I must say, catheters are not for the faint of heart. As I can only imagine, they cannot be a pleasant experience, for the giver or recipient. The 'art' of catheterization is what we learned in lab this morning. I'm pretty sure, for future labs, that I will be scheduling them later in the day - 8 am is too early to be learning about such things! But, I have a little issue with the realism of the mannequins. I thought that perhaps, with such an intimate and invasive procedure, that our dummies would be slightly more realistic. Cause last time I checked, nothing down there is remotely close to plastic...
But things are winding down - or gearing up? We have 5/6-ish weeks left, and about 75% of the nursing building has come down with the post-midterms/pre-finals cold. Everyone is just hacking and sniffing away - it's straight up nasty. I've made it this far with no issues: fingers crossed I can stay healthy until the end!
Cheers,
D.
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All the stress is probably not helping the nursing students immune systems.
Your right inserting catheters into plastic parts is far from the real thing, but I think it helps with the nervousness of performing it when it comes to real people. Also probably not too many people willing to volunteer to have one inserted if it is not needed. :)
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