Oh no! please...please not that

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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?

Specializes in PICU/NICU.

ANYTHING to do with an eye injury- orbit smashed, eyelid flipped inside out- whatever! When I was in school, I had to go to see a cataract removal-no big deal right? Well when anesthesia put that BIG needle into that lady's muscle around her eye I was horrified......... what was worse, was when he asked her to follow his finger and only ONE eye moved........... EEEEEWWW! I hit the floor. That pretty much ruined me forever.

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GI bleed smell

UGH!!

:sfxpld:

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Geez, I am having spelling issues! "acrossed?" I think somewhere earlier I wrote "excellerated" too. ROFL... got to go to bed at a decent time tonight!:bugeyes:

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When I was in nursing school I went into a patients room that I don't think had been bathed in days, and when I pulled the sheet back to assess, the smell was horrible. I hate the smell of someone who has been laying in bed not being taken care of. I hate the smell of infected wounds, too. I will take the smell of poo anyday over dirty crusty smell and infection smell.

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Vomit is my down-fall! Just the smell of it gets me going. There are times when I can't even go into the room to assess a pt after they've vomited until it is all cleaned up and aired out. One time I even made the CNAs bring the lady into the hall so I could assess her! She was already in her wheelchair of-course!

In nursing school I almost hit the floor watching a hip reduction on an 11-year-old boy and had to leave the room during a chest tube insertion.

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

I must say the smell of a GI bleed!! can take days to get that smell out of your nose! Also vomit, but not just the smell, the warmth you can feel through your gloves when cleaning it up!! YUCK!!!:eek:

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Specializes in M/S, Travel Nursing, Pulmonary.

I can handle everything, and I mean everything.

Except, bone flaps missing make me want to run the other way.

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One of my professors showed us a video of a reverse vasectomy. Between the cauterization, squirting fluids, and having this guys innards across the opearating room like a clothes line, I knew I was going to hit the desk or floor hard. I was able to stumble out of the room and into fresh air.

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Specializes in Med surg, Critical Care, LTC.

Something about trach's, yuck - I can take care of them, but try to avoid it at all cost. Can't deal with facial trauma. I don't mean the black eye, or fat lip. The 16 y/o who had the corner of a plastic mail box imbeded in her right eye, punctured the eye ball, after an MVA. Vitrous humor dripping down her face. Or the GSW to the face, where most of the head is gone. Stuff like that. I dam near faint at the sight of it. Time has not made it easier, in fact, more things gross me out now than when I was a "new" nurse interested in everything. Everything was "cool". I was an adrenaline junky - then I got smart. Nearly amputated limbs also make me swoon.

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Specializes in cardiac, ortho, med surg, oncology.

gangrene. yuck. looks and smells bad

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Vomit. The sound, the smell... I can't even stand to see fake vomiting on television. Trach care also makes me feel a little green.

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Specializes in CVICU.

Ileostomy and colostomy bags. I would rather clean up a barnyard than empty one of those after someone has gotten tube feed. Seriously. :barf01:

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