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 LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

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O.K. I know I'm a "professional", but one day last week I just completely lost it...whatever "it" is. In a not particularlly "disgusting" as much as it was funny incident...I found myself excusing myself to the breakroom so I could get myself under control.

We had this very young woman...mid 40's...who was suffering from AIDS related encephalopathy. She had a long list of sexually related diseases...no laughing matter. But being in the post-hypoxic state she was in, she communicated by yelling at the top of her lungs to each nurse that entered her room. One of our male nurses happened to be taking care of her that night. As he entered, she immediately screamed "I wanna feel it!!! Give it to me!!!". As she kept yelling this for about 10 minutes, the male nurse kindly told her he didn't "have it". About that same time, the little old guy with Alzheimers in the next room (this is an ICU) piped up very loudly..."Hello...I'm over here!!!". Needless to say, our "professionalism" took a turn for the worse at that moment.

I guess you had to be there.

Not me! :rotfl: :chuckle

I've got a gross one. I've worked in an ER and I can handle just about any body fluid (and have) except earwax. Earwax grosses me out. Was working in an ER in Puerto Rico while in the Navy and we had homeless dependent uncle or some relation come into ER c/o trouble hearing. On exam, doc found both ears severly packed with thick, green earwax. YUMMMMEY!

Well, yours truly gets to irrigate his ears, not the thrill of my life. I irrigated so much earwax out of that man's ears, it was coming out in big, green nuggets. When I showed pt emesis basin of what I had cleaned out of his scuzzy ears, he proceeds to get a big smile on his face, picked up one of the greasy nuggets and eats it!!! YUCK! I just about pucked on myself with that one. To this day, can barely clean my own ears!

That one is worth 1st prize......yuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've got a gross one. I've worked in an ER and I can handle just about any body fluid (and have) except earwax. Earwax grosses me out. Was working in an ER in Puerto Rico while in the Navy and we had homeless dependent uncle or some relation come into ER c/o trouble hearing. On exam, doc found both ears severly packed with thick, green earwax. YUMMMMEY!

Well, yours truly gets to irrigate his ears, not the thrill of my life. I irrigated so much earwax out of that man's ears, it was coming out in big, green nuggets. When I showed pt emesis basin of what I had cleaned out of his scuzzy ears, he proceeds to get a big smile on his face, picked up one of the greasy nuggets and eats it!!! YUCK! I just about pucked on myself with that one. To this day, can barely clean my own ears!

That one is worth 1st prize......yuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I almost yakked on my keyboard!! That's one of the worst yet.......almost as bad as the 900-pound woman with the dead kitten. :uhoh21: :eek:

Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I almost yakked on my keyboard!! That's one of the worst yet.......almost as bad as the 900-pound woman with the dead kitten. :uhoh21: :eek:

Years ago had a bowel obsessed geri pt who always wanted an enema. I caught him using his roomates feeding syringe (you know the kind that looks like a turkey baster) as an enema. Aparently this had been going on for some time. Roomate was aphasic but mentally aware. Poor old guy never wanted to eat and then we knew why.

Years ago had a bowel obsessed geri pt who always wanted an enema. I caught him using his roomates feeding syringe (you know the kind that looks like a turkey baster) as an enema. Aparently this had been going on for some time. Roomate was aphasic but mentally aware. Poor old guy never wanted to eat and then we knew why.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
Years ago had a bowel obsessed geri pt who always wanted an enema. I caught him using his roomates feeding syringe (you know the kind that looks like a turkey baster) as an enema. Aparently this had been going on for some time. Roomate was aphasic but mentally aware. Poor old guy never wanted to eat and then we knew why.

:uhoh21: Where's the soap? Where's the bleach? We have a real emergency here! I caught the bowel guy sticking his roomate's feeding syringe up his but! :uhoh3: When was the last time he pooped? :p

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
Years ago had a bowel obsessed geri pt who always wanted an enema. I caught him using his roomates feeding syringe (you know the kind that looks like a turkey baster) as an enema. Aparently this had been going on for some time. Roomate was aphasic but mentally aware. Poor old guy never wanted to eat and then we knew why.

:uhoh21: Where's the soap? Where's the bleach? We have a real emergency here! I caught the bowel guy sticking his roomate's feeding syringe up his but! :uhoh3: When was the last time he pooped? :p

THis happened to my classmate in nursing school. We were having our clinical exposure to a pediatric ward where the indigents were confined. His patient was a n 8 year old boy who was admitted for abdominal pain and diarrhea. After one bm, he was helping the mother clean up the boy (boy was too weak to get up) when something like a white ball fell off the boy's orifice. Thinking it was a solid stool, he tried to pick it up with a toilet paper , only to realize that it was a ball of worms.....ulk......yeeech!!!! :eek:

THis happened to my classmate in nursing school. We were having our clinical exposure to a pediatric ward where the indigents were confined. His patient was a n 8 year old boy who was admitted for abdominal pain and diarrhea. After one bm, he was helping the mother clean up the boy (boy was too weak to get up) when something like a white ball fell off the boy's orifice. Thinking it was a solid stool, he tried to pick it up with a toilet paper , only to realize that it was a ball of worms.....ulk......yeeech!!!! :eek:

More on the worms, have you ever seen an NGT plugged with an adult worm???? Ascaris lumbricoides....urgh!!!