Just wondering, since I have one of my own... what are your phobias as a nurse? I know some people don't like sputum (the deeeeep down thick stuff) and so on, but is there something of which you have a deep down, debilitating fear? I guess it doesnt even have to be related to nursing...
FYI, this crossed my mind because I have a memory of being 6 years old or so and the movie Mask being on the TV (the Cher one, not the Jim Carrey one) and I cried and hid in the closet. Now, maybe that didn't do it, but I honestly have a fear of that kind of deformity. I can't even watch the FX channel because I saw on the channel guide the other day that it was on. And recently, there was a yahoo news picture of a severely deformed boy's face, and I nearly passed out. I haven't been to my 'My Yahoo' page in over a month now. Weird? I dunno, but I get upset just thinking about it at home alone.
I'm terrified that we're going to get a harlequin icthyosis baby at work. DO NOT google that if you aren't prepared for it. It's a truly tragic and horrifying skin condition. I've seen pictures (due to unwise googling) and ever since I've dreaded it. We do get them occasionally on the unit, but I haven't seen it yet.
I'm terrified that we're going to get a harlequin icthyosis baby at work. DO NOT google that if you aren't prepared for it. It's a truly tragic and horrifying skin condition. I've seen pictures (due to unwise googling) and ever since I've dreaded it. We do get them occasionally on the unit, but I haven't seen it yet.
I'm terrified that we're going to get a harlequin icthyosis baby at work. DO NOT google that if you aren't prepared for it. It's a truly tragic and horrifying skin condition. I've seen pictures (due to unwise googling) and ever since I've dreaded it. We do get them occasionally on the unit, but I haven't seen it yet.
when i first started nsg school, the harlequin baby was one of the first pictures i noticed in my mosby's dictionary.
and i literally cried....for hrs.
it was right there and then, i decided i would never, ever go into nicu.
ohh, just thought of one thing I am truly scared of in nursing. Portable O2 tanks. Scared the bejeebies out of me. I had a incident when I was 5 months pregnant with my dd, working LTC one weekend, this lol's O2 tank starts making this horrible, extremely LOUD noise.
Of course everyone else ran away, (and boy did I want to) the lol couldn't just jump up and run. She was a double amputee in a w/c. Anyway, it being my job and all, I cautiously make my way over. At about 3 feet away, a little plastic thing flies off the tank and hits me in my pregnant abdomen. Had a bruise for 2 weeks.
Never did figure out what was wrong, just shut the supply and got a new one. Give me a concentrator any day.
Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.
Oral care---especially dentures---and feet give me the willies! Give me an infected Stage IV decub or tracheal suctioning any day...........but hand me a set of teeth with three days' worth of food on 'em, and I'm apt to yawp. Same with feet---if the stink doesn't get me, the sight of toe-jam will.:grn:
I'm not good with GI bleeds either. I'll deal with it if I have to, but oh, Lord, how awful that odor is...it has to be one of the worst smells in the world.
I'm terrified that we're going to get a harlequin icthyosis baby at work. DO NOT google that if you aren't prepared for it. It's a truly tragic and horrifying skin condition. I've seen pictures (due to unwise googling) and ever since I've dreaded it. We do get them occasionally on the unit, but I haven't seen it yet.
Oh my god! I accidentally came upon some pics of this once, since then I've had nightmares!
Count me in for the eye phobia also, especially people with crossed or lazy eyes. I feel sooooo horrible, but I can't look at them when they speak.
Also, passing gas. I can't stand to hear patients do it. For some reason, it just sounds painful?! and I know I will soon have to clean up a code brown.
I have an irrational fear of motorcycles. I'm always worried that a motorcycle will wipe out in front of my car. I would have to help the victim. So I'm always driving with my fingers crossed around motorcycles and I try to give them plenty of room.
Oh, and spewing trach sputum is always especially gross to me.
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elizabells, BSN, RN
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I'm terrified that we're going to get a harlequin icthyosis baby at work. DO NOT google that if you aren't prepared for it. It's a truly tragic and horrifying skin condition. I've seen pictures (due to unwise googling) and ever since I've dreaded it. We do get them occasionally on the unit, but I haven't seen it yet.