I just remembered one more thing... this was the only time I came close to vomiting in my 13 years of patient care. My husband (who's also a nurse) was helping me bathe this lady who had a gangrenous...
Wow... what a great thread! I'm pretty grossed out at the usual stuff (colostomies, trach lugies, etc.) but one experience stands out in my mind. I floated out to Telemetry one night and helped...
SICU Queen replied to klimasr's topic in MICU, SICU
OH MY... You don't want to start that ol' SI vs. MI war... I have a very good friend who works in the MI at my hospital, and we always laugh because she doesn't like my unit and I don't like hers....