Well mark this day down, I actually gave a bed bath today. Usually 11-7 takes care of that most basic of nursing tasks. But I followed another male nurse and you know how those guys are. <j/k> So there I was . . . basin of hot water, soap, three wash cloths, three towels, water everywhere; on the bed, floor, walls, some on the patient. One of my fellow nurses comes up to me and asked why I was using water and not the ReadyBath? If you don't know what those are, they are eight moistened pads in a package that is heated in the microwave for 45 seconds. There is one towel for each of the body parts that are bathed. No rinsing, no drying. I've used them a couple of times for code brown but refuse to use them for complete baths on awake alert patients. Am I being too Old School?

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