It goes without saying that to be a nurse, you need to have (or quickly develop) a strong stomach. But even with a stomach of steel, nursing kryptonite can leave you nauseated and gagging, even if only on the inside.
I'm only starting clinicals next semester, so granted, I still have much to see... but thus far in my life, the thing that disgusts me the most is, oddly enough, tonsil stones! How can something so small be so repulsive?
Teeth! I can handle a lot of things but teeth are my true kryptonite. I think I have PTSD from traumatic wisdom teeth extraction in 2006, ever since then, I've been completely unable to handle anything to do with teeth.
It goes without saying that to be a nurse, you need to have (or quickly develop) a strong stomach. But even with a stomach of steel, nursing kryptonite can leave you nauseated and gagging, even if only on the inside.
I'm only starting clinicals next semester, so granted, I still have much to see... but thus far in my life, the thing that disgusts me the most is, oddly enough, tonsil stones! How can something so small be so repulsive?
Give me your trachs, your necrotic wounds, your c-diff and GI bleeds. But a puking patient? I just can't do it. The smell, the sounds, everything, it gets me every time. The worst was an AIDS patient I had a couple weeks ago. I don't remember the name of this HIV medication; it is the one that comes in a pouch and is BRIGHT yellow. I mean, it looks like yellow acrylic paint. Mix that with an entire can of vanilla ensure and imagine THAT as projectile vomit. It gave me nightmares...
[color=yellow]sputum and [color=olive]vomit yucky!![color=yellow][color=olive][color=yellow][color=olive] t[color=yellow][color=olive]he smell of vomit and the sound of suction makes me gag. i can usually control it, but if i have a patient puking and it smells really bad i grab the mask lol! [color=yellow][color=olive][color=yellow][color=olive]:igtsyt:
My son broke his wrist last month. The bone had moved out of place. So you could clearly see the deformity in his wrist. The ER triage Nurse could NOT deal with it. She said this was one of her weaknesses. That and eyeballs!
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[color=yellow][color=olive] t[color=yellow][color=olive]he smell of vomit and the sound of suction makes me gag. i can usually control it, but if i have a patient puking and it smells really bad i grab the mask lol! [color=yellow][color=olive]
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ChelseaLynn1623
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Teeth! I can handle a lot of things but teeth are my true kryptonite. I think I have PTSD from traumatic wisdom teeth extraction in 2006, ever since then, I've been completely unable to handle anything to do with teeth.