Gross Me Out ? Contest | Nurses Week

[Joe V]

Month-Long Nurses Week Celebration Starts Today! Nurses Week Contest #6

You ever had those moments that you just want to barf? Of course you have! In this glorious Nurses Week contest, I want you to make us do just that. ? Is that too disgusting? 'Cmon. This will be fun. Share your 'Oh gross' moment and you can win a $100 Amazon Gift Card courtesy of allnurses Ebooks! 

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2. Each story will be reviewed for originality.
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5. One winner will be announced.

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[DesiDani]

5 hours ago, Kitiger said:

The doctor and I were floored by the odor. Dr pulls out 2 tampons

I am surprised that women are clueless about their bodies. 

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

3 hours ago, DesiDani said:

I am surprised that women are clueless about their bodies. 

Considering the state of sexual/reproductive health education in the US, I’m not. 

[Debbie E]

600 pd pt comes into trauma bay per EMS from home. While coding her a mouse jumped off the table and ran across the trauma bay. After calling the code And examining the pt, a huge decubitus was found on back of the calf, tunneling down into the muscle, inside was a nest with live baby mice ? 

[MeganMN]

On 5/7/2021 at 8:10 PM, DesiDani said:

Wait, you can do that? Does that work? I'm intrigued. Will I get in trouble for trying trying that?

It definitely works, but good God, CHANGE THE TIP AFTERWARDS! Poor fella.  

[Davey Do]

On 5/7/2021 at 2:51 PM, amoLucia said:

I was going to say the same thing!! Like what do you do with a loose toe?!?

In the OR, the amputated toe was handed off, the circulating nurse took the forceps, shook  them a bit, and said, "This little piggy's going to the lab!"

[Davey Do]

Last night, I pulled two ticks out of my belly button!

 

[guest1163268]

Having a day/night shift handover and on this unit some of the counselors and social workers, art therapists, psychologists and psychiatrist etc come in early on this day for a big multi disciplinary team meeting and in pops this manic Jewish lady who was actually supposed to be at breakfast. 

"Aha, so this is where the pottery club meets?" 

The art therapist goofily bothered to ask "Huh?" 

"Psycho Ceramics" and she walks out. 

45 mins later, she pops back in " Crackpots" she explained and put what looked like a jug of urine on the floor and left. And the smell from the jug had people gagging and making a beeline for the end of the room away from the jug. 

She absolutely knew that no one had figured it out " Psycho Ceramics" 

Don't ask what else was in the urine? 

[SansNom]

Our ER had an "extra plus sized" patient come in for some reason that is beside the point of the story, but the patient had a particularly bad odor. Needless to say, the ER did not get around to cleaning up the patient and sent them on to the ICU, where the nurse got her posse rounded up to go bathe them. Long story short, in the process of cleaning up underneath their panniculus they found a dead and decomposing kitten, who presumably had suffered a fatal cuddle session with the patient.

Another one of my favorite stories most people find rather gross is the one and only time I ever saw a surgeon order leach therapy for a patient with a poorly healing rectal skin graft after an extensive surgery for rectal cancer. We had orders to go in every 2 hours and dispose of the old leaches, then fish a few new leaches out of a jar in a mini fridge that we left in the room, and then try to get them to reattach to the skin graft. The process sounds simple enough, but leaches are not very cooperative colleagues, and it was often a very time consuming task to 1) fish them out of the jar, then 2) get them to latch onto the graft. To top it off, if you did not get back in the room in a timely manner, they would fill up with blood then drop off the patient into the bed, and occasionally they would manage to escape the bed and you would have to follow the trail of blood and slime around the room to track them down.

Fortunately, the patient had experience fishing with leaches and was quite a good sport about it.

[amoLucia]

How did the wound turn out??  I've heard leech tx usually results in positive outcome.

[kbrn2002, ADN, RN]

14 hours ago, amoLucia said:

How did the wound turn out??  I've heard leech tx usually results in positive outcome.

I can't speak to leech therapy but we did do maggot therapy on sacral pressure ulcer once. I only wish that the doctor would have ordered that earlier instead of considering it a last ditch effort as it was having definite positive results. Sadly the resident was too far gone and didn't make it. 

The wound dressing was a fascinating process. One staff member's only job was to count and document every maggot that went in and again when they were removed for the exchange to ensure none were missed.  

[Davey Do]

6 hours ago, kbrn2002 said:

 One staff member's only job was to count and document every maggot that went in and again when they were removed for the exchange to ensure none were missed.  

[amoLucia]

Like doing an OR sponge count or hemostat count. I remember something like that once when I started waaaaay back when ...  Maggot therapy worked.