What Freaks You Out?

bubba · May 2, 2002

A full suction container with nice green and yellow slimy chunks!

Once a trach patient squirted a little saline in his trach, and then blew out a big sloppy glob across the room. makes me want to vomit just thinking about it..

bubba

Goofball · May 2, 2002

My pt. today had HIV, PCp pneumonia, TB, Hep B & C, and was in DIC and on the vent, and spraying and leaking blood all over the place. They are also testing her for Hantavirus and Yersinia

Pestis (Bubonic Plague). I felt sorry for this tragic young woman, (who is mercifully sedated into a practically comatose state). But at the same time it freaked me out a little bit, because of all the blood loose in the room and the vent tubing kept popping apart; and the night nurse had just stuck herself with a dirty bloody needle from this patient. I was more careful than usual!

scrappy · May 2, 2002

Originally posted by bubba
A full suction container with nice green and yellow slimy chunks!
Once a trach patient squirted a little saline in his trach, and then blew out a big sloppy glob across the room. makes me want to vomit just thinking about it..
bubba

OH, YUCK!!!!! LOL

Okay, one time I was emptying and ileostomy on a completely alert and oriented patient. I won't describe it, but it was nasty.

Well, I got to the bathroom in the patient's room and I couldn't help it, I just started gagging. It took everything I had not to vomit. The patient of course could hear me. He got on the call bell and said "help, the nurse is sick she needs a nurse". I went home sick that day. That is the only time I had that reaction. :cool:

misti_z · May 2, 2002

A coworker was trying to put a NG tube down a pt that was very close to coding. I had just walked in to see if I could assist and he spits this crap up nasty slimey bile green stuff and it goes into another nurses pocket........ugggggg.

ktwlpn, LPN · May 2, 2002

Originally posted by moonrose2u
>>OMG, what absolutely horrible stories! I love being a nurse!

OK, things that smell are usually what get me... no one vomits alone in my presence. The sound, the smell, the sight....>>>>>>>>>>>Yesterday was a particularly trying day for me-One of my residents had a syncopal episode shortly after lunch-after we picked her up(4 of us) she vomited.Warm tuna fish-yum...I had to walk away...I had been drooled on earlier,as I knelt in front of a resident ,had stepped in poo and when I assessed a large growth on another resident's hip as I touched it it popped and squirted juice 3 feet across the bed....I hit my door running last night-straight to the shower for me....TUNA FISH!!!!! NEVER AGAIN!......

RN-PA, RN · May 2, 2002

:eek: :imbar :rotfl: :crying2: , ktwlpn!!!

Many of the things I've read here and elsewhere on this board I call "Floor-kisser" shifts-- When I finally get home, I get down on my knees and kiss the kitchen floor, THANKFUL to be home and EXTRA-THANKFUL if I'm off the next day!

scrappy · May 2, 2002

Originally posted by RN-PA
:imbar :rotfl: , ktwlpn!!!

Many of the things I've read here and elsewhere on this board I call "Floor-kisser" shifts-- When I finally get home, I get down on my knees and kiss the kitchen floor, THANKFUL to be home and EXTRA-THANKFUL if I'm off the next day!

ROFLMBO!!!!!

Ditto, I like that and I couldn't agree more!!!!!

frosteefire · May 3, 2002

I have just gotten through this whole thread, and i dont think i have ever been so grossed out AND laughing so hard at the same time....i still cant forget the dog thing....that is hilarious!!!!!!! :eek:

I am a RN student, second year (out of four), and so far my stomach has held together nicely!!! (yeah!) So far i've seen plenty of blood, poop, urine, etc. etc.......the only thing to make me feel light-headed SO far was the day i got sent down to OR to observe a surgery......and i chose a knee replacement. YECHHHHH!!!! I had no idea ortho surgery was so barbaric! The i dont think it was so much the smells as the drilling, pounding sounds and the sights of chunks of bone being chiseled and drilled away. I was leaning up against the wall mighty hard for the first few minutes, feeling pretty hot and cold and sweaty and dizzy at the same time LOL. Pretty proud of myself though - i was stubborn enought not to faint, and not to leave the room LOL.

I am NOT looking forward to seeing my first eye injury, that's one of the few things that gives me willies just thinkin about it...AND this summer i do my clinical rotation in OB....not sure how i'm gonna handle that.....just the thought of an episiotomy....owwwwwwwwiie!!!! Well, we'll see how I do - but i'm pretty sure i'll come out of the experience swearing off having children!! :chuckle

Wish me luck!!!

kmp297 · May 4, 2002

I'm an RN and I can't really think of anything that gross's me out.

But it reminds me of a funny story (at least to me) that grossed alot of my fellow staff members. We had this >600 lb patient admitted to our unit. He had a large bm shortly after he arrived on our unit. In the stool was at least 20 whole mushrooms with not even a tooth mark to prove it was eaten. The Dr said would should slice the mushrooms up and fry them for a snack. No sense in letting those mushrooms go to waste. Most of the nurses still get quesy when you mention it.

allnurses Guide · May 4, 2002

I can handle the mucus no prob........call me. But never again will I assist an ENT with sticking a large bore needle up a nare, and listening to the sinus bones crunch, and letting the green pus pour out the needle into the pan I was holding. It wasn't the pus, it was the CRUNCH.

Ted · May 4, 2002

Originally posted by JBudd
I can handle the mucus no prob........call me. But never again will I assist an ENT with sticking a large bore needle up a nare, and listening to the sinus bones crunch, and letting the green pus pour out the needle into the pan I was holding. It wasn't the pus, it was the CRUNCH.

I can also hear that CRUNCH too!:chair: :eek:

Cindy_A · May 4, 2002

OK, I am curious. What was that procedure for? Sounds awful!