What is your weakness?

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.

~Jen:barf02: (Just for those of you who love him) ((We need a booger smilie ))

patients with lice..I start itching before they even hit the unit..I itch just thinking about it..(is that one there?)

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.

Sputum. When it is time to do trach care...OMG. Also doing a old rotting infected wound dressing is nasty too. I've had a couple of those. Gross

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Charlie

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

Yes..I hate that.

Here is one for ya....

Radiated skin that is sooo destroyed by the radiation ,that now the tendon is showing through the skin...I am talking about a leg tendon....

To make maters worse , the doc is NOW..cutting through the tendon handing you(me) the dead tissue in the gauze pad I am holding....

Talk about turning green....

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.

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!!!!

I can't stand gross feet!! yellow toenails!! It's the worst for me!!

I'm not a nurse yet, but one thing that bugs me now, and will forever, is spit. I don't like seeing it, hearing it, nothing. I think its disgusting and sometimes makes me gag. Haha.