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That is horrible, as a brand new nurse in long term care I took a dressing off a toe and her toe was necrotic and fell off in my hand! I bout had a stroke!
I was going to say the same thing!! Like what do you do with a loose toe?!?
Specializes in Physiology, CM, consulting, nsg edu, LNC, COB.
51 minutes ago, amoLucia said:
5 hours ago, Sonya jordan said:
That is horrible, as a brand new nurse in long term care I took a dressing off a toe and her toe was necrotic and fell off in my hand! I bout had a stroke!
I was going to say the same thing!! Like what do you do with a loose toe?!?
Seen this often. You should probably ask the doc if he wants it to go to pathology, but in my experience the answer is always, “Nah, throw it away.”
Made me think - I remember there was an island religion where its followers had to have ''all their body parts' in order to get into heaven (or something like that). Had a pt who resisted a serious necessary amputation because he 'wouldn't have all his parts' when his death was to happen.
Specializes in Physiology, CM, consulting, nsg edu, LNC, COB.
I knew a priest that would say if the Lord God Almighty can raise the dead incorruptible He can certainly locate and reconnect a few random parts, no matter where in His universe they are.
Elderly man with a uridome on complaining of pain to his member. Go to have a look and someone had taped the tube too tight so the urine had been building up into the Condom part but not going into the drainage bag. Go to take it off and due to the pressure it explodes and urine goes all over my hair and face, as well as all over the patient and his bed. I couldn’t even call for help because I was too scared to open my mouth for fear of getting urine in it.?
Turned over a constipated to take her off the bed pan. She decided to give one last push and a small piece of formed stool came out followed by liquid ? shooting out like a popped champagne bottle.
I was working in the ER it was my very first night on trauma. I had previously told my charge nurse I would do anything but eyeballs because they gross me out. My very first trauma was a delusional schizophrenic from the state hospital. I kid you not, he had dug out his own eyeballs with his fingers. One was hanging on his cheek by the optic nerve and the other was bulging out of the socket. He had to have them both removed because he had traumatized and stretched the optic nerve to the point he was blind. That was over twenty years ago and I still can't get that picture out of my mind.
I was in nursing school and was assigned an assessment on a patient that had just had a g-tube placed. I entered his room and explained myself and that I wanted to assess the g-tube....
He pulled the g-tube from under his blanket and said "oh, this thing?" . The tube was completely displaced and I responded "yes, but it's supposed to be partially inside of your body so this isn't good!". He then replied "oh yeah! When they put it in, it had a little blue ball thing attached at the end and now it's gone!".
I immediately thought the anchor has dislodged inside of his abdomen but had never seen the "inserted end" before so I went and got his nurse to help. His nurse was also unsure so she went and got the charge Nurse.
As I am standing next to the charge Nurse explaining what happened and what the patient said, the charge Nurse was assessing the displaced g-tube.
I'm speaking and she decided to flick the tip of the g-tube .... in an instant, Everything from the end of the g-tube flew through the air and landed IN MY MOUTH! Blood, discharge, tube feeding, and whatever else that was inside that tube went into my mouth!! ?????
I screamed and ran out of the room vomiting!! I couldn't swallow my own saliva for 6 hours. I cleaned my mouth out repeatedly but just kept throwing up until there was nothing left inside of me. ?
My patient had a small bowel obstruction and hadn’t eaten for several days. He was advanced to a clear liquid diet but ordered a pizza and ate the whole thing. He projectiled vomited three times. It hit the walls and everything in the room including me. It was like a green geyser. Vomit is a big problem of mine. I ran from the room and vomited in a trash can in an empty room.
Another patient had dry gangrene on his fingers that were falling off. I walked into his room and he was chewing off his fingers and eating them. He had blood ann pieces of black skin on his face. We had to put mittens on his hands.
First job, within 6 months of finishing school Dr comes to get me with a disgusted look on her face saying she needs me in on this exam...OK turns out the patient left a tampon in for 3 weeks and we had to go remove it. The stench was awful.
Forgot to retract the roxanol prefilled syringe and it squirted into my comfort care patients mouth and sprayed back onto my lips... coworker tossed a nasal cannula to me as we’re getting ready to transport a MRSA + patient via stretcher - NC prongs land and hang on my bottom lip.... tried to get a patient (mentally compromised) to take their Xanax crushed in applesauce. Just really glad I wear glasses cause she spit it in my face ?? there’s so many more oh crap moments, these have been my favorites to remember!
amoLucia
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I was going to say the same thing!! Like what do you do with a loose toe?!?