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.
Suctioning out a trach doesnt bother me, I guess having to do it for my 3 year old daughter for 2 years before she passed away at the age of 5 made me look at it from a different perspective.
Maggots and cockroaches ewwww, I hate bugs anyway, OMG the dog drinking the spit can UGH.
Watching my kids vomit gets me gagging, I dont know how I am going to tolerate an adult doing it.
Oh the joys I get to look forward to, can I survive this?
Suctioning out a trach doesnt bother me, I guess having to do it for my 3 year old daughter for 2 years before she passed away at the age of 5 made me look at it from a different perspective.
Maggots and cockroaches ewwww, I hate bugs anyway, OMG the dog drinking the spit can UGH.
Watching my kids vomit gets me gagging, I dont know how I am going to tolerate an adult doing it.
Oh the joys I get to look forward to, can I survive this?
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?)
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?)
Okay...I WAS considering nursing school. Now I just don't know.
OH, How do you do it?!!!!!!! Is it okay to yak after something grosses you out or are you considered the "weakest link"?
I like the idea of Vicks and charcoal masks. Is it considered rude to have this on hand for stuff you just can't stomach? Does it offend the patients? Do your coworkers think you can't hack the job?
Let me know. I would be a 2nd career nurse. I don't want to make a mistake! :uhoh3:
Okay...I WAS considering nursing school. Now I just don't know.
OH, How do you do it?!!!!!!! Is it okay to yak after something grosses you out or are you considered the "weakest link"?
I like the idea of Vicks and charcoal masks. Is it considered rude to have this on hand for stuff you just can't stomach? Does it offend the patients? Do your coworkers think you can't hack the job?
Let me know. I would be a 2nd career nurse. I don't want to make a mistake! :uhoh3:
I was looking after a teenager with severe learning difficulties, he had a nappy on and filled it with green diarrhoea. He then put her fingers in it and started eating it! My stomach churned, his mum and sister were laughing at him but I nearly puked! It was a good follow on to the bogies he had been picking out of his nose and munching on all day.........
I was looking after a teenager with severe learning difficulties, he had a nappy on and filled it with green diarrhoea. He then put her fingers in it and started eating it! My stomach churned, his mum and sister were laughing at him but I nearly puked! It was a good follow on to the bogies he had been picking out of his nose and munching on all day.........
I can take any kind of body fluid except throw-up. I dry heave for about an hour afterward. I almost think it would be better if I actually was able to throw up. At least it would be instant relief. I haven't had the opportunity to encounter "creatures" (maggots, roaches, etc), but I don't think I'll be able to handle them much better. Oh well! Suck it up, I guess, and stock up on Vicks!
P.S. There should be a green smiley with a sick look on his face!
I can take any kind of body fluid except throw-up. I dry heave for about an hour afterward. I almost think it would be better if I actually was able to throw up. At least it would be instant relief. I haven't had the opportunity to encounter "creatures" (maggots, roaches, etc), but I don't think I'll be able to handle them much better. Oh well! Suck it up, I guess, and stock up on Vicks!
P.S. There should be a green smiley with a sick look on his face!
:uhoh3:
SugarMagnolia
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The chicken feathers thing & the dog eating the sputum from the can made me want to vomit up stuff other people ate.:rotfl: Pam