What nursing task do you loathe???

[richardgecko]

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?

[enuf_already]

Might we be triplets? Or at least kin of some kind?!

If not, then we can be members of the same club. I'm sure there are others out there!

I take very good care of my own teeth, but I can't stand watching others brush theirs.

[Ruas61, BSN, RN]

Removal of an impaction manually. It gets me every time.

[ktwlpn, LPN]

Flakey feet and greasy ear lobes!!!

I hate removing socks or Ted hose for foot inspection,those flakes always take flight.I'm inhaling them or they are in my eye.....ewww

I HATE EAR LOBES....I hate irrigating ,I hate instilling drops,I hate placing hearing aids or manipulating ear lobes in any way...They remind me of floppy labia and it just skeeves me out.Don't even ask me to help with an ear ring.This applies to patients and family members alike.....Floppy labia on the sides of your head! Yech....I don't even wear ear rings myself.

[CrzyNrsBSN]

I am on a kick right now so please bare with me.

I LOATHE nurses talking $h*t about CNAs. I LOATHE nurses and administrators acting as if the job of the aide is ignorant, monkey work. I LOATHE that they are still being called nursing assitance. Lets take a stand for our CO-WORKERS. Reform, reform, reform. Start 1st with title change. I like Patient Care Technician. Or maybe Nurse Technician. Opinions?

[Farawyn]

Flakey feet and greasy ear lobes!!!

I hate removing socks or Ted hose for foot inspection,those flakes always take flight.I'm inhaling them or they are in my eye.....ewww

I HATE EAR LOBES....I hate irrigating ,I hate instilling drops,I hate placing hearing aids or manipulating ear lobes in any way...They remind me of floppy labia and it just skeeves me out.Don't even ask me to help with an ear ring.This applies to patients and family members alike.....Floppy labia on the sides of your head! Yech....I don't even wear ear rings myself.

Good lord!

[AnthonyD]

Ear lobes... that's a new one for me. I guess we all have our thing. I'll put in NG tubes for any of you guys, if you'll do my trach care and bathe my people.

[Farawyn]

Ear lobes... that's a new one for me. I guess we all have our thing. I'll put in NG tubes for any of you guys, if you'll do my trach care and bathe my people.

Deal.

I'll also do ktwlpn's ear irrigations, but I don't think I can ever look at ear lobes the same way again.

[NurseLexx]

I hate trachs! Yuck yuck and yuck. Next would definitely be ostomies oh and giving lady partsl meds!.. everything else I can pretty much tolerate

[acrazycanucker]

Emptying urinals....something about peeing in a bottle just grosses me out big time. And any sort of respiratory thing that involves gurgling and phlegm....uuugh I am shuddering just writing this. When I ask about sputum color and my pt says "here I will show you" (hoark....hoark)....it's like NOOOOoooo thanks!!!!

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

When I did a clinical rotation in CVICU, we had a lot of periorbital edema to the point that the eyes wouldn't shut and all you could do is put a moist gauze over it. Some nurses would tape them shut. Freaked me all the way out

.

Ever seen periorbital edema on someone after being prone 26 hours? It reminded me of those bubble-eyed goldfish.

[odaat]

I had a patient ask me to pour out their cup for them...ok sure sir no problem....turns out it was a full cup of the loogies he'd been hawking up barffffffffffff..thats the closest I've ever come to losing my cookies in front of a patient. Loatheeee sputum and also that constant watery runny nose a lot of elderly seem to have. Also dentures of any sort, I close my eyes to handle them!

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

But when I am running around finding them snacks and pillows and then they pull a condescending, entitled attitude..

Why are you spending nursing time fetching snacks for able-bodied people? Give them directions to the caf, coffee shop, or vending machine.

Obviously if the pt is dying more TLC is in order...but if their 19 y/o kid just had an appy? No. Just. No.