Student Nurses

I absolutely would allow it! When I had back surgery, I came out of surgery with a temperature probe in my butt. It stayed in for two days during recovery.

I didn't realize until the third day when they pulled drain tubes out of my back that I even had it in me. A young student nurse was there to assist removing the tubes, temp probe and the catheter. They were both very pretty, but I was so out of it I couldn't enjoy having them doing it.

What’s the problem? Student nurses need to know how to take a rectal temp if needed, and they are being supervised, at least they should be.

I was, in fact, treated at an urgent care for a migraine with nausea and vomiting by a female doctor and two female nurses. The doctor was super nice, and she asked my husband several questions about my history of headaches and any medication that I had been taking.

One of the nurses who could’ve been a student and looked young enough to be my daughter took my temp rectally with an Allyn Welch probe that was in and out in just a few seconds. I hardly knew she was doing it. She stood by the exam table with the probe and apologized that she was going to take my temperature rectally. She said I had a slight fever.

She could’ve been a student nurse, she didn’t say, but considering how I was feeling at the time, it didn’t matter. My husband and I were on vacation in Minnesota when I got sick on a Sunday morning, and there was an urgent care in a small town outside of Minneapolis. The other nurse who was also young, but a few years older, gave me an injection in my hip containing two medications that burned for a couple minutes, and they let me rest there for a couple of hours, when I was feeling better. The younger nurse took my temperature again in my bottom before they released me.

When we got home a week later, we wrote a note to the urgent care and arranged for some flowers to be delivered, because I thought they were so nice and treated me so well.

I would be happy to let a student nurse work on me.

Its always a big surprise and it makes me happy when the female doctor asks me if I am okay that a student is also joining the exam. last time in hospital i had rectal aches and it was nice that the female doc examined me and the other nurse hold my cheeks apart. yes it was aching yes it was embarrassing but nevertheless i enjoy that suituation. not in that moment live, but later a fantasy for lifetime. happened in germany.

I never object when I’m asked if a student or relatively inexperienced person can observe or assist in some procedure involving any of my private parts. But I resent being told, in essence, “take it or leave it.” I wonder how many adult women would knowingly consent to the possibility that a 20-year old male student nurse might take their temperature rectally?

Sure, why not? Just cure me for what I came in for.

I would even volunteer as a Standardized Patient for a group of nursing or medical students to practice on.

Yes and have had experience of it.

Not temperature taking but prostate biopsies.

She was gorgeous but very professional and under supervision.

What I didn’t like was the discussion of what angle she should push in the needle.

She inserted the scanner into my anus and they talked about the best position for it. I was on the chair with legs in stirrups and Velcro tied! A dream if it wasn’t for real.

And no I didn’t get an erection.

This is a moot point because you aren't going to be told your temperature will be taken rectally.

The quote above is from Switchable Susie. I concur with her. The only time that I ever had my temperature taken rectally by a nurse . She didn't tell me anything. She just did it.

I strongly doubt that it could be the case today that an adult patient would have his or her temperature taken rectally, except perhaps in very rare circumstances.

(However it is indeed a thing, at least in France, that if you are to be treated by a *student* nurse they ask for consent. It has happened to me, including once when the nurse was being graded for her performance.)

Yes, no big deal it would be little exciting. I’m sure it happens from time to time ,.

I’m taking part in a medical study for a medication . The study last for 8 years they said my part would be 4 years. My first visit was long they explain the study the medication. I read the 65 page booklet what to expect and decided to take part . My second visit to get started required Blood work , a physical exam. The nurse practitioner came in the room and started the exam. The medical assistant that took my blood pressure got my weight , measurements and temperature ( ( (not rectal) stayed in the room so I was not expecting the practitioner to have me losing my pants lay back on the table press around my lowered stomach then have me stand up on the stool at the end of table and lower my pants and underwear down she didn’t miss a part then turn around bend over for a rectal exam .

Not like it's challenging or life threatening so sure. I can't see this coming up in the real world. It is done with the electronic gun things now.

Seldom is there a reason rhat a rectal temp is necessary for anyone over five. Temporal scans are most common and close enough if temp is a concern. I was surprised when I had to see a podiatrist and the nurse took my temp orally (why? It’s my foot dumbo). She’s said the doc wanted more accuracy. I thought about saying something but restrained myself......

If there was truly a reason they needed a more "accurate" temp - like if I had hypopthermia - it would be fine if a nurse, student or the cute gal at the cafeteria took my temp rectally.

@Mustanng95 Who's study was it? I was in a couple Pfizer studies. One was for Lipitor which I found just as my insurance was about to stop paying for it after having bypass surgery. They said it was a 7 year study but they closed it after 3 years. Luckily the VA was looking for new patients at the time. Then Pfizer called again with another study to lower LDL and increase HDL. It was a blind study so the doctor didn't know how well it was working but I did. Thanks to my blood work at the VA I knew that after 4 months it had lowered my LDL from 70 to 30 and increased my HDL from 35 to 70. After about 8 months I got a call to STOP taking it immediately.

If the student nurse is hot female, hell yes!

Rectal temperature for an adult has no meaning at all. There are small indications for rectal measurement in girls and women. In general, measurements are taken rectally only for small children. So, gentlemen, this is just your imagination.

Dream come true, that one. I’d volunteer to get practiced on. While she can try out supps, enemas, prostrate massage and semen collection too

In Germany we have 95-96% only female nurses, helpers, assistants, so the chance that a woman gets undressed or examined by a male medical helper is only 4-5%. its the men that have to strip down for at least one female doctor and 95% also infront of female assistants. you dont get examined as a woman by 2 males here, but its very often, most of times, that 2 females examine a male !!

I was told that student nurses in China whilst would have to practice taking rectal temperatures of each other; this was part of the course to familiarise yourself with the procedure. I imagine the male student nurses would have a field day.

Much of my adult life my medical needs have been either in the Navy or with the VA. I am quite used to having interns, residents, and students around for all aspects of exams. Besides, they have to learn somehow.

When I was in Corps School, we practiced on each other, and when I worked it the Lab, student nurses would come to learn phlebotomy. I'd have them observe until lunch, then have them draw on me talking them through the procedure. If I could do that, a rectal temperature is a piece of cake. (After boot camp, all sense of modesty gets burned out of you really quick)

I was in the Navy for 12 years and during my shore duty, I was in a barracks once I became an E5 that had four man rooms and since I was on four years of shore duty I was in the same room all four years, not for the whole time, but for part of the time, one of the three other people in the room was a hospital man, and the only time I ever heard him talk about rectal temperatures was when he told somebody that came to bug him about some medical stuff that he said if he sees anybody after hours, he only takes rectal temperatures. He never took mine or even talk to me about it, and I never talked to him about it, but I just thought it was amusing as I’ve had a rectal temperature fetish since I was age 9 or 10.🌡️🧴🧻

I had a med student perform part of my exam only once, and they were both very thorough and also very careful about being gentle, both of which I appreciated. So in answer to your question, not just yes, but based on my (admittedly limited) experience I might even prefer it.