Most disgusting thing you have witnessed or taken part of on the job?

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I saw this post on another general discussion website, and by far this is the most disgusting thing i have read.

TheAmbassador posted:

My aunt is a nurse, and she told me a hell of a story about this. Wasn't too outrageous, but its just a testament to a man's dedication to sex.

She was assisting a doctor with a severely morbidly obese woman. Apparently she had managed to contract a huge amount of STD's, which she had ignored for months, because apparently the hideous stench of it wasn't able to overpower the stench from the months of sweat and dirt accumulated in her folds. Side note about that, think about the last time you worked outdoors with your hands. If you rubbed your hands together, little balls of dirt mixed with sweat would form. Imagine those now to be nearly basketball sized and flattened, mixed with discharge from yeast infections stored for months in the folds of fat. That is this woman.

Anyway, my aunts job was to hold the folds up while the doctor went in to clean up. She's a nurse, she's cleaned **** and puke off old people that was there so long it began to corrode their skin, and she had to leave to vomit.

After everything is done, the woman's husband shows up, skinny, ratty looking guy, and she asks for him to be let in. At one point, talking to the man, the doctor asked, out of sheer curiosity, how the two of them have sex. The man was happy to answer.

He places her into the corner of the room, face first. Then, using a lot of tape, straps each of her butt cheeks to the wall, and ***** her until they tear free.

TMI

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Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.

This was not really gross but just had a strange feeling about it. We had a guy come into the ED one night, major multiple blunt trauma from an MVC. He had a high traumatic amputation of one of his legs. They took him to surgery and I followed along holding the leg. It was sort of weird. Legs weight more than you might think.

Specializes in Operating Room Nursing.

When I was still a nursing student we had this intellectually disabled patient who came in with cellulitis. He was pretty violent and even punched a nursing student in the face. He would have to be the scariest patient I've ever seen, he would laugh and try and punch everyone so we had to shackle him. One morning I came on and he'd had a bowel movement and had somehow with wrist restraints managed to pick apart his pad and proceeded to smear his bed with faeces. When we walked into the room the stench of poo was so bad you could taste it. The worst thing is that the patient had actually been eating it, it was all over him, poo was stuck between his teeth, under his fingernailss. It took 4 of us to clean him up while he was laughing the entire time and trying to punch us.

The one positive thing from this experience is that I got a really good report from the RN I was helping that day. :D

Specializes in NA.

this is all so sickening!!! but yet I cant stop reading..... but its bed time for now.:yawn: Cant wait to see the new post tommorrow!

Specializes in Corrections, Cardiac, Hospice.

UGG! What is it with confused people eating their poop? YUCK, YUCK and omg YUCK!

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

patient with a necrotic bowel in our icu, just waiting to die. started stooling and pooped out his entire bowel. i was so grossed out i was vomiting in the corner, while the rt and manager helped the md clean up the mess. (rt, manager and md cleaning up a mess?! i swear to the diety that it happened!) i've never seen (or smelled) anything quite like that before.

Im hungry!!!!! LOL

This is getting as bad as Mike Row, from Dirty Jobs, and all the poop!

Specializes in acute rehab, med surg, LTC, peds, home c.
When I was still a nursing student we had this intellectually disabled patient who came in with cellulitis. He was pretty violent and even punched a nursing student in the face. He would have to be the scariest patient I've ever seen, he would laugh and try and punch everyone so we had to shackle him. One morning I came on and he'd had a bowel movement and had somehow with wrist restraints managed to pick apart his pad and proceeded to smear his bed with faeces. When we walked into the room the stench of poo was so bad you could taste it. The worst thing is that the patient had actually been eating it, it was all over him, poo was stuck between his teeth, under his fingernailss. It took 4 of us to clean him up while he was laughing the entire time and trying to punch us.

The one positive thing from this experience is that I got a really good report from the RN I was helping that day. :D

What did you guys do to **** your nsg instructor off so bad that she actually assigned this guy to students? She must have been terribly sadistic.

Specializes in Cath Lab, OR, CPHN/SN, ER.
This was not really gross but just had a strange feeling about it. We had a guy come into the ED one night, major multiple blunt trauma from an MVC. He had a high traumatic amputation of one of his legs. They took him to surgery and I followed along holding the leg. It was sort of weird. Legs weight more than you might think.

I had that happen to me in nursing school when I did a preceptorship in the ER. Drunk guy walked in front of a car, lost his spleen and part of a leg. I carried the leg around- double red bagged with ice, from ER to CT to OR. And yes, they get heavy. And yes, the jagged edge of the bone can/will cut through the bag. They weren't able to salvage it anyways.

This is getting as bad as Mike Row, from Dirty Jobs, and all the poop!

I am willing to bet that if it weren't for HIPAA, Mike would have followed a CNA around a SNF a LONG time ago. LOL

Specializes in BNAT instructor, ICU, Hospice,triage.

We were cleaning up a pt that had diarrhea, PROJECTILE diarrhea. We had him turned to the side and the nurse I was helping was cleaning him. He Projectile POOPED on her face!!!! Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase ****faced.

Years ago, I was getting ready to go home and noticed one of my patients had his light on. So I went to answer it real quick. He was very glad I got there so quick, because he had to go real bad to the commode.

So I was hurrying as fast as I could, grabbed and unplugged his IV pole, moved his bedside table quickly so that he could get out of bed, and you know how those wheels get caught on things, I bumped into the wheels on his bed and his COMPLETELY full urinal tips over and spills down my leg and my shoe was squishy from all the urine as I walk down the hall. BLECK!!

Who was the genius that decided that carpeting in a hallway adjoining to a patient area was a good idea!!?

actually it is considered safer, and to require less frequent cleaning....

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
not as gross, but still pretty bad...doing wet to dry dressing changes on a pressure ulcer on a prolapsed uterus. and the time i had a diabetic with dry gangrene on their foot and their big toe fell off while i was changing the kerlix dressing...i just held it in place and rewrapped it, i was so freaked out. then i forgot to warn the oncoming shift about what had happened. oops.

now that was funny! the rest of this stuff is grossing me out, but that one made me laugh!

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