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

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Oh Thank you!!! Teach him to use a cold speculum!!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I once saw an intern shove a cold speculum into a "sedated" little old lady in candy cane stirrups. She clamped down on his head with her knees and peed all over his face. Even the attending surgeon was cracking up.

Have a couple that would like to share.

#1) Many years ago right after passing boards was working the night shift on a med surg floor. We had a pretty violent patient on the floor and I suggested that he be assigned to me due to my size. Well the elderly nurse on his wing said she could handle him as had him the week before. Was sitting in the station when I saw her coming down the hall with blood all over her and she was laughing up a storm. Thought he had attacked her, but she was pumping up the pressure bag for a tranfusion when the blood bag exploded. Had to move the patient out of the room as it looked like a scene from a Freddy Kruger movie!!!

#2) I was replacing a vac dressing on a patient in the trauma unit that had caught a shotgun blast in the stomach. Had quite a few nursing students observing while I was exploring the abdomen before placing the sponge. She had a stab hole on the other side of the abdomen and I stuck my finger from the inside out saying "Well you don't see that every day". Had a nursing student and 2 med students pass out on me.

Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.
when i was a student (but also an lpn) my partner (also an lpn) got this 85 yr old female from a nursing home. we had to give her bed bath. she had so much skin and dirt and scaly silver crud in her ears there was no more opening. and every time we touched her or moved the linens chunks of skin would just fall off all over. it was the worst. my partner did dialysis and er and was wretching for an hour after. when i got home i stood in the hallway and stripped down to undies put everything in a bag and washed 5x in hot water. and i live in a big building in nyc and couldn't have cared less. (imagine the neighbors horror) i still have no idea what the heck she had. i thought leprosy but knowing nursing homes we figured it could have been that she hadnt been bathed in yrs. :chair: yuck :barf02:
Yes-nursing home residents have the right to refuse treatment-that includes bathing......
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Yeah I was quite shocked myself. Being brand new I thought of old people as sweet and harmless. I guess I can be thankful I was shown the truth early. mabey thats why I work in OB too =}
Specializes in Rehab.

LOL, too funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Specializes in Rehab.

I will never be able to eat peas again!

Specializes in Medical-Surgical.

Yuck......

Specializes in Rehab.
I was obviously born to be a nurse! I have just read over the most disgusting stories I have ever heard and have still been able to nibble at my spoonful of chocolate frosting!!

Laurlaur, I tolerated your story OK until I got to the detail of "carrots in the diarrhea"..........GAG!!!!!

I too must be born to be a nurse, this is funny and sorta gross. Years ago I was working as a volunteer at a local hospital, my assignment was to help feed an elderly woman. After taking a mouthfull of peas she began coughing, one pea flew accross the room and landed in her room-mates plate. You guessed it, the room-mate promptly picked up the pea and ate it. I am amazed I continues wiorking after that (I was only 13 at the time)

Specializes in Rehab.

The next story was from my nursing school days. I had clinicals with a very hyper , Type A nursing student. She had bathed her 80yr old patient and when I went in to she if she needed any help I noticed that her patient had a prolapsed uterus and the student had washed and powdered the entire thing!

That is way too funny! I fell out of my chair laughing!

Specializes in Rehab.
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...

After explaining to a patient that I would need a sample of BM to guiac, I asked if she would come get me when she had gone. Well there I am in the middle of med pass, surrounded by patients and family, when she walks up and places a hunk of BM right in my ungloved hand!

I recently graduated and have only been an ED nurse for about a month, but I hope this is the most disgusting thing I ever see (but somehow I doubt it).

EMS brought an elderly woman in who called them because she said a "hematoma" in her abdomen (that she had for years) started "bleeding". When we removed the ABD pad from the "hematoma" we found a hole about the size of a dime that had some sort of tissue plug hanging out of it. The doctor decides to pull the "plug" out of the hole thinking she has some sort of intestinal fistula and that this is "old food" hanging out of her. As he proceeds to do this, a brownish-pinkish liquid starts spewing out of her abdomen with enough force that it arcs and only half makes it into the emesis basin (which we tried using to protect the linens...unsuccessfully)with much of it splattering all over the floor. And it just kept coming. We couldn't even get a colostomy bag over it! The doctor continues to manipulate her abdomen to expel whatever the hell is coming out of her...and did i mention that he apparently didn't have time to put on gloves. So, he's getting this stuff all over his hands, and I'm trying to look as if I've seen this a thousand times so as not to look unprofessional. All-in-all, I'd say we got about 800 or so cc's out of her, and then packed her with about 3 feet of gauze. The only thing I'm thankful for is that it wasn't infected because (praise the Lord) it didn't stink!! They think part of her muscle had died and just sat there and liquefied or something.

Here is one from the dark ages before nursing school when I was the night orderly in a medium sized general hospital. When there was need for emergency OR staff on a weekend I was sometimes offered the job as overtime. I was cheaper at time and a half then an on call RN. I'm the "circulating nurse" for the "dirty case". The pt has a peri anal abcess. So he is put into a knee chest position and the surgeon cuts a playing card sized window out each buttock. The smell literally slammed me back against the far wall of the OR. Then the surgeon reaches in with his gloved hand and scoops out necrotic muscle tissue that is the consistency of pudding. ecch!