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!

[Chianastar]

When i was training (several years ago) i was working on very busy surgical ward. Several of the patients had chest drains in situ post surgery. At the time these were huge heavy 3 litre glass bottles under vacuum. Having been told by the dragon of a ward sister to remove one from a patient and clean it, i staggered with it to the sluice to empty it, not realising that although it was clamped off, it was still under pressure............releasing the clamp had a kind of hose pipe-out-of-control effect, and covered the sluice, and myself in 2 1/2 litres of blood contents....... EW........needless to say i was there the rest of the shift, cleaning the mess!!!

[EMTandNurse2B]

I'm a student nurse, and as part of a rotation was shadowing/assisting the team leader for a day. We went to start an IV on a new admit (for another nurse with a heavy load). This lady was in with the worse case of dermatitis I, and the nurses, had ever seen (or hope to see). Her skin was literally red, oozing, and peeling in big, white chunks from head to toe. Well, when we walked into the room she was chewing what seemed to be a wad of gum. Until I got closer... She was peeling off these large chunks of skin with her teeth and chewing on them! She had an entire mouthful of dead skin!

[PeachPie]

Aparrently this teacher knew a friend of a friend of a friend who was a bit of a hippie. she delivered her baby at home in the company of hippie helpers, spiritual assistants etc. All went well, one healthy and beautiful child safely installed in the world.

she invited everyone she knew to drop in and meet her new baby, and prepared plenty of natural foods for everyone - fresh bread, stew, vegies and fruit.

all this sound nice?

she sort of looked upon the bub as belonging to everyone, not just her, so to assist her visitors to feel that the baby was a part of them too, she chopped up the placenta and put it in the stew.

her visitors ATE HER PLACENTA unawares!

kind of makes me think of that guy who minced someone (his wife, i think) and fed her to his neighbours in pies, lasagne etc.

With fava beans and a fine Chianti?

A friend of mine wanted to do the tree-planting thing too, but has never gotten around to it and the placenta is just sitting in the freezer. When I found out, I jokingly said, "Uh, Darcy, sweetie, I love you to death, but please do not ever invite me to a cookout."

[bethin]

I work as a CNA on med/surg. I had to float to the swing bed unit (basically LTC). We were preparing a pt for a shower who had C diff. We stood the pt. up to take her depends off. They were the pull up kind that tear at the side. I tore my side, then the other aide tore her side and whipped the depends off. It had ALOT of loose, mucousy stool in it. She flung it into the chair and that's when I got hit.......right in the eye. I had stool oozing from my inner eye, near the tear duct. I was sooooo grossed out but more worried about getting the pt into the shower chair. As soon as we did I went to the BR armed with saline to flush. Luckily, I never got C diff. But it's still pretty gross to get poo in your eye.

Also, not as gross but I had just started a shift and was taking IV poles and other stuff out of a room that the pt had been discharged. I picked up the bedside commode and it was FULL of urine. ALL of it ended up on me. I was soaked to the bone with pee. OB wouldn't loan out any scrubs so I had to wait for my mom to show up with fresh scrubs.

[banditrn]

LOL...I was pissed beyond belief. I was so mad I was crying...very glad that the PA was standing there in the hall and saw the whole thing. I showered in the doctor's lounge and my house supervisor let me go home early...good thing since my bra, shoes, and socks were in the trash. Our department manager called the police and turned this patient in for urinating in public, battery, and harassment. The battery charge stuck and the guy actually got fined over the deal.

:yelclap: :yelclap: Your dept. manager must be a saint!! Good for her! It's one thing when the patient is demented, but when they're perfectly aware, and still do that crap they deserve to be horse-whipped!

[iluvnursing625]

i was working as a student nurse and this huge lady was just admitted. there was a HORRIBLE stench coming from her room all down the hallway. myself, another student, and my instructor went in to insert her catheter. i was the one that had to hold her legs wide open... when we opened them her crotch was filled with SH*T. im talkin about all the way up her lady parts and her urethra!!!!!!!! we went fishin for what seems like forever and went through like 3 catheter packages because everytime we went to insert it someway there would be crap all over it and have to start all over again. once we finally get her cleaned up and everything.. she decides to take another crap and just roll around in it.. not telling anyone.. it was so nasty

[MarySunshine]

I had a brain dead pt who had his brains oozing out from between his sutures. That was a bit much for me.

[tinarn2006]

When I was a PCA, I was assisting the RN change a dressing or something. Anyway, you guys know how when you have gloves on or something nasty is on your gloves...your nose always starts to itch? Well, I proceeded to scratch my nose with the non-gloved part of my arm...apparently my mouth was opened at the same time...I tasted something salty, but didn't really think about it at the time. Next, I looked down at my glove and there was blood on the glove...UUUGGGHHH!!!!

[Ms. Sherman]

My story happened during my first clinical in the hospital setting during nursing school. I had not yet seen the multitude of lines that could be attached to a pt, and was overwhelmed at the sight of the IV lines, PEG tube, and trach tubing my assigned patient had. Keeping that in mind, I really had no specific knowlegde of open trach systems yet. So, later on I gave my pt. a bed bath, an activity where one naturally shares a close personal space with the pt, and I feel this nice, moist warm air on my face. I thought to myself "it feels so warm right here, this is nice," and about the same time I started to smell the distinct odor of.....sputum. That was when I realized that I was letting the humidified exhaust from the trach tubing blow right into my face, and I looked down and saw a puddle of choice sputum pooled in the trach tubing. So, that nice breeze I was enjoying on my face was flowing over sputum.....Needless to say, sputum is my "gross out" fluid.

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

My story happened during my first clinical in the hospital setting during nursing school. I had not yet seen the multitude of lines that could be attached to a pt, and was overwhelmed at the sight of the IV lines, PEG tube, and trach tubing my assigned patient had. Keeping that in mind, I really had no specific knowlegde of open trach systems yet. So, later on I gave my pt. a bed bath, an activity where one naturally shares a close personal space with the pt, and I feel this nice, moist warm air on my face. I thought to myself "it feels so warm right here, this is nice," and about the same time I started to smell the distinct odor of.....sputum. That was when I realized that I was letting the humidified exhaust from the trach tubing blow right into my face, and I looked down and saw a puddle of choice sputum pooled in the trach tubing. So, that nice breeze I was enjoying on my face was flowing over sputum.....Needless to say, sputum is my "gross out" fluid.

Is that all, that isnt bad atall

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

In our NICU, we use an 8Fr feeding tube attached to a syringe to empty ostomy bags if the stool is extremely liquidy and we don't want to disturb a sleeping baby. As you might expect, you also get a lot of air in the syringe. Brilliant me, rather than looking at what was in the syringe and doing a li'l arithmetic, decided to expel the air from the syringe. Aaaaaaaand then there was ileostomy goo allll over my shoes...

[banditrn]

Had one the other nite - just came out of the med room, and was met by this demented elderly lady. She had her body alarm in her had (those things never seem to work like they're supposed to). I took ahold of her arm to help her back to her room, and noticed an odor - she had BM all over the back of her gown.

Keep in mind that the lites are turned down at nite, but as we got closer to her room, I noticed BM all down the hall carpet, then across the carpet to her bed, and all over her bed.

Then after she was cleaned and put back to bed, I was walking back, and found BM across the dining room floor that she had walked across - and I had stepped in it!

Oh, Lord, give me a raise, please!!:lol_hitti