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!
Before I go---how about mouth care on a comatose patient who hasnt had any in---weeks?---months? You know, where you have to peel that white stuff off?Hasnt had any MOUTH CARE, you sillies!
10 patients with one artificial eye each...you have to take each eye out with no glove, dip it in your choice of C.diff poo, emesis, GI bleed, or suction cannister contents...clean it off with your mouth, and put it back in...you have 5 minutes!!
Eww...I made myself gag...I HATE eyeballs and respiratory stuff!!:barf01:
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.
One of my instructors told us that many years ago lab techs actually tasted urine to check for diabetes. Sweet urine = DM---YUCK!!!
Specializes in Critical Care, Pediatrics, Geriatrics.
Nursing Fear Factor Stunts:
See who can empty the most foley bags in 60 seconds.
Hook themselves up to insulin drips and see who's blood sugar can get the lowest without passing out.
See who can withstand the most joules from the defribrillator without having an arrythmia.
Who can untie the most 'dummy patients' underwater strapped to their beds in four point restraints in under 4 min...restraints can only be untied one at a time.
Who can keep control of their bladder the longest after 40mg of Lasix IV
Identify the source of the odor while blindfolded. That 400 lb. woman during a foley cath placement, OR, The dinner tray with an entree of Salmon/Mackrel loaf.
The denture thing did me in. 
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Before I go---how about mouth care on a comatose patient who hasnt had any in---weeks?---months? You know, where you have to peel that white stuff off?Hasnt had any MOUTH CARE, you sillies!