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

What is MRSA?

MRSA? Methacillin resistant staph aureous. Nasty stuff.

What is MRSA?

Methacillin Resistant Staph Aureus (sorry, don't know if the spelling is correct)

One of the biggy-baddy infections we pass around the hospital.

Specializes in ICU.

Thank you guys.

Specializes in Renal, Haemo and Peritoneal.

I looked after a chap not so long ago who had a manky foot. It smelt "off" and when touched "bubbles" appeared..........................my first and last look at gas gangrene I hope. He had the foot taken off by the way.

I had a renal patient who used to sit right across from the nurse's station where we were charting. She'd wait until we'd look up and then pick the blue pseudomonas scabs off her trach and eat them. I would actually gag, a rare occurance for me.

This wasn't me, but happened to a good friend, an RT. He was in the burn unit and was suctioning some poor soul from a third world country. He had removed the red robinson and was very puzzled. It was at least 10 inches longer than when it had gone in. My friend is holding it in the air and trying to figure out what was going on when the end of the rr turns around and LOOKS at him. It was a huge red ascaris worm in the patient's lungs, the same shade and diameter as the cath.

I said, "OMG, what did you do?"

He answered, "Oh, just screamed and threw it across the room."[/QUOT

For some reason this story really gets to me. And I have read almost all that are posted.:crying2: :o

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

Ascaris worms, yuck

I remember a lady who came into triage all freaked out after a BM, and she brought in a ziplock baggy full of them.

she said she was going to fire her housekeeper/cook

she said she was going to divorce her husband

she said she was going to sell her Mercedes

she said she was selling her house

she said a lot of other things

mostly not printable

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

Had a guy come in recently

been out camping

came in with nasty case of poison ivy

mostly concentrated around his rectum and genitalia

I actually felt sorry for him

:D Here is my most gross, yucky, disgusting nursing story!

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

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Loooooser! :)

Had a guy come in recently

been out camping

came in with nasty case of poison ivy

mostly concentrated around his rectum and genitalia

I actually felt sorry for him

Damn, how did he manage that?

With me nothing really......I remember this one time I was changing a condom cath and urine splashed in my eye. So I double checked his past history for Hepatitis, HIV, and so on and went straight to the ED (he was clean). Man, that saline they poured on my eye to wash the urine out was too cold to bear as it dripped down my neck.

I'm always careful with bodily substances:p

oh my gosh. the peanut butter sandwich in the vag...a is great. What a hoot. I thing that is even funnier than the nursing home Media star. obviously, these two need to get together.
I'm thinking the nursing homes and ER's are winning the prizes today. I worked n long term care for years. We had one lady who loved to eat and had a family that loved to feed her. She was total care and now topping 300 pounds. Our hoyers had only been approved for 275#. So for the time being "hattie" was stuck in bed. The Dr and the dietician had met with family and agreed to put her on a diet. The patient had agreed as well... for now. One Sunday night she needed to have her douche... felt some resistance when inserting the applicator... pulled out the tip of the applicator and noted lots of brown "crumbs" on the tip. Put on my miner's helmet... went in to investigate and pulled out a 4 piece fried chicken dinner with taters and a roll!!!! Hattie grinning, said, "Oh, that was gonna be my midnight snack".... We left the room and just lost it. Laughed the rest of the night.... still can't eat chicken 10 years later:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Specializes in Home care, assisted living.

Back in my nursing home days...Had a 45-year-old guy (apparently used to be a minister) who masturbated 24 hours a day. Got semen all over the under side of his bedsheet too. Imagine having to witness while being told you have to feed him breakfast!! Oh, and every 20 minutes he would holler so everyone in the building could hear him. Oh fun...I just tried to zone out while I fed him.

Now I work in an ALF, and still get my exciting moments...like walking into a resident's room and seeing wads of smelly turd sitting on the head board, in the bed, in her teeth...Yummeeee.

One of my co-workers said that back in HER nursing home days, she had to wait on this one resident to finish servicing herself with the bristles of her hairbrush. Then the lady shook the hairbrush on my friend and said, "I'M DONE!!" as she flung crotch juice all over her. Nasty!! :eek: