What is your least favorite.....

My least favorite thing is suctioning ~ just the sound of it gets me....and the WORST is having to suction a trach!!

Ok, now even thinking about it is making me nauseous!

Dealing with active conscious patients with tubes. Chest tubes, NG tubes. These people get up and ambulate to do whatever and I get a nervous sweaty feeling just waiting for them to pull them out. Hate it. And they always promise to get you to help them ambulate-then you go to check on them and their in the bathroom! (Usually the activity level ordered is up to BSC but I have observed patients stretching their limits.)

Second least favorite is working with patients with Chrons' disease who have an activity level of up ad lib. Put a BSC in the room and the next thing you know they are yelling for help and they are halfway to the bathroom with poop all over them, the floor, the bed. And they are tangled up in their IV line and their oxygen tubing.

Love my patients but we get alot of ETOH abusers who are admitted for medical reasons and I see alot of the before mentioned problems. Makes for a nervewracking night on a floor with no aides.

being in a very bad "code brown."

and sputum can gross me out too.... and i work on a pulmonary floor! :chuckle

The worst for me is phlegm with suctioning! I can't stand the noise it makes! Just makes me gag over and over again, more than one person who's been there watching or assisting has had a laugh or two at my expense!

Sometimes bowel movements and cleaning them up get me as well. Right now we have a patient who has C-diff and we didn't know it yet and I got called out from my supper break to help her to the toilet b/c we were really busy. Well, she did her job and I was trying to flush the toilet and clean up her mess when I started to gag. Her BM looked like the chili I had been eating for supper. Needless to say, some bile came up and I threw up in her toilet.:imbar

Bring on the blood and guts, I'm in there like a dirty shirt...those other things though...yuck!

Any gross skin thing bothers me...burns, grafts, rashes, weeping edema, etc.\

Icky bad!

What I really hate at work is paperwork, having to deal with irritable demanding stupid families, and having to discipline/write up coworkers.

The icky stuff usually doesn't bother me.

ITA 3rdshiftguy! Irritable and demanding people are the WORST part of the job.

As for the icky stuff - I can stand to look at almost anything as long as I don't have to smell it! Odors put me over the edge every time! I heave and gag until I get away from it or puke (or collapse from trying to hold my breath.)

I am not a big fan of any of the "grossies", but having someone vomit on me ranks down there in least faves', I tell ya. I remember a girl who had been drinking a LOT of grape juice who dressed me up in her purple puke w/o warning. She did not even say she felt sick ...I wanted to run screaming......covered up in purple stuff like BARNEY the DINOSAUR was so......ah ya know.....anyhow, UGH.....that set of scrubs went into the garbage post-haste.

But my least fave (even worse than grape puke), would be PAPER work...like tweets, it gets in the way of my providing decent care sometimes.....it will eat me alive and it gets worse all the time....sigh.....

I think one of the worst things is going to do an IM injection on the skinniest, most frail looking little old man/lady.....it's like where do you put the needle? Because every place looks like you are going to drill bone!

I'm with you, I HATE colostomys. The aids on my floor empty the colostomy bags etc. I occasionally have to deal with one because the aid that has my patients is too busy or on break, I have been known to bribe another nurses aid to do it by buying them lunch :roll

Oh my god! You guys are hillarious! Absolutely hillarious! You have me sitting here laughing uncontrollably. My friend comes into my room and says, "Are you alright, Mikey?" Hahaha! And I can't do anything but sit there and laugh. So he reads the post .. he just stands there looking at the computer screen and then back at me like, "Okay, what's to freakin' funny?" Yeah, so there ya have it .. heh.

Just reading these posts and stuff just excites me more and more. I am actually LEARNING tidbits of things through these posts, believe it or not. Yay! :)

One day once I've started working (as a CNA, but hey .. still working in the profession) .. I'll bring this post back to life and I'll post my reply of what I hate too, okay?