vomiting, yuck

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I suddenly thought about how I HATE to see actors vomiting. It really turns my stomach, I close my eyes. Yet taking care of patients in PACU, it doesn't bother me at all.

Just another one of those what bothers me on film, but I deal with it every day, threads.

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The smell of vomit, 'nuff said.

:barf02:

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

For awhile it was the sound of the wretching that got to me. Then I had a guy the other night fill up his tub 8 times in 20 minutes. I then realized how little it bothers me now ha ha.

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

urine is the only thing that doesn't make me run to my happy place:lol2:

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I end up retching with them!

Thank goodness I work in ICU where they are all intubated-yay!

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Specializes in ICU.

Post op:

Me: You can't have any water, it will make you throw up.

Pt: But I'm thirsty!

(repeat the above 100 times over 60 minutes)

Me: Okay, but just SIP IT!

Pt: BLAHHHHHHH ... URP!

:smackingf

(just as long as it doesn't come up bright red or smelling of feces)

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Specializes in Peds/Neo CCT,Flight, ER, Hem/Onc.

I can do bile but nothing identifiable.

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Specializes in NeuroICU/SICU/MICU.

Bloody teeth gets me. On film or in person. I could have never, ever been a dental hygeinist. :p

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.
I can do bile but nothing identifiable.

I like the subtle rhyme to this :yeah:

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Specializes in Float Pool-Med-Surg, Telemetry, IMCU.

I almost stepped in not one, but TWO puddles of puke on my way home from work last night. Giant puddles, one near where I catch my bus, the other near my apartment.

I was completely grossed out and came to this conclusion: If you are my patient and you're puking, I will hand you the emesis basin and treat you with the dignity and respect you deserve.

HOWEVER, if you are a twenty-something that can't hold your liquor who feels compelled to puke in the middle of the sidewalk after partying a little too hard, then you deserve nothing but scorn. :barf01::barf02::barf01::barf02:

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Ahh,yes! But emesis gives us insight into the patient's disease process.

As good little nurses, we are required to observe the ....

-Amount

-Color

-Odor

-Contents

of the basin!

Don't forget to chart all of the above.:rolleyes:

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Ahh,yes! But emesis gives us insight into the patient's disease process.

As good little nurses, we are required to observe the ....

-Amount

-Color

-Odor

-Contents

of the basin!

Don't forget to chart all of the above.:rolleyes:

oh yes and fish through it with a tongue depressor to see if those percocets that you gave them 10 minutes ago came up with the contents.

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