What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

[yazisizit]

I was working a night shift on a tele floor as a new Nurse.

We had this one poor old lady who was confused and was restrained as usual for her safety. She was our designated resident nightmare geri from hell, so she was placed near the Nurse's station.

So we are chilling out at the Nurse's station, chatting and trying to get through another night...

Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I see our lady in question standing in the dimly lit doorway of her room!

I instantly leap out and run to her. As I approach her, she appears to be falling towards me, so I meet her in a bear hug...my arms around her waste, and her arms around my shoulders.

As I catch the lady, I notice a very strong smell of feces, and I feel something warm on my hands, arms and shoulders...

My fellow heroes come in behind me, and as the lights are turned on, my worst fears are instantly realized.

Yes, I caught the poor old lady with a good old bear hung football catch, but I was also covered in the lady's feces.

As I look at her, she has feces smeared all over her arms and hands... (and even her face!)

And of course, now so did I!

[grace90, LPN, LVN]

I am really muco-phobic when it comes to it being in contact with me

Me, too!!! :barf01::grn:

[sparketteinok]

Had a guy just yesterday....

hocked a big brown loogie into his emesis basin (not the nice, throw-away paper towel I was attempting to hand him)...I rinsed it out, thank God...

then his family proceded to share their hash browns and biscuit and gravy with him in....

you guessed it....the emesis basin

:omy:

[Jessielee22]

While working the night shift myself and my coworkers hear this retching from WAY down the hallway. Ran in to see what was going on and inside the was an 80 something year old man who had projectile vomited coffee- ground emesis straight up in the air. It had hit the ceiling, came down and landed on his face and torso.

I can handle any other bodily fluid, but that was the worst!

[Melinurse]

So I am still orienting and my preceptor and I are looking at a chart outside of a female pts room. Her husband comes and stands by us and farts ( loudly ) then goes back into the room. Ok, so we keep on task and discuss the meds and so help me the husband comes back to where we are and lets one rip!!!! Does not even say excuse me or sorry. This time he stays by us as I try to look at the labs. Not but a few seconds later he lets another one!!!! OMG! The stench was horrible. Had to be C.Diff. Anyways, my preceptor and I had to leave there in a hurry. Neither one of us could keep a staight face any longer.:chuckle A while later in the shift another nurse comes into the support room and tells us the same man is walking up and down the halls tooting and leaving hershey kisses. So we come out of the support room and yep, there's a trail of poop going to her room. I swear I still can't figure out how they landed on the floor and not the back of his pants. He had to have done some kinda manipulation with those pants.

[RiverNurse]

Just began a job working in ED two weeks ago.

Older gent comes in stating he'd done "something stupid". My preceptor took a look and said, "He has a ring around the base of his member - and it's not a **** ring, either."

My first thought was - wow - that was a very "open minded" statement...

I took a look as well - yep - it was a wedding ring at the base. Doc came in w/ring cutters and removed the ring. He told the pt (obviously) not to do that again (pt was a repeat offender for the same thing).

I later told my preceptor that perhaps this pt needed education on being "safe, sane and consensual". She just laughed.

RN

[Melinurse]

Honestly did not expect to have another one so soon after the first but here it goes............

Went into my first patients room cause the call light was on and I was so focused on how pale the patient was I did not look where I was stepping............. yep I slipped on emesis. :chuckle I have never seen a patient laugh so hard. I am usually more aware of my surroundings. I guess it could have been worse.

[mskate]

i had a patient who was a skin popper once... she was skin popping inside an old infected wound repeatedly until they became bilateral circum. wounds down to the sheer bone and vascular system. she just wouldnt come into the hospital because now she could SEE the vessels and just kept popping into them (and thought this was just perfect!), until her family carted her in because they couldnt handle the smell of her legs rotting off. it was sssooooo bad.

[Kiringat]

I'm a new grad on a kinda bizare med/surg floor. I was blessed to admit a detoxing homeless patient, one who periodically comes to the wound care clinic to treat a massive (you could see bone)chronic leg wound. And luckily, I had to perform a dressing change on the wound.

Now this person was detoxing, and even fully medicated, it took four nurses to hold him down so I could do the dressing change. I took off all the old stuff and prepared to irrigate the wound.

As I was irrigating, and getting a disturbingly comprehensive tour of the anatomy of the lower leg, ONE, SINGLE, maggot fell out of the room.

Just one. It lay there on the chux pad, wiggling as I finished the dressing change.

Of course, I had to go digging around to see if there were more. There weren't. Thank god.

That image of the lone maggot is going to be burned into my mind the rest of my life... :stone:

[Hygiene Queen]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I...feel...ready...to...p-p-p-p-pass out................*clunk!!*

i had a patient who was a skin popper once... she was skin popping inside an old infected wound repeatedly until they became bilateral circum. wounds down to the sheer bone and vascular system. she just wouldnt come into the hospital because now she could SEE the vessels and just kept popping into them (and thought this was just perfect!), until her family carted her in because they couldnt handle the smell of her legs rotting off. it was sssooooo bad.

[RiverNurse]

Uh oh... exposing my ignorance... LOL... but - uh - what is "skin popping"? Picking at wounds, etc?

Thx!

RiverNurse

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

Skin popping is injecting drugs into the skin or muscle instead of a vein. It is done when a vein can't be found, or to prolong a drug's effect and/or reduce risk of overdose.

[leshi]

Had a 900# lady admitted during the night and I had the honor of cleaning her up the next day. While bathing her I had to lift skin folds to get the foulest smelling stink off her. I lifted her breast and there was a dead kitten in the fat fold. I nearly aspirated on my vomit. It must have been there for a while because it was infested with maggots.

ASLKDJADAHJGDOLBHAD!!!!!!!!!!

I am totally in shock.