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!

[grace90, LPN, LVN]

I've read through about 30 of these stories. My grossest one so far (I've been a nurse for about a year and a half) actually happened when I was a nurse's aide in a very sorry nursing home that is gratefully now closed. It was breakfast time and I was feeding a patient that had apparently pooped during the night. I was around 4 months pregnant at the time. Anyway, I fed her the first spoonful and when I pulled it out of her mouth there was poop on the spoon! It was all I could do not to puke! :barf01: :barf01: :barf01:

I couldn't talk about it until after I had my daughter or I'd start gagging.

Actually, I still gag when I think about it! *shudder* *heave*

[ktwlpn, LPN]

The other day at work one of the aides asked me to do her a favor and take a look in her ear.She said it had been bothering her since the morning prior...Well---I got out our new deluxe otoscope and took a look-and saw something looking BACK AT ME!!!! I was speechless-TOTALLY SPEECHLESS-and that NEVER happens....It must have been a small roach-I saw the antennae waving at me and then it turned away...I couldn't move---I just kept looking-I did not know what to say. :stone ....The other aides thought it was a joke-they were laughing and carrying on. :balloons: ..The unit clerk said she knew I was telling the truth when she saw how pale I was. :uhoh21: I irrigated the canal once with some saline and looked agin and did not see anything.She was off yesterday- I told her to call her doc if she felt anything going on in there again...I can't wait to go back to work tomorrow and find out if she had to go in...The morale of the story-whenever a co-worker asks you for a favor-be very VERY busy.....

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

Oh - yikes - that is awful!

[Cherry2]

I have just read every single one of these, from the beginning, over the past three days. I have laughed, till I cried, and I have learned things that I could never have imagined.

I have eaten several meals while reading all these- and not once felt sick- no matter what I read. I think I will be able to handle nursing after all!

I am hoping to start in Fall 2006- I think if I can handle all this without even gagging then I must have an iron stomach!

[CTSCOUT]

MAN CAME IN TO ER IN MIDDLE OF WINTER, HAVING CHEST PAINS AFTER SHOVELING DRIVEWAY (WILL THEY EVER LEARN) AND COLLAPSED AND CODED RIGHT THERE IN TRIAGE...WE CALLED THE CODE, THREW HIM ON A STRECHER AND RUSHED BACK TO THE CODE ROOM...DURING THE RIDE CPR WAS BEING DONE AND HIS CLOTHES WERE BEING CUT OFF...DID I MENTION HE HAD ON A LARGE DOWN FILLED PARKA???...AS WE BEGAN TO DO ALL THE THINGS NEEDED FOR THE CODE WE BECAME AWARE THAT FEATHERS FROM THE CUT-OPEN PARKA WERE FLOATING IN THE AIR, EVERYWHERE, AND STICKING TO EVERYTING WET...HIS IV SITE, HIS GENITALS (HE WAS INCONTINENT), HIS FACE AND HAIR (MELTED SNOW), ALL EKG PADS, CENTRAL LINE, INTUBATION SITE, VENTILATOR (AREAS OF CONDENSATION) AND ALL OVER THE FLOOR SO AS WE WALKED THE FEATHERS WERE CONSTANTLY BEING KICKED UP AND FLYING AROUND EVEN MORE...THE POOR MAN DIED LOOKING LIKE A PLUCKED CHICKEN OR SOME ONE WHO HAD BEEN TARRED AND FEATHERED OUT OF LIFE...TOOK FOREVER TO CLEAN HIM UP FOR FAMILY VIEWING AND FEATHERS WERE STILL FLOATING UP AND AROUND WHEN THEY CAME INTO THE ROOM....WE COULD NOT CONTAIN THEM AND FOUND FEATHERS OUT IN THE HALL AND ALL MANNER OF NOOKS AND CRANNIES FOR DAYS TO COME...MAKES YOU WONDER JUST HOW CLEAN THEY CAN GET THE PLACE!

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

MAN CAME IN TO ER IN MIDDLE OF WINTER, HAVING CHEST PAINS AFTER SHOVELING DRIVEWAY (WILL THEY EVER LEARN) AND COLLAPSED AND CODED RIGHT THERE IN TRIAGE...WE CALLED THE CODE, THREW HIM ON A STRECHER AND RUSHED BACK TO THE CODE ROOM...DURING THE RIDE CPR WAS BEING DONE AND HIS CLOTHES WERE BEING CUT OFF...DID I MENTION HE HAD ON A LARGE DOWN FILLED PARKA???...AS WE BEGAN TO DO ALL THE THINGS NEEDED FOR THE CODE WE BECAME AWARE THAT FEATHERS FROM THE CUT-OPEN PARKA WERE FLOATING IN THE AIR, EVERYWHERE, AND STICKING TO EVERYTING WET...HIS IV SITE, HIS GENITALS (HE WAS INCONTINENT), HIS FACE AND HAIR (MELTED SNOW), ALL EKG PADS, CENTRAL LINE, INTUBATION SITE, VENTILATOR (AREAS OF CONDENSATION) AND ALL OVER THE FLOOR SO AS WE WALKED THE FEATHERS WERE CONSTANTLY BEING KICKED UP AND FLYING AROUND EVEN MORE...THE POOR MAN DIED LOOKING LIKE A PLUCKED CHICKEN OR SOME ONE WHO HAD BEEN TARRED AND FEATHERED OUT OF LIFE...TOOK FOREVER TO CLEAN HIM UP FOR FAMILY VIEWING AND FEATHERS WERE STILL FLOATING UP AND AROUND WHEN THEY CAME INTO THE ROOM....WE COULD NOT CONTAIN THEM AND FOUND FEATHERS OUT IN THE HALL AND ALL MANNER OF NOOKS AND CRANNIES FOR DAYS TO COME...MAKES YOU WONDER JUST HOW CLEAN THEY CAN GET THE PLACE!

I'll bet whoever cut the down jacket regretted doing it.

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

I finally have a story to add!

In clinicals we were assessing a stage IV ischial ulcer on a 300lb paraplegic gentleman. There were four of us rolling him plus the instructor. Just as we got him up on his side and one of my classmates leaned over to assess the wound - bam, he passed massive gas and liquid stool with her face, like, four inches away. As she jerked back her stethescope fell from around her neck into the puddle of stool. And that's how I learned that sometimes you should put your steth on the bedside table.

[Geertje]

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!

One of my worst or funniest, depending on how you look at it, was an elderly man who was admitted into the medical ward with pneumonia who decided one day to stand on his bed and try and hit imaginary flies with urine, there he was weeing all over the place and making a hell of a mess which I had to clean up later. A close second was the elderly gent who decided to jerk off in time to music and then promptly ejaculated all over the wall and floor again I had to do the cleaning, the life of a junior nurse

[pritampaulsingh]

hi there,

i'm a nursing( RN) student. do you have a choice when you start your job. i mean can i go or job in NICU or OB when i start.

regards

[johnwaynehair, BSN, RN]

hi there,

i'm a nursing( RN) student. do you have a choice when you start your job. i mean can i go or job in NICU or OB when i start.

regards

Depends...sometimes you can get your dream job, other times you have to start in Med/Surg. It hinges on how prepared you are after graduation, and if you can find a good preceptor program that will take you right out of school. I was strong in school, and was hired while still in school by the ICU that my last clinical rotation was on. It's been hard, and I still have a lot to learn. But I love being an ICU nurse, and I can't think of another job I'd like right now. Hope this helps. Good luck in your nursing career.

JW

[missmelanie]

I was a new CNA in the nursing home and feeling very proud of my first step in my chosen career.

A nice littel old man in a wheel chair waved at one of my co-workers (a pretty littel 18 year-old, fresh out of high school sugar and spice type of girl). He said "honey come over here please" as she bent down to talk to him. He moved the blanket covering his legs and SPLAT! he ejaculated right in her face and mouth. I never saw her again and thus my nursing career beagn...........

right after high school, i took a cna course and in the four months i worked in the nursing home, there was this one guy who gave me the creeps for some reason...and i couldn't figure out what it was until one time when i was giving him a shower, see, the material my scrubs were made out of showed pantylines really bad so i was wore thongs. BIG MISTAKE! every time i gave him a shower, he'd always tell me to put his shoes on for him. it struck me as odd because he could put his own shoes on. i had seen him do it before. but as i knelt down to put them on and got to struggling with them i heard him giggling. i didnt think much about it because i figured he was amused watching me fighting with the shoe when all of a sudden i felt his hand grab ahold of the back of my thong and pop it like a bra. then he really started giggling saying, "hahaha, ooh, baby, i can see your drawers!!!" he had been leaning forward and looking over my shoulder down my pants. u know i never put his shoes on for him again and i always made sure to pick things up while facing him. yucckkk!!

[mari31666]

OH MY G-D how disgusting these are. So Guuuulad i work in OB![/QUO

all i can say is DITTO i am now so glad to have to look at coochie and placenta all night long lol :yelclap: :yelclap: :yelclap: :yelclap: can i say it enough???