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

Had an obese lady that left her BiPAP mask on at home for 5 days. By the time she got to the hospital, the mask had literally "eaten" her skin into a "bedsore" the exact shape of the mask and its straps. The fissures were purple. Unfortunate for her, it scarred over and remained VERY obvious.

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^ Ouch, did she have issues with dry eyes, too?

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Yuck well, I guess the one that comes to mind is when I was a CNA working in a tele unit. Patient had ethol dx with encephalopathy, as as many ethols do. This one had not had a bm and could not talk or anything. So a lactulose enema was ordered, The RN just said, "you might want to gown." So I did. I think it was around 750 mL's of lacutlose. I had the bed pan ready. Well, it went in and nothing. I put some pillows to keep him in his side, put some towels around the bedpan. As I was doing this, it happened. BM came out, filled the bedpan, kept on coming, I just let the bed pan go, and he started to move, and I told him don't move, and he did, and overturned the bed pan and it was everywhere. I couldn't move him to get the bed pan out, he was so big. Well, you had to have been there. Well, maybe not, yuck!!

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Yuck well, I guess the one that comes to mind is when I was a CNA working in a tele unit. Patient had ethol dx with encephalopathy, as as many ethols do. This one had not had a bm and could not talk or anything. So a lactulose enema was ordered, The RN just said, "you might want to gown." So I did. I think it was around 750 mL's of lacutlose. I had the bed pan ready. Well, it went in and nothing. I put some pillows to keep him in his side, put some towels around the bedpan. As I was doing this, it happened. BM came out, filled the bedpan, kept on coming, I just let the bed pan go, and he started to move, and I told him don't move, and he did, and overturned the bed pan and it was everywhere. I couldn't move him to get the bed pan out, he was so big. Well, you had to have been there. Well, maybe not, yuck!!

I gasped when I read this.

It's bad enough when people are getting 15-30 mL PO. I can't imagine getting that much PR!!

Instead of cleaning it up I would have just burned down the hospital and built a new one.

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Instead of cleaning it up I would have just burned down the hospital and built a new one.

:dancgrp:

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I gasped when I read this.

It's bad enough when people are getting 15-30 mL PO. I can't imagine getting that much PR!!

Instead of cleaning it up I would have just burned down the hospital and built a new one.

:yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah:

You win at life, CoffeemateCNA.

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I have a similar story!!!!! We had an "elderly" confused lady disimpact herself and proceded to throw fecal balls at the staff that entered the room. The nurses quickly wised up and started sending the cna's in to block/dodge the balls of fury!!!!

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Specializes in med/surg, wound/ostomy.

I was working one day on a med/surg unit, assisting with a patient that was not doing well. Could see the confused lady ( that was in the room across the hall) get out of her chair, and poop on the floor. Before any of us could get to her, she stuck her finger in the poop and then proceded to eat the poop. As we entered her room she was saying "My, that chocolate sure does taste bitter!!":barf02:

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I was working one day on a med/surg unit, assisting with a patient that was not doing well. Could see the confused lady ( that was in the room across the hall) get out of her chair, and poop on the floor. Before any of us could get to her, she stuck her finger in the poop and then proceded to eat the poop. As we entered her room she was saying "My, that chocolate sure does taste bitter!!":barf02:

I once got an order in the pharmacy where the doctor wrote something like this in the progress notes. When the man died a few days later and I saw his obituary in the newspaper, complete with picture of him in better days, all I could picture was him doing this.

:sofahider

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, home-care.
:yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah:

You win at life, CoffeemateCNA.

You could have pleaded temporary insanity for the arson charge.... LOL :clown:

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You could have pleaded temporary insanity for the arson charge.... LOL :clown:

I would never be fortunate enough to get the "temporary" insanity. With my luck, I'd end up in a lockdown unit drinking Haldol cocktails for the next 50 years.

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Just a bump - this thread must continue seeing as I am now addicted

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