What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

[yazisizit]

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!

[Brea LPN]

Wow just wow[/quote

That's exactly what I was doing to say.:)

[Brea LPN]

I'm a second semester nursing student, so far the worst I saw was probably the bilateral leg amputation in the O.R.

it was gruesome but it made me stronger..lol

I've heard that organ donation on a deceased patient is bad too. Supposedly they use PVC pipes to keep the shape of the legs. By the way, not trying to discourage organ donation,

[Brea LPN]

:lol2::lol2:I know, it's my sick sense of humor, but I can't help it. I was conditioned to this stuff when I was a child. I saw my mother's intestines laying out on her leg. She was a large woman. It was early one summer morning, the dew was still covering everything, and as she was climbing onto the seat of the hay mower, her foot slipped on the wet step and as she fell, the lever that controlled the mower blade jammed into her intestinal area. My brother was only 12 at the time, and he lifted her off and laid her in front of a stack of hay.

Omg to both stories.

[Brea LPN]

I've been a CNA for about 3 years now. I've spent most of that 3 years on my nursing home's "behavior unit". Basically we have all the patients with dementia, schizophrenia, and most other mental illnesses. Another CNA and I were doing my rounds when we went into one room to check on a pt. We found that she had a BM since the last time we changed her. It was balled up in her hands. So we put gloves on and tried to take it away from her. She started to freak out and exclamed. "YOU CAN'T HAVE MY CHEESEBURGER!!!". And took a BIG bite out of her BM. We spent the next half hour washing her up and cleaning BM out of her teeth!

The things CNAs and nurses have to do!

[Nclex 2morrow]

"We had one very demented lady who used to hoard things in her clothing, and hair, and was constantly mumbling nonsense. Well, it was shower time and I noticed something coming from in between her legs. I got out some napkins,and a pencap. When I noticed there was more, I had to get my charge nurse. Now, keep in mind this is a very large older woman who was screaming and yelling the entire time. It took 3 of us to get the rest out ( 2 to hold her down, 1 to dig) We got a p-nut butter and jelly sandwich out of her lady parts.Who knows how long it had been there, but it didnt smell pretty."

Oh my.

I was in ICU and a pt had a runny BM. I was finishing my RN rotation, and the nurse came in and used the yankaur (sp) and sucked up his runny BM....then, she left it there with that awful sucking sound....I couldn't go into that room for a while, without gagging. I know that is nothing to some of your stories, but it was traumatic to me..lol:eek:

I was also working in Rad as a clerk...the Dr came in and told us to look at this xray..there was a skeleton with a perfectly recognizable Perrier bottle in his rectum...I never saw the man, but he was MORTIFIED. He had to have it surgically removed...moral of the story, those bottles have SUCTION...DO NOT PUT THEM UP YOUR RECTUM...

[rph3664]

I've heard that organ donation on a deceased patient is bad too. Supposedly they use PVC pipes to keep the shape of the legs. By the way, not trying to discourage organ donation,

That's correct; when a person is a tissue donor, this is done to retain the body's shape if it's going to be viewed. They also stuff the eye sockets (I'm not sure with what) when corneas are donated, because they remove the entire eyeball.

Trust me, it's nothing compared to embalming and other preparations done by morticians.

[boohill]

Man has a Foley catheter, all well and good so far. When the nurse went to check the catheter, that it was draining properly and secured to the inner thigh with a device that keeps it from pulling she noticed that it was not in the securement device. The catheter was stuffed all the way into the bladder right up to the irrigation port near the end, pretty much about 14 + inches of catheter stuffed into the bladder. She asked him why he did that and he explained that he didn't want it to catch on anything. Then he was asked if it didn't hurt and if he used lube. "No, I didn't have anything so I reached down between my legs and got some "Ass Grease" © on my hands and used that as lube"."

I love this site. Particularly this thread. I've read through them all. But this story made me lmao. A*s Grease is too funny to me. :rotfl::hhmth:

[Nccity2002, MSN, RN]

Many years ago, I did leeche therapy on a patient with a gangrenous wound; which basically meant that once the leeche was done feeding, I'd dispose of it by placing it in an alcohol container (they'd usually burst!!). I work in a teaching facility where the attending physician rounds with an entourage of residents and medical students. That morning during rounds, I was updating the medical team, when I suddely heard a loud gasp in the back of the room....For some reason, one of the residents decided to take a closer look at one of my alcohol/leeche container, and somehow (still a mystery...even today:doh:) poured it all over his face and white lab coat. That morning I went home with a smile....

[Five&Two Will Do]

We had a patient that the attending was hell bent on sending a CDiff spec to lab. Doc was mad cause she had ordered it a couple days prior and it had not been collected. The guy wasn't having diarrhea or anything os maybe they never had the chance to get a sample. Anyway I was in charge that day and she said, Mike please make sure they collect a stool from this guy. I told her that I would be sure it happened. Patient has a BM after lunch and calls on his call bell. I look in the bed pan and there is only a very small piece in there and a piece of corn:barf02:so i sent both the turd and the corn to the lab. I thought it was funny LOL! Maybe I am weird

[No Stars In My Eyes]

The guy from a baaad car wreck who was bleeding-out from his rectum, Nine people rotating in groups of three, changing out as one-by-one we were overcome by the smell and sheer volumn of blood...realizing that what we thought were large logs of stool were actually gelatinous, knockwurst-size blood clots..................the poor, filthy young man in contractures, who was brought in from a "CARE" home (YUH,right) who required three baths to clean the yeast-beasties residing in every fold and crack, and when we got to his scrotum,and turned his cathed member to the side to continue cleaning, seeing the foley THROUGH THE HOLES ALL ALONG THE SHAFT OF HIS member. Noy only did they not clean him, thet didn;t turn him very often either........and one that was funnier than gross; we all have had a version of this, I think. The prep of a constipated lady who received 3 bottles of , oh yes, GO-LYTELY, which is a misnomer if ever there was one. She was pooping liguid stool so copiously that it was pouring off the sides of the bed in waterfalls. The supervisor came in to find out what the hilarity was all about and found four nurses with their scrub pants rolled above our knees and large latex gloves covering ourshoes, the fingers of said gloves flapping and tailing streaks of liquid poop.........Last one (for now)when I was a student, a patient had elaphantiasis of the scrotal sac, which was literally the size of a basketball, and when we transferred him out of bed, we students got to hold those GIANT balls so they wouldn't DROP suddenly + cause this poor fellow even more pain than he was already in. Charming!What did you do today at school, dear? But still worse was when he was having diarrhea and trying to get out at the foot of the bed past the side rail , his huge swollen balls folded back under his bottom and being shat upon, and his feet on the floor in puddles of poop slipping and sliding, and him justifiably upset, yelling "I'M BEING EMASCULATED!HELP! HELP!SOMEBODY GRAB MY NUTS!" It was a memorable introduction to my first clinical experience. I was horrified, but later describing it back at the dorm, we were laughing sooo hard my face hurt.

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Oh, my, two more: Large boil between scrotum and rectum had burst and the resulting tunneling wound being packed BID (this was a home-health case)He had been discharged from the previous agency for noncompliance (diabetic/paraplegic/ETOH) and we picked him up two weeks later as the wound had reinfected. I began unpacking the really smelly wound, pulling out the long thread of packing......and trying to exlore which way the tunneling went, I found 24 twelve inch pieces of packing that had been put in there who knows how long ago(not as one long piece as should be done) and gobs of ungodly pus and blood. A nasty fishing expedition!..............Another time I was chiseling away at the world's longest fungal tonails (they curled over top of toes to the underside of the toes, literally!) and as I clipped away, a large chunk flew straight up my nose. OMG!

[Jenni811, RN]

When i was in nursing school, it was my sophomore year of school and our first rotation through clinicals. I started off in a nursing home, with one resident i was assigned to.

It was this little old lady who was basically wheel chair bound. It was her bath day and the CNA's usually do the baths so they helped me to know how she gets hers done.

Well this nursing home had this nifty little shower set up so it patients preferred to shower, they could. So imagine the set up:

A patient is sitting on the shower chair, and the chair has a hole in the bottom. It was made so they could easily go from toliet to shower, had wheels that locked. (kinda like a shower/wheelchair thing). Anyway...you put the patient into the shower area, and you stand behind this wall, that is a little past your hips so you don't get wet.

pretty nifty set up, very nice nursing home.

but what was NOT NICE....was when the drain plugged up on me and the patient had a RUNNY LOOSE BM on the chair with a hole.

So here i am standing in water with watery BM. then the water starts backing up from the septic. My white clinical pants are wicking up this brown nasty water, its leaking out into the hallway. I did turn off the water, but that obviously didnt help.

So i finally get some help as they see what is coming out the door, and what does the CNA hand me?? A PLUNGER!!! "What am i supposed to do with this?"

what a mess!! Whatever the heck was coming out of the drain, and the loose BM was going out into the hallway, up my pants, the patient is splashing her feet around in it laughing.