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all the "great" procedures were gonna get to do and also the ones we dont get to do. I must say I wont mind catheters but the tubes in the nose I might lose it. :barf01:

Nurses can:

1. Start IV's :nurse:

2. do catheters

3. feeding tubes

3. enemas (yay) :no:

4. what else

Nurses dont:

1.) do chest tubes or intubate ?

What do you guys think? and what do you dread/look forward to?????

-FNPHopeful

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Anything regarding childbirth...

and or foleys on the morbidly obese.

I don't thing anything else can bother me.

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Specializes in Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy.

Is childbirth really the grossest thing you can think of? Why?

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Specializes in PICU.

I am doing my OB rotation now and i love it. It is different. And dont for one second think that we will know everything becuase we are women. i am a woman, gave birth to 2 children and i am still like huh??? Did I go through that??? Its a wonderful thing.

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Personally, I cannot wait to do OB! Being a mommy of four I know what it involves and I can't wait to be a part of that experience! My view may be somewhat partial since someday I want to become a CNM.

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Yea I think childbirth will be awesome. I only hope that I'll have the opportunity to work with it.

Catheters dont sound good though, and anything dealing with mucus. I had an old lady when I was a CNA -I dont remember what she had- but her bed rails and all over was always covered with bloody mucus. YUCK

RNs dont do chest tubes or intubate though do they??

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Yea the morbidly obese. (God help them) but some have huge overlaps of skin that gets all infected under neath...............

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.

I am currently doing my clinical rotation at a nursing home. I would have to say the grossest (for me) sputum.

Looking forward to Peds and OB rotation!

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I have nightmares about grown-ups and poo. :imbar Really.

Which is why the thought of sick kids doesn't bother me. Roll on peds! I know, I know; we'll all be patients eventually, and I hope the RNs, LPNs, and CNAs who end up taking care of me in my old age and final hours (God willing I live that long!) will take GOOD care of me - but I just can't deal with grown-up poo. I can only hope that God's sense of humor isn't so twisted that I end up with something awful like a colostomy, and am forced to deal with my OWN poo.

Guess we should all know our limits, though. Could save us a HEAP of trouble. :imbar

(BTW, that's POOH like the BEAR....)

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I have nightmares about grown-ups and poo. :imbar Really.

Which is why the thought of sick kids doesn't bother me. Roll on peds! I know, I know; we'll all be patients eventually, and I hope the RNs, LPNs, and CNAs who end up taking care of me in my old age and final hours (God willing I live that long!) will take GOOD care of me - but I just can't deal with grown-up poo. I can only hope that God's sense of humor isn't so twisted that I end up with something awful like a colostomy, and am forced to deal with my OWN poo.

Guess we should all know our limits, though. Could save us a HEAP of trouble. :imbar

(BTW, that's POOH like the BEAR....)

I am with you on this one, it's got to be the worst....:sofahider

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