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1. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   nu one replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   We were the coming in as night shift when the outgoing charge nurse told me to help her with a patient who just came in, a dnr and who as soon as he was transferred in bed expired. He had a throat and lung cancer, with a trach stoma. Were cleaning ...

2. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   nu one replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   This really isn't all that bad but it just grossed me out last Tuesday. We coded this lady who came in because of gross hematuria. Apparently, she has a bladder mass or something that just won't stop bleeding, so she was on continuous bladder irriga...

3. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   nu one replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   This really isn't all that bad but it just grossed me out last Tuesday. We coded this lady who came in because of gross hematuria. Apparently, she has a bladder mass or something that just won't stop bleeding, so she was on continuous bladder irriga...

4. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   nu one replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   More on the worms, have you ever seen an NGT plugged with an adult worm???? Ascaris lumbricoides....urgh!!!

5. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   nu one replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   More on the worms, have you ever seen an NGT plugged with an adult worm???? Ascaris lumbricoides....urgh!!!

6. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   nu one replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   THis happened to my classmate in nursing school. We were having our clinical exposure to a pediatric ward where the indigents were confined. His patient was a n 8 year old boy who was admitted for abdominal pain and diarrhea. After one bm, he was ...

7. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   nu one replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   THis happened to my classmate in nursing school. We were having our clinical exposure to a pediatric ward where the indigents were confined. His patient was a n 8 year old boy who was admitted for abdominal pain and diarrhea. After one bm, he was ...

8. If nursing caps looked decent, would you wear one?

   nu one replied to Flynurse's topic in General Nursing

   Had to wear one during college in our clinicals. And had to wear one again on my first job. Wearing caps can give you that dignified feeling. However, it is just not practical...Just think of all those istances when your cap gets snagged on an IV lin...

9. Southern Nurses Better Off Than The Rest?

   nu one replied to -jt's topic in Activism

   Here in South Texas, we don't have mandatory OT.Management has come up with a "solution" by offering regular staff almost double the regular pay if they work more that 40 hours per week. Somehow, it has helped solve the shortage. Also, they've hired ...

10. Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

    nu one replied to nilepoc's topic in Humor

    The weirdest I encountered was coffee enema Q1... and it had to be brewed, not instant coffee.... and we did it!!! .....imagine having your butt having a coffee break...