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

I haven't been on here in forever, but I see that the flow has stories will never stop...Good. :)

The 80 y/o story made me laugh so loud I thought I would wake the house up. My fiance's mom is a nurse at a hospital down here..I have got to ask her about some stories for me to post up here. I know she'll get a kick out of that one. :)

These stories are making me want to puke.

Wow that is pretty gross. I've been reading this thread and trying to prepare myself for the worst, but some of this stuff is pretty bad. :smackingf

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
1)80 y/o female pt trying to cath her with 3 RN's at bedside. we all know how every ladies anatomy is just a little different and we were havinf trouble hitting the urethra. This was not made any e=asier ny pt's comments: "ladies is it hard to find because I haven't had relations in a while? I just met up with an old HIgh school sweetheart of mine, I think I need a ***** lift" at which point we all busted out laughing and informed her it had nothing to do with her lack of relations...lol
:yeah: Thank you. that just made my day. :D
Specializes in medsurg, everything in LTC.

we once told a couple of new grads, first day on the job, that their drug test had to be repeated and that our hospital had a specially trained nurse for it. So off they went to pee in their specimen cup which we then put in the fridge. Here then comes our specially trained nurse, pulls out the first specimen cup, unscrews the lid, and just like wine, sniffs it, swishes around, takes a sip, and swishes it around in her mouth and then spits in the sink. The look on their faces was priceless, one was gagging.......Do I have to spell it out that we had prepped a specimen cup with applejuice?

we once told a couple of new grads, first day on the job, that their drug test had to be repeated and that our hospital had a specially trained nurse for it. So off they went to pee in their specimen cup which we then put in the fridge. Here then comes our specially trained nurse, pulls out the first specimen cup, unscrews the lid, and just like wine, sniffs it, swishes around, takes a sip, and swishes it around in her mouth and then spits in the sink. The look on their faces was priceless, one was gagging.......Do I have to spell it out that we had prepped a specimen cup with applejuice?

One of my friends was a med tech before he became a pharmacist, and had a similar story regarding sperm samples and Coffee Mate. :lol2:

A homeless person was brought into the ER because she had a cast on her lower leg for over a year. Think a scoop of mint chip ice cream melting over an ice cream cone and you have a pretty good idea of what her leg looked like. The smell was so bad even the drug seekers were running for the door.

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Specializes in PACU, OR.
A homeless person was brought into the ER because she had a cast on her lower leg for over a year. Think a scoop of mint chip ice cream melting over an ice cream cone and you have a pretty good idea of what her leg looked like. The smell was so bad even the drug seekers were running for the door.

ARRRGH! LUCKY I DON'T LIKE MINT CHIP ICE-CREAM!

In future I'll never even look at the damn stuff!

Specializes in Medical.
A homeless person was brought into the ER because she had a cast on her lower leg for over a year. Think a scoop of mint chip ice cream melting over an ice cream cone and you have a pretty good idea of what her leg looked like.
I don't know what's nastier - the wound, or the description!
Specializes in med-surg, mother-baby.

This isnt something that happened to me, but was described by a colleague who worked GI for a while. She told me about this patient with a colostomy who kept being re-admitted because it would get infected and dehisced (spelling?)...After several interviews they figured out that it got that way because her husband decided it was an interesting alternative to usual sexual experiences...ugh...

Specializes in Respiratory, Med/Surg.

...Dude...That sounds like it would be an awkward experience.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

I have read about this before on this website. Disgusting isn't it. But then I believe that placing a live rodent up one's orifice is also disgusting.:rolleyes: