I am relatively new here. I spent the last year reading allnurses.com and recently registered and would like to know what is your weakness regarding medical care.
Everyone, at least that I know, has a weakness. Something that just makes them queasy. Some people say they can't handle sputum of any kind and others seem to get weak in the knees when they see broken bones. (I knew a ER nurse who admitted to this)
I tend to get a little woozy when someone palpates my inner arm to look for a vein. It even happens if I think about it too much. It is not the needle. I had them in my hand and does not do a thing to me. I can deal with anything else. Granted I am still a student so I have not experienced everything.
So, what does it for you? Inquiring minds want to know.
Sputum in any shape,form, color followed closely by any kind of dental stuff. Have to have headphones and heavy drugs to sit in the chair. got weak in the knees watching dentist work in patient's mouth.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who gets eeked out by sputum. I can do trachs, but when they are really nasty if takes every bit I have. The sound of suctioning a juicy one really kills me. I HATE it when pts blow their nose or cough something up and then try to hand me the tissue. The post about having to put sputum on a slide made me squirm. Hadn't though of such before, don't want to again.
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I can do everyhing else like clean poop or suction your lungs out but please don't ask me to clean your dentures. I don't know why but i have this strange feeling when holding them in my fingers. It's so freaky!
Same here! the only time I almost seriously puked was when I had to brush dentures. Stange, eh?
For me its the sight of a doc/nurse digging into the body with something sharp. Watching this big neede-thingy get jabbed under the layers of skin for Norplant, saw digging with instruments a couple of times in the OR or watching a doc dig out an ingrown toenail.
Just watching them do that has made me so lightheaded, I've had to sit down several times and nearly passed out once.
When someone is very fragile and everything just crunches with that first compression and you can feel it grating with each subsequent one. Ewww creepy
What about things not visual such as in relation to your work practice? Ex: perfectionist, difficulty staying organized, etc? Most of these things make lots of us go "eww" but we still do it lol.
Specializes in Endo, Outpt Surgery, Hospice, LTC, MH,.
Now there's a true statement.... I get erked when I see multiple people walk by trash on the floor expecting "housekeepin" to pick it up!....It would only take a freakin' second people.....Pick it up!!!!
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nasty thick yellow cracked long gross toenails:barf02: