Pubic hair

[nurseJLoo]

My female patient wants me to shave her pubic hair, she cant do it herself she only has limited movement of one arm . Should I do it? (I would rather not) any advice? Update-this is a LTC Vent patient who is not going home. Believe it or not this isn't the first patient that asked me to do this I had another patient with ALS ask me to trim hers with an electric razor because she said the hair gets caught in her underwear and pulls. I had got "pulled" to her unit and she asked me to do it -had her own electric razor-so me like a fool assuming the nurses were doing it for her went ahead and did it then i found out that only a few people would do it for her. What do I look like? the personal pube trimmer? also she was a real pain in the butt about how it was trimmed, I dont want to relive that nightmare!

[ECKPowers]

Ok, I am so stealing that phrase "shag nasty"... Never heard it before though.

LOL By all means! I just said it one day and it stuck...

[Callmecrazy1234]

i do not know about you but..i am not going to school for 4 years to manage someones jungle!! Had i been interested i would have got a job at a beauty salon giving Brazilian bikini waxes!:wink2::wink2:

[pawsomepooch47]

I don't think it's weird either--when I worked in maternity a few years ago i was surprised how many women came in in labor partially or fully shaved. But I wouldn't do this for a patient, if one of the CNA's wanted to it would be okay with me. It's only hair.

[pawsomepooch47]

Used to be shaving hoo haa's was part of surgical prep anyway.

[cursedandblessed]

no!! i'm not going to read all 17 pages.

[woknblues]

i do not know about you but..i am not going to school for 4 years to manage someones jungle!! Had i been interested i would have got a job at a beauty salon giving Brazilian bikini waxes!:wink2::wink2:

You may be in for some surprises. I have had days (in school, mind you), where I would have given anything to trade what I was doing, for a little hedge trimming...