Making others faint and fall out at the dinner table

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Nurses can talk about anything and everything at anytime. We forget that some of the things we talk about might make others turn green and gag. Splattering blood, thick, tenacious mucus, smelly body excretions ... these are topics that don't go well with the spaghetti the family's eating. Heck, nurses can eat with one hand and clean up vomit with the other. So, have you been asked to change the subject at the dinner table?

Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

Its almost too easy with my mom. It all started when I would explain my cadaver labs to her. Now I have to severely edit any story I tell her.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

My mom and I are both nurses. The stories we don't even think about as being gross probably really are, but our family has grown accustomed enough to ignore us. My son is a PT and when we swap horror stories at my in-laws they all turn kind of green and ask us to stop, guess we don't have them used to it...yet! My son and I are both just rotten enough to kind of enjoy making the rest of the family uncomfortable, so the grosser the story the better.

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Specializes in cardiac-telemetry, hospice, ICU.

When dining at my parents house someone will ask me something like: "anything interesting happen at work lately?" As I draw my breath to speak, my Dad's upper lip starts to curl up.

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I'm laughing so hard!!! My friend is in the middle of nursing school and I'm on my way next fall so we tell stories all the time. My brother can't stand seeing me get pricked with a sewing pin and my friend's dad is bothered by RAW CHICKEN in the grocery store!! So when this topic (https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialBizarreER/videos) comes up one or both of them will glare at us significantly and march off. Too funny and she's only been in clinicals a few weeks! #nursesrock ;)

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Specializes in CVOR, CVICU/CTICU, CCRN.

Frequently! My family constantly asks how I like my work (Critical-Care/ED RN and EMT) when I come by for a visit and make the unconscious mistake of pressing for details. They're learning (slowly) not to ask about it around the dinner table or when delicately -stomached family members are present . . .

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