14 May 2012

Huh?

Here is the situation. All women may have been created equal, but not all women are created with the same anatomy. See below the picture I have posted to see an appropriate/ what you EXPECT to find as the female anatomy below the belt:

 See how it goes in order from top to bottom...Clitoris, Urethral opening (pee hole) then Vagina (pole hole)... This is how it should look. Organized and separated. This is what they teach you in school. This information may seem a bit much...BUT being a new nurse....It is not enough information. See what I was failed to be informed about is that sometimes...A woman can not look this organized in her anatomy. Sometimes the pee hole (urethral opening) is sometimes not where is should be, but rather INSIDE the poke hole (vagina). I could not be making this up if I wanted to...They don't prepare you for this in nursing school. Instead, the first time you go to insert a foley catheter (tube +bag we put in the urethral opening to drain the bladder during surgery or acute urine retention) YOU CANNOT FIND THE PEE HOLE, you may panic. The first time this happen to me...I started to poke around at the clit. I was like...WTF? Where is this pee hole. This woman HAS to have a pee hole somewhere...UNTIL I learned from an older nurse...Sometimes anatomy is screwed up and you actually have to go in the poke hole (vagina) about an inch to find this pee hole (urethral opening). You can imagine my relief to know...IT"S YOU, NOT ME :) The ladies anatomy is screwed up and that is why I couldn't find the hole to place the catheter. Whoa. Glad we got that out of the way in the learning...Thank you nursing school for failing to educate me on this very common anatomy malfunction.

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