Nurses General Nursing
Published Jul 16, 2015
Just realized today that I can't stand ostomy appliances. It's not the poop, it's just cutting and sizing the appliance and that messy paste. Tedious and irritating but somebody's gotta do it.
How about you?
toomuchbaloney
12,662 Posts
trach care
just. too. much. mucous.
I can handle a dog team foaming at the mouth after a nice mush, some of it even flies back to the sled (passengers are at a disadvantage). Copious sticky, slurpy, slimey, and sometimes smelly snot coming out of the trach = blech
Emergent, RN
4,242 Posts
Ortho static vital signs. BORING!
OrganizedChaos, LVN
1 Article; 6,883 Posts
Anything to do with feet. Just, ewwwwwwww! *shudders*
ThePrincessBride, MSN, RN, NP
1 Article; 2,594 Posts
Putting in IVs. I miss every time and it makes me feel like an incompetent nurse.
For now on, I won't even attempt it. I suck at IVs.
Barnstormin' PMHNP
349 Posts
Placing a foley on a woman. I am the WORST. I think I got it right once :***:
QuarterLife88, MSN, RN, NP
549 Posts
Suppositories.
RNperdiem, RN
4,592 Posts
Getting patients out of bed to the chair. With the ICU spaghetti tangle of lines, pain of post-op patient and a few experiences of patients going bad when out of bed, makes me a little nervous about this. I am also small and not strong.
Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN
5,047 Posts
Holding leg while the ortho MD drills for traction. I know they feel better once the weights are on...but that drill... it seems so brutal!
When I worked nights I always hated travelling for HCTs. It would put me SO far behind to get packed up, getting the CT itself, and then making the pt presentable. All those lines and wires get SO tangled, esp. if the pt has an EVD, an art line, and CVP setup. Because then you have not only lines but the pressure bags/EVD canister etc. (Scheduled HCTs are done around 0500.)
VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN
22 Articles; 9,987 Posts
Oral care, especially cleaning nasty dentures. Yeccchh.
cardiacfreak, ADN
742 Posts
trach care just. too. much. mucous.I can handle a dog team foaming at the mouth after a nice mush, some of it even flies back to the sled (passengers are at a disadvantage). Copious sticky, slurpy, slimey, and sometimes smelly snot coming out of the trach = blech
I can't do vomit! So I will suction the heck out of your patient if you'll get my puking patient!