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Things that gross you out..

i am starting nursing school in september...and as far as what i will encounter, i'd say not too much makes me squeemish. blood, puke, defecation....doesnt bother me. open wounds, dead bodies, surgery....interests me. the one thing that makes me squeemish and i'm not sure how i'm going to handle once i see it in person is really weird.

the idea of putting a tournaquet on and seeing the veins pop out, and poking and prodding them...that makes me sick to my stomach. when i get blood drawn...i absolutely hate it...not because of the needle or blood....but the tournaquet. i cant even look at it, and the idea of it makes me sick. i dont know why...it seems weird. i guess the only way to overcome it is to force myself to do it when im in school...facing your fears i guess...

what are some things you have to do day to day that gross you out?

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    Nothing TRULY grosses me out but I hate dealing with eye injuries. It's not so much a gross out as it is an "Oh dear God that has to hurt!" moment.
    Before I was an RN, I wworked with eye surgeons. We had a lady who ripped off her eyelids with a fork (not kidding). She looked like this :eek: The weirdest thing was she was as calm as can be at the time and I asked if she had any pain. She said "Just a little headache". What grosses me out is when I can still smell C-diff when I am already driving home. I imagine little molecules of C-diff smell hanging out in my nose. Yuck.
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    Some of my clinical instructors

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    1. dentures and the cleaning of same

    2. crusty flaky feet

    3. the sound the machine makes when you suction someone

    4. having a returning pt. who is pie-eyed drunk heave up cheap red wine and half digested gawd knows what

    all over my shoes.

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    Before I was an RN, I wworked with eye surgeons. We had a lady who ripped off her eyelids with a fork (not kidding). She looked like this :eek:

    Oh my dear Lord. I can't even begin to imagine!

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    AHA! Amen!

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    Nothing much with smell or sight...but the oozy, squishy sounds of body fluids coming out,

    especially not common or unexpected ones, makes my skin crawl sometimes.

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    The sound of air escaping though a trach stoma when a patient talks...

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    The cloud of skin flakes when you take off Ted hose or release the tourniquet, I quit breathing and excuse myself and only return when the cloud has settled, lol.

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    I think my main nemesis might be vomit. Especially it I witness someone vomiting. I have a very hard time squelching my own natural reflex to vomit myself. I am okay with everything else, but vomit... I know it will happen eventually and I hope I can fake it and deal with what I must deal with and not lose it myself.

    I had to laugh at the sudden image of supervillain Emesis the Nemesis...

    I was going to say "not much grosses me out" (I'm the kid who loved staring at the human slices in the Museum of Science and Industry and grew up watching veterinary medicine of aaall kinds with a snack in hand) but I have to admit the eye stories made me remember that if I ever see Major Eye Problems in person I may lose my cookies!

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    She looked like this :eek:
    Thanks for the little emoticon visual... That totally cracked me up! Lol!
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    Dentures- cleaning and handling them.

    Big flakes of dry skin falling off when you take off someone's socks.

    Emptying colostomy bags- rectal tubes, poop from a butt = no problem, but colostomy bags really get to me. Even when you just have to "burp" them. *shudder*Childbirth (just lady partsl), and lady partsl bleeding with pelvic exams...uh uh.

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