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

Specializes in Dialysis.

Patient with a large boil on his back. Doc ordered ATB and warm compresses. So myself and another nurse are in the room assessing the area and the other nurse barely put her fingers around the outer edges of the area to see if it had gotten any larger... and with that oh so light pressure the boil erupted!!! Thick green/brown bloody pus shot out of it and into her hair. It smelled so foul, think dead fish baking in the hot July sun. She had to shower in the unit just to go home and shower again. Makes me shudder

Oh God the above made me gag. Mucus is my weakness.

Oh, mine too. The face mask I was wearing helped hide the gagging. It was gross and impressive all at once!

Finally finished after many late nights! All these stories were great! I hope one day I will have my own to share.

Specializes in Cardiology, Oncology, Hospice,IV Therapy.
I was a new CNA in the nursing home and feeling very proud of my first step in my chosen career.

A nice littel old man in a wheel chair waved at one of my co-workers (a pretty littel 18 year-old, fresh out of high school sugar and spice type of girl). He said "honey come over here please" as she bent down to talk to him. He moved the blanket covering his legs and SPLAT! he ejaculated right in her face and mouth. I never saw her again and thus my nursing career beagn...........

Oh how disgusting!!:wideyed:

Specializes in Med-Surg, LTC, Psych, Addictions..
In the confused-patient vein here's one of my favorites: 94 YO Jenny, who had never in her life been in a hospital ("I birthed all 11 of my babies right in my own house, never seen no doctor or nothin', and every one of 'em was as healthy as I am!"). She was on the med-surg floor with CHF, and even though she was more than a little demented, she had a kind of twisted logic. There was another confused pt. in the room across from Jenny's who yelled all night long no matter what we did for him, and to say the least, this did not make Jenny very happy. We were all taking a short coffee break at around 4 AM when we heard this blood-curdling scream from the general direction of the man's room. No sooner had we run around the corner to see what was going on than we spotted Jenny, who was shuffling toward us with a half-full catheter bag........along with the entire catheter, balloon and all. "I yanked this contraption outta that feller down the hall,' she announced, handing over the apparatus before heading back down the hall to her own room. "Guess now he's got something to holler about!!"[/quote']

omg! I can't believe she did that.

Specializes in Med-Surg, LTC, Psych, Addictions..
My story not as gross as the others ones....but here it goes.

Had an older lady in the NH I used to work in that loved to get suppositories, have lady partsl inserts, creams etc. (you know the type) Well, the one thing she enjoyed doing most was to masurbate with her call bell. Yep, her call bell. We could always tell when she was doing it because the light at the top of her door would be flashing on and off until she was....errr....done. :wink2:

I'm surprised she didn't get electrocuted.

It got so bad her doctor asked us one day "Why don't you just go out and get the lady a vibrator!"

No one offered to make that trip. :rotfl:

Another NH, another story....one lady used to go nuts if a male CNA did care on her. One unsuspecting male CNA went in to do care, and imagine his surprise when the resident threw her legs in the air, spread eagle, and yelled "F### me like the dog I am!"

Lovely.

Jennifer :chuckle

Before my hubby joined the Navy he was a CNA. All of tge staff and residents liked him. Some of the female residents liked him too much....begging him to rub them MORE and trying to hump his hand etc. when giving peri care. Poor thing was so grossed out he couldn't take it anymore after 4 years as a CNA. He joined the Navy and hasn't looked back!

Specializes in Med-Surg, LTC, Psych, Addictions..
Brace yourself for this one. I was suctioning a newly trached patient in the ICU and went a little too far causing the patient to gag and cough. Luckily I wear a face shield right? Well after her coughing jag I removed my face shield and leaned over the patient to comfort her. She suddenly coughed and out of her trach came a fair sized mucous plug...that flew into my mouth and down my throat! :rotfl: I was the one gagging after that. Now I never-ever remove my face shield until away from the bed.

This is the first one to make me gag. That is sooo disgusting! Ewe, I just belched. I think I need a break from this thread.

Specializes in Rehab, Med-surg, Neuroscience.

One of my coworkers had a patient hit the call light and calmly hand her a cereal bowl... that he had pooped in. She turned around, set the bowl in the patient's bathroom, and left without saying a word. Best part.... the patient was alert and oriented. Not right in the head somehow but we couldn't put our finger on it, but he wasn't confused.

Specializes in Med-Surg, LTC, Psych, Addictions..
nasty... ok so i work on a tele floor and am just beginning my RN career (read RN

My pt, A/O x3, 70 y/o F, came in with CHF and was on a Lasix drip to pull off fluid- she had a foley in for an accurate I/Os. She presses the call button asking for her RN. So I come in and she says to me-- I think the foley is leaking b/c i feel kinda wet down there. So I take a look at the foley and noticed what looked like diarrhea- it was really foul smelling and brown/black. i told her it look like diarrhea but she denied having a BM. After she gets cleaned up it is apparent that she was right- no BM- the rectum is totally clean... Turns out the stuff is comming out of her lady parts- Nasty nasty Nasty. A sample was sent to /the lab as well as a U/A. The urine in the foley was clear yellow w/o any blck stuff.

lab calls back... sample is stool. Ends up she has a fistula btw her bowels and uterus and stool was comming out the WRONG hole. can u believe it.

I believe it. I had an older lady with chonic cdiff and loose stools on a rectal tube, foley catheter and gtube feedings. Our facility wont deal with rectal tuves so it got pulled. She was constantly soiled, had a sacral decubitus. I HATED going in her room. Slimy, foul BM constantly oozed out of her. One day I noticed what looked like BM around the foley so I told our NP. She sent her to hosp. Sure enough the poor lady had a fistula, stool was coming out from her lady parts!

Oh my GOD!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! EWWWWW!!!!!!!

:eek: :chair:

Yeah. It's one of those things I can't imagine. But totally can. Like. *shiver*

I think I have something that's far worse than anything here.

Not my own experience, friend sent me this a month or two ago.

Warning: Language, horrible imagery. An experience I wouldn't wish upon anyone, and you can start reading with the green lines.

Specializes in Med-Surg, LTC, Psych, Addictions..
Just began a job working in ED two weeks ago.

Older gent comes in stating he'd done "something stupid". My preceptor took a look and said, "He has a ring around the base of his member - and it's not a **** ring, either."

My first thought was - wow - that was a very "open minded" statement...

I took a look as well - yep - it was a wedding ring at the base. Doc came in w/ring cutters and removed the ring. He told the pt (obviously) not to do that again (pt was a repeat offender for the same thing).

I later told my preceptor that perhaps this pt needed education on being "safe, sane and consensual". She just laughed.

RN

A wedding ring? Even if the guy had fat fingers,(and thus a larger ring) how the heck did he fit it on to his member? Are you sure it wasn't a toddler? Lol