What can you tolerate the least?

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I've heard that every nurse has their one thing that they don't like and grosses them out and they don't like dealing with. What is your one thing?

For me it would be vomit! I cannot stand vomit!

Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

Dead bowel smells like spoiled beef old blood and fecal stuff. It is really bad.

Specializes in critical care.
Dead bowel smells like spoiled beef old blood and fecal stuff. It is really bad.

Oh see.... Now this makes me sad. That really sums up what this smell was.

Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

If the colostomy pt had a dusky friable stoma he is in big trouble. If just the drainage smelled like decomp and he had

A good surgeon he might do ok.

I nearly passed out observing a total knee from the smell of burning bone when surgeon took a saw to the bones! I would seriously scream and run if I had maggots in a wound. I hate brushing crusty goopy dentures and the smell of GIB and c-diff!

GI bleeds bother me a bit more than C Diff, but I'd take two patients with poop over brushing dentures any day. Teeth are my weakness. Ew.

Specializes in critical care.
If the colostomy pt had a dusky friable stoma he is in big trouble. If just the drainage smelled like decomp and he had

A good surgeon he might do ok.

It was a brand new colostomy after a raging cdiff infection that just wouldn't go away. The stoma was quite red and puffy since it was new, but looked essentially as you would expect. This guy.... Honestly he's reached a point with his health that it left some of us wondering when his body would finally let go and give him peace. At this point, anything less seems to be torture.

Anyway, sorry for the hijacking.

Specializes in Critical Care.

I don't like suctioning patients or traches. While a trach does make it a little easier to suction vs going down someone's nose, that is the worst! When I worked on a vent unit it didn't bother me because we had inline suctioning so everything was contained and sterile and the vent was appreciated because it would alarm if there were any problems.

But that said the things that bothers me the most about nursing are all the never ending alarms! Every time you turn around they come up with something new that beeps, all different tones constantly. Second to that is the computers because they are such a hassle, time wasting, micromanaging, asking you every question under the sun just to pass a med and all the steps you have to go thru to get to the right screen. Surely they could have designed a better more user friendly computer program. I here the VA has a great computer program, by us not so much! Computer charting and med pass take longer and are just more time consuming and frustrating than in the good old days!

Specializes in Corrections, Psych.

This is so ridiculously poignant that I had to screengrab it to show my co-workers. I love it!!!

My personal bugaboos are exposed bone, eyes, and nasty phlegm: I haven't gotten up close and personal with too many compound fx, but ortho pins freak me right out. Just the mental image of how they got there.... ugh!

Eyes are no bueno, but mostly because I'm a contact wearer who has (stupidly) had several horrendous infections, and I know how much those hurt. Actual traumatic eye stuff? Ergh, nope!

Oddly enough, the one (and only!) time I ever found myself on the verge of passing out/vomiting thus far was in OB clinicals. I was holding the patients leg post-delivery while the MD was stitching her episiostomy; all was well through the delivery, placenta, etc, but as soon as he started stitching I felt my face get hot and things got all fuzzy around the edges. I handed the leg in my hands off to another student and made it to the metal trash can, where I kind of sank/collapsed.

I'm not sure why that bothered me so much, exactly, but I got teased endlessly by my clinical instructor for the duration of that semester, lol.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

Dried snot balls on walls. I once cleaned house for a woman who owned a store. She and her husband lived upstairs over the store. I left the snot balls on the wall in her room. For all I know, they could still be there.:up:

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