What do you HATE to do at work?

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I thought it would be interesting to see what things nurses dread doing. For example, I hate suctioning people, there is something about seeing stuff go thru the suc cath that flips me out. Weird huh? I can take vomitting, poop, blood etc, but when its contained in that suc cath and moving thru to the cannister, I get sick. What about the rest of you?

Cheryl

...BED SORES!!!!! eeEEEEeeeeEEEwwwww!!!!!!

oH, PLEASE, good gods!! Calling all the deities and mscots who could help me... please dun allow our trust to practice Magot Therapy for nasty wound treatment..... I will change for the better and repent!! I promise, i promise

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Lately, clocking in. ;)

Don't mind sputum too much, but hate trachs. Hate poo/GI bleeds. Don't like doing EKGs...enjoy reading them, just not the actual task of doing them. Oh, and sticking Peds pts with the parents breathing down your neck. *shudders*

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oh, the breath, the breath, the BAD BREATH.........that is BAD. I took care of a ped whose mother had the worst breath I have ever smelled! It was horrible, and reminded me of something rotting, dying, or feces..... the worst was after talking to her for a few minutes and then having to excuse myself, for air, I continued to smell it ALL DAY. It was like it was all over my clothes.......I have to change scrubs. And I still couldn't get rid of it!!!! :uhoh21:

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Specializes in LTC/Peds/ICU/PACU/CDI.
geeze, it's hard to limit it to just one thing....

if i had to pick one thing thatreally makes me want to yak, it would be taking dentures out of someone's mouth and there's food and stuff caked all over them. now, i've never had a problem with bedpans, i can even suction people without a problem, but just the thought of handling those slimy things with only-god-knows-what all over them makes me want to blow chunks...am i weird? lol :confused:

:eek: omg ~ me too!!! i absolutely hate it whenever a confused resident taps me on the shoulder, i turn around, & they hand me their teeth...yuk barf.gif !!! it always seem to happen when i'm *not* wearing gloves too... :p lol!!! what can one do though? their teeth are soooo expensive & to let them just drop to the floor wouldn't be right :rolleyes: ...eventhough...that's what i'd rather do :imbar !!!

:chair: god help me cuz i know if i ever lost my teeth...i'd be ready to gum everything cuz i'm *not* wearing dentures :rotfl: !!!!

cheers,

moe

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what I hate most about my job, in agreement with others here----> rude, hateful family members who know everything you need to do for their family member, even though they sell used cars for a living! I give my soul daily to this customer oriented business, then one family out of 200 complains you did not answer questions or you "talked down to them". Very dispiriting when this is what you hear about from the higher ups, not the good things. What is a person to do? sigh, you can't please all the people all the time.

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It's a tie between emptying rectal tube bags and colostomies. Eeeh gads. Also hate dumping the contents of suction cannisters into the toilet. Makes me gag bigtime.:eek:
at my place, we put solidifier into the cannister to make it less likely to spread everywhere, and then we dispose of it in a biohazard bin. keeps that crap outta the water supply.
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Inserting NG tubes.

If I had an entire lifetime to come up with the most cruel thing to do to someone, I couldn't come up with a better device. My entire family knows that if one is ever ordered for me, they are to shoot me first.

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Charting on flow sheets after I've already charted the information on nurses notes. Repetition, repetition..... pretty soon we're going to have a flow sheet on whether or not we charted on the flow sheets.... UGH

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Specializes in ICU, ED, Transport, Home Care, Mgmnt.
Post mortem care....not usually a big deal for me, but having worked nocs before, i have on occasion helped wheel em to the morgue. Now that I HATE. Especially when the tech throws open the cooler to wheel the gurney in and a waft of dead cold air hits ya in the nostrils....bodies lined on the shelves. Disturbing. I avoid that trip at all costs.

I'm with you on that cold dead air coming out of the cooler, luckily I don't have to go to the morgue very often. Worst for me is infected trach's. YYUUUUUCCCCCCCKKK!!!! Before we had gloves and face shields I hated dodging loogies when my trach patients coughed.

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Specializes in ICU, ED, Transport, Home Care, Mgmnt.
oh, the breath, the breath, the BAD BREATH.........that is BAD. I took care of a ped whose mother had the worst breath I have ever smelled! It was horrible, and reminded me of something rotting, dying, or feces..... the worst was after talking to her for a few minutes and then having to excuse myself, for air, I continued to smell it ALL DAY. It was like it was all over my clothes.......I have to change scrubs. And I still couldn't get rid of it!!!! :uhoh21:

That's cause it was in your nose, try blowing your nose next time! :rotfl:

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Specializes in floor to ICU.

trach care (cleaning, suctioning, etc...) :uhoh3:

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I hate catherizing old women. It always smells like canned cat food! (bleck)

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