What is the awesom-ist thing you have seen in school so far?

[RheatherN, ASN, RN, EMT-P]

I have seen SOO much stuff and i talk to others that have seen awesome stuff...

So tell us all, what is the coolest thing that you have seen/experienced in clinicals???

from Gamma Knife; a particular surgery; procedures; treatments, ODD things that shouldnt happen to pts....ect....

What is the one thing you would want to see before graduation if you had the chance to travel anywhere and see anything???

i always wonder what ppl think is cool. i like the nasty gross bad stuff everyone else in my clinicals hate...You tell me and then i will share!

-H-

[Achoo!, LPN]

I saw a patient with a guillotine amputation. They basically cut his leg off below the knee but did not close it. Think of sawing it right off! Everything was left open so the infection would drain out. I had to help change the dressing and the tib/fib ends were poking out of the wound and loose, so you had to tuck the wet dressing around it. I don't think I'll ever see that again!

[scucer]

long bone harvest. by far, the COOLEST thing ever

[amyk_ncsu]

I saw a skin graft. Very disgusting. I would have preferred seeing the amputation above^^. :barf01:

[future L&Dnurse]

Childbirth. I've seen several cesarean sections, which are interesting if somewhat bizarre, and several lady partsl births which (IMO) is just the most amazing thing a person can possibly experience.

I've also seen heart surgery, a dehisced midsternal incision, a chest tube that drained so much, so fast, that it overflowed all over the floor, and a giant tumor, but the babies are WAY better.

[DLS_PMHNP, MSN, RN, NP]

I saw a man with an abscess in his member. It was so bad, that his member was split in half and you could see the catheter tubing going through it.

Poor guy! I felt so bad for him.

[jemommyRN]

1. lady partsl delivery

2. open heart surgery

[Alternator81]

I saw a man with an abscess in his member. It was so bad, that his member was split in half and you could see the catheter tubing going through it.

Poor guy! I felt so bad for him.

Wow.. thats pretty bad! I have to say that the most interesting thing I have done in school was working on a cadaver. It wasn't in nursing school. We got the inspect all feel all the internal organs. It's pretty neat to say that I have touch a human lung.

[atrice, BSN, RN]

A quad CABG...the surgeon let me get a step stool and go behind the drape ...I was looking straight down into the clients open chest cavity...it rocked!!

[locolorenzo22, BSN, RN]

Needle Biopsy...bunch of surgeries, off site at school clinic. To be quite honest, everything is cool....it's all part of being a nurse!

[SoulShine75]

I got to sit in on a surgery and I saw an above the knee amputation. Can't say I was excited about it...it still kinda haunts me. Poor lady has no legs now. I think it was the actual "taking away" of the leg part that messed with me. It just isn't natural.

[Conrad283, BSN, RN]

lady partsl Delivery

Gastrectomy (they couldn't find the stomach initially!)

EGD for a child who swallowed a nickle (everyone thought it was a quarter, but I made the observation that the edges were smooth and on a quarter they're not, go me!). She was so cute.

I wasn't in nursing school, I was working when a trauma can in and they were massaging the heart trying to get it started while in the ER. Sadly, they died.