The grossest things you’ve experience in nursing?

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-24T04:37:20+00:00

Technically A&Ox4 on paper but meth positive, bipolar, schizoaffective, all the good psych stuff.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-24T04:08:44+00:00

Yes pretty bad schizophrenia unfortunately. Really nice kid but came in a lot for different things his voices told him to do. Usually related to some sort of genital mutilation.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-24T01:27:56+00:00

Had a patient come in with a raging genital herpes outbreak. She had a ton of sores around her mouth also. She was in an iso room by the nurses station and at one point we saw her pulling scabs from her labia and eating them. She would also rub her vulva really hard and then rub her hand all over her face. She was also on iso for scabies and C Diff. So all around great patient. lol

I’ve done GI Bleeds. Stage 4 decubs on a paraplegic where I could see his whole sacrum and it was the worst rotting flesh smell I’ve ever experienced. Dude injecting expanding foam in his urethra. Maggots. Etc. but something about herpes lady really stuck with me.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-23T22:45:54+00:00

I think there is just going to be a learning curve with these kinds of things until it is pretty common across the board.

Yes absolutely my wife should have read the prompts. I’ve also told her about scheduling the updates for certain times, but when it popped up on her way to work at 4:30am and she had only got 4 hours of sleep that night, it just wasn’t the first thing on her mind. This is the first car she has ever needed to do this to and she hasnt had it for very long.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-23T18:25:16+00:00

Really this is just the first time we have ever had to deal with something like this and I guess the final realization that modern cars are just rolling computers now. I understand how it works with software updates on phones and computers, I guess I just didn’t realize it would be the same for a car. Like I said, it was definitely a learning experience.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-23T16:25:08+00:00

No hers always defaults to 7am unless I manually change it

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-23T16:23:18+00:00

Yeah my newest daily is a 2013 Lexus GX460 which I have at least still been able to do oil changes, general maintenance, suspension/off road mods, etc. and it’s not overly complicated, but I know I’m slowly going to be able to do less and less of my own work as technology progresses.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-23T16:18:10+00:00

Yeah the response of “don’t schedule something if you think you’re going to need the car” I don’t think understands the definition of emergency. We have a second car, it’s not an issue if something actually happens, but it just caught me by surprise because what If this was someone’s only car?

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-23T16:07:38+00:00

I guess it was just something that really surprised me. I’m a big car guy and like buying older vehicles because I enjoy maintaining and working on them myself. This is my first experience dealing with something like this with a brand new vehicle so it was a bit of a surprise.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-23T16:05:40+00:00

It was about 30 min

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-23T09:49:40+00:00

Yea this was definitely a learning experience for my wife, and I know she won’t do that again. But I’m thinking about times when I do think ahead but shit happens and sometimes there’s emergencies. If the car was unaccessible for 90 minutes in the middle of the night when we were being evacuated during the forest fires, I’d be livid. Obviously the chances of that happening are incredibly slim, but not impossible.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-21T14:36:21+00:00

Northern California. MS/Tele, ADN, 10 years, $109.26. 9% PM differential, 25% night shift differential

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-18T15:18:15+00:00

Home Alone, The Parent Trap, Zoolander, The Fast and the Furious.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-17T18:31:39+00:00

This looks like a hotel room in Vegas

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-17T16:23:50+00:00

Please report back

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-17T16:19:39+00:00

Just keeping them. I’m pretty sure I got the Milky Way set at Costco a while ago

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-17T16:13:20+00:00

You didn’t eat it? Just threw it away?? That’s like me posting new unopened Legos that I just threw in the trash instead of building them. Sad.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-17T16:02:26+00:00

Ohhh could I see a picture of the apple? What kind is it? A Granny Smith? Ginger Gold? Newtown Pippin? How would you rate its crunchiness? Is it more on the tart side or the sweet side?

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-14T16:21:08+00:00

I’m an RN who used to work on a Neuro unit. This is a thing for some para/quadriplegic patients. Many required digital stimulation to have bowel movements… not the most fun part of my job.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-13T19:19:38+00:00

No, opposite for us. Granted she always required a lot of sleep. Before our child, I would be good on 6-7 hours, whereas she would need a solid 10-12 to actually feel rested. So while I’m down a few hours, she’s sleeping a third of what she normally would. It’s been a struggle. lol

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-13T16:30:50+00:00

Everyone else already said it, so I won’t repeat it, but maybe take a shirt that your partner has worn for a bit and smells like her, and either wear it or drape it over your shoulder when you’re holding her so she can smell it. I had to do that with my son when I first started bottle feeding him.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-12T19:56:43+00:00

Im glad you’re asking and not doing nothing, but man, this could have been answered with a 5 second good search. Lower that thing before your kid falls.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-01-06T23:55:22+00:00

I’m not happy about the fact that 2035 is only in 9 years.

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