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!

[jkaee]

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

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

Last night I had a 25 YO male patient in with staph folliculitis.......of the groin. Man, I tell you, this stuff was awful......the poor kid's entire pubic area was covered in weeping sores, and did it smell BAD! Peeeee-YEW!! I felt so sorry for him, he's a former IV drug user who's now terrified of needles (he gave himself cellulitis a couple of years ago and it almost killed him), he's morbidly obese, and now he's got this incredibly ugly, odoriferous rash all over his genitalia.......PLUS a wound on his right buttcheek from a spider bite that's already been debrided twice and will undoubtedly need to be done again. WOW.

[lesley_girl]

Alright, I currently work on an Alzheimer unit as a CNA. I too was naive as I started this job, thinking that all elderly people are cute and sweet and polite. Boy was I surprised. I have plenty of disgusting stories to tell, but here's one of my favorites.

So we used to have this one guy that was in his late 60's (sad really because he was so young). Anyway, he was a big guy...like 6'5'' and at least 270...not fat, just big, and very strong and very violent and noncompliant. Needless to say, none of us really liked to take care of him because he was so hard. Anyway, one night, at about 8pm, we see him completely naked, scooting down the hallway on his butt. We all start to run down the hall and realize that it stinks to high heaven. And then we notice the huge streak of BM on the carpet where he's been scooting up the hall. He had ripped his attends off, dug right into his BM, finger painted all over himself, all over his room, well and all over the floor. It was so disgusting. We were all playing rock, paper, scissors to see who had to take care of the mess. All in all, the worst part of it was that this man had even put the BM in his mouth and it was totally caked on the roof of his mouth and we had to dig it out. It ended up taking us the rest of the shift to clean him up and it took 4 aides. Oh, that was one crazy night.

[MikeLPN]

Had a resident hand me a hard piece of BM with vomit covering it. He said he wanted to give me a present. But the worst part is I brought it to the nurses station. Hey! ______ gave me a present, wanna see? You know, day shift and evening shift people have totally different senses of humor...

[ShelleyERgirl, LPN]

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

:rotfl: OMG! I just got the grossest mental picture in my head and let me tell you, it wasn't pretty!... Good one.

[ShelleyERgirl, LPN]

Alright, I currently work on an Alzheimer unit as a CNA. I too was naive as I started this job, thinking that all elderly people are cute and sweet and polite. Boy was I surprised. I have plenty of disgusting stories to tell, but here's one of my favorites.

So we used to have this one guy that was in his late 60's (sad really because he was so young). Anyway, he was a big guy...like 6'5'' and at least 270...not fat, just big, and very strong and very violent and noncompliant. Needless to say, none of us really liked to take care of him because he was so hard. Anyway, one night, at about 8pm, we see him completely naked, scooting down the hallway on his butt. We all start to run down the hall and realize that it stinks to high heaven. And then we notice the huge streak of BM on the carpet where he's been scooting up the hall. He had ripped his attends off, dug right into his BM, finger painted all over himself, all over his room, well and all over the floor. It was so disgusting. We were all playing rock, paper, scissors to see who had to take care of the mess. All in all, the worst part of it was that this man had even put the BM in his mouth and it was totally caked on the roof of his mouth and we had to dig it out. It ended up taking us the rest of the shift to clean him up and it took 4 aides. Oh, that was one crazy night.

:rotfl: :rotfl: Did ya have to get him wormed afterwards?

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

:rotfl:Poop smear yuck. Poop gift Hee,hee,hee,:chucklethe masturbating callbell woman, ha,ha, ha, and the old woman with the unsuspecting male CNA, absolutely HILARIOUS! :rotfl:

[BlueYYsRN]

I read this thread from begining to end in one sitting. Then I had to go take a bath, wash my self, wash my hair, brush my teeth, brush my teeth again, then get a glass of wine...maybe two. Undoubtedly we have all seen some strange, frightening, disgusting and peculiar things but ,my, isn't it fascinating to hear about everyone elses? Still not sure about the 900 lb lady and the dead kitten but that does make room for a disturbing visual doesn't it? :chuckle

[Pachinko]

This is one of the most amazing threads I've ever read on a message board, ever. I read it in one sitting and was on the floor laughing when I wasn't gagging. Amazing.

I hope to start nursing school next year and am wondering if I should start throwing up on myself a little every day as a desensitization technique.

I guess I won't mind digging a dead kitten out of someone's flab every once in awhile so long as it's not an everyday occurrence....

[CHIRN]

O.K. I know I'm a "professional", but one day last week I just completely lost it...whatever "it" is. In a not particularlly "disgusting" as much as it was funny incident...I found myself excusing myself to the breakroom so I could get myself under control.

We had this very young woman...mid 40's...who was suffering from AIDS related encephalopathy. She had a long list of sexually related diseases...no laughing matter. But being in the post-hypoxic state she was in, she communicated by yelling at the top of her lungs to each nurse that entered her room. One of our male nurses happened to be taking care of her that night. As he entered, she immediately screamed "I wanna feel it!!! Give it to me!!!". As she kept yelling this for about 10 minutes, the male nurse kindly told her he didn't "have it". About that same time, the little old guy with Alzheimers in the next room (this is an ICU) piped up very loudly..."Hello...I'm over here!!!". Needless to say, our "professionalism" took a turn for the worse at that moment.

I guess you had to be there.

[newgrad2004]

Last night I had a 25 YO male patient in with staph folliculitis.......of the groin. Man, I tell you, this stuff was awful......the poor kid's entire pubic area was covered in weeping sores, and did it smell BAD! Peeeee-YEW!! I felt so sorry for him, he's a former IV drug user who's now terrified of needles (he gave himself cellulitis a couple of years ago and it almost killed him), he's morbidly obese, and now he's got this incredibly ugly, odoriferous rash all over his genitalia.......PLUS a wound on his right buttcheek from a spider bite that's already been debrided twice and will undoubtedly need to be done again. WOW.

ewwww, but did he hit on you? LoL

couldn't resist:uhoh21:

[newgrad2004]

OK i just read this entire thread from begining to end, and I must say that I must be one sick individual. I do however want to say, I went and gagged several times after reading many posts, to the point of dry heaving. But I always came right back and read more. My husband thinks every bit of this is sick and wont listen to me read or repeat another story from here.

But even though im sick about the posts and happenings, I still will finish school and hope that im not on the "recieving" end of any bodily fluids. I will pray Im the one behind the flying unidentified fluid or poop. But I know odds are I will one day more than likely be on the reciving end of this and my co-workers will rub it in. Yet, I still choose to go into this. Eyes wide open. They should offer counseling in nursing school and nursing in general, because I never thought I would laugh or continue to read such gross things.