What Freaks You Out?

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Okay, people. It's time for a nice, fun, light-hearted discussion to blow off some steam.

WHAT FREAKS YOU OUT? What bodily fluid can't you STAND? What wound gives you the absolute WILLIES? It doesn't matter if you're an ADN, BSN, LPN, CNA, PQRST, ABCDEFG...every body gets the heebie jeebies over SOMETHING...even you stomach-of-steel ER nurses!

Mine is eyeball injuries/surgery...aaaaaaaaackkkkkkk!! Gross! Makes my skin absolutely CRAWL. Or when someone gets a little cut on their finger/toe/whatever and then squeezes it to make it bleed!! Bleah!! Then there's the ever-popular RESPIRATORY SECRETIONS. I can handle poop, pee, amniotic fluid, lanced boils, pus, whatever...but give me a nasty snot-filled trach, and I'm OUTTA THERE.

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Perk, the tip about dealing with those nasty, food-encrusted, slimey false teeth is,

Never ever look directly at them. Just keep them blurred slightly in a portion of your peripheral vision at all times! And throw them in the nearest denture cup or something, and get them out of your sight.

What I cringe about is when a patient asks for their teeth they haven't had in their mouths for many moons, and you find them inside a sealed

denture cup of water. Lifting off that lid to

release that dead meat smell has many a time made me barf. You can't even mouth breathe with this one, because this is the kind of smell that gets into your taste buds.

I have had such a good laugh with this thread!:roll

My only gag reflex so far has been as a student at the good ole nursing home:

Answered a call bell, little old lady laying in her own feces askes me to hand her a "glove", I'm thinking so maybe she can scratch herself and not get her hand dirty......so I hand her a glove and turn to start gathering up her dirty linens......in the mean time she reaches up inside her rectum and disimpacts herself! Now she has this slimy poop ball (size of a softball) in her hand and she flings it at me!!!!!!! My duck and cover skills were lacking that day. Needless to say I started retching, and since she had pancakes w/syrup on her dinner tray I to this day can't deal w/the smell of syrup! UCKKK!!!!!!!!!:eek:

I've got a new one to gag me...

never experienced it until recently...

chemo urine (cisplatin & VP16)

rates up there with eyeballs.

-nancy

Originally posted by TBone1812

here is a good one...doing a code on a 60+ yo woman..cut off her clothes...as we started to roll back rolls of fat...dead cockroaches fall out and some live ones take off for the hills...the whole room just freakin FROZE!

Ewwwww! Oh my gawd oh my gawd oh my gawd.........

Brita.....I am with you on that one. Now that is nasty. :)

Cindy in Okinawa, Japan

Originally posted by kids-r-fun

I've got a new one to gag me...

never experienced it until recently...

chemo urine (cisplatin & VP16)

rates up there with eyeballs.

-nancy

Kids-r-Fun, I want to know just what does that

specific chemo urine you were talking about smell like? I want to know if I smelled it before and don't realize it.

Originally posted by Jayonoway

......in the mean time she reaches up inside her rectum and disimpacts herself! Now she has this slimy poop ball (size of a softball) in her hand and she flings it at me!!!!!!! My duck and cover skills were lacking that day. [/b]

Ohhhh, that is so disgusting and funny!

Originally posted by Goofball

Kids-r-Fun, I want to know just what does that

specific chemo urine you were talking about smell like? I want to know if I smelled it before and don't realize it.

Weird strong thick chemical odor unlike anything I have ever smelled...persperation smells funky too. Odor builds over a couple of days, goes away 2-3 days after last dose @ the same time the N/V stops

-nancy

In nursing school, observed multi toe amputations in OR (using what looked like a steak knife...)

CF patients sputum; brown, bloody, pseudomonas-y...

Lochia..

anything to do with eyeballs...

thanks to all for the laughs-

How about those patients that the nurse before you, or the nursing asst., says the bath is all done. Then during your assessments, not only the B.O. and peri-smells assault you, but they have caked up the sweaty pits and groins with baby powder. The powder has turned into a profusion of greaseballs and the pt's bath was obviously a

powder 'bath' only. (In this type situation you can also expect the face to be greasy, and the mouth and eyelids to be crusted shut.) UUUUGGGGGHHHhh, I hate that!

Goofball, that's nasty.

And speaking of peri-area smells, I once had to put this foley in this lady who smelled so bad I could actually taste it in my mouth afterwards. And I'm not the type of girl that wants that taste in her mouth. Yeeeeeecccchhhh!!! I was rinsing my mouth out all night.

There is one thing that really freaked me out, but since this is supposed to be a "lighthearted" topic, I'll refrain from describing it here. Let's just say it was a .....uh....ummm....serious head injury. One that was, shall we say, incompatible with life. To say the least.

:rolleyes:

Babs

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