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Don't Underestimate the Dreaded Bed Bath
As a first year Registered Nursing (RN) student one of the first skills to learn and to be checked off is the dreaded full or partial bed bath.
I can remember approaching that skill as virtually no big deal and really watering down its importance. Giving a bed bath takes no great skill on the nursing stand point. All the skill requires is gathering a couple washcloths, warm water in a basin with soap and some towels to dry off the patient afterwards.
So why is such an easy skill so dreaded and something that is usually pawned off on the nurse assistants?
A lot of RN students think of the skill as a clinical nurse assistant (CNA) skill and that they will rarely have to do it in the clinical setting. As I went in to the first day of clinical, I had the impression that I was going to be doing all RN skills and that the CNA’s were...
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