What Gets to You??

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Hi, I am new here!!! What I want to know is what gets to you? I think we all have something that just really makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up when you have to take care of it.

I can't stand FINGER INJURIES!!!!!!!!! It just makes me cringe to see them.

I would rather take care of an amputated limb than a mangled finger.

Specializes in Critical Care, Pediatrics, Geriatrics.

To address feet (shudders)...

I will have to try the febreeze thing that another poster mentioned because my hubby has dreadful foot odor...between the military boots and the boots he wears for his other job (police officer).

but to be honest, I haven't been as grossed by feet as I thought i would be (thank goodness) I look at my pts a little differently than I do others...a little more accepting you know:nurse:

but the vomitting thing...not sure if i'll ever get over that! haha

Rectal bleeding! I can have a pt vomiting copious amounts of blood, but as soon as it starts coming out the other end I'm gagging and have to leave the room. You know the patients....you look in the bedpan(hopefully the pt has made it on a bedpan) and see what appears to be globbs of raspberry jelly but it doesn't quite smell like it!

OK, I don't usually gag from descriptions but that one almost made me throw up into the bubble I happen to be blowing (chewing gum) when I was reading this. :barf01:

Specializes in School Nursing.

:chuckle I must admit, you nurses sure have a way to describe things !

But this subject has certainly given me a few laughs and something to think about ! :icon_roll

I can pretty much take it all. I've never had to puke on the job. I've worked allot of areas so I've seen just about everything.

The only thing that bothers me is spiders. I don't know why, Im not really afraid they will bite me. just seeing them or if i think one is on me feaks me out.

The other day I was on the highway and one of those disgusting littel @$%#^& fell off my visor right on to me. I'm lucky I was able to pull it together in time not to wreck.

i, too, get totally grossed out by dog or cat vomit. I cant tolerate it even the slightest! glad im not alone!!

I used to be a 'sympathetic vomitter' myself........even after I had kids. Now I can handle HUMAN vomit of any kind; I can clean up after an all-out, I-think-I-heard-the-patient's-SHOES-come-up session, and I've even been known to be able to eat a full meal five minutes later. But when the dog or one of the cats blows their groceries, I holler for my husband---I can't even stand to listen to them retching and making that horrid "Ulp-ulp-ulp" sound. YEEEEECCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHH.:uhoh21:

Have to agree with nursepenny. I actually have no problem with mucus if it is flowing from where it is supposed to come from. I do however have a huge problem with happening upon it unexpectedly. Making a bed for example and putting your hand on a big glob of t that has been hidden amongst the sheets:o (At least I hope it was Mucus!!):bluecry1: OH Yeah. Hello everybody. I'm Trish and after reading the mag for a while I decided to join. Am in Australia for the year on my Pre-Midlife Crisis. From Ireland. Looking forward to contributing and enjoying all your contributions.

Worst---vomiting fecal matter ----- the gagging and the smell----

Specializes in Emergency Department.

I hate trach care, ugh when they start hacking and sputum flies across the room...vomit is also a no no

I hear ya, sputum is SO gross, especially trach sputum. ewwwww.

Now that I'm thinking about it, the smell of melena and c.Diff make me gag

:barf02:

Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.

The slurrping sound of a suction catheter! Ugh!

#2 changing a colostomy bag. Ewwww the smell just gags me.

Give me Vomit

Give me pee

Give me do-do

Give me blood

Give me all bad smells

But I can not stand the harking snot, loogies,green slime.

an old man spit a snot wad in my face once as a student nurse, really by accident,, he was so sorry for it and since then,, I can not take snot..

Specializes in Medical Surgical & Behavioral Health.
I still say FEET!!!. Stinky, sweaty, socks so toasted they are stuck to the skin..toenails that have been growing so long they curve under the toe...eight hundred layers of dirt...and when you take the sock off and a gangrenous toe comes with it...I'm done.:o

I am soooo agreeing with you there! I hated feet before nursing school and I still hate feet...especially diabetic feet with ulcers or unkept nails...I still have to touch them for cappilary refill and bed baths, if I could I would get someone else to do it...

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