What Freaks You Out?

[JennieBSN]

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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[nurses_123]

To help with all these smells, rub Vicks-Vapor Rub under your nose before entering a patients room. You can't smell anything!!

[SugarMagnoliaMom]

okay -- beginning to rethink nursing school. I heaved after reading about four of these posts, and I am only on the sixth page now...yikes.

All the lady partsl stuff is freaking me out, the dog - woo, well that had me on my knees...

I want to stop reading ---- but i cant!! LOL

[SugarMagnoliaMom]

okay -- beginning to rethink nursing school. I heaved after reading about four of these posts, and I am only on the sixth page now...yikes.

All the lady partsl stuff is freaking me out, the dog - woo, well that had me on my knees...

I want to stop reading ---- but i cant!! LOL

[leslie :-D]

i used to have this patient that couldn't resist eating her feces habitually. her mouth would be smeared, her hands/nails encrusted and one time i went in her bedside draw to find dried stools wrapped in tissues (midnight snack?)

[leslie :-D]

i used to have this patient that couldn't resist eating her feces habitually. her mouth would be smeared, her hands/nails encrusted and one time i went in her bedside draw to find dried stools wrapped in tissues (midnight snack?)

[Energizer Bunny]

i used to have this patient that couldn't resist eating her feces habitually. her mouth would be smeared, her hands/nails encrusted and one time i went in her bedside draw to find dried stools wrapped in tissues (midnight snack?)

Oh! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[Energizer Bunny]

i used to have this patient that couldn't resist eating her feces habitually. her mouth would be smeared, her hands/nails encrusted and one time i went in her bedside draw to find dried stools wrapped in tissues (midnight snack?)

Oh! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[Altra, BSN, RN]

For me it's respiratory secretions. I don't know why. Blood, poop, decubitii - these don't cause me to blink an eye, but the resp. secretions ... BLECH! I have to look away as much as possible because otherwise I'll be gagging. :uhoh21:

[Altra, BSN, RN]

For me it's respiratory secretions. I don't know why. Blood, poop, decubitii - these don't cause me to blink an eye, but the resp. secretions ... BLECH! I have to look away as much as possible because otherwise I'll be gagging. :uhoh21:

[nurseunderwater]

ear wax..............make me gag a little even thinking about it....

[nurseunderwater]

ear wax..............make me gag a little even thinking about it....

[SugarMagnolia]

The chicken feathers thing & the dog eating the sputum from the can made me want to vomit up stuff other people ate.:rotfl: Pam