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

Last night, walked into a room to give a pancreatitis pt some MSO4...the pt (rather large woman, covered in tattoos) was lying with her gown pulled up to her chest, with her leg hooked up over the side rail, showing me EVERYTHING. Everytime I walked into the room, that's just how she was...tried covering her up, and she went back to her exposed state every time...30-something, a/ox3... Blech!

Disgusting!!!!

I was going to tell about my first experience disimpacting someone. You've clearly got me beat. Oh what a wonderful job we have!

Oh yeah! These are WAY nastier than my HIV patient smearing poo all over himself or the liver failure guy projectile vomiting blood. I am lucky!

I had a trauma patient in ICU for observation (he had a pneumothorax and lung contusions) who was so disgusting ... he defecated in his bed and just lay himself beside his "gift" and went right back to sleep! He spat everywhere on the floor, over the rail bed, in his pillow cover, even with Kleenex just at his hands because mister didn't like to spit in Kleenex!!! Personal hygiene? Don't even ask...
And YES he was oriented and supposedly intelligent....
As adrienurse said, what a wonderful job we have!!!

When I worked in a nursing home an elderly woman had diahhrroea, she did it all in the beed, it even had carrots in it!I went in to dress her in the morning and found her like it, totally naked and covered in faeces from her belly to her legs. I smell kept making me retch. Anyway I washed her down. I then left the smelly, dripping sheets in the laundry room (thinking the laundry person would do it, it was my second day and I didnt know any better). One of the senior carers told me I had to stand at the sink and scrub the dirty sheets which were covered in poo, which I did. Needless to say I only lasted 2 weeks there!!And now am training to be an RN in peds! (at least they dont do as much poo!)

Is anyone else replaying in their head that scene from "Silence of the Lambs"..............................

obviously a porn star in his younger days...

Mine doesn't even compare to these, but I almost yakked none the less-

When I was a student nurse I had a patient, really nice guy in his 20s who unfortunately had suffered a CVA... needed assistance ambulating to the bathroom. He was having diarrhea, so I was helping him up quite frequently. It had been awhile since his last trip to the bathroom, so I went in and decided to see if he needed help. I asked him if he needed to go to the bathroom. He kind of gave me a blank look, stood himself up, stuck his hand in his butt crack and dug around, and then proceeded to stick that very hand on my shoulder!!!

Thank God there was no noticeable poo on his hand, but it was still quite disgusting. Spent the rest of the day making sure not to touch that part of my uniform...

Oh goodness, I work in a geriatric psychiatric unit, and there are so many strories to tell... id have to narrow it down to these 2.

We had one very demented lady who used to hoard things in her clothing, and hair, and was constantly mumbling nonsense. Well, it was shower time and I noticed something coming from in between her legs. I got out some napkins,and a pencap. When I noticed there was more, I had to get my charge nurse. Now, keep in mind this is a very large older woman who was screaming and yelling the entire time. It took 3 of us to get the rest out ( 2 to hold her down, 1 to dig) We got a p-nut butter and jelly sandwich out of her vagina.Who knows how long it had been there, but it didnt smell pretty.

Another horror story was more from an ex-coworker than a patient. It was an older man who was schizophrenic, and had a bad case the poops. He had pooped all in his bed and attempted to clean himself up. He only managed to smear himself in feces and make an even bigger mess. I dont know what he was thinking, but he put everything he owned, and everything his roomate owned in the pile of feces. Then he placed the pile on his sleeping roomate. Thank God this roomate did not wake up. The man then ran accross the hall and tried to hide next to a ladys bed. The woman came to our station and stated " Theres a naked man on the floor next to my bed". Now, this woman had a new complaint every night, so we did not take her seriously. We told her there was no man, and to go back to bed. She insisted, so I went to look , and found our man who stated "Angelo had an accident." Now, his roomate was not named Angelo, so we still had no clue what was going on. And then my ex-coworker emerged from the mans room with the steaming pile of clothes,magazines,bedlinens, etc.etc. and dragged it down the hall. The smell was something I have never smelled before, and never want to. We cleaned the man up, and sent him to bed. But my ex-coworker... now any ordinary person would have probley just thrown the horribly dirtied linens away. But she had them in a sink, and was scrubbing them out with her bare hands. My charge nurse saw her doing this and came running to the desk. He then told me " Hey Kellie, why dont you go see if J. needs a hand?" I went to what he was talking about...and OMG! Thats something we all laughed about for so long.

my thoughts exactly!!!