What can you tolerate the least?

5 I've heard that every nurse has their one thing that they don't like and grosses them out and they don't like dealing with. What is your one thing?

For me it would be vomit! I cannot stand vomit!
Bones sticking out and eye injuries. Just no.

I'm okay so far with everything I've seen. But I cannot pull my kids' teeth. Blood, stool, urine, mucus, vomit, no problem. Ask mom to pull out a baby tooth and I delegate to dad.

I don't mind open wounds, watching stiches be removed, stoma's, foleys, everyday stuff..bm's, etc..vomit at a moments notice still sends me for a little loop..have to like compose myself quick and turn the patient and get the bucket..still throughs me for a little loop..don't know why.lol

- Displaced fractures and bone marrow aspirations. I get sympathy pains. I think the only time I have felt woozy during patient care was when I saw the doctor putting his back into a bone marrow aspiration. I could swear I heard the needle grind into the bone. - Getting drool on me. There is just something about thick, wet and cold oral secretions that gross me out. I used to work with a lot of kids and it would gross me out when they drooled on me. I have no issue with respiratory secretions though. I love, love, love suctioning and seeing mucus plugs come out. But when a gooey line of drool comes out of a baby or a profusely salivating kid I internally yell out NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Oh, another one:Breaking glass ampules.It makes me mad. We can send man to the moon but some drugs still come in packages that basically threaten to lacerate you. WHY? After you free your patients' medications from its GLASS CASE OF DOOM, you have to make sure you filter out glass particles that threaten to swim around in your patient's bloodstream. My hospital once switched manufacturers of a certain medication that I had to give often during my shift. These ampules were gigantic. They were so hard to break. I finally asked my non-wussy coworkers to break it for me and even they had trouble. It was maddening.

Vomit. Ive been emetophobic for all my life and I feel always will be. Completely irrational, but when I was little I would scream and cry and run away of I even heard someone puke. I'm 26 and still cant deal with the sight of it.

Been peed on, pooped on, bled on,and vomited on. Irrigated nasty wounds, suctioned a gazillion trachs.Noted a patient had excessive ear wax and took a good old q-tip to it..

Blood, guts, open fractures, vomit, the works.Give me someone hacking a loogie or any type of sputum, and I vomited in my mouth. Disgusting.

Quote from Been there,done thatBeen peed on, pooped on, bled on,and vomited on. Irrigated nasty wounds, suctioned a gazillion trachs.Noted a patient had excessive ear wax and took a good old q-tip to it..

Quote from Been there,done thatBeen peed on, pooped on, bled on,and vomited on. Irrigated nasty wounds, suctioned a gazillion trachs.Noted a patient had excessive ear wax and took a good old q-tip to it..

I am tolerant of most things....maggots in wounds...that's a NO!I simply cannot stand a huge lugie/hocker/goober. I just can't stand them. Have someone cough up or suction out a huge thick tenacious mucous plug. I don't eat lunch....

GI bleeds....I hate everything about them! The smell seems to just stick to you and lingers. Don't care for tunneling wounds either. And it makes me cringe when getting ABG's on a thinner person and you accidentally touch the structures surrounding the artery...it's like a crunchy feeling