Your rectum stretches anyway. It’s actually kind of like a big stretchy poop bag. You’re thinking anus. -nurse
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N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago“AI,” what should I do about being constipated?
Painfully stretch your rectum to gaping in order to accommodate your constipation.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
Be brave and reach in.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That is called impaction removal, and I have done that to people for fun and profit.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As a CNA? Your RNs were lazy.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Eh, they were definitely lazy lol.
It wasn’t unusual though. I don’t think I ever saw an RN do one.
One nursing home had us doing foleys, and I’ve started IVs and other stuff that was absolutely not supposed to be done by CNAs.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nuts. It’s something that really needs an order (standing or otherwise) in their charts nowadays because it’s considered invasive and many RNs aren’t even trained to do it safely (but let’s be real, if you’re not sticking your hand up there you’re not going to cause a bowel perf). No shortage of lazy RNs in LTC though.