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?

Puke.

I don't know why, it's just nasty to me.

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Specializes in ER, TRAUMA, MED-SURG.
Puke.

I don't know why, it's just nasty to me.

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Oh, yeah!! Just nasty! Thank goodness it doesn't bother me so much, as it does my dh who has been an RN for more than 20 yrs. I have a lot of GI problems, and unfortunately spend more time than I would like puking. My dh tries to get by me and hold my hair and get me a washcloth.

I have noticed at times, he gets "the look" on his face and excuses himself to go outside for a minute, allegedly to smoke, but probably also to get a little fresh air. Poor thing, he does try. I have known him 18 yrs and never seen him even think he was feeling like he would puke.

He is a real sweetie, wouldn't trade him for anything!

Anne, RNC

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Specializes in Internal Medicine,Surgery, Wound Care.
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?

hi:

the one thing and the only thing that gets me is:

setting the lpn up to fail. there is no way on this entire earth that a lpn can care for 40 patients in 8 hours. one by passing meds, two by treatments and three all the paper work that is involved.. ok.. not too much paper work....

so now that i am a new lpn and have worked as one for the past 2 1/2 months, i feel my job is to race around the unit and give out the meds by 5:30pm and stop and go in the dining room to feed the residents. then i have to pass out the rest of the meds by 11pm and count and give report and do the books. i won't have to do the treatments as long as they have someone to be the treatment nurse (while orienting) however, once they feel i'm good to go... i will have to do the treatments too.

really com'on now...... don't you feel like you are short changing the residents? i do, sorry, can't help it. as soon as i get in the place i start racing inside and sweating like a dog. there are finger sticks to get by 4:30pm....

ok.. so maybe i need to give it more time... but i still feel like the lpn is set up to fail. we have to bring the cart into the room and not pass the closet in order to give the right meds to the right person. but the rooms are so darn dark...... i prepare the stuff outside the room and then pull the cart into the room and then pull it back out to double check i didn't forget an eye drop or a flush or fill in the blank..i do have a book light on my cart, just in case i need to read something and not have to push the heavy cart back out of the room. and let's not forget about the people with chair monitors and behaviors... have to run after them in time before they fall.

guess we need more people to become nursing staff and care about the residents. maybe i'm not getting it or maybe that is just how it is... i just feel sorry for the residents. they want you to talk to them and you can't cause you are running to the next room to beat the clock!

so yeah, i can do any care there is to do on a resident or should i say a person. just wish i had more time to get some stuff done or less of a work load so i can feel accomplished. i wanted to be a nurse, not a race car driverdrug pusher. i don't know how you all do it and do it so well.

do you have any tricks you can tell me??? any hope or light at the end of the tunnel?

happy new year

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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?

I still can't deal with poor working conditions, jerk doctors, work politics or mean co-workers! They gross me out and turn my stomach!

As far as blood, guts, poop, barf, wounds, or whatever- no problem!

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I see there are quite a few people who don't do phlegm very well. That is my weakness too. I don't mind the pus stuff, unless it smells pretty bad. That will make me leave the room in the calmest manner possible.

One of my co-workers can't stand feet. I don't understand that...:confused:

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my vote goes to the phelm. just cann't hang. major reason why i'm not a respirotory tech.

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It's probably already been said, but I can NOT, for the life of me, empty a suction canister. I just can't do it. I couldn't do it as a tech, and I still can't as a nurse. I can suction w/o any issues, but when it comes time to empty that canister, I have to ask someone else to do it for me. I usually return the favor by doing something they can't / won't like to do.

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Specializes in Occupational, rehab.

I hate vomit I will almost run out of the room if I think a patient is about to do it

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Specializes in LTC.

Umm....I absolutely despise any kind of ostomy...ileostomy, colostomy, jejunostomy eww....I have a very hard time emptying one and cleaning it...the smell just does something to me. the first one I ever saw made me soooooooo nauseated but...i learned how to deal with it by rubbing a lil bit of vicks vaporub in my nose....and holding my breath as long as possible.....seemed to help me out alot.

eye drops bother me too...the whole eyelid thing is just ....ughhh....

one of the worst though for me.....is any and all types of lady partsL meds....douches, vagifems....doesnt matter to me...makes me wanna vomit every single time. when the doc orders a douche...I wanna ask him why he's punishing me lol.

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