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

Yuk-o's. I've just gotta stop reading now.

Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

i'll clean up every bit of barf and poop in the universe, but sputum and mucus in general? yak! yuck!

and ick!!:sofahider:chair:

Oh, my, two more: Large boil between scrotum and rectum had burst and the resulting tunneling wound being packed BID (this was a home-health case)He had been discharged from the previous agency for noncompliance (diabetic/paraplegic/ETOH) and we picked him up two weeks later as the wound had reinfected. I began unpacking the really smelly wound, pulling out the long thread of packing......and trying to exlore which way the tunneling went, I found 24 twelve inch pieces of packing that had been put in there who knows how long ago(not as one long piece as should be done) and gobs of ungodly pus and blood. A nasty fishing expedition!..............

:barf02::barf01::barf02:

I've made it through many of the stories on this thread, but I think this one finally broke me down. My tummy is very sour!

Couple days ago we had a homeless guy come in. His feet were infected and maggots spilled everywhere when he took off his shoes. The entire bottoms of his feet and inside his shoes were covered in maggots. Like you could not SEE SKIN or the INSOLES OF HIS SHOES because there were so many of those little wiggly b*stards. My poor assistant just about lost her lunch scraping them off so we could clean this guy up. The smell was horrendous and we even found his little toe in his left shoe.

What did I do this morning?

I brought in a rice dish. MY WHOLE ER IS YELLING "F*** YOU" AS THEY PASS ME AND I AM LAUGHING. (We do this kind of joking a lot).

Isn't it funny how we all seem to be trying to out-gross each other on this thread??

As the saying goes: "You know you're a nurse when, in the process of cleaning up a patient who's just had an enormous liquid stool, you are reminded that you need to pick up brownie mix at the store tonight".

The quote at the first nursing home I worked at was,"You know you're really a nurse when you can clean up a poopy (the other word starting with S was usually used) butt with one hand and eat a Snickers bar with the other!":hpygrp:

Well, it's a good way to help on those "heavy flow" days...

EEEEEEWWWWW! ICK!:uhoh3:

Specializes in Orthopedic Surgery.

One time I had this young guy (early 20s maybe) admitted to my unit with altered mental status. (dont you just love when you get the ones with this diagnosis??! LOL) Anyway we ran a tox screen and surprisingly it came back all clean! So I go into my patients room to do another assessment/neuro check on him and it looked like a crime scene on there! This young man had chewed thru his IV tubing and had blood just flowing out of it! There was blood everywhere including his mouth! He looked up at me and flaked me this big ol grin, having no clue what was happening, and happy as a clam! I quickly stop the fluids unhooked his IV and flushed it. Got some others in to help me clean him up and I brought him some mouthwash to rinse out hisouth with. As he was swishing with the mouth he looked up at me the same ****-eatin grin on his face - this time with blood rumning out the sides of it, and said "you know what would be real nice? If they made this in dr. pepper flavor!" Oh how i miss him!

Specializes in Med-Surg.

Ok so this isn't nearly as gross as some of the ones I have read so far but I've only been doing this about 6 months so I have plenty of time to max out the gross factor.

I have a little lady on O2 and the humidifier is squealing. I grab the respiratory guy in the hall because I have never seen/heard this before. He tells me that it's because there is a kink somewhere in the line and there is so much back pressure in the water bottle. We start tracing back the O2 line and it just seems to keep going and going. I have no idea how this little old lady gotten this line so tangled up. Finally I realize that this thing is wedged up into her but crack (for lack of a better term) and going all the way through her lady partsl area (Yum!) By this point she's starting to become a little short of breath because I unhooked the O2 from the wall so I could untangle it not having any idea how bad this line is wrapped. I get the respiratory guy to help me roll her so I can just hurry and unwrap it and get her hooked back up. No sooner than we get her on her side start pulling out the line and she lets out the mother of all farts. The respiratory guy having no tact absoulutely loses it in laughter while I am trying to hold my composure (semi-unsuccesfully).

One other one I thought of was my first day of clinicals during my second sememster. As soon as we get our assignments the nurse tells me that my patient needs a core temperature. I learn quite quickly this means the doctor wants a rectal temp..... YAY!! I go in with my instructor we get her on to her side again, place the thermometer and stimulate a volcano of stool. Not just stool, but explosive diahrrhea. I thought I was going to lose it. Imagine my surpise (or lack there of) when I learned shortly thereafter she was positive for C-Diff.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
Ok so this isn't nearly as gross as some of the ones I have read so far but I've only been doing this about 6 months so I have plenty of time to max out the gross factor.

I have a little lady on O2 and the humidifier is squealing. I grab the respiratory guy in the hall because I have never seen/heard this before. He tells me that it's because there is a kink somewhere in the line and there is so much back pressure in the water bottle. We start tracing back the O2 line and it just seems to keep going and going. I have no idea how this little old lady gotten this line so tangled up. Finally I realize that this thing is wedged up into her but crack (for lack of a better term) and going all the way through her lady partsl area (Yum!) By this point she's starting to become a little short of breath because I unhooked the O2 from the wall so I could untangle it not having any idea how bad this line is wrapped. I get the respiratory guy to help me roll her so I can just hurry and unwrap it and get her hooked back up. No sooner than we get her on her side start pulling out the line and she lets out the mother of all farts. The respiratory guy having no tact absoulutely loses it in laughter while I am trying to hold my composure (semi-unsuccesfully).

One other one I thought of was my first day of clinicals during my second sememster. As soon as we get our assignments the nurse tells me that my patient needs a core temperature. I learn quite quickly this means the doctor wants a rectal temp..... YAY!! I go in with my instructor we get her on to her side again, place the thermometer and stimulate a volcano of stool. Not just stool, but explosive diahrrhea. I thought I was going to lose it. Imagine my surpise (or lack there of) when I learned shortly thereafter she was positive for C-Diff.

:yeah::yeah:That is so hilarious! You certainlly had one heck of a poopy day! :D However, the C-Diff experience wasn't nice though.

MRSA/VRE patient who thought it was funny to urinate into the air and let it rain down on anyone who came in the room. :eek:

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
MRSA/VRE patient who thought it was funny to urinate into the air and let it rain down on anyone who came in the room. :eek:

Too bad physical restraints are illegal; I have all KINDS of restraint ideas for this guy!:devil:

Specializes in Medical.

Physical restraint isn't illegal in Australia...