Okay so I love watching fear factor and was taking to a fellow nurse friend of mine and we wanted to know how many of you could get through these "nursing stunts":
1) 100 patients, 10 meds apiece, 1hour to complete... no errors
2) Eating the hospital food, with NO condiments (gasp!)
3) Licking the hospital floor... (yummy right) and yes you can disinfect your mouth after.
4) Working a 24hour shift in the ICU and ER... NO SLEEP
5) Transfering a 250 pound patient from bed to chair 10 times, no help
Me personally, I guess I'd try it but I would not be the fear factor champ!
I cant watch the fear factor shows with the stuff they have to eat or do- yuck--- but after reading the nursing fear factors I might be able to do 2 of them - but the rest YUCK!!!!!:barf01: :chuckle
LIne up 50 patients...remove crusted stuck on socks with teeth..without taking off any toes.. drop in basin of already removed underwear...time limit two minutes. NO puking.
Okay so I love watching fear factor and was taking to a fellow nurse friend of mine and we wanted to know how many of you could get through these "nursing stunts":
1) 100 patients, 10 meds apiece, 1hour to complete... no errors
2) Eating the hospital food, with NO condiments (gasp!)
3) Licking the hospital floor... (yummy right) and yes you can disinfect your mouth after.
4) Working a 24hour shift in the ICU and ER... NO SLEEP
5) Transfering a 250 pound patient from bed to chair 10 times, no help
Me personally, I guess I'd try it but I would not be the fear factor champ!
~Crystal
I could do #2 through #5, but my favorite would be watching autopsies or looking at a 3 day old dead body[complete with maggots] while eating a tuna fish sandwich.
Whiff 10 colostomy bags while eating a tuna sandwich.
I remember my instructors as well as some older nurses tell me of a day when they cleaned poop without gloves. I was told they did this as late as the 1980's and that gloves are a really recent thing as a result of universal precautions.
Although I would never make it on the show, these posts are great. One I thought of that almost made me puke myself is "stand in front of a trach patient who is coughing huge amounts of flying phlegm.....with your mouth open." Can't even type anymore than that...Grossing myself out. :imbar
Been there, see it, and done that as a tech when I worked as on a resperatory unit. And during my peds rotation in school, had a baby pee in my mouth. It was a good vintage. The mouthwash I used afterwards tasted worse. ANd I am not kidding about the taste.
Compaired with the mouthwash, it tasted a hell of a lot better and would have rather have had the taste of urine in my mouth than that mouthwash. I am shuddering just thinking about it. (The mouthwash that is.)
I remember my instructors as well as some older nurses tell me of a day when they cleaned poop without gloves. I was told they did this as late as the 1980's and that gloves are a really recent thing as a result of universal precautions.
Adam, we had gloves in 1980. It was back in the mid 70's that we were still working without gloves...cleaning up poop, pee and puke and an occasional disimpaction of hard stool. Mmm, Mmm, good.
Cathing the 400 lb. lady who doesn't bathe-done it!
Doing VE on 300 lb 16 year old-Done it
Performing Ve's where there is a lot of "crusty" stuff, so that you almost hear a "crunch" sound w/o benefit of a clothespin to your nose..
Cauliflower like clusters of condyloma to wade through to search for a place to do VE on pt. who states "it's time to push."
Meconium covered raisins.
Trying to perform VE and straight cath on psych pt. wearing home detention bracelet who weighs 350+ and gets nervous and closes legs every time you approach the area of the perineum. (almost lost my head -literally w/ that one)
An Isomil or better yet Nutramigen milk shake drinking contest!
With the exception of the shakes or mec raisins. I have done it all, so what's my prize. (I am afraid to know!)
txspadequeenRN, BSN, RN
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Look what all these years of nursing has done to us.....:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
KEEP EM COMING:barf02: