What squicks you out?

elizabells, BSN, RN · Jun 24, 2005

I forgot to add- The smell of menses. Women- wash yourself frequently!!! Ugh! -andrea

Really? That doesn't bother me at all. Hm.

I did a little poll of some of the folks in my class, and got suctioning, CDiff, crotch funk, necrotic tissue, urine (heh. good luck.), and eye-related stuff.

Love the Jeebus reference. Everyone looks at me like I'm nuts when I say it.

eta: one of the little ads under this thread is "fishy lady partsl odor?" and the site says "Any woman can develop this problem at any time of their life, but only unclean women do nothing about it." um, yeah, you need the MetroGel for that one, I think...don't even get me started about the "unclean" thing. you wouldn't like me when I'm angry... :angryfire

Aneroo, LPN · Jun 24, 2005

Really? That doesn't bother me at all. Hm.
I did a little poll of some of the folks in my class, and got suctioning, CDiff, crotch funk, necrotic tissue, urine (heh. good luck.), and eye-related stuff.
Love the Jeebus reference. Everyone looks at me like I'm nuts when I say it.
eta: one of the little ads under this thread is "fishy lady partsl odor?" and the site says "Any woman can develop this problem at any time of their life, but only unclean women do nothing about it." um, yeah, you need the MetroGel for that one, I think...don't even get me started about the "unclean" thing. you wouldn't like me when I'm angry... :angryfire

LOL - The adds crack me up on some of these topics! I think I want to start making random ones just to see what adds I can get. :) -A

shopgal, RN · Jun 24, 2005

Spit and sputum used to just make me gag and want to ralph, so where do I work, Long term ventilator unit! Now I could care less! We have all of these pts that have signed waivers that they know that they aspirate everything but they don't want to give up food, so anyway, you've never seen gross until you've seen a pt aspirate a taco or ice cream and then we get to suction it out of their lungs and then not only that but then it bubbles up around their trach, yum, Taco Bell anyone? Give me c-diff poop any day, puke on me, lather me with your wound juice, doesn't bother me a bit, but aspirated tacos were pretty nasty!

shopgal, RN · Jun 24, 2005

Oh yeah, the one that still grosses me out is the dying cancer pt smell, that one gets me still. The other one that causes me to step back is the smell of when you have to burp a g-tube and they have like a lot of air and it goes and goes and you're like standing there and you can't leave, you have to just stand there, :barf01:

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Jun 24, 2005

Some women have strong menses odor that has nothing to do with being "unclean".

dbscandy · Jun 28, 2005

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

I wouldn't be too quick to count out those premies; saw a small red bump on a 28-weeker's old IV site; turned her leg to get a better look and pus jumped out on my hand!!! Bad staph in this kid which spread to her face, hands; isolation for weeks.

And a penrose drain placed in a really rotten NEC abdomen will make you toss your cookies for sure.

Keely-FutureRN · Jun 28, 2005

blood, poop,and pee... :rotfl: just kidding

ostomy bag contents (potent), GI bleed smell, I had a pt. with a few jp drains and the smell really made my stomach turn. I can handle it though.

Keely

jeepgirl, LPN, NP · Jun 28, 2005

I forgot to add- The smell of menses. Women- wash yourself frequently!!! Ugh! -andrea

Like it was said above, some women have that, and it has nothing to do with being unclean or not washing frequently enough. And, if you're going to have a baby soon... many women do have a slight odor after they have the baby in the postpartum unit... and it has nothing to do with being unclean.

begalli · Jun 28, 2005

the "specimen" left over from an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm repair (just make you want to run out and get a burger....)

Remember that anti-smoking television commercial where a pair of hands were shown stripping a section of aorta and out came a creamy, cottage-cheesy like plaque?

OMG. That was THE most disgusting commercial ever!

Keely-FutureRN · Jun 28, 2005

Remember that anti-smoking television commercial where a pair of hands were shown stripping a section of aorta and out came a creamy, cottage-cheesy like plaque?
OMG. That was THE most disgusting commercial ever!

I remember that!! EWWWWWW! It looked like stuffed pasta being squeezed open... :no:

Keely

Aneroo, LPN · Jun 28, 2005

Like it was said above, some women have that, and it has nothing to do with being unclean or not washing frequently enough. And, if you're going to have a baby soon... many women do have a slight odor after they have the baby in the postpartum unit... and it has nothing to do with being unclean.

I understand it might be natural to some (in the ER, I see some folks who don't wash, and it's gross), but regardless, it 'squicks' me out. Then again, I have the pregnancy "spidey sense' of smell. (Fiance calls my super smell my spidey sense). lol -Andrea

kbclary4 · Jun 30, 2005

:offtopic:

Sorry, I had to share.

Had a chemistry test today and while I was studying a girl in my class cam a sat down with me. We were talking about the test and how hard we expected it to be. I said I was grateful because at my school AD nurses only have to take one chemistry class. She is a dental hygiene major and has to take more chemistry. She is not doing well in the class at all and started asking about the nursing program because she thinks she could just switch to nursing to avoid having to take the extra chem. She said she didn't care what she did, just so long as she could only work part-time and still make good money. :confused: She says to me: "so what do nurses do...I mean you just give shots right? You don't actually have to see blood and stuff do you because I don't like gross stuff." :rotfl: I smiled inwardly while remembering this post and told her that it just depends on what your idea of gross is.