Can you remember your worst experience when you were still green?

Alright..... heres one.... when I was still green, I was working in a psyche facility; lock down... there was a delerious woman brought in, and was stating she had been sleeping around a lot, and something was wrong with her, "down there" as she put it.... we called in the Gyno, and since everyone else was busy passing meds, doing paperwork, (we had all the MD's in that day,) I was the female nurse chosen to be in the room and assist the gyno with his examination of this woman.... so .. she's laying back, with her legs up butterfly style, with the little towel over, so she couldnt see, with the doc between her legs with swabs and tubes, and doing his thing, and im standing on the side of them, in full view of all thats going on, holding papers and passing him supplies as he's requesting..... he puts one of the swabs into her vagina, and pulls it out, and unbeknownst to her,, and to my utter horror, he brings it to his nose, and smells it...!!!!!!! I Froze, I Freaked, I wasnt sure what was going on, I felt as if the woman, and I had been violated, I honestly wasnt sure what  to do at that point, so I just continued to do my job in there, acting as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened, watching and listening. After the doc gathered all of his supplies - after the examination was over, I assisted the woman to her clothes and then to her room, and went back to the charts, straight to my supervisor, and closed a door behind me; with the chart in my hand, and told her of what i'd just witnessed, we start flipping through to the P.O.S.'s and note that the doctor had started the woman on abt's for chlamydia, right after he'd sent the samples to the lab to be tested....(those tests would otherwise have taken 2-3 days to receive results, and taken that much longer to start the abt's) apparently this doc had been around a while, and recognized their smell,, now a days, I recognize the smell of certain bacteria's in urine, stool, mouths, and wounds....at that time though, I remember thinking that this gyno was nothing but a sicko-perv.... (btw, 3 days later we received the lab results back from those test, and yes.. it was chlamydia.)

CPR on a street person, in the psych ward.  Used a one way valve mask but forgot to pinch the nose.  Bleckkkkkk.  I was grossed out for weeks.

I was working in tele and had a young 30's male, father of 2 little little boys that had a virus, did not get treated and resulted in destroying his heart and he needed a transplant.  I was still with my preceptor and had to go with her and the doc to tell him and his wife.  It was so, so hard to do.  He remained in my assigned group and I had him the next day. We had developed a good relationship at this point and he remained upbeat often joking with me as I learned how to do new things as a nurse.  So,at one point in the day,  I did my 'nurse thing' (I don't even remember what) but he thanked me profusely.  On the way out the door I said "That's ok, just leave me in your will!" and smiled and kept walking out the door.  It wasn't until I got into the hallway that I realised what I had said and what his diagnosis was, I was mortified!  I went back in to apologize all red faced but he just sat on the bed laughing at me!  I now take a moment to really think about what I am joking about before I open my big mouth.

" I was working@ a teaching hospital / med-surg unit,when a 27 y/o,widowed mother of two children was brought in,

  unconscious and seizuring,thus intubated. Twenty-four hrs.lapsed,she remained unconscious,whereby an EEG

   performed,proved she was," brain-dead",secondary to heroin/cocaine overdose.This beautiful female's family was

   summoned to the hospital,informed by the HO,on duty,that she was dead,whereby the MD,"turned the machine off",

    in front of the family.The staff nurses and myself found it extremely-difficult,hearing the screams of her family from

    inside her room.***The icing on the cake came when the new-grad RNS and myself had to carefully render

     post-mortem care,thus,"Autopsy",was requested. Leaving work that evening,it had started to snow; as I turned on

      my car radio,the song," Ragdoll", by The Four Seasons started to play. I remember crying while driving home.

      ** To this day,that song ," gives me the chills."

I had worked in a newly opened Rehab Hospital in Chicago for several years then moved to arizona to work on

The Navajo/Hopi resevation,I have some of my best memories (& still keep in contact with 2 RNs I worked with there);

but my saddest memories are watching a teen age boy who was the size of a 9y/o going bezerk - his mine was  destroyed 

from years of sniffing leaded gas,glues, ect.  I also stayed with a 19y/o young man while he died from chirrosis of the liver from

chronic alcohol abuse so he would not die alone.

I can't  understand all these European=americans getting all upset about "illegal immigration" when they

are all immigrants & the shameful way we have treated the Native Americans. If all the tribes in Arizona got together &

demanded  reparations the "anglos " would use their money & power to squash it- but it would be fun to watch & may be 

get  some good out of it !!