What nursing task do you loathe???

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Just realized today that I can't stand ostomy appliances. It's not the poop, it's just cutting and sizing the appliance and that messy paste. Tedious and irritating but somebody's gotta do it.

How about you?

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.

trach care

just. too. much. mucous.

I can handle a dog team foaming at the mouth after a nice mush, some of it even flies back to the sled (passengers are at a disadvantage). Copious sticky, slurpy, slimey, and sometimes smelly snot coming out of the trach = blech

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Specializes in ER.

Ortho static vital signs. BORING!

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

Anything to do with feet. Just, ewwwwwwww! *shudders*

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Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.

Putting in IVs. I miss every time and it makes me feel like an incompetent nurse.

For now on, I won't even attempt it. I suck at IVs.

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Specializes in psychiatric.

Placing a foley on a woman. I am the WORST. I think I got it right once :***:

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Specializes in Neuroscience.

Suppositories.

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Getting patients out of bed to the chair. With the ICU spaghetti tangle of lines, pain of post-op patient and a few experiences of patients going bad when out of bed, makes me a little nervous about this. I am also small and not strong.

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

Holding leg while the ortho MD drills for traction. I know they feel better once the weights are on...but that drill... it seems so brutal!

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

When I worked nights I always hated travelling for HCTs. It would put me SO far behind to get packed up, getting the CT itself, and then making the pt presentable. All those lines and wires get SO tangled, esp. if the pt has an EVD, an art line, and CVP setup. Because then you have not only lines but the pressure bags/EVD canister etc. (Scheduled HCTs are done around 0500.)

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Oral care, especially cleaning nasty dentures. Yeccchh.

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Specializes in Hospice.
trach care

just. too. much. mucous.

I can handle a dog team foaming at the mouth after a nice mush, some of it even flies back to the sled (passengers are at a disadvantage). Copious sticky, slurpy, slimey, and sometimes smelly snot coming out of the trach = blech

I can't do vomit! So I will suction the heck out of your patient if you'll get my puking patient!

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