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

:uhoh3: OK I was a new employee at a facility and on the first day of the job, they send me in to cath this lady. She was extreeemly obese. Around 55o or more. So I walk in the room where she is laying on the bed with nothing on, not even a blanket except covering her feet. Her breasts have "slid" too the side and I am confused at how on earth she is what I think, laying there looking at me with her neck twisted and her behind up in the air. I inform her I need her to roll onto her back so that I may place the cath in her. She informs me she IS on her back. What I was seeing wasn't her big ol behind, it was her labia!!!! oh yuck! It actually took four 3 nurses to place a cath in her----one on each side to "hold" and one to place the cath in!!!! EEEEEEEWWWWWW!
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!!!!

And ensure you inspect the coconuts once in a while.

My all time fav, was when I worked in a longterm ward with dementia patients. This day I took an elderly lady to the bathroom, not thinking anything of it, normal duty. Until it came time to attend to her, she had this blue thing sticking out from her anal region. I wondered what on earth it was. So, you know what it's like, a wee gentle prod here and there. Then it hit me like a bolt, and I started to pull. It was a blue plastic apron she had had on at some point to eat her meal, and it was whole. When she ate it could be anyones guess, but thank god she didn't obstruct.

Specializes in OB, critical care, hospice, farm/industr.

I was out on hospice rounds and pronounced a patient. I asked the family if there was anything I could help them with before the funeral home arrived. They asked me to put on her nightgown. (She was wearing a tracksuit) The daughter put her bare hands on her mother, so I figured she was clean and dry.

Arrgh! I went to turn her and she had an open fissure in her back from her kidney and it was leaking pus! I thought I would faint. I scrubbed the best I could, but I had to drive home with the steering wheel wrapped in newpaper because my hands smelled like death/infection/corruption. I couldn't eat for hours. Blarg.

This is my almost my most gross and yucky nursing horror story. A few days ago, another tech and I along with a nurse were helping get a pt off the pan and the other tech held the pan right above my head. As I went to stand up, my head hit the pan and almost spilled the contents of urine and a rather large BM onto my head. I hate to think what Iwould have done if it fell on my head. Thank god this is an almost story, and not a real one.

-Adam

174 days til graduation

I think that I would have had to shave my head! :barf01:

I was working on a Med/Surg floor and this poor little lady came in from the nursing home. Her abd looked like she was about 12 months preg. Hard as a rock. We called a GI Doc and of course he had us do all the usual things for contipation. Well she never got any better so the next day he can in to see her and of course I was her nurse again so I went in to assist. He gloved up and lubbed up and then started to proceed with a rectal exam. As soon as he inserted his finger into her rectum, feces srayed all the way to the door and on his nice JCrew pants. Well the woman was not with it at all, had no clue of what had just happened. Of couse I was on the other side holding her over so I was free and clear. Well all of a sudden the DOC shouted "Well great now I have S#$T all over me" I was rolling, could not stop laughing. So was revenge he said that her rectal opening was not big enough to let her deficate so I had to insert a rectal tube. "See who get's s#@t on them now!!!"

I work in the ER so frequent gross things happen to me, but I must say the absolute worse(still keeps me up at night), Had a young woman come in by EMS. She was a drug addict, high on PCP, had jumped out of a car on the interstate at 80MPH, so naturally she was a trauma. The whole time we were working on her she was screaming "DON'T TOUCH MY MONEY" we had cut all of her clothes off so I thought she was nuts. There wer about ten people in the room working on her when the xray tech comes in with pelvic film and says"there is something weird here" strange mass in lower pelvis/lady parts. I get elected to "explore" perineum for bleeding, etc and low and behold noticed a wad of money protruding from her lady parts. :confused: This was about $1000 in $100 bills :eek: NOT COVERED IN ANYTHING. I have not been able to look at money the same way since. :barf02: Also now compulsive hand washer!! :p

Specializes in Long Term Care.

I had been working in a nursing home before I even started dating. I had been working there about three months when I started going out with friends. I had never drank before and had no idea what a hang over was. One friday night I went out with some friends and had my first drink ever. I had one two many and was carried in the house by 11pm. I remember my friends kept saying I hate to be you in the morning. I lived at home and I worked with my mom at the nursing home so there was no way I could weasel out of work. OMG the smells. I had never noticed before (this was also before the time of JACHO and all) Any way . I was assigned one of the smelliest residents ever she could get up and go to the bathroom and get around fairly well but she would get confused sometimes. I went to do my rounds I mean dragging to my first round when I got to her room and she was in the bathroom, I knocked on the door and peeked in at the same time. She had black tar poop all over her hands and under all her fingernails, she is sitting there on the comode licking her dentures clean. OH now I can handle most things but that combined with lingering hang over Let me tell you I never drank again on a night before I had to be at work the next morning.. Then that was the day the cooks decide to see how well pureed hotdogs. bun and relish would go over.. it looke like cat puke...

sue7573

I've got a gross one. I've worked in an ER and I can handle just about any body fluid (and have) except earwax. Earwax grosses me out. Was working in an ER in Puerto Rico while in the Navy and we had homeless dependent uncle or some relation come into ER c/o trouble hearing. On exam, doc found both ears severly packed with thick, green earwax. YUMMMMEY!

Well, yours truly gets to irrigate his ears, not the thrill of my life. I irrigated so much earwax out of that man's ears, it was coming out in big, green nuggets. When I showed pt emesis basin of what I had cleaned out of his scuzzy ears, he proceeds to get a big smile on his face, picked up one of the greasy nuggets and eats it!!! YUCK! I just about pucked on myself with that one. To this day, can barely clean my own ears!

I'll never be able to hold a Q-tip again! Like everyone else I'm green around the edges. This is definately the one that gets the gold star for major

gross out. I just can't get over that the guy put it in his mouth. I just know

I'm going to have nightmares about this.

Specializes in Long Term Care.

I was working together with one of my friends on a sub acute unit one afternoon. ( I have since realized I work better by myself) We had just got a new resident that day. We had not seen her yet when her daughter came to get us to put 'Mom" on a bed pan so my friend and I went down there. We were told that she was 'overwieght' but we didn't know how much. both of us were surprised at how big she was. She told us from the jump that she could not do anything for herself. So she raised her arms up for us to do all the work. I got tickled by the look on my friends face and was trying to stiffle a giggle as we were turning the pt on her side to put the bed pan under her. This patient was also very dry we noticed. We had to log roll her and I had to hold her buttocks up to allow room for the bedpan. My friend was just about to say something with her mouth wide open when I lost my grip on the pt. hips and the gloves scrubbing against the ladies extremely dry skin threw "booty dust" up in the air just as my friend sucked in to speak I mean you could see the flakes going into her mouth. I lost it I was laughing so hard. I mean I tried to control it for the pts sake but there was nothing I could do I was laughing so hard I actually peed on myself.. My friend was so upset she was licking paper towels and gaging.. which only put me into another fit of giggles I don't know how we held it together long enough to finish pt. care. but we did then I had to run home and change myself. Both of us agreed not to work together again. (btw friend thought it was funny too but only wish I had got the mouth full of "booty dust")

Sue.

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

OMG!!!!! 'Booty dust'........now I've heard everything :rotfl: (The mental pictures are absolutely hilarious, BTW :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: )

Had a guy in the ER, mentally slow, with an infected stasis ulcer to the back of his calf x 1 month. Picture this, large round area of black escar surounded by a "canal" of non-existant and barely there flesh. The the decaying flesh had been gnawed away by non the less magotts which were still in residence in large numbers in his leg. The smell was so nasty!!!!! Stank up the whole ER! Then........it gets better. He decides he has to pee and can only do this standing up! Gets out of bed bleeding and dropping magotts everywhere! Then surgery decides to debride the nasty leg IN THE ROOM! EEWWWW!!! Discovered that lidocaine makes magotts "dance".

Needless to say not much appetite that shift!

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