Oh no! please...please not that

[netglow]

people say that everybody in medicine has got something, something that totally grosses them out.

this tissue, organ, bodily function is avoided at all costs or you'll :barf01:.

i haven't come acrossed mine yet... (i'm a little scared of what it'll be, i know its lurking out there somewhere).

what's yours?

[iteachob, MSN, RN]

nrsang97, that drilling would probably be the end of me, too.

To the others that mentioned: why are epidurals so gross to watch?

That's the WEIRD part! They aren't really even that gross.............it must be the harpoon that they use...

It doesn't make me want to puke, it makes me want to pass out!

[justjRN]

cleaning dentures!!! i dont know why but it makes me gag... the little chunks of gooey food and thick stringy spit.... BLECH!!

give me trachs, puke, poop, blood, guts.... just no dentures!!!

[ohmeowzer RN, RN]

mucous.. i just hate it. i hate it when people show me their tissues with mucous or boogers on them. i hate it when patients say " i saved this for you " and shows me a yellow mucous or a big booger. they say" i thought you would want to see it?'...... heck nooo i don't want to see it!!... the pt is usually there for pneuomina or sinus thing and i can guess what your mucous looks like.... blech !! thanks but no thanks !! keep your body fluids to yourself.

oh i have to tell you a story. we had a pt on TB precautions, the pt coughed up some lovely phlem .. out comes the pushy daughter with all her mask on and gown and the whole get up . she comes into the hall with a handful of mucous the pt just coughed up and shoved it in my face at the nurses station. ... not only did i almost toss my cookies there and then, i told her how she put the whole floor at risk.... for cripes sakes , i almost had a kitten right there in front of her...

[sharpeimom]

cleaning dentures!!! i dont know why but it makes me gag... the little chunks of gooey food and thick stringy spit.... BLECH!!

give me trachs, puke, poop, blood, guts.... just no dentures!!!

Me too!:barf02::barf02:

sharpeimom:paw::paw:

[mykrosphere]

not really come across anything visually that makes me want to puke......its all about the smells.

c-diff, monstrous infected wounds, surgical cauterization.......PUKE!

[netglow, ASN, RN]

.... for cripes sakes , i almost had a kitten right there in front of her...

OMG, you made me laugh so hard, I'm crying

[Dalzac, LPN, LVN, RN]

GI bleed smell and, most of all, Gray Matter (brain) I will hurl every time I have had to look at the gray matter and the smell of a GI sends me to the trash basket.

[Magsulfate, BSN, RN]

Nothing worse than lifting up a sheet off a patient and finding a HUGE PILE OF CRAP, big brown and mushy, a CRAP SO BIG THAT IT'S LAYING ON THE PATIENT'S STOMACH.

[Whispera, MSN, RN]

I am having a kitten RIGHT NOW! Please, no one get sick!

[BelleKat, BSN, RN]

I hated the smell of escharotomies done with a bovie when I worked in Burns. It has that "meat smell"(can you tell I'm now a vegetarian?),the noise too(think electrocute type sound) and the pt was awake. Although the pt didn't feel the severely burned part when it was cut there was almost always a small patch of viable skin that would hurt like H*** when the surgeon cut through it to do the procedure. So the smell,the "zot" sound and the pt screaming when the good skin was reached made for an all around "great" experience.

It got so if I had a new adminission with circumferential burns my staff would see me roll the bovie in there and someone would gown up and cover for me while I watched their pt. It beat having me gag dry heave for the rest of the shift. I don't miss that a bit.

[April, RN, BSN, RN]

i hate it when patients say " i saved this for you " and shows me a yellow mucous or a big booger. they say" i thought you would want to see it?'

I hate that! Especially when they ring their call bell just so I can come look at it. GROSS!

[BelleKat, BSN, RN]

Oh also one of my burn pts who was on tube feedings and a clinitron bed had a massive liquid stool that was corraled by her legs to come all the way down to the end of her heels.Since a clinitron bed has air coming through it liquid makes a bubbling sound and appearance so when I lifted the sheet to see where the pooh smell was coming from I saw this immense liquid poo that was boiling. OMG!!!

The heck with being tactful,I bailed out of that room to go compose myself and BEG for help.

It was one of those days that I had to laugh to keep from crying.