainly bedadine for the patient prep who is g...

I am a new RN working in a pediatricians office and i have noticed that the pediatricians here require all of our patients to discloth for all checkups and physicals and we give them gowns to put on to cover up. For our adolescent patients our Dr's a...

I know its possible for them to get lumps but i didnt know if it was appropriate for a pediatrician to check there breasts during a routine physical.

I don't find it odd that the patients have to undress i know that is a nescescity so the dr's could do a physical what i do find strange is asking an adolescent female to undress and to also take her bra off so the dr could do a breast exam as part o...

hi everybody i work in a doctors office as a nurse and wonder if it is really necessary to have the child undress for their physical and if they do do you give them a gown to put on to cover up? i am just wondering if other pediatricians offices do t...

Thank you everybody for your responses, I am still looking for more advice on talking with the main Pediatrician on how he does physicals with toddlers and adolescents. I am the only male nurse in my practice with 2 other female nurses. I feel kinda ...

I am a new nurse working in a pediatric office and got a few questions I hope you all can answer for me. I have noticed when we have our patients come in for physicals, for our adolescent patients the physician wants us to tell the patient to undress...

bumping up for more responses hopefully

Thank you for your responses, let me clarify a few things i live in NY and the law states here in NY that children have to have a physical when then enter kindergarten, first grade, third grade, seventh graqde and then again in tenth grade. Our physi...

i am a new nursing student working in a ped's office and i have a question hopefully someone can answer for routine pediatric/adolescent physicals is it nescessary for the child to undress to their underpants because at the office where i learning we...

thank you for those that have responded to my question, i am still looking for other nurses experince dealing with pediatrics and adolescents in the office setting. My main duties in the office are to call the patient to the back and do their height,...

bumping up this post to hopefully get more responses. I thank you to those that have all ready commented and i appriciate it very much. I am still looking for more peoples opinion and experience since i am a new nursing student.

bumping up to get some more responses, please help me with these questions. I cant get a straight answer from the office where i work, so i am asking for help on here so if anybody could help me out it would be appriciated.

Thank you so much for your responses, i dont understand what the advantages and the disadvantages of weighing a baby with their diaper on or off? if someone could explain that to me please i would be greatly appriciated. you mentioned that you work i...