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!

[Sue Damonas, BSN]

The lady eating her face has to be THE most horrible and disgusting thing I've ever heard in my 25 years as a nurse!! Yuck!!! :barf01:

[Kaiulani]

Oh my goodness. I almost lost my coke through my nose laughing about the cop kicking the leg into traffic!!!!!!!!!!:roll :roll

[PeachPie]

In my clinical, there's one of those students who's painfully dumb and annoying (she's flunked all 3 exams so far and plenty of clinicals yet hasn't dropped). She's the type who always grabs stuff out of your hands while you're looking at it, is always reading over your shoulder and getting in the way during skills because she wants a better look, and will walk right into people's rooms to watch despite the nurses' requests to stay out because "wanted to see." At first, I was patient with her, but she has proven that she has no capacity to learn, and is kind of dangerous, so all I can do now is give her step-by-step instructions, repeating each step several times and consoling myself with the fact that she won't be returning to school next semester.

Anyhoo, yesterday, I was changing the diaper of a cranky, crabby patient with the worst yeast infection I have ever seen, with loads of yellow cottage cheese. We cleaned the woman up using at least 3 washcloths, and my classmate jumped in to clean up. She took the basin and all of the soiled cloths, covered in feces and cottage cheese, and started rinsing and wringing them up without gloves, threw them in the room's clean linen closet without a bag thinking that it was for dirty laundry, said that the floor nurse was starting to give insulin meds, and that we should go and see. I had to remind her to wash her hands, and then throw out all the soiled linens. This classmate scares me, and I have since lost all patience with her because this is one of many similar episodes.

[25(2)+2]

i work in ltc facility 3rd shift. One night as i was doing rounds i walked into a lady's room to find her eating her feces. she then informed me that her chocolate tasted kind of funny.

[navynurse06]

OK...I have some but I'll limit them to just this one for now.

This was in the ER when I was doing my SR practicum in nursing school. We had a MVA pt that was a rather large young woman. So she was on the back board with neck brace etc. So we need a urine sample. Therefore, I had the pleasure of inserting a cath for her. Well...to start off with...I pull back the sheet and tatooed on her mons pubus (sp) is "Fran and Jerry's P****. (names have been changed for hippa). Neither of those names where her name. The female name was of one of the visitors that she said was like her "mother". Ok...after I get over that shock I start cleaning with the cotton swabs; I loose one!!! So I'm trying to hold my breath b/c the smell is overwelming. :trout: So I'm trying to keep to keep a straight face, but I still can't find that cotton ball. I look up at my preceptor and mouth the words "I lost it." So after some digging around we find it. Needless to say that was the most interesting cath I've ever done.

[FORTUE]

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[TDub, MSN, EdD]

In my clinical, there's one of those students who's painfully dumb and annoying (she's flunked all 3 exams so far and plenty of clinicals yet hasn't dropped).

I have since lost all patience with her because this is one of many similar episodes.

Wow, our nursing school allows two flunks and then you're out and can never come back. Has no one talked to this girl???

[SOREFEETEMPTYSTOMACH]

Are You All Ready? It Was A Hot Summer Day In Er In The 70's. A Viet Nam Vet Was A Patient. He Was An Amputee But Otherwise Fully Functional. He Used Crutches With A Prostheses And Showered Etc. He Was Filthy As Was All Of His Family. When We Undressed Him He Had Maggots In His Crotch.

[crackerjack]

No sooner had we run around the corner to see what was going on than we spotted Jenny, who was shuffling toward us with a half-full catheter bag........along with the entire catheter, balloon and all. "I yanked this contraption outta that feller down the hall,' she announced, handing over the apparatus before heading back down the hall to her own room. "Guess now he's got something to holler about!!"

Now she's my kinda gal!!! BWWWAAAAHAHAHAAHAHHAHA

[nursebearfeet]

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!

i work in "the city", we see this all the time. yes the smell is horrid, but on the bright side maggots work really well at debriding. we have actually had to take people in the ambulance bay and hose them off. never a dull moment. :rotfl:

[meme_911]

thank god i didnt have such an expiriance yet and i hope that lasts for ever

[crackerjack]

Originally Posted by teeituptom

thats called a Code Brown

In our hospital, the "official" meaning for a code brown is for our communication systems being down. You can imagine the uproar of laughter when hearing that on the overhead speakers! The entire place insists that was the dumbest thing to label it knowing that a 'true' code brown is nothing of the sort :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: