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

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Originally posted by navynurse29

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!

Woah. I made it through all the others oddly unscathed. But DANG! I nearly hurled my guts out with this one. :imbar

I STILL can't stop squinting like I'm watching a terrible accident happen!:eek:

-alyssa

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Originally posted by NiteNICUNurse

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!

OMG! My heart nearly came out of my chest and I almost started crying reading this.

That one ranks as the worst experience on this thread, definately.

Specializes in NICU.

NiteNICUnurse, I've heard of that incident. Terrible. 24 weeker would have had a chance too. So you saw it? I can't imagine the horror of actually seeing it.

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Originally posted by NiteNICUNurse

During the SAE they claimed that it was caused by a strong cervical contraction at the same time the OB was attempting delivery...that along with it only being a 24 weeker. Only time I've seen or heard of it and hopefully I never will again!

That is just awful ☹️ I can only imagine how everyone in the room felt. My thoughts go out to the parents and everyone that was there to experience this.

Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

Howdy yall

from deep in the heat of texas

Had a little strange guy come in accompanied by police. Pt was complaining of physical assault with injuries. I go in to do H and P. the male patient elaborates that he was mad at his boyfriend, who in their passion bit him too much in a certain place.

Bothe the patient and the police wanted me to examine and document what I saw....... I documented, Pt in no acute distress, examination of injuries deferred pending ER MD examination.

I never did check it out. Th eMD documented all the so called bite marks.

Thats a MDs job not mine................

So happy to be a nurse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

doo wah ditty

? One of the attendings told me that she was called to the med-surg unit because the nurse said that fluid was coming out of a patents ear. She went to the unit and looked in the guys ear and saw some maggots coming out. When she took a closer look some fell out onto the patents gown. Then when she took hold of his ear she noticed under the curl at the top of the ear he had a whole ball of maggots. That she subsequently disturbed and they started to dismember. She said that there were litterally hundreds of them. I think too, thank god I'm an L&D nurse.

Ughhhh! Ewwww...

I was a Student Nurse giving a confused elderly woman a bath.Her mouth was very nasty with dried white stuff all in it.I gave her good mouth care and was leaning in to clean good and she spit.I had my mouth open and it went right in.I ran to the restroom and vomited and kept cleaning my mouth.Needless to say,I learned to keep my mouth shut and keep better distance from that lesson.I still about vomit to this day 15 years later about this.

I was working night duty in a medical ward when I answered a young fellows' buzzer. He asked for something to spit in to (with a full mouth). I hurriedly returned with a sputum cup, however he didn't realise there was a lid on it and he hoiked the biggest golly onto the lid that you've ever seen. I yelled at him that there is a lid on the cup and he promply sucked up the golly, took the lid off and spat it into the cup.

I left the room heaving.

Specializes in ER, amb surg, home health.

During a wild trauma thrash about 20 years ago, a resident kept running around the gurney pumping up the pressure bags on the blood to make them run faster. I warned him that he was pumping the pressure bags into the little "red zone' that appeared on the attached dial. He ignored me. Suddenly a blood bag on an IV pole above me burst explosively. It was like the scene from "Carrie" . I had to continue on through the thrash, covered with, and sliding around in blood.

ps: I am awed by some of your stories. I thought I had heard it all when it came to gross, but you guys take the cake.

I was taking care of a young chronic child on our unit. She was vomiting a lot and we tried everything to convince the surgeon to do a fundo on her without succes. One afternoon, I was helping a colleegue to turn her. She had finished her gavage more than an hrs ago so it was safe. As we turned her around she started to vomit.... a projectile type of vomiting!! I shouted to my collegue to watch out, she turned her faster and my mouth wide open became a recipient for that emisis. I had no sympathy from my colleegue , she just bursted into a laugh... Oh well...... By the way , no I did not vomit but I felt nauseated for a while lolllll

Yep there are some really great gross-out stories. Just the sort that are fun to tell in the crowded restuarant early in the morninga after a long night shift :-)

Mine is from many years ago when I was working in a Burn ICU. My patient was a severe burn, tubed, ventilated, on pressors and in a RotoRest bed to stave off ARDS. If you ever worked with one of those beds (do they still use them? Never sure that they actually worked) they have access panels/doors on the bottom of the bed to get to the patient so you didn't have to disassemble the bed or take them out of rotation. A colleague had just helped me do dressings on the man and we were cleaning up when the sure sound and smell of a Jevity-built Plastipoop struck us. I rorated the man over and crawled under the bed, took down the butt-hatch and cleand him up. I was covering the pad with a Chux, preparing to close it back up when he let go again... While I was still under the bed... Under the hatch. Sure enough he let go his load right on my head.

The men's locker room didn't have a shower, so I had to use the women's. The whole time I was showering my darling colleagues kept poking their noses into the locker room to ask me if I'd hurry up 'cause they needed my help to clean up a patient.

HaHa

Just one more story in the Naked Hospital.