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Subject :Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:21
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Warning: May upset your stomach
I'm perfectly fine with bloody urine, stools, vomit and sputum. The one I'm not really good at handling is malaena...  |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:21
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sputum! just makes me gag even when I hear someone in the street hacking it up! When I was pregnant I had a really hard time - the worst was a postnatal patient passing a huge blood clot into a pan. I just gagged right in front of her and was soooo embarrased!:  |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:21
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Warning Don't read if you are sqaumish...
Sputum....as I nearly vomited when a confused patient thought that his sputum cup contained a drink!
Vomit...when i first strted nursing I had a patient who was vomiting into a bowl that I was holding and it splashed up into my eye...ow it stung |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:21
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I gotta go with sputum. Even typing it is making me retch. |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:22
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ewww sputum! |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:22
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I agree with the majority, got to go with sputum. |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:22
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Most dreaded specimen? Has to be the lady with projectile vomiting of faeces. My goodness, did the whole ward complain! They should of had a thought for the poor women who had the bowel obstruction. Seriously though, I have never ever wanted to throw up so much... tried very hard...just wished I'd had my Vicks!
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:22
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Eeeeeeew! that sounds terrible! poor lady and poor everyone who had to clean up!!! |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:22
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I am usually fine with urine, stools, vomit and sputum but the one and only thing that brang me undone and always will... is the smell of necrotic flesh, i don't think there is anything worse... I had to undress a patient's foot one day during my training and their skin was literally falling off their foot, the smell made me gag and I had to leave the room... I felt so sick afterwards |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:22
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Well now....I used to work in a respiratory ward in the 80s and we has to observe and measure the sputum each shift.... then tip it down the toilet...it used to go splat when it hit the water! I did gag a few times! |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:22
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Do they still do a three day stool collection? All pooh into one tin? I remember by day 3 the tin had a particularly ripe smell! |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:22
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Ah Livicust - you have reminded me of being a student nurse in the renal unit and having to measure the 24 hour collections every morning first thing. No one wanted that task as it was vile! The most junior nurse always got it and it was 30-60 minutes of gagging and choking! |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:23
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A client of mine has a primary right fungating breast wound. She is in the palliative care unit. The smell is more offensive than the lady who had the bowel obstruction....I actually use vicks to visit her, so that I can be therapeutic. I care about her...and hope that her family will cope. |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:23
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Cher it is good that she has you looking after her...it sounds like you are a very caring nurse.
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:23
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You know what I think livicust?...Vicks works wonders in most unexpected situations!
Gee, I thought malaena is worst...until I heard everyone elses experiences. What else is there? |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:23
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Another YUK story....Hydait Cysts. I had to empty several suction bottles of cysts, blood and crap, when I was a scout in OT....THANK GOD they have disposable suction collection now! S |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:23
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i don't know about the worst specimen, i know the worst smell i've ever experienced was the smell coming from a maggot infested wound. the poor man got his leg ampuatated after that. also hate the smell of pseudumonas. its weird how its satisfying to share this stuff :-) |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:23
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I particularly remember that churning feeling when an unsuspecting hand lands on a big blob of sputum when making a bed, eeewwwwwwwgh |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:23
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Funniest is the faecea on the floor and you step on it YUK!!!Race to wash it off, tell your mate when she stops laughing can she give a hand.Sputum comes a close second ewww!!! |
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Subject :Re:Most dreaded specimen...???..
17 02 2010 06:24
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I see around the traps now the new thing they stick up the rectum and drains into a bag...to collect runny pooh..all very controlled. I remember pooh down the bed rails dripping onto the floor...top to tail..ahhh they were the days...I do not miss it...now in pain management all very clean. |
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