Attention Nurses: What job do you find the most "stomach turning" to do?

Tracheostomy care
Cathetarize insertion
Irrigating a fistula
Packing an evisceration wound
or
Disempacting a rectum
I made a bet with a friend of mine on what nurses hated to do most.

No offense is meant to anyone.

Ugh! I need to know which one!!!!

Tracheostomy care. Especially when the person has tons of fluids coming out and it smells all funky in the room.

no

no way

no way

rectum. defninitely that. I'm not a nurse, but a developmentalist worker. It disgusts me.

Enema would be the grossest thing to do.

Disempacting a rectum

My moms a nurse and she told me it was when they peel the skin off of faces for some kind of surgery.
Ew.

trache care..

look i do not know what your talkin about but my brother has a G-tube.

I think draining puss or packing wounds! but at the same time I kind of like it but it's gross!

for me its trach care

I work in a hospital and hang out with a bunch of nurses and ya know what? They all go into it for a reason -- because they care....and they can handle just about anything. This isn't a nice question and for good reason --- other people reading it MAY have to have any of the above done to them and they should NOT HAVE TO FEEL like they are going to turn a nurse's stomach. THAT IS NOT WHAT THE HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY IS ABOUT.

Disimpacting a rectum and cleaning their poop in general. I love the elderly, but goodness they are messy little poopers. They are funny as hell though .. I was being gentle the first time I had to do it ...and this 300 pound 80 year old woman said, "get right in there hunny." I wanted to puke, but instead laughed and thought about her as a person not as a messy pooper.

Colostomy care

Not so much trach care, but oral/nasal suctioning that bugs me most. It's the sound of the mucous being sucked out that gets to me. Vomit, blood, poop, stinking wounds don't phase me a bit.

Poop, blood, urine doesn't bother me. Vomit does. I think it is the sour smell. Nurses do their jobs because it gives them satisfaction to help people. Knowing that, doing the unpleasant jobs helps you know that you are making the patient more comfortable. You just try to be cheerful, pleasant, matter of fact and professional. Patients usually hate it more that the nurse. They don't like to be smelly and messy and are often embarrassed about having to have themselves cleaned. After you do it about a hundred times, it gets pretty routine.