OK c'mon fess up everyone. There is ONE absolute most worst nursing proceedure that everyone can't stand to do, but you have to when the time arises...what turns your stomach and ties it in a knot for hours after and makes you dred doing it it hours before?????
For me, it's trach care! Uuuuuuugggggggghhhhhhhhh!
I dred doing it. I love when I come on duty and the traches are all nice and clean, but it seems they never stay that way for long. After awhile they become all gooey and bubbly and crusty and then I have to come along and clean this stuff. My God! It's times like this I wonder why I couldn't wait to be a nurse! I mean what was I thinking??? And it's times like this I'd rather be cleaning my cats litter box! The most disgusting part of it all is when I'm almost finished and Joe patient gives a good cough and out flies a loogie and lands on the freshly made bed linen...I can't stand it!!!Why people find this stuff fasinating I'll NEVER know. I'd rather be doing a code brown in all honesty.
So what makes you want to launch your lunch? Don't be shy, tell us why!
Specializes in OB Labor & Delivery/PP/Nursery/Hospice.
I worked for 10 years in an OB/GYN office. Must we tie a "String" around our finger to help us remember.....what goes in, must come out!!!!!! (tampons)!
OMG...the eyeballs...oh ewwwwww We had a kid once that had really protruding eyes from a syndrome and they were kind of like on stalks (remember Arnold in that movie about Mars, when they fell thru the glass and their eyes popped out...that is what it looked like) and we had to put these med cups and ointment over them..and when we would take them off those eyes would move around ....oh ewwwwwww. I felt so bad for that baby, but those eyes....
Oh I am dry retching as I read this! I HATE SPUTUM !!!! home nursed this guy once who urinated and coughed his emphsemic lungs into a beautiful waterford crystal bowl . Would only want me to empty it once a day and would n't use the urinal I bought out of my own money!
When he died the family offered me the bowl! (needless to say I declined the offer LOL)
but truthfully the most grossest thing I have ever done is put a tongue stud back in someones tongue (they get caught up in the gloves too!) don't ask me why after years of sputum, pus, pooh, UTI urine, and the est but
I'll never forget in nursing school, I was doing trach care and the man coughed and a "snot" ball flew past my head at had to be 100 mph.....lol
My next thing that turns my stomach is toenail removals, don't get me wrong I have a very strong stomach, but come on, this is BRUTAL. Have you ever seen the way the scissors are SHOVED under the nail, then the toenail is YANKED off the nail bed.....uuuggghhhh Not to mention after having a 1 1/2'' needle shoved into the top of your toe OUCH!!
Granted, I'll let fungus invade my entire limb before I'll have that done ...lol
And why is it EVERY old person that coughs in a hanky wants to show it to you??????? Ahh, the joys of nursing. I have seen every colorand consistency of phlegm out there LOL
:eek: Rotten grapes. What were those doing up there or need I ask. What was the explanation for that!!!:imbar
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Rotten grapes?
I am so glad I didn't read this an hour ago when I was eating grapes for breakfast.