Nurse Quirks

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Have any of you found yourself more and more disgusted with random things or processes as you moved through your education and/or career? For instance, if you have kids or domesticated animals -- did you start hypersanitizing? Or, did you perhaps start hypersanitizing anyway? Did your social habits change? Did your personal habits change? Did your kitchen habits or bathroom habits change? Please, unwind my spinning head....

I'm not currently working in hospital setting, is this becoming a new concern for hospital staff, is bringing home bedbugs? Only in southern areas, or all over, is this a concern now for you all? Or just those in warmer climates?

Not just in hospitals, but in hotels, airports, apartment buildings, and anywhere. They live indoors, so it doesn't matter about the climate.

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Specializes in Pediatric Private Duty; Camp Nursing.

I never really had a problem taking IM shots. Now after knowing how far they are stuck, I have a real problem with them, both giving and receiving. I had to do a B12 shot on a lady every week and I'd get weak in the knees every time I saw it on the MAR. The lady had to reassure me she was fine! She was very amused by the irony. As far as receiving a shot, I put off/avoid it any chance I get. I'm due for a TB shot but keep saying I'll wait until step on a rusty nail first. But my whole life before nursing, piece of cake!

I think I got this way bc one of the first IM shots I had to give was a cancer pt in our LTC who was there for hospice. He was extremely emaciated. I had to give him an IM and although I didn't go in far I still hit the bone. He was ok but I was freaked, and I think about that every time now.

Fortunately I don't give them in private duty. I have thought about signing up for a flu shot clinic some year to get over what every nurse should have no problem doing. I'm afraid I'll end up passing out over and over through the shift!

Oh, and one other thing. I cannot watch them take my own blood for testing. I have no problem with the sight of blood at all. But if I watch out of sheer curiosity, I don't even think it's gross or anything while watching, but I stand up and I start to gray out! No clue why. However I've always been like that.

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Specializes in Pediatrics/Developmental Pediatrics/Research/psych.
I never really had a problem taking IM shots. Now after knowing how far they are stuck, I have a real problem with them, both giving and receiving. I had to do a B12 shot on a lady every week and I'd get weak in the knees every time I saw it on the MAR. The lady had to reassure me she was fine! She was very amused by the irony. As far as receiving a shot, I put off/avoid it any chance I get. I'm due for a TB shot but keep saying I'll wait until step on a rusty nail first. But my whole life before nursing, piece of cake!

I think I got this way bc one of the first IM shots I had to give was a cancer pt in our LTC who was there for hospice. He was extremely emaciated. I had to give him an IM and although I didn't go in far I still hit the bone. He was ok but I was freaked, and I think about that every time now.

Fortunately I don't give them in private duty. I have thought about signing up for a flu shot clinic some year to get over what every nurse should have no problem doing. I'm afraid I'll end up passing out over and over through the shift!

Oh, and one other thing. I cannot watch them take my own blood for testing. I have no problem with the sight of blood at all. But if I watch out of sheer curiosity, I don't even think it's gross or anything while watching, but I stand up and I start to gray out! No clue why. However I've always been like that.

I think you mean tetorifice shot. TB you would get the Mantoux skin test. DTap/TDaP is tetorifice, diphtheria, and pertussis. You get it as a child and then you need a booster about every 10 years.

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Specializes in Pediatric Private Duty; Camp Nursing.
I think you mean tetorifice shot. TB you would get the Mantoux skin test. DTap/TDaP is tetorifice, diphtheria, and pertussis. You get it as a child and then you need a booster about every 10 years.

Yep. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.

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Specializes in MR/DD.

When I take my children out to eat I prefer buffets because they can be as picky as they want and still get plenty to eat. The last time I went, I felt like everything was terribly dirty. I found food particles on several pieces of "clean" dishes, the waitress brought me a bottle of steak sauce from another table that had just been used, and I suddenly realized that all of the serving spoons in the food were being touched over and over by dirty, non handwashing, sickly people. I felt like I could not get any of our hands clean enough when we were finished. I wont allow my kids to ride in those plastic cars that are attached to grocery carts because I envision some snot covered kid putting his snot covered hands all over the stearing wheel.

I never really thought too much about germs until I became a nurse.

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