silly nursing question, hope u can answer it...

[ErinDel]

Okay I am starting nursing school sept 2010 and I have heard, not sure I believe this but... do we as students practice inserting nasogastric tubes into eachothers noses or just work on simulator dummys for that? I know this is a silly ques. But I am curious and a bit freaked out about having it done on me. Also, how far into your nursing clinicals do u start practicing this? Please respond if ya don't mind. Any tips on how to perform procedure is welcome too. I have a baseline idea on how it can be done, I saw my mom get one in the hospital and the nurse walked through the steps for it. Thanks.

[NeoNurseTX, RN]

We only assessed each other. We could drop NGs as first semester students but with supervision.