Heard that nursing school in Korea is forcing students to take enema as a patient during training in front of the class

Is that true?

I don’t know if that’s true, but ever since I was hospitalized in my 20s and awakened at 6 AM and given an enema by a not so gentle nurse to prepare me for surgery, i’ve felt that nurses should experience what enemas are like.

Whether nurses in training should practice giving enemas to each other in front of classmates, I doubt that would be a popular “class assignment.” How they would complete that assignment and report back in class might generate some interesting stories!

However, if I were their instructor, I might assign student nurses to pair up and outside of class experience giving and receiving both the Fleet and a full 1500 mL warm water cleansing enema.

A young nurse who gave me cleansing enemas in my 20s during home care certainly knew what they felt like. She was a third generation nurse in her family, so enemas were no stranger to her.

I have actually wondered if in general doctors and nurses have to undergo some of the procedures they do on their patients.

This case was from 3 years ago. Korea have huge problem with hidden videos girls (eh. using toilets, even on public institutions).

Well.. many years ago was more nurses and enemas was used much often than now and yes, they also used on their selves on night shifts on constipations or red flow pain relief. Known couple nurses (around 30yo girls), I can say-that many of them get into med path by own experience and some health troubles as childrens.

There was a movie, quite a umber of years ago, about an arrogant surgeon who developed and was being treated for throat cancer. I believe the title was "The Doctor". He encountered all of the problems that us regular patients have to deal with, including arrogant specialists, waiting to be seen, etc. When he had recovered and returned to work, he decided that new doctors needded to learn compassion for their patients, so he puts his interns in patient gowns, assigns them various illnesses and orders all the tests for them to feel the experience that they will prescribe for their own patients.

I have actually wondered if in general doctors and nurses have to undergo some of the procedures they do on their patients.

@GraceT My wife had to have the back of her throat examined by snaking a camera through her nose to get a picture. The doc who did it used a numbing spray and told her it’s not as bad as it seems, he had it done to him by another med student to have as part of his training.

I saw that movie. The doctor patients were complaining about their butt showing under the hospital gown!

Students experiencing a practical application, what a great concept. I'm a professional....I'm a professional....everybody keeps telling me that.

Great idea I think

We had dummies to practice on. But like I said once before my roommate and I in college did everything we could to each other. However, we did not have access to speculums. We could have purchased them I guess. We had to buy our own stethoscopes. Many of us purchased the junk stethoscopes they sold in the college store. We all wanted to walk around with them around our necks to show off. That also showed how far along you were in class. I purchased a Littmann Cardiology III. I kept it in a zippered cushioned pouch after having an accident. I was not injured but some girl talking on her damn phone ran into me from behind while I was stopped at a stop light. She jumped out and asked if I was alright and as soon as I said yes she jumped in her car and took off. But my stethoscope broke my windshield because I had it around my neck. I was going from one hospital to another across the street. That is not covered under insurance I found out. I never wore it around my neck again unless I was in the hospital. Then that led to interns wanting to borrow it and they would forget to give it back and I would have to track them down. I pissed a lot of people off because I started saying no.

Oh yeah. What I was going to say is that she and I did whatever we could at home like we cathed each other. At the end of a class one day we were told to take as many as we wanted so that we could get familiar with using them. But they meant just how they worked. My roommate and I used them for real on each other. How else are you going to know if the other person is uncomfortable unless they are real? We also gave each other enemas.

@Vicki_V There are mannequins that allow you to learn certain medical procedures, including enemas.

Look here https://www.3bscientific.com/re/simulateur-de-soins-et-lavements-intestinaux-p16-1022519-p16-3b-scientific,p_153_31843.html

When I took class to become clonic therapist way back in 2003 in calif ,we spent 70 hours on book study,And 30 hours hands on practice inserting speculum (the old style thick 2 sided ones) ,it was me and 8 other females all in mid 20s and cute.

The girls balked at having me insert the speculum but teacher told them they had to or they'd fail class

I would be the first to volunteer to be on the receiving end with ZERO embarrassment!

In police training, you’re required to be pepper sprayed, and tazed. This sounds similar.

@JJM Really??!