Okay, people. It's time for a nice, fun, light-hearted discussion to blow off some steam.
WHAT FREAKS YOU OUT? What bodily fluid can't you STAND? What wound gives you the absolute WILLIES? It doesn't matter if you're an ADN, BSN, LPN, CNA, PQRST, ABCDEFG...every body gets the heebie jeebies over SOMETHING...even you stomach-of-steel ER nurses!
Mine is eyeball injuries/surgery...aaaaaaaaackkkkkkk!! Gross! Makes my skin absolutely CRAWL. Or when someone gets a little cut on their finger/toe/whatever and then squeezes it to make it bleed!! Bleah!! Then there's the ever-popular RESPIRATORY SECRETIONS. I can handle poop, pee, amniotic fluid, lanced boils, pus, whatever...but give me a nasty snot-filled trach, and I'm OUTTA THERE.
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Wharton's jelly: the inner gelatinous connective tissue of the umbilical cord of the baby. It is TOUGH and is CHEWY when clamped and CUT ......feeling kinda gross when you cut the cord. Does that help????
Wharton's jelly: the inner gelatinous connective tissue of the umbilical cord of the baby. It is TOUGH and is CHEWY when clamped and CUT ......feeling kinda gross when you cut the cord. Does that help????
Ok, sorry I asked. But wait...how did you know that it is CHEWY? Hey do any of you boomer nurses remember when it was the fad amongst the cultish 'earth people' types to have home births, and grind up the placenta and cook and eat it? Placenta burgers with Wharton Jelly secret sauce,
Cord talk is soooooooo gross! The problem is, the father's NEVER cut the umbilical cord short enough. They leave 2 freakin feet hanging on there. Who trims it up? ME!
this stuff is really nasty, but the only thing that really bothers me is vomit. I cant stand the smell, to hear someone vomit, or see it actually happen. I will be right there beside them telling them to share the space.
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geez, after cutting so many cords, i think nothing of it. to me, anything to do w/snot is much grosser by FAR. cord cutting? like cutting thru tough wires to me, nothin more.
geez, after cutting so many cords, i think nothing of it. to me, anything to do w/snot is much grosser by FAR. cord cutting? like cutting thru tough wires to me, nothin more.
I can't explain it, it just freaks me out! Now me, I live with 2 boys, so snot is nothin to me!
I am a student nurse and work as a tech weekend days. I know you all have seen tons of post mortems, but this was my first one.
The night shift had been busy and no one had cleaned up a woman who died around 3am.
"just go bath her, do incontinence care, and close her nouth and eyes" the charge nurses said, as if it was that easy. The bed bath was the easy part, no dry heaving there. Heaving the stiff, cold legs apart for incontince care was not something I would wish on anybody, but I did it gently, with repect for the womans body.
But I could NOT get the mouth shut! I pushed and pulled, and started to lose it. I called a nurse in to help, who (of course) flipped it shut easily and then said "you need to shave that stubble off her chin" and left.
Shaving the gray , cold chin left me heaving at the sink.
Not much freaks me out, but I did get quite squeemish when watching an orthopedic surgeon drill someone's bone marrow out of their femur during a hip replacement surgery. O U C H ! ! !
And as far as procedures...i will stand on my head for hours before i will assist with a cardioversion!!!! i do realizeit's importance, but, i cannot stand to be in the room!!!!! i will sit at the telemetry and watch!!!!!!! i know i am chicken!!!!!!
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Wharton's jelly: the inner gelatinous connective tissue of the umbilical cord of the baby. It is TOUGH and is CHEWY when clamped and CUT ......feeling kinda gross when you cut the cord. Does that help????