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

Here is my most gross, yucky, disgusting nursing story! Nurses Humor Article

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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! :D

Specializes in mental health + aged care.
What country do you live in? Sounds attractive.:up:

I suppose I could be mean and make you work it out from the little flag icon :devil: but it is rather small... New Zealand is where I'm from, and I'm almost an RN (ie I have the degree but have to wait another 3 weeks to sit State (NZ equivalent of NClex))

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
I suppose I could be mean and make you work it out from the little flag icon :devil: but it is rather small... New Zealand is where I'm from, and I'm almost an RN (ie I have the degree but have to wait another 3 weeks to sit State (NZ equivalent of NClex))
Thank you. I have always been fascinated with Australia and New Zealand.

wow..that sucks

Specializes in MS, LTC, Post Op.

I had been out of LPN school for about...2 months. I was working at a Urgent Care Center and this lady came in one Sunday afternoon and couldn't sit down. I call her back and get her info and get her vitals and as why she is being seen today and she tells me that she has an area on her lady parts that is really swollen and she can't sit down. I take her to a room, give her a gown, tell her to remove her panties. I sit up the gyno tray and go in with the FNP.

This lady had a labia majora abcess/boil/cyst that was about 3 inches long and 2 inches wide. I am glad she was laying down cause my jaw hit the floor! It was huge! The FNP told me to get the doc because she wanted his opinion. So I get him, he comes in and he is like "OH MY GOD!" lol...he tells the FNP that it was lancable, so she proceeds to lance this...thing and it oozes the foulest smelling pus ever! OMG it was horrible! The FNP packed it with idoaform and had her come back the next day and it was so much better!

A few days later a guy comes in with a sebacous cyst on his back, the FNP (a different one) went to lance it and is squirted like 3 feet up in the air...I think I gagged alittle on that one.

This one happened before I started nursing, when I was an RT. I was asked by the patient's nurse, to get a sputum sample. Okay, that's pretty routine . . . the patient had bronchiectasis. I tell him what I need him to do and hand him the specimen cup . . . he generates a good cough and then this huge, green, oyster-sized blob of sputum comes out of his mouth and fills 2/3 of the sputum cup!!!! One cough!!

He then grabbed his emesis basin and proceeded to cough and bring up sputum . . . filled half the emesis basin with the same green sputum!!

Now, as an RT, I was pretty used to sputum . . . but this made me queasy!!!!

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

It would have made me nauseous.

Specializes in Adult Oncology.

Sputum makes me gag worse than liquid stool.

And on that note I had a patient with an impaction that we had finally cleared and he was still having small amounts of liquid stool every hour or so. He was not completely A&O, and was one of those people who seem to think they need to conserve toliet paper for some reason, so he was not getting himself very clean, and was getting a good bit of it on his hands every time. Every damn time he finish and I would go to help him from the BSC to the bed, he would grab my arm ABOVE the gloves. Finally I wised up and started catching his hand and wiping him off with wipes first, but you can bet I would go and scrub my arms down as if I was scrubbing in for surgery every time I left that room.

... The FNP packed it with idoaform ...

Ah... ye old hospital smell.

Iodoform is scary too, especially if you consider how reactive that stuff can be.

I was a new CNA in the nursing home and feeling very proud of my first step in my chosen career.

A nice littel old man in a wheel chair waved at one of my co-workers (a pretty littel 18 year-old, fresh out of high school sugar and spice type of girl). He said "honey come over here please" as she bent down to talk to him. He moved the blanket covering his legs and SPLAT! he ejaculated right in her face and mouth. I never saw her again and thus my nursing career beagn...........

************THAT"S SICK!!*************

Sputum makes me gag worse than liquid stool.

And on that note I had a patient with an impaction that we had finally cleared and he was still having small amounts of liquid stool every hour or so. He was not completely A&O, and was one of those people who seem to think they need to conserve toliet paper for some reason, so he was not getting himself very clean, and was getting a good bit of it on his hands every time. Every damn time he finish and I would go to help him from the BSC to the bed, he would grab my arm ABOVE the gloves. Finally I wised up and started catching his hand and wiping him off with wipes first, but you can bet I would go and scrub my arms down as if I was scrubbing in for surgery every time I left that room.

If only there were elbow length gloves for nurses...eeeeeeew! :lol2::clown::up:

We have a resident with right sided weakness who refuses to let anyone else wipe her after a BM...she drops the toilet paper long before it gets to its destination...and is sure that the blood in her brief means cancer...it couldn't possibly be related to her WIPING WITH HER FINGERNAILS 6 or 7 times a day... :uhoh3:

Saw a teenager come in with a compound tib/fib fracture. He was skateboarding and missed on a jump, and the tops of his tib/fib were poking out below his kneecap. There was blood EVERYWHERE and the poor kid couldn't stop screaming and crying. I felt so bad for him.