Chivers Marc, Broadbridge Jackie, Jarvis Caroline, Orchard Katrina
Royal West Sussex NHS Trust.
Nurs Times. 2004;100(2):58-60.
Bowel management--particularly digital rectal examination (DRE) and the manual removal of faeces--has been a contentious issue for some time. In the past few years this has been brought to the fore by a number of cases of professional misconduct by nurses.
