Oh no! please...please not that

hotmama2be · Feb 20, 2009

Oh man I had a resident that had diahrea and I was changing his brief while he was standing, and he had a BM while I was changing him. It squirted everywhere all over my shoes the smell was horrific it literally choked me . I stepped outside and the rest of the night even after I took a shower the smell stuck in my nose .

I love my cat! · Feb 20, 2009

I can deal with anything except fecal matter.

From a baby or a 99 year old patient. I HATE fecal matter.

It makes me gag and/or vomit.....and no, I have never gotten "use to it".....I never will and I get very irritated when people tell me that I will get use to it. I don't tell others that they are going to get use to something they hate.

It's OK to not be able to tolerate something! It doesn't make you a 'Bad Nurse'.

Sure, I'm thrilled and envious that other Nurses don't mind poop, but it's not going to change for me.

Oh, and it never seems better or easier or less smelly or less messy or whatever people always try to convince me of.

I hate it.

(How's that? LOL )

truern · Feb 20, 2009

I just recently found my weakness. Unfortunately I was the pt. this time. Inpatient for abcsess(MRSA) ended up needing a CT, I have kidney issues so my good ol' doc decided he needed to protect them from the contrast by making me drink Mucomyst(acetylcysteine) every 8 hours for 24 hrs. prior. I have give this med in nebulizer to thin out mucous ect.. but never have I had to make a pt drink it. Omg, was put in with 9ml of coca cola to supposedly hide the taste..right. Had to hold my nose just chug it fast gag and chase with ice cold coke. Smells just like rotten eggs mixed with hair perm solution. The smell was coming out of my pores for 2 days afterwards. I don't know if I will ever be able to ask a pt to drink this stuff. So far nothing else has ever made me sick just this med.

Have you ever had the "pleasure" of pushing too much air into the vial and having Mucomyst blow up all over you?!? Talk about smelling like rotten egss and hair perm!! I still can't believe I did that

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say just today I heaved myself silly because my cousin's DOG with allergies blew a huge string of tenacious yellow snot booger.....oh, geeze!! I'm still weak-stomached.

sharpeimom · Feb 20, 2009

Have you ever had the "pleasure" of pushing too much air into the vial and having Mucomyst blow up all over you?!? Talk about smelling like rotten egss and hair perm!! I still can't believe I did that
I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say just today I heaved myself silly because my cousin's DOG with allergies blew a huge string of tenacious yellow snot booger.....oh, geeze!! I'm still weak-stomached.

Then just be glad you don't have a shar-pei! They are adorable and have great personalities and are real lovers but because of how their muzzles and nasal canals re designed, they're champion snorers and mucus producers. During people allergy season, sometimes their noses run too... Gotta love 'em though.

Too bad he can't learn to blow his nose. Sorry for your experience.

sharpeimom:paw::paw:

MHaffer · Feb 20, 2009

Since I'm still in school, I know I still have a lot of nasty stuff to see...but I have been a surgical assistant for an oral surgeon for about a year, and I've felt a little woozy a few times. The worst for me is the combination of something gross (smelly abcessed tooth) and a person who is fighting and screaming. I can handle a few moans, but when they are wailing in pain it really bothers me! I get all hot and woozy :barf01:

hemoglobin · Feb 20, 2009

hi i am not sure i am in the right place, but i am planning on studying medical assisting. how is that figure in the 'nursing' place? any opinion, advice would be welcome before i commit myself to a financial debt! thanks.

hellerd2003, RN · Feb 20, 2009

people say that everybody in medicine has got something, something that totally grosses them out.
this tissue, organ, bodily function is avoided at all costs or you'll :barf01:.
i haven't come acrossed mine yet... (i'm a little scared of what it'll be, i know its lurking out there somewhere).
what's yours?

dentures. can't to dentures. god forbid if i get my own. i'll be gumming everything!

sharpeimom · Feb 20, 2009

Dentures. Can't to dentures. God forbid if I get my own. I'll be gumming everything!

I couldn't agree more! Two things keep me going to the dentist regularly -- having to deal with the dreaded denture inside MY OWN mouth when they gross me out if I don't go, having to face my dentist grandfather in the next life and explain why I let my teeth go and I guess a third thing would be that our dentist lives two houses away and is a good friend. He'd haul me into his office by my toe, with me kicking and screaming the entire way, if he had to. Did I mention he's a pedie dentist?

sharpeimom:paw::paw:

I_LOVE_TRAUMA, RN · Feb 20, 2009

I work trauma, and have gotten used to every sight, gross sights don't bother me. But for you guys that talk about the eyeballs, yeah, it makes me hurt to see that.

Only 2 smells get me..

1. the "pelvic" room, because these ladies not only come in waaaaay after the discharge begins. but I think that they are afraid that bathing will make it worse or something!

2. Trachs and resp don't bother me at all, but I once got a NH pt with a necrotic trach site (looked just like rotten hamburger), and no one in our ER had ever smelled anything like it, dx was pseudomonas, but it smelled waaay worse. One of our PAs smelled it in the hall, started gagging while suiting up, and then said, "nope, sorry, your on your own doc."

fuzzywuzzy, CNA · Feb 20, 2009

Have you ever had the "pleasure" of pushing too much air into the vial and having Mucomyst blow up all over you?!? Talk about smelling like rotten egss and hair perm!! I still can't believe I did that
I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say just today I heaved myself silly because my cousin's DOG with allergies blew a huge string of tenacious yellow snot booger.....oh, geeze!! I'm still weak-stomached.

I love animals, but they gross me out. I am a CNA and can tolerate a lot of things that come out of human bodies, but I cannot handle animal stuff. I don't know how on Earth anyone who lives in the city can walk their dogs and pick up the crap in a baggie. Whenever I think of that I'm so GLAD I live in the country!

In terms of people stuff... i really really hate the BM of people who take iron pills. You can always tell. It has such a distinct smell. I hate it.

Sterren, BSN, RN · Feb 20, 2009

Another vote for feet. Unclipped toenails and the sticky stinky gunk in between the toes. I'm feeling a little queasy just thinking about it. I can't even get pedicures, I have such issues with gross feet and where those (I know, sterilized) tools may have been and what kind of NASTY toes they may have encountered. Disgusting.

sharpeimom · Feb 20, 2009

Another vote for feet. Unclipped toenails and the sticky stinky gunk in between the toes. I'm feeling a little queasy just thinking about it. I can't even get pedicures, I have such issues with gross feet and where those (I know, sterilized) tools may have been and what kind of NASTY toes they may have encountered. Disgusting.

GAAAAAACCCCKKKKK! Having to wear sox (maybe even in bed and in the shower too) should be mandatory once people get past the cute little baby feet age. And, of course, sandals would be out the window unless you signed a contract agreeing to keep them ungross or face very heavy fines or maybe heavy labor for a repeat offense...

sharpeimom:paw::paw: