[sashibeak]

Oh Lord!!!!!! And I want to be a nurse???????????????/

*gggg*

[Jay-Jay]

Uhhh...there's something I'm not getting here! Being a nurse, I gotta ask: by what route did the dentures wind up in the diaper??

[leagrove]

my horror story is that in my second year of my studies i was in placement in theatre and one nice looking guy was brought in to recovery from thewtheatre and his story was that ............ he had removed from his anus a SIX inch polish sausage which his goodlooking wife had been playing with and it broke off in side him, ps it was frozen at the time so was brittle. by the way i am now a 3rd year student and go out on placement next month.

[mother/babyRN]

This isn't half as disgusting as some of the situations I have read here, but since it happened when I was at the wrong end of a laboring woman ( if you're the nurse, that is), I have to say it was pretty gross...Woman pushing and doing a good job. The fact that her water broke and deluged me was really not the most disgusting factor of this scenario...She had a boil on the inside of one thigh close to where all the business was going on, and as I put her legs up in order to coach her with pushing, the thing broke and there was projectile pus all over the place, not to mention a really rank odor joining all the other odors in the room. Fortunately I managed to duck out of the way of that one, but then the doc wanted me to somehow coach the pt, protect the spewing boil AND keep everything from the impending arrival of the infant...Sometimes it just doesn't pay to show up at work...Yuck! Long ago while caring for an elderly woman with ca of the face, her nose fell off during pm care. I had to sit down with that one...

[JulieBean2U]

Nurses ROCK when it comes to gross stories!!!! I have two short but gross ones..... Had a thirtysomething man in for wound care and IV abo therapy. He was about 6 and 1/2 feet tall, approw 350 lbs, and very rarely showered. He had scabbed and infected areas over his whole body. They never got any better and in desperation the M.D. ordered the wounds to be scrubbed with betadine 3x per day. The Doc knew something he forgot to tell the nurses, but we soon found out. The reason the wounds weren't healing is because the patient had a habit of CULTIVATING, HARVESTING, AND EATING HIS SCABS!!!!!He began refusing woundcare because the betadine changed the FLAVOR OF THE SCABS!!!! EWWWWW!!!! The second story is about an immobile patient who was unable to speak. She had chronic ear infections and one day began draining yellow pus from her ears. The CNA came and got me and we turned her on her side so I could look in her ears. Out tumbled tons of smelly maggots! When we turned her the other way, the same thing happened to the other ear. I flushed until clear, and you know what? She NEVER had another ear infection!

[tattooednursie]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! JulieBean! that is just NASTY! The FLAVOR of the scabs! LOL! Thats gross. I LOVE gross though. I think your stories take the cake!

[dart]

I lobe these stories. I have worked as a CNA, LPN and have graduated from a ADN program. i have passed my NCLEX-now I need to get a job. these stories make me think about going back to school.

[navynurse29]

Originally posted by JulieBean2U
Nurses ROCK when it comes to gross stories!!!! I have two short but gross ones..... Had a thirtysomething man in for wound care and IV abo therapy. He was about 6 and 1/2 feet tall, approw 350 lbs, and very rarely showered. He had scabbed and infected areas over his whole body. They never got any better and in desperation the M.D. ordered the wounds to be scrubbed with betadine 3x per day. The Doc knew something he forgot to tell the nurses, but we soon found out. The reason the wounds weren't healing is because the patient had a habit of CULTIVATING, HARVESTING, AND EATING HIS SCABS!!!!!He began refusing woundcare because the betadine changed the FLAVOR OF THE SCABS!!!! EWWWWW!!!! The second story is about an immobile patient who was unable to speak. She had chronic ear infections and one day began draining yellow pus from her ears. The CNA came and got me and we turned her on her side so I could look in her ears. Out tumbled tons of smelly maggots! When we turned her the other way, the same thing happened to the other ear. I flushed until clear, and you know what? She NEVER had another ear infection!

That is so nasty I almost threw up with the maggots and ear story
YUCK! The poor patient not being able to speak and having to suffer with that is so awful. Poor thing!

[Cooker93]

One of my worst times, just to think back-I also worked in Psych. We had a lady who used to "pee" in paper cups and save them on her dresser. Well, one day, we went onto her room to make sure they were disposed of and clean it up and (of course it was her monthly time) she was drinking from the paper cups!!!! I almost lost it right there. I couldn't hardly look at her for a long time without stopping myself from vomitting.

[dspring]

One of my best friends is named Jeff, and we work in the ED together, one day this man comes in to the ED and falls to his knee's and grabs his lower abdomen, and lower back. The guy is screaming, because of the pain. We both instantly think disecting AAA, and get him on a cart, and started getting IV"S in him, and assesing him. Suddenly he yells I'm going to puke. Jeff bends over to get an emesis basin from under the cart, and I reached for one by the sink. I saw the patient lean over the cart and start to heave in Jeff's direction. I honestly tried to push Jeff out of the way, but the patient puked right on Jeff's head, and down my arm. To this day I remember looking up and seeing Jeff standing there with kidney Beans running down his head. It turned out our AAA was actually a chili overdose. Being the GOOD friend, that I am I helped organize a Chili carry in for Jeff the following week.