What is the one thing that turns your stomach?

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Surely everyone has at least one thing that they can't handle. ;) Maybe you can do blood and guts and poo, but the smell of pee gets you? What is the one thing that messes you up? Did you know going in to school that it was going to be your weakness, or were you surprised when you ran out of the room the first time?

Mine is ortho. I can take all the nursing smells and sights, but I will hit the floor if I hear bones crunching or grinding. I can see them, no problem. But the chiseling/grinding sounds of ortho surgeries...shudder! Even fake TV sounds get me.

What was it that changed your mind?

The lady partsl checks. I didn't have any prior experience with childbirth and I had no clue nurses did this.

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Specializes in CMSRN, hospice.

Stinky breath. I work as a hospice aide, and a lot of my actively dying patients have horrrrrrrible breath, so mouthcare is quite a priority for me! LOL, and I thought I wanted to be a dental hygienist for a while...

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Anything having to do with childbirth (regular, not c-sections), lady partsl exams, periods, etc. *shudder*

I'm in still in school but girls parts are just gross. When I was getting ready to start pushing with both of my kids, they pulled down those mirrors from the ceiling so I could see. I promptly asked them to put that back up. The nurses tried to persuade me otherwise but relented (and laughed hysterically) when I told them "If God wanted me to see that, he would have put that hole somewhere else!"

I can handle big, festering stinky wounds and all sorts of gross things but girls parts and the sound of someone vomiting turn my stomach.

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I'm in still in school but girls parts are just gross. When I was getting ready to start pushing with both of my kids, they pulled down those mirrors from the ceiling so I could see. I promptly asked them to put that back up. The nurses tried to persuade me otherwise but relented (and laughed hysterically) when I told them "If God wanted me to see that, he would have put that hole somewhere else!"

I can handle big, festering stinky wounds and all sorts of gross things but girls parts and the sound of someone vomiting turn my stomach.

Lol I feel the exact same way. That's why I know I could never work in OB.

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Specializes in ED.

Not a fan of super odoriferous poo, including osotmy bags. I'm also not a big vomit fan, but I can handle vomit faaaar better than I can the poo. Also unwashed genitals. Nothing else bothers me. And the funny thing is...I was a vet tech before nursing school. Animals can have some RANK feces, especially parvo patients. Those never bothered me. Nothing in animal medicine phased me at all. But man, humans and their poop have a way with me, lol. I have yet to barf over it, but ugh...I have to hold my breath and flee as soon as I can.

Anything else... BRING IT! Blood, gore, bones cracking, NG tube drainage, let's GO. Just no poo please, lol.

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