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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Specializes in Med-surg; OB/Well baby; pulmonology; RTS.
I worked L&D in a poor, rural area where basics like running water and electricity could not be taken for granted. We had a patient with postpartum hemorrhage, and she got a dose of Hemobate. Diarrhea resulted, as it often does with this med, and the patient was incontinent because the epidural was still effective. One of my coworkers pulled back the sheets to start the cleanup only to run screaming (literally) from the room. The bed was filled with feces and wriggly squiggly jumpy worms. The patient had intestinal parasites, and we expelled them for her. That's what happens when your well is too close to your septic tank.

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fey_lassRN

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Specializes in L&D, NICU, High Risk Maternity.
During the SAE they claimed that it was caused by a strong cervival contraction at the same time the OB was attempting delivery...that along with it only being a 24 weeker. Only time Iv'e seen or heard of it and hopefully I never will again!:o

I've seen it in a fetal demise of around 20 weeks, but I've never seen it in a live birth.

peridotgirl

508 Posts

I have an interesting one that my caregiver told me about this morning. She has a friend who's an ER nurse, and she had the following experience:

A young couple came into the ER. He with an injury to his member, and she had a head injury.

As the nurse was taking the patients history, she learned that they were at a restaurant having a wedding anniversary dinner. While they were waiting for their meals, he said to her, "I dare you to get under the table and service me." The loving wife did as was told, and during the process, she had a seizure. That was when she received the head injury. Her husband was stabbing her in the head with a fork to get her to loosen her grip.:roll :D :chuckle

OMG! I do hope that the pair of them were alright. Man, talk about a tight grip. That must have hurt...

fey_lassRN

16 Posts

Specializes in L&D, NICU, High Risk Maternity.
My big gross out is bathing people that are 300 or 400 lbs. They have nasty yeast in their folds. It's so gross, you feel the gloves sliding through it and it feels all mushy. I scrubb it and dump the old yeast powder to it.

I had a patient in labor one night who was huge. She was going to be a repeat c-section, and was very ill with some preexisting medical conditions. They finally made the call to go to surgery and I had the job of prepping her. Even if we are going to do a classical incision, we still shave the low transverse abdomen. So, I went in with the shaver and some gloves, took a deep (mental) breath, and tried to pick up her belly so I could shave her. Her belly was huge and probably weighed 75lbs on it's own. So I called in another nurse to lift all the folds, and we discovered wet pubic hair. I wondered if her water had broken, but no, it was slime. Grey stinky slime. We cultured it, and it was a rare fungus. The residents had to look it up, because it's not something usually seen on the skin. I deal with some gross things in OB because of incredibly poor hygiene, but that just really sticks out in my mind.

fey_lassRN

16 Posts

Specializes in L&D, NICU, High Risk Maternity.
SoldierMedic the pt. got poison ivy "down south" from wiping his bottom with poison ivy leaves and it spread to the genitals when he scratched. Seems like you would pay better attention to what you wipe with doesn't it?

My friend Jeannie is doing an ER clinical this month in a small rural hospital. She and a few students were assisting clearing out a trach and one of the students asked what made the sputum look green. The RT quickly replied, "The Funk" :rotfl:.

I have done far better than I expected, I have not gagged once while reading all of these pages, I have been sitting here for nearly four hours. Some of the stuff discussed by nursing folk would gag a maggot. Jeannie and I were talking about the funk the other night and a few of our coworkers at the LTC facility were turning green. I told her that I thought we both needed immediate mental help. :rolleyes:

Many times in report in Labor & Delivery the term "funky monkey" comes up.

awk5

14 Posts

Well I think I made the right career choice, only a few of these made my stomach flutter. And I enjoyed snacking while I was reading. In 6 years of LTC, I have experienced the finger licking finger painters, chocoholics, projectile vomiting. So far I haven't incountered anything that gave me the oogies.

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

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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...........

Yes, this post

36_19_7.gifExactly. I was traumatized by an individual once by this, and every time I read something like it, it makes me feel like vomiting. That happened back in 1967, and I still can't seem to erase it from my mind.:barf02:

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LiverpoolJane

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Specializes in Dialysis, Nephrology & Cosmetic Surgery.

I was once asked by a colleague what would be the worst thing about a lung transplant? Their reply was - coughing up somebody elses sputum. On the subject of sputum - I knew of a nurse who worked in neurology and when taking care of a pt with a trachy - all the family around the bed - the pt coughed and a plug of sputum shot out of the stoma and straight into the nurses mouth - he stunned -family watching in horror - just swallowed!!

This one is not really that bad - when I was a student on the post natal ward I was with the Sr when she was doing her rounds, we went to one room and she picked up a naked little boy just as her started to pee - straight into her mouth. The mother and I couldn't move for laughing - I kept trying to reassure the Sr that babies urine is probably sterile - I think??

There a loads of stories about maggots and was horrified when I nursed a pt who had massive lymphoedema of her legs and the skin was covered in thick scales - these became infected and flies laid eggs and resulted in a maggot investation. The irony is that we actually use maggots or laval therapy as it is referrred to, to clean pts infected wounds.

Poochee

83 Posts

Had a female, street worn, exorcist look-a-like pt, quite ghoulish, and was very agitated.

On a bed alarm, she kept getting out the bed, over the rails, after she raises the bed, highest it can go.

Ativan given, thinking, ok, she's out in 30 minutes.

Wrong.

It's nightshift, LTC, halls can be empty.

I bend the corner, and who do I see, crab walking, on all fours, belly.

Looking scraggly and ghoulish.

For 2 seconds, she seemed supernatural. I know she must have the ativan in her system.

I'm almost too scared to go down the hall.

Nevertheless, We put her back to bed.

And luck would have it, I'm terrified of the exorcist, which is who she looked exactly like.:uhoh21:

RobinCNA

5 Posts

I'm going to puke on the ear wax!!!!!!!!!!!!

oneofHIs

16 Posts

About 5 years ago I was a CNA. There was a large woman on my floor that had both legs amputated due to DM. Being the size she was and not very healthy, she had really given up on life in general. She hit the call bell to be put on a bedpan. Needless to say the pan disappeared under her size, but that's not the bad part. When I came back to take her off, she was so large she could not wipe herself (#2), so I, being the pleasant CNA I was, proceeded to clean her. She was a dark skinned African American lady so I did not notice the "raw" area around her rectum. When I wiped she yelled and clenched her butt cheeks, which lodged my hand in there!!!!! Her "gluteal cleft" was so "deep" that my whole hand seemed to disappear, all the way up to the edge of the glove!!!!! I had to quickly pat her thigh with my other hand and tell her "OK sweetie, you're going to have to relax and take some deep breaths and let me have my hand back." I was so scared the glove was going to be sucked off and I was going to have to go in after it. Well, she relaxed, I got my hand back (glove and all), and have been much more careful to notice any raw spots on anyone's bottom!!!

"I have an interesting one that my caregiver told me about this morning. She has a friend who's an ER nurse, and she had the following experience:

A young couple came into the ER. He with an injury to his member, and she had a head injury.

As the nurse was taking the patients history, she learned that they were at a restaurant having a wedding anniversary dinner. While they were waiting for their meals, he said to her, "I dare you to get under the table and service me." The loving wife did as was told, and during the process, she had a seizure. That was when she received the head injury. Her husband was stabbing her in the head with a fork to get her to loosen her grip."

I've heard that one a number of times over the years. I think it's a nursing urban legend.