Worst nursing proceedure ever....

LadyT_RN · Feb 4, 2003

Hi Silvermoon,

Just wanted to say that it is a refreshing change to read replies from a different country!! Also the joys of nursing can often times be a funny, horrendous, magnificent worldwind of emotions that we just have to laugh about as time permits.

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mattsmom81 · Feb 4, 2003

I think Kaycee's story is the 'best' so far.....(((shudder))))...the creepy crawlies that have us scratching in our dreams for weeks...uggh.

For some reason I hate the smell of the cautery in procedures/surgery...like when assisting with a TURP. Almost lost my cookies at the smell of burning human flesh.

Multi bug infections are sometimes hard on me too...like MRSA plus pseudo plus yeast. Had an URI gonnorheal infection that was at the top of my nasty list too

reddgott · Feb 5, 2003

I always wondered what the gyn. and nurses thought about some of the trash monsters who show up at the the gynecologist's office or probably even worse.......the health dept.

I think I'm going to go PUKE right now.

deegal.lpn · Feb 5, 2003

I agree with all of you especially mouth nasties and some of the smells my nose comes in contact with especially the ones that stick in your nose for a long time that you sware you can almost taste. I wonder sometimes why I chose this career. Then I remember I love being a nurse.

canadiannurse21 · Feb 5, 2003

What you are all saying is true--I have experienced it and more--I am known as having the "iron stomach"--I can handle pretty much anything--butI have to say the worst smell for me ever was giving a bed bath to an 80 year old patient. Not that bad you say? Well even though it doesn't sound that bad, the second I lifted this mans blanket and gown I nearly fainted. He was a new admit from home, and putting aside the fact that he hadn't touched a wash cloth to his genitalia in I would guess months and months, he also had a full blown penile yeast infection of some sort--his entire "anatomy" was covered in white-yellow goop that made me throw up in my mouth the second I smelled it. He must have had it for years---give me a trach any day!!!

ShelleyERgirl, LPN · Feb 5, 2003

:p

Yuck! That gives a whole new meaning to the term, "fromunda" cheese!

Sharon · Feb 5, 2003

My favorite reoccurring worst procedures in order are

3.The quarterly de-ticking, de-lousing of the same rich, eccentric, husband and wife team in their late 80's. I did such a good job the residents would just hold them in the ED until I was scheduled to work on the floor.

2.Removing a quart of pus from the chest wound of a post CABG with osteomyelitis of the rib cage.

1.Open cardiac massage at the bed side on the medical floor.

AmAnRN · Feb 5, 2003

I absolutely hated dealing with colostomies! i think they should be outlawed! i also hated trach care/suctioning. And i gagged myself to death just watching someone put down an NG tube. Maybe thats one reason i am glad i am on O.B. although we had a medical pt. (overflow) on our floor last week who was 85 and needed an NG tube which the day nurses had to [attempt to] put down. well, they said that when they started putting it down, she threw up huge clots and stomach content all during which she was incontinent and peed the bed.. the nurses said they were covered in blood and stomach content!! they finally got her moved to a medical floor. (the one i used to work on)

debyan · Feb 5, 2003

In my experience I can do caths colotostomies, suctioning, wound care packing included ,eye balls, ear flushing, draw blood, but please don't make me give dulc suppositories to those old perverts, you know the ones the guy that makes you feel like you hang out at the street corner with the mattres tied to your back. :chair: deb

rnparrot · Feb 6, 2003

this is the best topic yet!! i have really never laughed so hard reading everyone's stories! You really do have to have a warped sick sense of humor to be a nurse!!!! The funniest stories are heard at parties where there are medical people...rn's, resp etc...i was at a party once where a resp person was telling his worst story...he had to assist a doc in a bedside removal of a necrotic toe...the patient was out of it and he said the doc basically just "flicked" the toe off and it flew across the room.....he nearly peed himself telling the story. I heard this BEFORE i ever considered nursing school....the stories only get better!! Keep them coming!!

rnparrot · Feb 6, 2003

this is the best topic yet!! i have really never laughed so hard reading everyone's stories! You really do have to have a warped sick sense of humor to be a nurse!!!! The funniest stories are heard at parties where there are medical people...rn's, resp etc...i was at a party once where a resp person was telling his worst story...he had to assist a doc in a bedside removal of a necrotic toe...the patient was out of it and he said the doc basically just "flicked" the toe off and it flew across the room.....he nearly peed himself telling the story. I heard this BEFORE i ever considered nursing school....the stories only get better!! Keep them coming!!

rowbucks · Feb 6, 2003

These are so gross!!! I have three to share.

1. I was working at a nursing home and an elderly gentleman was walking in the dining room and slipped on some water. needless to say he fell and fractured his leg. unknown to us how badly until the squad came and went to place a brace on the leg. the man was kind enough to help us lift his leg, and upon doing so, the distal portion of his leg litteraly bent at a 90 degree angle, broken tib/fib. YUK.

2. I worked in an ob/gyn office. The worst things i saw: rotten grapes removed from a ladies lady parts, forgotten tampons:( and lancing of a bartholins cyst that spewed all over the docs arm.

3. and the worst!! watching the initial incision on anything, after that first cut i'm ok, but that first slice!!!!!!!!!!!!