What squicks you out?

Oh my god! What kind of patients do that?[/quote

Patients with dementia, very confused people. Go to any nursing home, I'm sure you will find a poopy finger painter anyway in there.

I've said it before: two words that should never go together...

fecal emesis.

Edited to add: I'll trade for the OP's wound tissue - love a good debridment .

Ditto, I'm with you nurse ratched.

Maggots - can't stand maggots. I know that they clean wounds but yech:barf01:

Give me the dirty wounds - vomiting patients but save me from the maggots.

lol you guys, it sounds like we're all different.

on the same note, we had our first day of clinicals today and I watched a trach suction and had a pt have a bm on the nurse while we were giving her a bedbath and changing her diaper - didn't ick me out at all. And I emptied a foley...baby steps. I'm just glad they weren't doing a dressing change on her massive decubitus while I was in there - they had a vacu-dressing on it. I think it might be because my grandma died of sepsis r/t decubiti in a nursing home, so it's an emotional thing. I'm sure I will have to get used to it, as I'm on a renal floor right now, and diabetics get a lot of necrosis.

I'm with you there on the dentures. Awhile back someone here told a story about hearing this little old lady smacking on something. When they turned to look, they saw that she had her dentures in her hand and was eating all the leftover goodies in them. Ugh!! Grossed me out for life.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW I'm with those on the dentures. They make me gag thinking about em. :barf01:

Tracy

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW I'm with those on the dentures. They make me gag thinking about em. :barf01:

Tracy

yeah, me too. Anything having to do with mouths - sputum, secretions, old food, even a messy eater will make me want to :barf01:

The only other thing that grosses me out real bad is severely flaking, dry, crusty skin (had a guy tonight with the worst case of psoriasis I have ever seen - huge white flaking pieces all over his entire body, with red oozing cracking skin underneath - I almost couldn't touch him), and the only smell that bothers me is really bad BO or bad breath. Poop, puke, etc I can handle. ETOH breath, I can handle. But when it smells like something crawled in and died about two weeks ago, ick!!!! :barf01:

I'm pretty easy going, usually things that get me get most people; GI bleed poo, that sort of thing.

I do work with a nurse who has a particular "squick out". I work NICU and as some may know, sometimes babies are born with extra digits, the ones without bony joint connection to the hand are simply tied off and eventually they fall off. Until they do they hang there on the side of the hand (usually) purple and dangling. This one nurse who is very good and very compassionate cannot take those at all. She calls them "grapes" and always shudders when they touch her. She says they just freak her out and she's always afraid they are about to fall off (which is the objective).

OMG...do you work with me!!:rotfl: That is so funny I read this because I had a baby the other day with extra digits and toes. The other nurses were making fun of me because they totally creep me out. I'm glad to know I'm not alone in the world on this one!

I have to admit, I CANNOT handle when patients, family, friends, who ever, spit out that froothy, wet, clingy, warm, toothpaste. :sofahider Sends shivers up my spine and goosebumps up my arms just thinking about it... blah!

Smegma's the worst---especially when it's smegma from an elderly, uncircumcised male (or an uncircumcised morbidly obese male) who, either through no fault of his own (i.e., frail, unable to wash himself or see well enough to do so, with no one to help him; neglected in a nursing home) or just uncaring about personal hygiene, has layers of it built up--and you have to catheterize him. I just look away once the foreskin is retracted and I am cleaning well with Betadine--then quickly pull the foreskin back once the Foley is in.

Smegma is a good scrabble word, though! :rotfl:

Ok, well, this just solved my "to circumcise or not to circumcise" dilemma. :chuckle In fact, I'm now feeling quite queasy. LOL.

The two things that really squick me are trying to empty the BSC when it's got poo in it, and decubs that smell like rotting garbage.

So much to think about!

1 Eyeballs

2 Hadn't thought about gray matter, but blech

3 Scaly, smelly, flaky, dirty, unwashed feet with long thick yellow toenails

4 Seeing my husband's blood drawn

Give me a trach any day. A mask for me does wonders.

When I was in nursing school I observed a scleral buckle surgery. The scrub nurse noticed I was getting a little pale and kicked over a stool so I could sit down. Which was an amazing thing, since the room was low-light and all you could see was from the monitor: this huge eyeball with retractors holding the lids back

BTW: Squick is a great word! Can I use that for scrabble? :chuckle

I don't like eyes either.

But my main squick is...

Everytime I have to dig out an impaction, I gag. I even forewarn the pt. I tell them that I don't mind doing it, but I know I am going to gag, I always do, and I'm sorry in advance. They usually laugh and say they'll gag too.

The only other thing that grosses me out real bad is severely flaking, dry, crusty skin (had a guy tonight with the worst case of psoriasis I have ever seen - huge white flaking pieces all over his entire body, with red oozing cracking skin underneath - I almost couldn't touch him)

Eww, that skin with the thick flakes is so nasty! I had a really gross patient when I was in nursing school who clearly wasn't very well schooled in manners. I was putting socks on him or something, and he barked at me to peel off those flakes (they covered his entire lower leg -- the other leg was a BKA). So nasty!!!!