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!

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

Once had a self confessed 'vampire' on a mixed medical admissions ward I worked on. This guy would draw blood from his IV cannulas, collect it in a glass and drink the blood. Psych referall ASAP!

More wine for my men - we ride at dawn.:angryfire

Yuck, yuck, yuck.

Mine was when I saw a woman with stage 4 breast cancer. That thing had already eaten away most of her breast, and the crater was a horrible deep red and blue.

[Gompers, BSN, RN]

I was taking care of a baby in our NICU one night, and she was on the schedule to go to surgery the next morning for an exp. lap. to check out what kind of damage an infectious intestinal perforation did to her gut. While I was assessing her, I noted this 2cm yellowish blister on her abdomen. I showed it to the doc and we agreed to watch it. Then I noticed that her salem sump wasn't functioning properly, so I irrigated it and set it back to low suction. The blister immediately deflated. Intermittant suction went off, and the blister slowly filled back up. Suction on again, and it deflated. Called the doc back, who had the appropriate reaction ("Eeeeew...what the hell is that?") and we called surgery. The entire unit seemed to be there, watching this blister inflate and deflate with the intermittant suction. The surgeon came up and "popped" the blister with his fingers, spewing forth copious amounts of purulent drainage and stool. Then he simply left and said he'd see the baby in the morning for surgery! We hoped they had a lot of irrigation fluid on hand!!! Thank goodness she was on triple antibiotics.

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

I was taking care of a baby in our NICU one night, and she was on the schedule to go to surgery the next morning for an exp. lap. to check out what kind of damage an infectious intestinal perforation did to her gut. While I was assessing her, I noted this 2cm yellowish blister on her abdomen. I showed it to the doc and we agreed to watch it. Then I noticed that her salem sump wasn't functioning properly, so I irrigated it and set it back to low suction. The blister immediately deflated. Intermittant suction went off, and the blister slowly filled back up. Suction on again, and it deflated. Called the doc back, who had the appropriate reaction ("Eeeeew...what the hell is that?") and we called surgery. The entire unit seemed to be there, watching this blister inflate and deflate with the intermittant suction. The surgeon came up and "popped" the blister with his fingers, spewing forth copious amounts of purulent drainage and stool. Then he simply left and said he'd see the baby in the morning for surgery! We hoped they had a lot of irrigation fluid on hand!!! Thank goodness she was on triple antibiotics.

Awwww, poor little baby Yucky, nasty bubble

[BarbPick]

I was sent in first to evaluate the scene, I think I was sent in first to totally freak me out, and they succeeded.

Hanging from a rope was a man I think wearing a diaper, panty hose, some kind of leather harness, and high society magazines all over the floor. It seems his fail safe mechanism, failed.

Same week******************************************************

There was what they thought there was a hostage stand off, someone saw a woman through the window of a man's home and they heard loud fighting, Police were called. They stood off for about 6 hours, they heard a gun shot and they stormed the place and called called the M E, the man who lived there was in a woman's cow girl outfit and killed himself.

[emily_rn_03]

i was working in an ER and there was patient coming in c/o dizziness. I could smell himm before i got into his room. I don't think he had changed his clothes for over a month. The EMTs had taken pictures of his living conditions and his "bathroom" were two buckets .. one for pee and one for poo.. And that's if he decided to use the buckets!! We had to put hime in a gown.. literally PEELING off his clothes! His socks were stuck to his feet with dried feces and urine. He had feces inbetween his toes. His jeans were soiled with god knows what. his briefs had dried feces with toilet paper stuck in there!! Am I painting a pretty picture?? It was about the worst experience i had ever had. I don't gag often but that one did it in for me!!

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

I was sent in first to evaluate the scene, I think I was sent in first to totally freak me out, and they succeeded.

Hanging from a rope was a man I think wearing a diaper, panty hose, some kind of leather harness, and high society magazines all over the floor. It seems his fail safe mechanism, failed.

Same week******************************************************

There was what they thought there was a hostage stand off, someone saw a woman through the window of a man's home and they heard loud fighting, Police were called. They stood off for about 6 hours, they heard a gun shot and they stormed the place and called called the M E, the man who lived there was in a woman's cow girl outfit and killed himself.

Oh where oh where did the sanity go, oh where oh where can it be? With it's man clothes off, and its girl clothes on, oh where oh where can it be? :chuckle

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

i was working in an ER and there was patient coming in c/o dizziness. I could smell himm before i got into his room. I don't think he had changed his clothes for over a month. The EMTs had taken pictures of his living conditions and his "bathroom" were two buckets .. one for pee and one for poo.. And that's if he decided to use the buckets!! We had to put hime in a gown.. literally PEELING off his clothes! His socks were stuck to his feet with dried feces and urine. He had feces inbetween his toes. His jeans were soiled with god knows what. his briefs had dried feces with toilet paper stuck in there!! Am I painting a pretty picture?? It was about the worst experience i had ever had. I don't gag often but that one did it in for me!!

OOOOOHHH, That's definitely a NASTY Pewie,pewie,pewie!

[Kizomo]

Well this one goes back to my training days as a student nurse at a large, inner city hospital in Sydney, Australia about 20 years ago. Many stories to tell from those days, but this is perhaps the yukkiest. I had a female patient who weighed in over 700 lbs - her husband weighed about 100lbs soaking wet. Anyway, this lady was admitted for treatment of her 'pressure ulcers'. She had ulcers under her breasts that you could lose your fists in. The same with her groin folds. These were nothing - her sacral area had a huge crater that could hide a basketball. All of these areas contained necrotic tissue, as well as maggots- ugghh! Just try and imagine the smell, and then triple your imagination. It took 2 nurses 1 1/2 hrs to change her dressings, which needed to changed q4h. And the dr. had decided to leave the maggots institu to help get rid of the necrotic areas. I have to say, I turned vegetarian for a long time after that experience. Oh, and the ending of the tale - I'm not actually sure how true this is, as it happened after I left the ward - this lady finally died (that part is definitely true). They placed her body in the freezer at the morgue. When they tried to remove her body from the freezer for autopsy, well.... you know how things expand when frozen... the body wouldn't budge, and they had to use a chainsaw to remove her piece by piece... eeeek! Hospital gossip or fact....?? .... I'll let you be the judge

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

:rotfl: :chuckle

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Makes me glad I decided to do something serious about MY weight, although I've never gone over 340.........WOW.

[jaimealmostRN]

thats it. i don't want to be a nurse. :roll

Please Please for the love of god, change your picture under your name!!!! I'm reading these posts at around midnight and laughing at the stories, then I see that pic (exorsist, I guess AHHHHH ) and thats what makes me scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate that movie so much! Not trying to be rude to you, but it's my fear!

[BaystateRN]

I had to Kwell a homeless man's hair. I might add that a fellow nurse had him on her assignment from 7p to 11p and dumped him on me at 11p. I poured the Kwell on and out came a bunch of maggots!!