What Gets to You??

I have not witnessed it yet, but I think enucleation will get the best of me. I mean, I think I'll be able to handle it in the moment and do what needs to be done, but when all is said and done, i'd probably go hurl. I used to be grossed out by the mere thought of a broken bone, but you get over that quickly especially in ER. Although I broke my foot a month ago and on myself it grosses me out just a little. The huge Home Depot screw in my foot also gives me the willies if I think about it too much...lol

If I am about to enter a room where there is even the slightest possibility of feces being there, I PUKE!:barf01:[/quote

I am a new member as of yesterday. I am a student nurse in my second quarter so I haven't experienced as much as you have. But yesterday I cleaned up a patient with MIRSA. She had a full brief so I began to clean her up. As soon as I wiped the orifice, butterscotch colored feces began to ooze out. I held my breath. I thought she was done, but more oozed out.

I too have an iron stomach, but it was pungent! Not the normal feces smell. I almost did loose it and I really thought I could take just about anything. I did come home an hour later looking for dinner though.

I do have a vomit phobia stemming from my childhood. I thought that would be my weakness.

Tramalady! Where did you get that cute face?

MRSA Poo isn't as bad as C-Diff Poo. It's like jelly, and the smell is putrid. The face is located under the smiley menu, just scroll down... hehehe

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.

For me, it's nail avulsions. Yeck. I couldn't stand to be in the room, when the docs were removing toenails.

I could do all the other procedures, where parts of ears. noses, lips, etc. were removed. No problem with that at all.

I agree with the whole snot thing......is that not why God made RT's?

Trachs or any other holes where they are not supposed to be and are leaking stuff.........ie colostomy's YUCK.

The other kind of bad one is separated limbs that you have to undress......ie take the shoe off the foot, or the glove off the hand.....I have also been handed a member in a baggy. Needless to say all the male docs in the place focused on that injury...screw the airway, breathing etc!!!!!!!!!!!

About two months ago we had a lady who came in with a maggot infestation of the lower leg - so infested the whole leg was pulsating and they were falling off - we found a few crawling in the hallway and had to call to have the room and hallway decontam. when she left. She refused to have the leg treated - she was there for another issue, so a social work and psych consult came along with her visit. I held it together but almost lost my lunch when a coworker who went off shift called back and said we all needed to check each other because he found a few "friends" when he took his shower upon arriving home. Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuk!!!!!

well this may be a little off the subject but it has bothered me every since i have taken this job! what bothers me is someone that you work with,actually is suspose to work in the office,tries to tell you how to do your job,when they should be in their office doing pay roll or something ! and i am on the floor taking care of patients or getting blood or whatever! and you have someone that does not have any experience try to tell you something that you know is not right!!!!! i am careful with how i respond to her because she is the office mgr. so how do you deal with someone like that!!! :angryfire

I have the same problem. I work with a doctor in a doctors office and the office manager rules. She makes the nurses lives miserable. So I feel your pain.

impalements and decapitation...i could never work as an EMT or at a morgue!!!

Only one thing bothers me.

And that is not playing enough golf, and or being late for my tee time

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:

Head lice.

And deep, horrible, suppurating wounds that are oozing green stuff as fast as I can blot it away and have horrible mounds of granulating flesh rearing up from it until it looks like some sort of horrible alien creature and they just keep GROWING and they STINK. Sorry. Sore spot.

I have not witnessed it yet, but I think enucleation will get the best of me. I mean, I think I'll be able to handle it in the moment and do what needs to be done, but when all is said and done, i'd probably go hurl. I used to be grossed out by the mere thought of a broken bone, but you get over that quickly especially in ER. Although I broke my foot a month ago and on myself it grosses me out just a little. The huge Home Depot screw in my foot also gives me the willies if I think about it too much...lol

Mine is Toe Jam,anything to do with eyeball injuries,and sputum. I can handle anything else. I literally used to trade off a pt with a foot injury and toe Jam for an overdose.

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