What squicks you out?

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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. :barf02: Thank god I'm going into an NNP program! Give me poop, blood, vomit, ANYTHING before a festering wound.

This thread is all at the same time making me laugh and skip dinner.

I helped re-dress a stage 4 ( sometimes ya think there should be a stage 10) decub that had taken over this poor womans ENTIRE backside. All you could see was bone. The stink penetrated the ENTIRE floor. That was gross, but I went to lunch immediatly after with no problem.

But ANYTHING that has to do with the mouth GROSSES me out. The thought of dentures makes me want to hurl. Clean or dirty. If there was a fresh pair that had, never been used ever on a person, I still would rather clean up a code brown. Mouth care is the singlest biggest chore for me. poop is gross, but brushing another human beings teeth, I am getting sick just THINKING about it.

Feet don't bother me at all, even the really gross ones, but pulling on toenails makes my skin crawl.

Sputum doesn't ick me out *too much* but ANY of it landing on me, and I'm gagging. ( I seem to be the queen of sputum landing on my person)

I almost passed out watching an epidural. The birth was fine, but that long, long, long needle going into that womans spine, and I nearly hit the floor.

But teeth. GROSS.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Teeth don't bother me unless they are in dire need of work (or a toothbrush and paste).

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Sputum!!!! Gimme a stage four any day... Gimme 10 poopy butts, heck gimme a couple go-lytely preps in exchange for one sputum sample. But it's not just the real expectorate that does it for me, even plane old spit sends scrambling for the toilet bowl... Heck, I don't even like kissing!

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2 things that really gross me out are placentas wiggling around in a pan after a patient gives birth, and suctioning mucus from trach patients. This is because we used to joke around and dare each other to drink the collected mucus for a million dollars, lol! :eek:

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heh heh. I work in er, so...i'm sure I haven't seen it all (only been in this business 3 years)...but i've seen a lot. Sputum? No problem. Blood? No problem. Vomit? No problem. Poop? No problem. Green ick from an infected wound? No problem. Eye boogers? Oh, dear God, please don't make me dig that goop from the corners of the eyes belonging to that elderly gentleman who probably hasn't washed his face in a month because I'll PUKE!!!

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:chuckle :barf01: :barf01:

HOLY SH!@#$%!!!!!!!!

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Specializes in ICU, ED, Transport, Home Care, Mgmnt.
heh heh. I work in er, so...i'm sure I haven't seen it all (only been in this business 3 years)...but i've seen a lot. Sputum? No problem. Blood? No problem. Vomit? No problem. Poop? No problem. Green ick from an infected wound? No problem. Eye boogers? Oh, dear God, please don't make me dig that goop from the corners of the eyes belonging to that elderly gentleman who probably hasn't washed his face in a month because I'll PUKE!!!

Come on ER nurse, suck it up! Eye boogers???? Hee Hee Hee! I am always surprised at the gross stuff we can take and something like an eye booger will make some one urp. Only patient I ever had to make myself touch was a man with 100% 3rd degree burns. What was left of his skin was like wet swiss cheeze. My first and only big bad burn. Thnk God!

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Post mortal eye enucleation, for cornea donation. I CANNOT assist with this procedure. Just the thought of the doc puttng forceps and scissors anywhere near an eye freaks me out.

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Come on ER nurse, suck it up! Eye boogers???? Hee Hee Hee! I am always surprised at the gross stuff we can take and something like an eye booger will make some one urp. Only patient I ever had to make myself touch was a man with 100% 3rd degree burns. What was left of his skin was like wet swiss cheeze. My first and only big bad burn. Thnk God!

LOL! I know! It's crazy, but they really do gross me out!! :rolleyes:

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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?

This thread pretty much did it for me :rotfl:

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Specializes in ER.

i have yet to encounter anything that squicks me out.

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