Worst nursing proceedure ever....

c.wicks · Jan 21, 2003

Originally posted by nilepoc
Maggots??????????

if so, thats pretty bad.

Nilepoc, I wish you could have been there when I rolled her on her side and watched.......... as hundreds of wiggling white larvae squirmed to get back inside.

passing thru · Jan 21, 2003

This thread should be printed in the newspaper. Then, the public would understand how we earn our money and quit bi*****g.!

passing thru · Jan 21, 2003

And, those bedpans, , I always want to know....? WHY?? WHY is it that 80% of ALL our E.R. patients are not on the stretcher 30 minutes til they have to take a crapper?? And the doc hasn't seen them yet, so they aren't allowed to the toilet, so , here comes a big crapper...bedpan full.

I always think to myself, anyone able to get off and on a bedpan and fill it with poop isn't very sick.

emily_mom · Jan 21, 2003

Originally posted by passing thru
And, those bedpans, , I always want to know....? WHY?? WHY is it that 80% of ALL our E.R. patients are not on the stretcher 30 minutes til they have to take a crapper?? And the doc hasn't seen them yet, so they aren't allowed to the toilet, so , here comes a big crapper...bedpan full.

I always think to myself, anyone able to get off and on a bedpan and fill it with poop isn't very sick.

You know, you lose your dignity when you are forced to go to the bathroom in a bedpan. You have no privacy...noises....smell...and then someone comes along and looks at it.

Maybe it's all those undigested meat products coming out of their orifice.... :rolleyes:

sphinx, BSN, RN · Jan 23, 2003

I can add the usual things, but one thing that got me was from when I was a student. Now, I can handle wounds, have observed several surgeries in one capacity or just to watch....but I had this one clinical day in a GYN clinic, and there was a patient in to get her Norplants removed. That was the most disgusting thing ever. I mean, the NP gives her the lidocaine, then uses a scalpel, then starts digging around, gets a couple out, but the others are lost, deep, whatever. She keeps injecting more lido, which just grossed me out more (I hate the needle going right into the wound and being poked around) and the scalpel digging around, and blood dripping down the girl's arm...the girl was just watching it all, like no big deal. Meanwhile I am retching, and all of a sudden everything went black and I knew I was gonna faint. So head between the knees, got to a chair, somoeone came and put an icepack on my neck. I was mortified. I've never had that happen since then, but will never forget. Up to that point I'd been thinking I'd try Norplant. That certainly changed my mind!!!!!!

CashewLPN, LPN · Jan 23, 2003

what was under the bed?!?!!?!

hmm... grossest.... well.... assisting for a debridment of a woman w/ necrotising faciitis.... Yuk... it was about her 9th debridment, and they were doing it up on the rehab unit... and it STUNK and BLED.... and, i thought it was cool...

recent grossest?

we have that 2 day flu (norfolk ? virus...)

they all have N-V-D...nausea vomitting Diarrhea... YUK

and, thats all 40 of them... even better-- nobody's allowed off the unit except to come onto the floor, and go home.... (our meals are brought up, and they have given us the tx room as a lounge until we are 'clear')

eeewww....

--Barbara

dianthe1013 · Jan 24, 2003

Hmm. Poop, puke, snot, sputum, mucocutaneous manifestations of viral and infectious disease... Bring it. I'm fine. Maggots? Well, I used to be a forensic science major, so I'm used to the little squigglers.

The one thing I CANNOT stand? The sound of a bone snapping. Just makes me drop in a dead, dead faint. Can't take it. I have only ever broken my coccyx and was unaware of it until the next day, but my sister fell out of a tree and broke her arm once. My mom came running and thought we were BOTH dead.

Donna :)

zudy · Jan 24, 2003

Oh, baseline, I'm with you, I can do GI bleeds, TLC an OD, bedpans,ect. Pus doesn't bother me, even butt pus, in fact in my old ER I was known as the Pus Queen. ( And I have the tiara to prove it.) But please, the thought of CREPIDUS, bones grinding, :eek: It gives me the bad willies to even think about it! AND FEET!!!!!!! Too gross for words!!

JohnnyGage · Jan 24, 2003

Originally posted by dianthe1013
The one thing I CANNOT stand? The sound of a bone snapping. Just makes me drop in a dead, dead faint. Can't take it. I have only ever broken my coccyx and was unaware of it until the next day, but my sister fell out of a tree and broke her arm once. My mom came running and thought we were BOTH dead.

Donna :)

I'm with you on that one! What's worse I think is when a fracture is being reduced and you can see the bones moving under the skin and hear the crunching? Yeah. Not good.

adrienurse, LPN · Jan 24, 2003

Trache care - definately the trache care. Or anything else involving sputum. Bring on anything else.

canadian · Jan 24, 2003

I funded my way through nursing school working on a plastics unit as a NA. One of my jobs was babysitting the leeches. They would be on a nasty smelly wound sucking away and then would fall off and I would pick them up with forceps and drop them into a jar. One time I wasn't paying attention and one got onto my forearm....Nurses came running from other units when they heard the scream!

Mkue · Jan 24, 2003

Originally posted by canadian
I funded my way through nursing school working on a plastics unit as a NA. One of my jobs was babysitting the leeches. They would be on a nasty smelly wound sucking away and then would fall off and I would pick them up with forceps and drop them into a jar. One time I wasn't paying attention and one got onto my forearm....Nurses came running from other units when they heard the scream!

That would be one of the grossest jobs, babysitting leeches !