Stool sample for Micro class?????

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We were informed last night in our Micro lab that next week we will be taking home specimen cups to collect samples of our stool for the following week's lab. This is a departmental requirement, not just something my instructor wants to do. We were all pretty squicked out about it, but I just told myself, "you gotta do what you gotta do."

Well, this morning I told people I know about it, and everyone is absolutely horrified that I have to do this! :chuckle Even other people who have taken Micro before are shocked. Did anyone else have to do this? Is this a common lab for pre-nursing students? Or do I go to a school staffed by poop freaks? :chuckle

Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.

I'm sure as a pre-nursing student, I would have been horrified by this. Now, as a nursing student, I've seen and cleaned up so much poop, etc, I don't really care about an itsy-bitsy sample for micro class.

The 'code browns' I've cleaned up...ugh. One, I would swear I could smell it in my nose eight hours later.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, Emergency, SAFE.

The community college that I DONT go to requires "anal swabs" to be taken and brought in for class...

Can I just say Im glad I went to the college where the microbiology professor takes you to the neighborhood beer microbrewery to learn about fermentation!!! With free samples to the 21 and over crowd....;)

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I'm taking micro right now and we don't have to do this. But our teacher was telling us other schools require it. Just shows how dedicated you are I guess!

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Specializes in LTC, case mgmt, agency.
i'm sure as a pre-nursing student, i would have been horrified by this. now, as a nursing student, i've seen and cleaned up so much poop, etc, i don't really care about an itsy-bitsy sample for micro class.

the 'code browns' i've cleaned up...ugh. one, i would swear i could smell it in my nose eight hours later.

ditto here. had a guy last week with golytely tx and wow after 7 years i had never seen sooooo much. i swear it was on the bathroom walls!!!:chuckle still i think in a classroom setting where it isn't "work" there is a certain degree of the sign0137.gif thing going there. we had to bring in urine which alot of the class did not do. we also had to bring in rotten food.

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Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.
ditto here. had a guy last week with golytely tx and wow after 7 years i had never seen sooooo much. i swear it was on the bathroom walls!!!:chuckle still i think in a classroom setting where it isn't "work" there is a certain degree of the sign0137.gif thing going there. we had to bring in urine which alot of the class did not do. we also had to bring in rotten food.

yikes. :chuckle that sounds similar to the code brown i had in clinical recently.

i guess what i was trying to say is get over the sign0137.gif related to poo!

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Specializes in LTC, case mgmt, agency.
yikes. :chuckle that sounds similar to the code brown i had in clinical recently.

i guess what i was trying to say is get over the sign0137.gif related to poo!

i hear you.:chuckle:chuckle:chuckle god bless the golytely.

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I would have been all over that! I felt let down my first clinical becuase my patient didn't have a cath. or anything, and other students had the opportunity to o cath care and colostomy care...My husband tells me I am just a sick geek...

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Specializes in Telemetry.

Hmm... interesting! I actually think that would have been fun, maybe not necessarily poop, but something off of our bodies. We were not allowed to use any body substance in any of our micro labs. We used our own urine in our physiology lab though! :p

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:eek: We definitely never had to do that. That does seem a bit odd. I really wouldn't want to know what my friend/classmate's poop looks like. .

:yeahthat:

:chuckle

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

Repulsive.

Seems like there are millions of other things to culture besides feces.

How embarrassing to the poor students! I would be mortified.

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Specializes in ED, ICU, PACU.

That is one gross requirement you have. Would you actually fail the class if you happen to be constipated?

Please be sure you don't get pulled over by the cops while driving your sample to class. You know that the PO is going to want to see what you have in the baggie. It would be some real tough explaining to do.

If it were me, I would make sure to find the smelliest dog poop and open the bag to 'air out' the room during class. Bet that the requirement would be dropped after doing that.

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Specializes in Aged Care, Midwifery, Palliative Care.

We did our own urine samples, but when it came time to stools and taking samples our instructer crafted 3 diferent types of faeces out of chocolate (hard, soft, runny) and put them in bedpans....

yummy smelling poo.

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