Which ward is the scariest?

[insane]

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Inspired by this thread: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=695774

For me it has to be the Burn Ward, I get shivers, every time I go in it or think about it.

 

[organdonor]

I work on the orthopedic unit at my hospital, and other CNA's always hate coming here. They simply don't know the right way to do things. For instance, if you work on the diabetic unit, you really don't know much about the right way for a back fracture to get out of bed. Or how to use half of the different braces for the patients.

 

[Geekchick921]

The PICU. I'll probably go home and hug my daughter and cry it out for awhile every night.

 

[ElegantWeapon]

burns 😱...scary stuff...i was going to the hospital with my dad when he was on call at one point as a kid, and I just remember this woman screaming hideously painfully as we walked by the burn unit

 

[Depakote]

My least fav so far is the Neuro ICU. Not a fan of neuro in general, throw in strokes and traumatic brain injuries with poor prognoses and 🙁

 

[Geekchick921]

My least fav so far is the Neuro ICU. Not a fan of neuro in general, throw in strokes and traumatic brain injuries with poor prognoses and 🙁

I used to work on a stroke/neuro unit. Very sad. The brain and spinal injuries would be way harder, though, if you ask me (we don't have a trauma center at my hospital so I didn't see these patients) especially the children and young people that were in car accidents or other things like that. 🙁

 

[mrpuff26]

I volunteered in a neonatal intensive care unit in Ghana. I think I have never felt so depressed in my life. 3-4 babies/incubator. Some of the babies could fit in the palm of my hand. There was not a very efficient way of taking the dead to the morgue so there was one room with just dead babies laid on the floor. I think I almost cried at every interview I was asked about this experience.

 

[ruiner]

The neuro ICU isn't so bad I don't think, it's the general neuro floor that you have to worry about what the patient is going to do. Although I did sit with a guy in the Neuro ICU who was convinced we were pumping poison into him.

 

[Geekchick921]

I volunteered in a neonatal intensive care unit in Ghana. I think I have never felt so depressed in my life. 3-4 babies/incubator. Some of the babies could fit in the palm of my hand. There was not a very efficient way of taking the dead to the morgue so there was one room with just dead babies laid on the floor. I think I almost cried at every interview I was asked about this experience.

I want to cry just reading this. 🙁🙁🙁

 

[mmmcdowe]

pediatric oncology, palliative care suite.

 

[insane]

After burns, I would def. have to put nicu (neonatal) as the second choice. In the burn unit it just feels like a torture chamber, people who burn their hands really bad have their fingers in this thing that prevents contractions, so the skin grafts don't get messed up, and after that heals, they have to go to PT to learn how to contract their hands again.

 

[Morsetlis]

The scariest one is the one with the scariest attending, of course -.-

 

[zz87]

pediatric oncology, palliative care suite.

I'm sure this is scary, but Pediatric Oncology's what I want to do in life.

 

[erskine]

scary or just depressing?

Depressing, probably any of those mentioned above where the patients are in extreme pain/duress or have weak prognoses.

in my opinion, the maternity ward is frightening. Everybody expounds on the beauty of the birth process, but to me it just seems gross and i get nervous thinking about it. I really don't want to ever work in the materinty ward.

 

[Morsetlis]

I never ever want to deliver a baby, but I think I'll probably do 10 before I die.

I'm gonna keep a scorecard.