Peri-care question for nurses and other healthcare professionals?!


Question: How often do you have a patient who becomes aroused when you clean his genitalia? How do you react? I am in my first semester of clinicals and just watched a video about peri-care. I was curious but did not want to ask the professor and sound immature.


Answers: How often do you have a patient who becomes aroused when you clean his genitalia? How do you react? I am in my first semester of clinicals and just watched a video about peri-care. I was curious but did not want to ask the professor and sound immature.

It happens quite often. Most of the time these men are not meaning to get aroused, but touch sometimes is all it takes. Just do your job, quickly and gently, and move on. Most men get quite embarrassed about this. It's part of nature. Some of the best responses is to continue talking to your patient as if it is not happening. If the patient should become so aroused that he ejaculates, just clean up the mess and keep going. It's a natural occurance, so don't make a big thing of it.

I am not a Nurse or healthcare professional but used to help my Mother, who was a Nurse in a Geriatric Male Ward years ago. How often, nearly all the time! Likewise you do not have to be cleaning that particular area. However the thing to keep in mind, put yourself in the Patients situation. If you were bed bound and has soiled yourself, or were seriously ill, would you not want some nice caring person to give you a wash? Or would you want to stay without a wash? Likewise should you ever get married and have a baby boy, well the same thing and they are just babies. Good Luck.

Men usually cannot help it.

They're just as embarassed as you are.

I pretend as if nothing's happening and go about my business.

I would never hold it against them.





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