The sight of blood makes me pass out.

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As a nurse, we are surrounded by blood, germs, sickness, etc. What is the one thing that makes your stomach turn? What makes you queasy? Oh, if you have some stories to tell please share ... inquiring minds want to know ?

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kaela_v said:
Buuuuut I do not want their v-a-g-I-n-a all over my un-gloved hands!

Amen!

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Specializes in ER.
nursefrances said:
You...TrevyRn made me seriously laugh out loud with your previous posts.

This post reminded me of a lady who thought worms were coming out of her eyes and fingers. The dry skin on her fingers were worms and eye drainage from a plugged/infected tear duct were the worms coming out of her eyes. It was interesting the first time I met her and she had a big magnifying glass. She kept saying, "There! Don't you see them?"

I personally would be grossed out driving home from work with the smell of C-diff still in my nose. I imagined little microscopic particles of C-diff....in my nose. Fun.

At work I could handle most body fluids. Bad/plaque breath in my face...Blech!

I work in Ophthalmology with eye surgeons. Most people are grossed out by eyes but I have always found them fascinating.

ECH! I hate psychological c-diff particles. Sometimes I wish I could wash my arms and face with a firehose before I go home. Or burn all of my scrubs. The ER can be a cesspool. What scares me is people carrying stuff in they don't know they have. When someone is like "I have Hep-C" or "I've had MRSA" I'm relieved because I KNOW THEY HAVE IT. Always treat people kindly, but also like they ALL HAVE GonnoMRSAHerpeSyphillAIDS!

Eye patients are awesome fun! But sometimes, they look silly and I want to laugh at either how funny their eye looks (like when an innocent little kid has an evil pink or reddish sclera, or grandma looks like she was in an awesome bar fight), or how sad the situation is. Laughing is my coping mechanism, which is often inappropriate! I'm like - "this DNR grandpa's sats are 33% - this sux - LOL!" People insist I'm very professional though so I guess I'm mostly laughing in my mind.

Someone's labs came back the other day with a blood glucose of 1620 - outrageous. Starting laughing maniacally in the nursing station. I always did want to be a Saturday morning cartoon villain....gotta keep practicing.

Thx for your post NurseFrances ?

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amoLucia said:
emptying a colostomy with identifiable UNDIGESTED food contents

Elderly lady from nursing home came in with a brain bleed the other day in the ER. Had to suction her barfed beans and hot dogs out of her mouth and clean them off the bed and floor. I'm not ordering BBQ beans or heading to Weinerschitzchel anytime soon!

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Nothing had every grossed me out until a confused client with a SBO pulled out his NG and caused him to "exorcists style vomit" BM smelling vomit covering almost every square inch of himself, me and the room. Until that- I thought I was immuned to everything!

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

I was helping a hand surgeon in the ED once repair a nasty laceration on the dorsum of this guy's hand. He asked me to photograph the repair job at certain points of the procedure. I'm happily photographing away (the patient is playing along- once numbed- by saying "Work with me, baby!" like some paparazzi) when all of the sudden hand surgeon says to snap a picture. I look through the view finder to see him holding two white tendons with two hemostats. I came *this close* to passing out/ puking.

Not sure why that happened, but to this day (30+ years later) tendons/ hands are NOT my thing. :(

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Emesis is my nemesis.

The sight, smell, and especially that horrible wretching sound.

I will leave the room until you're done, unless you want me puking along side you.

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meanmaryjean said:
I was helping a hand surgeon in the ED once repair a nasty laceration on the dorsum of this guy's hand. He asked me to photograph the repair job at certain points of the procedure. I'm happily photographing away (the patient is playing along- once numbed- by saying "Work with me, baby!" like some paparazzi) when all of the sudden hand surgeon says to snap a picture. I look through the view finder to see him holding two white tendons with two hemostats. I came *this close* to passing out/ puking.

Not sure why that happened, but to this day (30+ years later) tendons/ hands are NOT my thing. :(

Really? Tendons are the least gross part of interstitial anatomy.

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Specializes in Ambulatory Surgery, Ophthalmology, Tele.

Once when coming back from lunch I was told "Nursefrances you missed all the action." A patient (not mine) was on the bedside commode with her husband sitting by her so the nurse could do some other duties. Hubby decided to excuse himself for "Just a minute" from the room and didn't tell anyone. Of course this is when the patient (with a fairly new CVA with hemiparesis) decides to try to go back in her bed on her own. She ended up knocking over the bedside commode (of course she was probably on golytely or something that would assist in the production of liquid stool.) And said liquid stool ended up all over the room. The patient was ok but there was a serious mess to clean up. When I got back they had just finished cleaning everything up.

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Finger painters......Need I say more?

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I know this is not nursing related but, dog food! The ground kind, it makes me gag every time... Oh and the fishy smelling cat food with chunks... and, cans of salmon with with scales and vertebrae bones, eww. This all bothers my worse than anything at work, although sputum has gotten to me a time or two.

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GrnTea said:
::note to self::

Do NOT read these threads ... nnngggggghhhhhhhhhrrrrrr

I seem to say that to myself every day, but I still keep coming back. I must be a glutton for punishment! Now I have the heebie jeebies!

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Blech...

Just remembered this lady that was post-op for a foot surgery that came in to the ER last month. Some of her stitches had split apart and she was worried she might have an infection around the incision site.

The site actually looked pretty good, not red, warm, or pus-oozing or anything and she was afebrile.

"Why are you worried it's infected?" I asked.

"I was walking around in the chicken coop barefoot and got chickensh** in it. I also pulled a dog hair out this part (points to part deep in the incision site) this morning."

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