When was your last RT in hospital ?

Ebbetsjim, that sounds interesting. Don't leave out the details. Tell us all about this female employee that got her rectal temp taken.

I don't think I ever had my temperature taken rectally in a hospital

I was age 13.

Mrtemp: That's how it happened at the hospital (early 80s) when I had appendicitis: nurse would come, give glass thermometers, then the kids would have to insert it under the sheets and she would come back minutes later for the reading,

Rectal was mandatory though, they did not accept oral.

Pecan nutjob: Thank you for sharing your story. Nice to read - I was not alone with this experience! I grew up in Sweden and neither here they accepted oral temperatures at the hospital in this time. We boys had to remove our underwears under the sheet and then insert the thermometer for a rectal reading...

I was 22 in the hospital with pneumonia. A nurse hooked up a rectal probe on a spiral cord to the unit they kept near my bed. In my mid-30s in an urgent care (although not exactly a hospital), while vacationing in Minnesota. I was treated for vomiting and a migraine. A grandmother-like nurse took my rectal temp while I was lying on the exam table gagging into a basin. That was a surprise. My husband said she took it again when I was waking up. They allowed me to stay and sleep for a few hours after the nurse shot a "cocktail" into my hip. Not fun.

My last RT was last year 2014 at home by my nurse neighbor . I was vomiting all night and slept on bathroom floor. My neighbor is a RN nurse home health care. Her and hubby talked outside as he left for work and he asked if she'd check me out. She came in I was in bathroom laying on floor she asked me how I was and if I had fever . I barley could move she said let's check your temp and next thing she had my head Chest down to floor pulled up onto knees with butt in air . She pulled my panties down just enough to expose my flower and I heard her rubber glove snap ? I made a weak comment about being full of pooh and laughed . She said she would take of that after my temp. I felt the cool Lube then gentle insertion . She just held in the thermometer while her hand rested on my bottom. As sick as I was it was very erotic and made me horny as heck . She just talked small talk while she cked her watch for temp time . I had a 103 temp . So after feeling my stomach and asking me about my last Bowel movement she said a good enema would be her suggested antidote . I agreed . She asked where my bag was and then went home to get her preferred enema mix .... A story for another post

Well when you are in HDU or ICU your rectal temp is recorded continuously via a rectal probe.Its a silicone probe with some kind of thermometer device inside. It doesn't hurt at all but you can feel it there . So the answer to your question is every day at the minute .

Nikki

I spent eight days in the hospital with Asiatic flu in January of 1960, when I was all of three. I have no doubt my temperature was taken rectally plenty of times, but I have no recollection of that. They fed me intravenously through my right ankle; I still have a scar from the incision.

The only other time I was in the hospital was to have my wisdom teeth surgically removed when I was 19. No rectal temps, but I was given a thermometer that I was allowed to keep and I still have it. It's a stubby and while it was used orally at the hospital, I only use it rectally now.

Since the first time I was ever in the hospital was in my late twenties for a hernia repair, I have never gotten a rectal temperature in a hospital. Have had kidney stones twice and the hernia repair and got an enema each time, but no rectal temps. My last rectal temp was during a checkup at a military hospital at the age of5. Don't remember how many I may have had before then, but I remembered that I didn't mind them. My brother and I would play doctor up until age ten or so, but we had to settle for popsicle sticks or tinker toys. In high school, I started sneaking rectal temperatures when no one was around. Once I moved out of the house, it has only been rectal temperatures for me (except at the hospital or dr's office. Can't figure out how to get them to use anything but a forehead scanner.). Since getting married it has been only rectal temperatures for my wife and me, whether sick or for play.

Well when you are in HDU or ICU your rectal temp is recorded continuously via a rectal probe.Its a silicone probe with some kind of thermometer device inside. It doesn't hurt at all but you can feel it there . So the answer to your question is every day at the minute .

Nikki

In the 70s and 80s, yes, not anymore. If you're sick enough to need continuous monitoring, you'll have either a urinary catheter or an endotrachial tube. Both of them are now made with temperature transducers built in. Either has been shown to be more accurate than rectal. One less thing to worry about.