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.
The smell of a really bad clotty GI bleed. That and false teeth with food all over them. Everything else doesn't really bother me unless my nose starts to run and I have to smell it.
The smell of a really bad clotty GI bleed. That and false teeth with food all over them. Everything else doesn't really bother me unless my nose starts to run and I have to smell it.
Another thing that freaks me out is prepareing a body for the family to view. Just the coolness of the skin while you clean it up is enough to make me get goose bumps. I can't stand to be in a room by myself with the body.
Another thing that freaks me out is prepareing a body for the family to view. Just the coolness of the skin while you clean it up is enough to make me get goose bumps. I can't stand to be in a room by myself with the body.
I hate it when people vomit and gag, It makes me gag big time.....Fortunately not many of my patients vomit...Which is kind of a surprise now I think about it......
I hate it when people vomit and gag, It makes me gag big time.....Fortunately not many of my patients vomit...Which is kind of a surprise now I think about it......
I'm OK with most things and I have minimal sense of smell, otherwise I couldn't do this job.
Once I forgot to put a glass eye in a patient who had died.
It was not fun going over to the mortuary at the end of my shift, sliding the patient out of the fridge and trying to prise his eyelids open. I had to do it because I'd promised his family I'd remember to put it in.
I'm OK with most things and I have minimal sense of smell, otherwise I couldn't do this job.
Once I forgot to put a glass eye in a patient who had died.
It was not fun going over to the mortuary at the end of my shift, sliding the patient out of the fridge and trying to prise his eyelids open. I had to do it because I'd promised his family I'd remember to put it in.
Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.
Originally posted by udontwannabme
false teeth with food all over them.
Speaking of teeth----a few weeks ago we were gathered at the nursing station for report one fine morning on our ltc dementia unit.One of our gals was seated in the lobby-I heard this lip smacking and slurping noise and turned-She had her upper plate in her hand and was picking off the ...goodies...and EATING! I have never heard such a communal gagging....
Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.
Originally posted by udontwannabme
false teeth with food all over them.
Speaking of teeth----a few weeks ago we were gathered at the nursing station for report one fine morning on our ltc dementia unit.One of our gals was seated in the lobby-I heard this lip smacking and slurping noise and turned-She had her upper plate in her hand and was picking off the ...goodies...and EATING! I have never heard such a communal gagging....
udontwannabme
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The smell of a really bad clotty GI bleed. That and false teeth with food all over them. Everything else doesn't really bother me unless my nose starts to run and I have to smell it.