What grosses YOU out?

[JenTheRN]

I don't know if this has been posted before, but what grosses you out as a nurse?

For me it's blood clots. Especially from a delivery with a large EBL. The blood sits in the placenta pan and congeals. Bleh. Shudder.

[al586]

Emptying, cleaning, & flushing ileostomies...definitely an occasion to breathe through the mouth....

[fiweRN]

In nursing school, watching a circumcision during maternity rotation...3 pairs of hemestats do NOT belong attatched to a new babies tiny foreskin! Nearly passed out on that one, and I had been an LPN for 8 years...

More recently, a ventriculostomy placed at the bedside...the doc didn't even break out the drill (previous burr hole for access), thought I was going to vomit! Then the neurosurgeon confessed that delivering babies was what made him toss his cookies! Go figure...

[smurfynursey]

Eyes. Eye injuries, trauma, bleeding and drainage.

My dad was in a car accident whne I was 4, a leaf spring took his window, his right eye and a chunk of his brain. He was a pretty grim sight in the ICU and before he got his fake eye.

On a side note, Tommorow (March 19) will be 21 years. He coded 3 times and had reconstruction on his face and has a fake eye, but has no long term effects. We call it "Thank God Dad is alive day". Kudos to ICU nurses for making this happen for him!!!!:yeah::yeah:

[justin daniel wilema]

I can handle most any body fluids, odors don't bother me at all.

However, if a patient has head lice, I get a fierce case of psychosomatic itch that just won't go away.

Of note, I've never gotten lice from a patient, or heard of a nurse who has.

Justin Daniel Wileman, LPN.

[Bezoars]

Ostomies are the only thing that make me think twice before jumping in.

Anything that lives and crawls that I find ON the patient. We once had a really obese pt we admitted. We lifted the pannus to wash him (he was grungy).... a roach scurried out. FREAKED ME OUT!

I once had a pt with an abdominal wound in the shape of a huge Y from pubis to above belly button extending to either side. It was about 3 inches wide at the edges and 2" deep. It drained diarrhea. It was not fun packing that sucker.

[Hygiene Queen]

My dad was in a car accident whne I was 4, a leaf spring took his window, his right eye and a chunk of his brain. He was a pretty grim sight in the ICU and before he got his fake eye.

I had to Google "leaf spring"... I get it now... I imagine he did look grim!

[smurfynursey]

He sure did. We lucked out in that he had an open head injury so it had a place to swell (and swell it did!). I know many more people with CHI that did not do well.

We are blessed.

[Nurseyperson101]

As I am a new nursing student, I'm sure there will be MANY more things I experience that can top this but right now the only thing that really gets me is pus in the mouth. Pts with pus pockets from oral infections that burst. *shudder*

[celticqueen]

Everything toenails. I can't stand toenails. I double glove for treatments involving the feet.

me too; toes, inbetween toes and toe nails (fingernails too). i will happily clean up poop, sick, phlegm, bogies, pus, blood...anything but manky feet and nails (bleurgh!!!!)

[celticqueen]

Suction!! I hate suctioning patients!

i quite enjoy suctioning.....i like the sound the the gunk makes as it goes up the tube...kinda find it quite satisfying for some reason. I like it when i suction and hit a real big patch of something...and i think to myself "yeah, gottcha!!!"

[enchantmentdis, BSN, RN]

When I have to change patients clothes and all their dead skin flakes go floating around me. I usually hold my breath. All ostomy's. Bad breath, B.O., and the smell that hair gets when they don't shower.

My mother-in-law lives with us and we only get to wash her hair once about every 2 weeks due to her dementia. When i am standing behind her i want to ralph:barf01:

[sharpeimom]

toenail crusties and toe jam...:chair::smackingf:sofahider:anbd::sstrs::grn::eek: