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 Med-Surg.

:sniff: :sniff: :sniff: There are no more! :sniff: :sniff: :sniff: I found this two nights ago and have stolen away to my computer every chance I could find! I am fascinated. I used to be an EMT, but it seemed that my runs (pardon the pun :lol2: ) were all pretty tame. I'm now waiting to get into the nursing program, and can't wait to jump in with both feet (properly covered, of course)!

~T

I had just finished assisting an obnoxious third year resident with a lady partsl swab he had just obtained from a patient. He touched his nose with the swab while performing the whiff test for trichamonis!!! It was so funny to see the panic on his face as he scrambled to wash his face!!! :chuckle

True story. A morbidly obese woman who had died was being transported to the morgue or funeral home via ambulance here in the city. While going over a busy overpass, the back doors somehow opened and the body fell out onto the highway.

I have always wondered what was in the minds of the people who happened to be driving behind the ambulance when this happened.

Specializes in surgical, emergency.

Talking about gross, and yucky. Here's mine.

1) Years ago when I was an orderly, I was helping take care of a man that had some sort of massive internal infection. Looking at him, he was serious sick, but looking close, you could see what looked like stretch marks, with green underneath!!! The smell was beyond belief, and one time turning him, I swear, his buttock fell off in my hand!! Never did figure out his problem.

2) When I was in nursing school, I worked on a local ambulance service. We got called to the report of a man down. He had been working in a home, on a step ladder and went down. We were thinking initially maybe electrical shock, etc. Decided eventually heart, however on our arrival he was in full arrest. We started CPR, and I was doing rescue breathing. Guess what???

He had just finished lunch....I not only did I see it.....but tasted it too!! :barf02:

This was in the 70's when personal protection was not thought of, and we had maybe one, ambu...safely in the ambulance, not on the scene with me.

P.S. Chicken salad sandwich and coffee, I think. :eek:

Mike

I had a patient with a swollen scrotom and bubbling member

Now THERE'S a visual I won't soon forget.

Specializes in ICU.

One night on 3-11's I had a male patient who was in for CHF w/ hx of diabetes. He was fluid restricted and at snack time had asked for a sandwich and a drink. He became very confused when I went in to pass his 9:00 p.m. meds. As I sat him up to offer him his pills and his drink he kept shaking his head no and saying No Drink! Right after this I summoned for help to put him back in bed and his drink spilled on my pants. Apparantly it was no longer apple juice but urine as he used his cup in place of a urinal.

Mary Ann

At one nursing home I worked at, I came in one day to find that one of the nurses had been "let go". This wasn't a particularly well liked nurse, so of course I wanted the dish. When I asked what happened and if anyone knew why she was fired, everyone started gagging and turning green. One STNA even ran to the bathroom! Well when I got the story, I wanted to hack myself. Apparently at dinnertime, a nurse was looking for assistance and went to find this fired nurse. She went by a room and overheard the nurse talking to the patient saying "one for you and one for me"....the nurse was giving the patient a bite of food then taking one for herself!!!!!!!! :barf01: Mind you, this patient was very sweet, but had very badly decayed and plaqued teeth (what few were left), horrendous chronic halitosis, and as you would expect, received pureed food. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

One a story about snot that happened when I was a kid. It traumatized me so much, I still can't stand to look at or touch the stuff. :p Bleck!! In fact, several years ago I did some housecleaning for a woman who put hers on the wall on her side of the bed. They were still there the last day I worked for her.

The other one has seared my mind and if I mention it, it might just give me flashbacks and nightmares again. So I'll just leave that one where it is.:stone

I started my night shift and was given a patient that had been admitted in the afternoon. Bowel obstruction was one of the many problems he had but he refused all laxatives, enema prescribed. He was trying to tune the tv by his bedside but could not manage well because of neuropathy in his hand. One of my colleague gave him a surgical glove to help grip the button of the tv. Next time I went in his room I noticed faeces everywhere, sheets, bed rails, tv, himself... Yes he had had a good dig at removing the obstruction himself... I started cleaning him with my colleague and he kept saying " go on girls stick your finger in and get it out, that what my wife does" (SHE WAS A HEALTH VISITOR!!!). :eek:

About a month ago, a patient was admitted to our floor from ER. She was in her late 80s and was a comfort care pt (palliative care). She reeked of horrendous BM as she was wheeled by the nursing station. She literally died about 5 minutes after being gurneyed into her room and transferred into bed. The CNA's were in her room trying to clean her up, so her family could see her before she was transported to the morgue.

I was called into the room by the CNAs because....when they turned the pt onto her side a fountain of brown liquid was FLOWING out of her orifice with tremendous force!! We were able to clean her up down there, but when it was all said and done, she probably expelled 2 liters of fluid easily. When she stopped flowing, we turned her onto her back and then she started flowing this black green stuff from her mouth, nose, and even her tear ducts!! It took an hour to clean her up!! When she got to our floor her abdomen was soooo distended....now we know why.

:uhoh21: :uhoh21: Ohmigod! That's gross. I did hear that dead people can still pee and poop and have stuff come out of their mouths. That happened to my grandpa when he was put in his coffin and he needed a new one. (It was covered in BM.) Boy, I feel bad for the aides who had a major cleanup to do. Poor lady. :crying2: Being a CNA has its not so dull moments though. :Melody:

I was just curious how feces got in your grandpas coffin? Wasn't he embalmed?

When Working on the Gyn floor, we had a pt come in who had had a tampon in her for over a week. It was "stuck". In the meantime, she was still having sex. Let's just say, the odor when the Transporter lifted the sheet as we transferred her...was horrific. as in...it was enough to gag a maggot.

Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.
When Working on the Gyn floor, we had a pt come in who had had a tampon in her for over a week. It was "stuck". In the meantime, she was still having sex. Let's just say, the odor when the Transporter lifted the sheet as we transferred her...was horrific. as in...it was enough to gag a maggot.

Think how dumb all those guys were still going there eeeeewwwww yyuuccckkkkkkkk

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