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:

hmmmmm..... thats a hard one.... but i think id have to say medicating pediatrics in the ER ( i usually get another nurse to double check the dose with me.... what can i say im paranoid) and i HATE it when patients vomit..... the dry heaves with a little bile dont really bother me,,,, but pasta and roast beef particulate really makes me cringe and wish i was somewhere else

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I'm too new to be willing to do kangaroo care on a vented baby. The nurses who do that with the vented patients are always very careful to say that whether or not it happens depends on the comfort level of the nurse which takes a lot of the pressure away.

Regular tasks are so much easier with the little ones--suctioning a baby is almost pleasant and trach care is nothing to dread, but what I don't like is giving babies their baths. I love after when they are all clean surrounded by clean linen, but I always stuck my own babies in the tub with me (a little inappropriate for my patients, I do realize) and handling a slippery little baby with all kinds of drains, etc. in a flimsy basin always puts me on edge.

I love suctioning babies, it is so rewarding. NP, oral, ETT, or trach, I am your girl.

I wish I had the talent to wax poetic on my love of suction catheters like Leslie's "Ode to the Rectal Tube."

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Specializes in ER.

Fake pukers, just a little cough and a little spit and they want a full pampering treatment while next door someone is heaving from their toes.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Oncology, Ortho.

You guys are GROSS!!!! Hahaha

Anything to do with the mouth grosses me out, I don't know why. Cleaning dentures and doing any measure of mouth care {{{shudder}}}

I absolutely positively DETEST doing bowel routines!

Phlegm {gag} gets me worst of all though.

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Specializes in critical care.

I used to hate abg's but, I practiced it to death, now it's not so bad....I hate doing peritoneal dialysis ...not hard I just hate doing it... oops and road trips...images of codes or pulling a-lines..vents..etc...CAT

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sunctioning anything. Foley female pt. IV in a confused pt. :0

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Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.

I hate inserting NG tubes- I've only successfully inserted maybe 4, the rest I had to get help with. One of the last times I did it, on the first attempt I'm pretty sure it went into his respiratory tract because he started coughing and bubbling:uhoh21:. I took it out immediately. The LPN with me, who's been in nursing almost as long as I've been alive, really helped me get it down correctly.

I hate straight-cathing males.

I hate straight-cathing females, especially when everything's hidden and you have to go digging for gold.

I hate enemas, especially the high volume kind that you fill yourself and hang from a bag.

I hate hanging blood and hoping they're not gonna have a reaction.

I hate doing chest compressions. Partly cuz I hate codes and mostly because it kills the heck out of my back.

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Specializes in ICU and Pediatrics.

I hate obtaining pediatric blood pressure... i don't know why.. i just hate it.. i also hate cleaning poops (post enema)! but i just have to be used to it.. but for now, im in a stage that 50% loving it and 50% hating it...:monkeydance:

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Specializes in Travel Nursing, ICU, tele, etc.

I just never like anything with colostomies, ileostomies are ok because they just don't have the stench. I swear if I ever reach the point of needing a colostomy, I am not sure I will ever adjust.... I know that is terrible to say, but that is just the way I feel....bleck!!!

:uhoh21::uhoh21::uhoh21:

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POST MORTERM CARE, I hate it with a strong passion; unfortunately I work with very sick patients and death is common on my unit.

One time when I was a new nurse, I fake pulling my shoulder muscle when I saw that my patient was dying. I left the floor to the ER and spent the rest of the day there.

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.

I agree with the colostomies....certainly not something I enjoy!

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Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.
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:

Nothing bothers me at all

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