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 Trauma, MICU.
Had a 900# lady admitted during the night and I had the honor of cleaning her up the next day. While bathing her I had to lift skin folds to get the foulest smelling stink off her. I lifted her breast and there was a dead kitten in the fat fold. I nearly aspirated on my vomit. It must have been there for a while because it was infested with maggots.

There is no way...that is just tooooo disgusting!

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There is no way...that is just tooooo disgusting!

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You would be surprised what one can find hiding in a large roll of flesh. A friend of mine was taking care of a very large man and was giving him his 1st bed bath. She said she found crackers, a broken pencil, a drinking straw, and his eyeglasses in there! Maybe that 900# woman in the other post got used to the smell and didn't realize that something had died on her.

In other words my allnurses sisters, PLEASE get your mammograms and yearly exams as well as self breast exams. I would hate to loose any of you in this way. And for our allnurses brothers...don't think you can get off easily. You get your prostate exams as ordered PLEASE!!!!

Better yet - the day you make appt for your yearly exam, schedule your mammogram the same day - You know your doctor will send you anyway, and you have the day off already.

Then treat yourself to a nice lunch and get your hair done.... :balloons:

Specializes in surgical, emergency.

One of my more nasty stories came from working medical floor at nights.

3-11 admitted "the cat lady", an 80 plus year old lady that lived alone, other than her dozens of cats. She kept roach tapes in her purse to keep the "critters" out of there. She came in with about 10 hair nets on, in layers.

Any how, the off going nurses said "no problems, we cleaned her up and bagged her stuff". On rounds, I saw her boom box on the bed side table, and thought, "no way". With only a flashlight, I hit the box with my hand, and many (I didn't stay around to count) bugs of different type came out of the boom box, and then returned to where they come from. We bagged that bad boy up in a hurry!!!!! No kidding!!!! :eek:

The ear wax story is just so gross. It's worse than the other posts. Yuck!

These stories are great. Nothing is more entertaining than a room full of nurses talking about their most disgusting moments. Here are a few of my own, hope you enjoy...

First one was told to me by a friend who is a resp. therapist ( I'm very glad I didn't experience this first hand) He was caring for a long term trach patient. This patient was non- compliant with trach care and had come in for a smelly fungal infection at the trach site. The therapist set out trach care supplies and started to review proper trach care when the patient told him that took to long instead she took the inner cannula out of her trach and sucked it clean!! Yes I said sucked it clean. The RT couldn't tell the story without gagging.

The next two stories aren't that disgusting but humorous. I once cared for a parapalegic patient who used a texas cath. Well, I guess he had trouble keeping the cath in place so he decided to duct tape the cath to his member. Needless to say he had one nasty tape burn. The next story was from my nursing school days. I had clinicals with a very hyper , Type A nursing student. She had bathed her 80yr old patient and when I went in to she if she needed any help I noticed that her patient had a prolapsed uterus and the student had washed and powdered the entire thing!

I actually gagged over the trache story. I guess it was because I had to do trache care today.

Working in a surg ward caring for a Chinese lady who spoke no English (was visiting relatives in Aus). Very sweet little lady - lovely relatives...brought us nurses in wonderful food which we gratefully scoffed into (as only nurses can do!)....

Emptying her colostomy bag and notice something strange -liquid faeces...tip it into a jug and see a 4 inch round work squirming about - ALIVE -

Needless to say - we did not eat any more of those food gifts!

Don't think I ever washed my hands so much that day.

If you have never worked in Home Health, you just don't realize what you are putting in your mouth.

Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

That trach story very nearly resulted in what little food I've eaten today bolting out the emergency exit. Thanks a lot.....BLEECCCCCCCCHHHH. :uhoh21:

:uhoh21: working in nursing home and on alhemizer floor you know they nver sleep! re direct pt something fell hit my shoe . splat didnt know what it was. it was prolapsed uterus. paramedics get there i have to tell them they forgot body part . in school for lpn i had ask instuctor what it was i am cna didnt know what the heck happende? yuck.

hello guys in school for lpn help any advice on drug calculations

kathy26

Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

just pray a lot

My most recent disgusting story. I was flushing a foley by taking the tubing apart and inserting a large syringe. Well, as I disconnected the tubing, this large amount of really thick, INFECTED pee got all over my forearm, down my glove, and all over my brand new watch. I wanted to puke.