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

Not again? This question gets asked so often I wonder if people aren't getting their cookies by reading this stuff. Yuck

Yuk......EWWWWWWWW.. ughhhhh..That was soooooooooooo disgustingly gross......Hmmmmmmm

Must take a deep breath now....

Brenda

I was obviously born to be a nurse! I have just read over the most disgusting stories I have ever heard and have still been able to nibble at my spoonful of chocolate frosting!!

Laurlaur, I tolerated your story OK until I got to the detail of "carrots in the diarrhea"..........GAG!!!!!

OH man!!
Was he trying to start his own army of the undead?

Well, I too have issues with sputum, so here is my story:
I began working this summer as a nurse extern on Telemetry. My nurse and I got report one night on a new CHF dx. On top of that, the guy was confused and therefore restrained. For the first few hours of the shift, this guy has an awful sounded non-productive cough....or so it appeared. At one point my nurse and I walk in to find one hand out of his restaints and down his throat, only to pull out the biggest, stickiest, darkest, loooongest loogie I have ever seen in my life and fling it against the wall.
Bout lost my cookies.

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".

That is so nasty..........I love it!

I've been an LPN for only 6 months and have already been in many disgusting situations. I will share one with you...

I was working a 24 hour shift with a post-cva patient in her home and had to monitor her throughout the night, at 0300 i heard what sounded like running bath water. Sure enough, i entered the washroom and this elderly patient was sitting in a tub half full of water in her nightgown......to make matters worse she had defecated in the tub.....all i could see was a big mess of soft formed stool floating around the tub. That was quite the clean up...

25 year old cystic fibrosis patient, end stage, decides to get a nipple ring. One day she asks me to look at it because its sore. There's green pus coming out of it with a smell that nearly knocked my socks off. Turns out she had pseudomonas in it. So nasty.

I was doing my clinical on a medical ward, and heard my preceptor yell for help. We had a patient in an isolation room who was very confused, suffering from gastro, and also had some antibiotic resistant bug, probably MRSA. Well, he had managed to pull out his IV, crawl over the bed rails, in the process, divesting himself of his nightgown, exited his room, and was now on his hands and knees, crawling along the hallway of the ward. To top it off, he was absolultely COVERED from stem to stern with dried poop!! My preceptor yelled at me to get a gown. I assumed she wanted me to cover the totally naked patient, as there were quite a few visitors watching what was going on. I threw the gown over him, and she yelled, "No, get one for YOURSELF, to cover your clothes!!"

We all got gowns and gloves, but by this time, we had started to cackle hysterically at what was happening. We grabbed the old gent, and hauled him to his feet, but he broke away from us, and made another dash for it. He too was giggling at this point. We finally managed to get him back into the room, and into the shower. I got the job of doing the shower, and he was NOT co-operative. I kept having to push him back into the shower, and wound up getting poop right through the gown, and onto my uniform. I had to go to Emerg and borrow a scrub dress to finish my shift. To top it off one of the visitors was so shocked at us laughing that she reported us to admin!