Comments on: I Don’t Know How You Can Do This

By: ruralgirl713

ruralgirl713 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:21:58 +0000

Funny! I thought I was the only nurse repulsed by teeth. Put dentures in a dead pt? NO WAY! I will pay a co-worker to do it for me!
On another note, isn’t it amusing how those same people that say “I could never do this” are the ones who want to tell you how to do your jobs??
-adult critical care….26yrs

By: Sunflower

Sunflower — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:06:40 +0000

Anything with eyes. I once traded a cornea removal post mortem for a trach care. As the transplant nurse was pulling out the tools I just about fainted. I’ll go clean a trach now.

Also dirty dentures. Gack!!!

I’m with you on the burns stuff too. I floated to a floor that had them and as they were short staffed, I got one. Poor guy had just come back from the OR and had the dressing sutureed to the non-burned parts. They asked if I wanted to assist a tub therapy. No thanks…

I’m working psych now. I still occassionally miss acute care but not so much that I want to go back.

Great blog by the way.

By: Melody

Melody — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:57:49 +0000

I think those of us who are nurses, and good nurses, were destined to be nurses. That’s why we can’t see ourselves doing anything else. I work in an adult ICU and have never wanted to work in Peds. I have a friend who works in PICU but shivers at the thought of working with adults. Each of us have our calling, and are lucky we have found it.

By: Nurses Dose

Nurses Dose — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:32:41 +0000

i am starting a nursing blog my self. i don’t think there is anything hard to do. its just a matter of doing what you like.

By: shrtstormtrooper

shrtstormtrooper — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:35:40 +0000

I could never be a respiratory therapist. I’ve seen a trached patient cough a loogie halfway across the room…and I had to leave. Blood, sure. Poop, sure. Dead necrotic smelly flesh, sure. Sputum? Give me a bucket, because I’ll hurl. And I’m an (new) ER nurse.

By: danielle

danielle — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:27:57 +0000

As you said, I could never do anything dental cause mouths are too gross….as are feet, so forget podiatry or pedicures!

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By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:32:03 +0000

My sister is an ICU nurse, and I am (just now) a law student, and it strikes both of us, I think, that we would not be suited for each other’s jobs. All it takes is her casually saying “Yeah, my patient peed on the floor last night” and I’m gagging a little. At the same time, midway through a description of what I did last night (it involved a book. And a desk.) she’s literally sleeping.

So it doesn’t even have to be a “distasteful” job by most people’s standards.

By: WWWebb

WWWebb — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:24:01 +0000

Ex-EMT who saw *everything*.

I can’t stand to handle raw chicken.

Period.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:12:47 +0000

i could never be a preschool teacher! of course nurses teach all the time, and we teach a lot of people with limited capacity to understand, but if i had to be that patient all day, every day? with someone who could only be reasoned with so far? i would snap.