Is there anything you still can't do?

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Meaning it grosses you out, makes you faint, turns your stomach, etc. Is there anything that still gets to you? If so, what is it, and how does it effect you while working?

Specializes in Sub-Acute, Skilled, Home Health.

i have been a home health nurse for some months now and i still can't stand changing diapers, especially b.m. i get the "yuck" face though i try not to.

also seeing a vent client makes me want to turn tail because i have to be more careful. my eyes get big, my heart starts beating loud, i get anxious.. it's terrible. lol:p

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Specializes in psych. rehab nursing, float pool.

I can't dance, so don't ask me, I can't dance don't ask me

I think of that song everytime I see the title of the post....:wink2:

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Specializes in Mental Health.

Bowel evacuations...I did it once don't look forward to doing it again.:no:

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Specializes in ICU, PICC Nurse, Nursing Supervisor.

i can handle anything..pee poo g-tube exploding on me but let me tell you if one of my patients has a toenail hanging off..oh my gosh i cant handle it.

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Specializes in TCU.

Not much grosses me out anymore....when I decided to become an RN I decided to watch other nurses care for some pretty fierce decubs, caths, etc.

Once, while taking care of a elderly woman who had a hiatal hernia, and frequently threw up after meals, as I was getting her ready, she began c/o of nausea, so I went to get a nurse to give her antiemetic.....back in the room.....guess what....she is heaving......what do I do....hold out my hands (that was the only thing close enough)! I just didn't feel like cleaning vomitus up, (she was still in bed). I walked into the lavatory, dumped IT into the toilee, washed my hands REAL good, all while the nurse stared at me in wide eyed amazement!

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.
Trach care, I will beg borrow, take what ever else another nurse has to do , if they will please just do the trach care for me. It is not that I do not know how, it simply grosses me out.

Ditto that. I can take anything but the trach...

There's something about those secretions just not letting go...! Yuck.

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Specializes in CNA.
Sputum and phlegm are repulsive to me. Therefore, my stomach churns when I'm doing trach care, suctioning, or emptying a suction canister that is full of yellowish sputum, saliva, and boogers.

OMG just reading that made my stomach churn! ! ughh

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Specializes in Hospice, ER.

Scummy teeth and grotty toe-nails. Anything else, but those teeth and toes!

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Specializes in med surg.
Sputum and phlegm are repulsive to me. Therefore, my stomach churns when I'm doing trach care, suctioning, or emptying a suction canister that is full of yellowish sputum, saliva, and boogers.

Same here. As well with people's dentures in. I don't know what it is just makes me gag. Shannon

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Specializes in ER, TRAUMA, MED-SURG.

One thing with me has always been oral care to a patient that is a mouth breather and keeps that thick lugie funk on their tongue and roof of their mouths. Makes me gag just thinking about it tonight, learned to do it without getting sick pretty quickly, but it still gets to me.

I guess on kind of a nonrelated topic one of the only things I can think of that I was scared of, make that terrified of was defib ing patients. I have worked in ICUs and ERs for many years and somehow always was able to position myself somewhere other than the paddles, accesses, pushing drugs, ect. Just anything to aviod that. It just scared the mess out of me, not sure why. When I was in nursing school, classmates were in getting a tour of the trauma room and we had 2 male nurses, and they were kidders. One of them acted like he was going to shock the other one on the head, and OMG... Needless to say they didn't stay in our class.

My dh is also an RN and he is a nursing supervisor and we worked together on occasions, and in codes. He never knew about my fright until I told him one day after finishing a code, and he said, "Well, the next doce we work together just consider that your position." I have since then had to retire due to labile HTN, running as high as 230/140, and really yucky 24 hour holter monitors.

So, he still laughs with me that I got away without having to do it, but that is something that I always wanted to do but just a big chicken. My hope in posting this is that if there is anyone else out there in cyber nursing and is nervous about something, please do it before it turns into a fear that you feel like you can't do.

Anne

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Specializes in ER, TRAUMA, MED-SURG.
Mucous in any form, from any orifice.

And feet. Footcare is a nightmare.

Rectal abscess, wound dehis and intestines on your bed, no problem, just don't need suctioning while I'm there.

OMG!!! How could I forget about feet?! That thing is one that would make me gag before a lot of other things. My first dh and I had dated for almost 6 months before he even saw my feet, and doing feet on the floor at the hospital, just gross. Not sure why...

Anne, RNC

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTC/Geriatric.

Big, thick, crusty yellow toenails gross me out much more than bodily fluids :barf01:

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