The sight of blood makes me pass out.

[Joe V]

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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[Joe V]

Does blood make you sick? pass out?

[ButterflyRN90, ASN, RN]

Mine is any needle entering bone, so (bone marrow, biopsy, etc) I gave a patient an IM in nursing school and hit bone. The sound of it made me sick. Now I'm traumatized. I also can't do epidurals (I start imagining it going into my own spine) and C-sections (the pulling makes me think they're gonna rip her in half). Everything else is cake. For emesis or BM sufferers put coffee beans into your pockets. It absorbs the smell, plus it smells amazing.

[angiebelle440]

Working with special needs kids with trachs, I got rather immune to respiratory fluids really quickly. Has anyone ever done trach care on a little kid? You learn to be really quick, or keep a distance- a sudden sneeze can really ruin your night. And we've had a few kids that needed to be on continuous gastric drains, and so tenuous on their electrolyte balance that we've been required to recycle the gastric fluid into their jejunal port. So instead of having the option to toss that gross fluid, we have to actually handle the stuff, measure it, and use a syringe to squirt it back in. That's pretty gross.

I work with grown ups too, and after dealing with so many different fluids from kids, I can tell you the grossest thing isn't the actual stuff, but what a grown up person happened to do with it. I had a fellow that was being discharged and out of the corner of my eye saw him pick at a scab---- and then eat it. Give me a GI bleed anytime- HORK.