Never thought working in a doc's office would make me gag!!(graphic, for nurses only!

O my Lord! "The Goober that Gobbled New York"-a Japanese film with english voice over....Hahahahahah.... On this weekends Creature double Feature-along with "The c-dif that rocked Chicago"

Hahahaha, wait until you do trach suctioning and trach care, heheheh, oh are you in for a treat.

The diner from the movie is near here-That movie was sure scary then....The special effects are laughable now-how about the pic of the diner with the Blob oozing over it? A local guy has the actual blob-just a bucket with a blob of..well-blob in it...

I have to wonder how lab will seperate it to even MAKE a slide?

Side note... I can't wait to do this to one of my nurses. I have just the one in mind! :-D

David Adams, ARNP
-ACNP, FNP

isnt it funny how nurses can eat lunch and discuss specimens and vomit and colors of things.....have you ever accidently started talking about something with your non-nurse friends and been given that look...that "ohmygoshnotwhileimeating" look?

I loved and LOL'd at your story, Laura!

Our WOC nurse (wound/ostomy) gave a lecture a while back and combined it with a simple catered lunch. Around 30 nurses sat and watched some absolutely gruesome slides of Stage IV pressure ulcers and other gory wounds as the WOC RN narrated. I looked around and laughed to myself as I watched everyone placidly chewing pasta salad and sandwiches, nobody batting an eyelash.

I've also read threads like, "What freaks you out the most" on allnurses all the while eating and guffawing when reading the most disgusting and unbelievable descriptions.

Yep, I'm sitting here eating chicken strips while reading this thread and thinking about the poor old fellow whose stool I guaiac'ed last night. The patient was on heparin protocol, which calls for guaiacs on all stools, but nobody had done one on the previous THREE stools for some reason; I only did it because as the PRN nurse, I'd taken the pt. to the bathroom and caught a huge, tarry, black, foul-smelling poop. It was the kind you really don't need to test because the aroma and appearance are diagnostic in themselves, but I did it for documentation purposes and passed the info on to the pt's nurse. I also checked his labs and--no surprise here--his H&H had dropped since admission. Well, about 3 hours elapsed between the time I did the guaiac and the MD came in to make rounds.......she was absolutely furious that nobody had done the guaiacs, and to make matters worse the pt's nurse had waited until she came in to tell her about the (+) test! Then the doc asked me what had given me the idea to guaiac the stool in the first place (DUH, heparin protocol + stool characteristics + years of nursing experience!!) and almost gagged as I described it. I guess we all have our areas of weakness.......even MDs!