What Gets to You??

ednurse17, BSN, MSN, RN, NP · Jan 7, 2006

I absolutely cannot stand anyone spitting on the floor, the bed, the walls.... drives me nuts. We have drunks who come in and hack up a huge one and then you hear it go splat on the floor. They get a good talking to, ask them if that was how they were raised. I had a mentally challenged man one night that was sent in by EMS from a nursing home because they couldn't get a catheter in him. Well, I did.... he cussed, started swinging, and then he leaned over the railing and spit on the floor. OMG! How gross! I ended up throwing chucks down on that side of the bed so that at least he'd have something other than the floor to hit. NASTY! Give me blood, poop, pee, wounds, abscesses anyday. Just don't spit! :angryfire

Particular · Jan 8, 2006

I can stand pretty much everything, I have worked in the ER for quite a while and was a paramedic before. The eye and nail injuries are nasty but that reallllly high pitched screaming little kids do ( you know sometimes you aren't even near them yet) is really nerve wracking. :stone

gobblers · Jan 8, 2006

Doctors who graduate at the bottom of their class and they that they know

everything. They are unwilling to list to the nursing staff.

We have had patient's admitted from the ER with the diagnosis of renal colic and not have anything ordered for pain.

One thiing that really frightens me is the fact that we adminster Cardizem drips on a med-surg floor without bedside monitors. The patients are on telemetry with the rhythm going downstairs to the ICU.

Physicians that make chart rounds is another pet peeve of mine. The pateints are waiting for there doctor and he never comes.

Doctors who tell the patients in the morning that they might go home in the evening and never return.

Nurses carry their cell phones is very irritating to this nurse of 41 years. Especially when they are talking on the phone and pouring up medications or talking on them over the patient as they are doing something.

Nurses who leave the floor repeatedly to go smoke. I think that they should have to sign out and in when they go.

Nursing administration gets to me. I think that at least once, perhaps twice a year, they should have to do what the demand of us to do.

The list could go one.

It is late and I am sleepy.

Frustrated nurse in Texas.:angryfire :angryfire

LeahJet, ASN, RN · Jan 8, 2006

Smells get to me worse than anything.....like GI bleeds... or that whiff of unclean nether-regions when someone drops their pants for an IM...... but I guess the worst smell that I have encountered would be that sickly sweet burned flesh smell from a full thickness burn. It smells like pork rinds dipped in syrup.....~~shudder~~

ednurse17, BSN, MSN, RN, NP · Jan 8, 2006

The smell of C-diff and rotavirus. I can't eat guacamole to this day. Worked on peds unit for 7 years, up to my eyeballs in rotavirus at times. GI bleeds are awful too.

Carotid · Jan 9, 2006

saw a worm squirming in fecal material collected from an 8 year-old girl.....yack, yuck, gross, eeeyyyywwww

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MajorDomo · Jan 9, 2006

Mine must be morbidaly obese pts, that haven't left the house for months and require a foley. This is either sex. The aroma and the texture of the skin feels, and the hidden treasures waiting to be found. Plus there is the "Slippery Search" trying to find that darn hole, again male or female. That just grosses me out, makes all of my skin feel nasty

MajorDomo

cn2007rn · Jan 9, 2006

I agree with the poster that said a little Vicks in the nostrils! I have a problem with smells,,,,, esp. c-diff, pseudomonas (sp?), gangrene, body odor (unwashed for who knows how long). I always carry Vicks in my nursing bag and keep a jar in my locker.:barf01:

A question about the vicks???

I heard that it opens your sinuses and you can actually smell more because of it, do you find that, or does it just block everything??

I have a big problem with poop, :barf01:, so anything would help, I will have to try it next semester.

ClaireMacl · Jan 10, 2006

Vicks does open the sinuses if used in the tubs directed uses, but if used directly under the nasal passage, all you will smell is the Vicks!

mshooha · Jan 10, 2006

Vicks is your friend. I think the Vicks definitely works better than Mentholatum. Caught on to the Vicks when I was doing EMS and went on a found dead, laid there dead for 2 days. It has come in quite handy in the ER.

pie123 · Jan 10, 2006

Hi, I am new here!!! What I want to know is what gets to you? I think we all have something that just really makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up when you have to take care of it.
I can't stand FINGER INJURIES!!!!!!!!! It just makes me cringe to see them.
I would rather take care of an amputated limb than a mangled finger.

Super dry skin that flakes off (mostly on elderly patients). When the bed linens are adjusted, the bits of dry skin flutter around in the air. Ick! One time I was helping someone reposition a patient in bed. My only request was that the person not fling the covers (b/c of my intense phobia of that flaky skin). Well, when I was kneeling down emptying the foley bag, this person took the covers and gave them a good shake. Gross. I kept thinking skin got in my mouth. My favorite :uhoh21: is when I'm assessing someone and take their socks off and there goes tons of dry skin. I always feel like its all over me, and in my mouth!

MMARN, BSN, RN · Jan 10, 2006

This thread is gross!!! :barf02:

But,

One thing that gets me, though, is when dogs barf out maggots and then they want to "play" with it and lick it!!! Blech!!! :barf02: