What squicks you out?

[elizabells]

According to CSI: every criminalist has a fluid that especially grosses them out. From my admittedly non-scientific polling, it's the same with nurses. So what's yours? What's the one thing you'd take another nurse's entire assignment to avoid?

Going by my reaction to our lectures today, I think mine's necrotic tissue in a pressure ulcer. Thank god I'm going into an NNP program! Give me poop, blood, vomit, ANYTHING before a festering wound.

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

Okay, it's official: I'm a freak of nature.

I suctioned a trach pt in clinicals the other day. It didn't bother me a bit. The next day in our skills lab we practiced suctioning on the dummies, no actual sputum involved. I nearly yakked. So photos and other non-human representations of ick are much much more bothersome to me than the real thing. I have problems....

[dd_txrn, ASN, BSN]

Give me an MRSA infected wound or a trach patient with pneumonia and I'm your girl. Hand me a pair of clean dentures and I can put them in the denture cup. Hand me a set that haven't been cleaned in a while or take them out to "take the bits out of them" and I am out of there in a flash. Yucka!!

I'm also freaked out by eyeballs. I had a patient lose one (a contact lens) up inside his eye lid and he asked me to get it for him. I tried, but as soon as I lifted the eyelid, my stomach heaved. Couldn't do it. The ER show with the guy with the expanding eyeball? I turned off the TV!

Nasty teeth in a denture cup--yeah wipes me out----Old man feet with their thick yellow toenails ( usually smelly toe nail) grosses me out, but my all time #1 can't handle it... go away is sputum!! You can poop on me, puke on me but don't hock up a loogie(sp) on me!! LOL :rotfl:

[Roy Fokker, BSN, RN]

Ahhh.... what a lovely thread

[Pvt. Parts]

I got quite a few chuckles out of this and can't wait to meet my match. :uhoh21:

My buddy's dad is a corrections officer at a max. security prison here in Michigan and was once projectile vomited on by a prisoner that had been orally raped. Apparently by more than one prisoner, from the amount of semen that came out. :stone :barf01:

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

Ahhh.... what a lovely thread

Glad you like it.

[Works2xs]

This thread is great.. almost theraputic in a wacky sort of way. Getting ready to start an accelerated progam in the fall, and the exhilaration of getting started is usually tempered by thinking.."can I handle ?"

Seeing that some folks are "squicked" by stuff I find rather mundane is strangely encouraging (was an EMT for a while (years ago) so I've seen a few things). For example... suctioning.. I think I'm sort of the opposite. I hate it when there's any hint of rattle, bubble, pop, etc. I'm almost OCD about it... I actually feel relief when the noise stops. Anyone remember the comedian Red Fox? I couldn't stand to listen to him 'cause it always sounded like he was in need of a good throat-clearing hack. Gee.. so I guess you could say I'm squicked out by the thought of someone drowning in their own phlegm.

[Brita01]

My buddy's dad is a corrections officer at a max. security prison here in Michigan and was once projectile vomited on by a prisoner that had been orally raped. Apparently by more than one prisoner, from the amount of semen that came out. :stone :barf01:

Ok, see, that's just disgusting.

[dd_txrn, ASN, BSN]

I got quite a few chuckles out of this and can't wait to meet my match. :uhoh21:

My buddy's dad is a corrections officer at a max. security prison here in Michigan and was once projectile vomited on by a prisoner that had been orally raped. Apparently by more than one prisoner, from the amount of semen that came out. :stone :barf01:

I think, by far, that is the grosses thing I have ever heard!!!!! :barf01: :smackingf

[wvnurse1]

Right there with you!!! Anything from the mouth.

[lpnstudentin2010, LPN]

thats odd

Okay, it's official: I'm a freak of nature.

I suctioned a trach pt in clinicals the other day. It didn't bother me a bit. The next day in our skills lab we practiced suctioning on the dummies, no actual sputum involved. I nearly yakked. So photos and other non-human representations of ick are much much more bothersome to me than the real thing. I have problems....

[Morning-glory]

I got quite a few chuckles out of this and can't wait to meet my match. :uhoh21:

My buddy's dad is a corrections officer at a max. security prison here in Michigan and was once projectile vomited on by a prisoner that had been orally raped. Apparently by more than one prisoner, from the amount of semen that came out. :stone :barf01:

Gross! Very gross! Shudder!!! That has to be one of the more revolting things that I have ever heard!!

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

You'd think that would be enough to keep people from winding up in prison.