Which nursing skills do you dread?

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What nursing skills do you absolutely hate doing? Even if it is super easy and not time consuming? Which orders do you read and just think to yourself, aw man! I hate doing that!! I'm just curious!

I hate doing dressing changes. (I think b/c we get a lot of gangrene wounds... and they stink!)

I also loathe hanging blood! I don't know why... it isn't difficult

And of course enemas and disimpactions aren't too fun either!

I also hate giving eye and ear drops. I don't know why...

I also hate having to collect stool samples... ewwww the idea of scooping up the poop into the little cup... gross :lol2:

what's a coude?

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what's a coude?

a catheter that is curved at the tip instead of straight.

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Specializes in Tele, Infectious Disease, OHN.

C Diff sucks all of the oxygen out of the air. As you continue to breath, you can taste it..It makes skunks seem like silly playthings.

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an 'inflated' bag on a high colostomy, in a 100 degree room.

thud.

leslie

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an 'inflated' bag on a high colostomy, in a 100 degree room.

thud.

leslie

Oh yes, it's really, really bad. So many facilities have windows that do not

open, and no fresh air coming in there at all. There is no escape from this smell which tends to linger in the room and out of the doorway for all to share.

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Specializes in IM/Critical Care/Cardiology.

I can't imagine that odor, a decaying body.

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Specializes in ER.

Rape kits, when you have to do them alone. (Be the forensic nurse AND the patient support-impossible)

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Specializes in Med Surg, Hospice.

Patients who think you're their maid and you are only there to serve them because they're the only patient on your floor. :rolleyes: One quick trip into a patient's room wound up being 45 minutes before I finally said "I'll have to come back and do this. I have stuff that's late.

Cleaning up linen bags that day shift left in the bathroom because they were too lazy to take it to the dirty utility room.

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Specializes in NICU.

Ok I have another one.. Continuous Bladder Irrigation.. UGH emptying that foley and hanging new bags all day... Very annoying!

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.
Ok I have another one.. Continuous Bladder Irrigation.. UGH emptying that foley and hanging new bags all day... Very annoying!

Been a while since I did that, but I agree. :monkeydance:

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I'll second the road trips to MRI with my pts (MICU)...I HATE these! Make it happen on a night shift and the pucker factor increases by a factor of 10.

Also, fecal bags placed with tubing to Foley bag for lower GI bleeds...the kind with clots that have to be "milked" through the tubing frequently...gags me every time!

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Specializes in LPN, Hospice.

I have cleaning mouths, more than everything, you do not believe me, but i prefer to change a colostomy than clean a mouth...:o,\\quote=TigerGalLE;2435661]What nursing skills do you absolutely hate doing? Even if it is super easy and not time consuming? Which orders do you read and just think to yourself, aw man! I hate doing that!! I'm just curious!

I hate doing dressing changes. (I think b/c we get a lot of gangrene wounds... and they stink!)

I also loathe hanging blood! I don't know why... it isn't difficult

And of course enemas and disimpactions aren't too fun either!

I also hate giving eye and ear drops. I don't know why...

I also hate having to collect stool samples... ewwww the idea of scooping up the poop into the little cup... gross :lol2:

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