I just can't...

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...handle loose/pulling teeth!! It is a spine tingling, goose-bump inducing hard limit for me! I mean, once they're out, I'm good. Its just the sight of the wiggling tooth and the act of pulling it out that just makes me squeamish, man-oh-man!! I'm soooooo thankful for my admin assistant who is willing to handle this ever prevalent occurrence in the school setting! But that makes me curious....

....what's your hard limit? Do you have something that, if you can, you pass on to someone else?

I can not stand it when the little darlings eat their boogers... euw :(

The other thing that gets me is the unique odor of a leaking encopretic... gag!

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Specializes in NICU.

Oral stuff,secretions,vomit,odor,fungus etc.....removing/replacing the suction cannister.If it is tooo full I get really sick>

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I don't mind it when people don't wipe their butts.

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Specializes in School nursing.
Eyes, that is the Kryptonite for both my wife and I. I steel myself when a student comes in covering an eye. My poker face will fail immediately. Our pug had a partial avulsion a few years ago, neither of us were any good.

This used to be it for me. Eyes just grossed me out. Everything was meh. But school nursing has helped me get a bit past that and I have become a champion at putting saline drops into a squirming MS or HS child's eye(s).

But, I still have to compose myself a little at the scent of a clearly not washed in a I'm-not-sure-how-long uniform sweater/sweatshirt. That smells gets to me a bit.

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Specializes in School Nurse, past Med Surge.

I don't do teeth, but not because I'm grossed out or anything. I just don't. I've got a pretty iron stomach & not much gets to me. There was one time when a special needs girl with beautiful long hair puked a huge chunky puke & it got all over herself & in her beautiful long hair. That was pretty gross.

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Specializes in School Nurse.

Snotty noses that need to be blown. Please don't talk to me with a nose full of snot and keep sucking it in. GROSS!!!

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Specializes in Telemetry, Gastroenterology, School Nrs.

I don't do teeth! If they have a loose tooth, I tell them they may wriggle it around to get it out, but I'm not doing it. It grosses me out ,LOL! I didn't even pull my own kids' teeth when they were at that age! Nope. Not doing it. Nu uh. No way!

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Specializes in School Nurse, past Med Surge.

I have two things I wish I could pass to someone else: Eye injures and Insect killing. I had a student with a broken blood vessel in his eye from an impact injury and my eyes wouldn't stop tearing up (Just thinking about it now makes my eyes water!)

I bet you'd really be creeped out by this: We have two kiddos here who, when they have had a bloody nose, have had blood come out thier eyes!

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Not much grosses me out too much, but I also wouldn't pull a tooth. One tip that helped me is that a wide smile will suppress the gag reflex. I used that this weekend when I was cleaned a winter's worth of dog crap out of the back yard. Anyone walking by must have thought I was unnaturally happy about doing this chore. lol!

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Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.

Oh I love pulling teeth!! Maybe because my own children NEVER let me! LOL

I really hate vomit and diarrhea...both make me gag!

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Specializes in NCSN.
I bet you'd really be creeped out by this: We have two kiddos here who, when they have had a bloody nose, have had blood come out thier eyes!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh that would definitely test my acting skills because I would be panicked if that happened to one of my kiddos here

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