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 cardiac med-surg.

omg

i hope he wasn't a surgeon

love to know about his infection rates

that it beyond disgusting

Specializes in EC, IMU, LTAC.
This MD we all hated goes into his patients room and pokes around her abdominal wound without gloves! THEN he actually wiped his hands on the curtain that separated the 2 beds. The charge nurse wrote him up and chewed him out. I can tell you many stories about that Jerk.

I'm sure that he would have been a fine doctor... 200 years ago!

This MD we all hated goes into his patients room and pokes around her abdominal wound without gloves! THEN he actually wiped his hands on the curtain that separated the 2 beds. The charge nurse wrote him up and chewed him out. I can tell you many stories about that Jerk.

omg does he still work with you?

Specializes in CVICU, PACU, OR.
About ten years ago I use to work at a nursing home. And when we did rounds there was this little old lady, who use to masterbate. So one night we went into her room to turn her and as one of the cna leaned of the lady, she hit her right in the mouth and her hand was full of lady partsl juices.The poor cna didn't know what to do, rinse her mouth out or scream. As she looked back at us someone said "well i guess you can't say you never tasted coochy before".

That about made me throw up...

Specializes in CVICU, PACU, OR.
We had a man who was up and mobilising after a TKR. He was walking along the corridor. Meanwhile we were wondering what was the horrible smell permeating the ward. Then someone realised that this man was incontinent of faeces and was dropping little pieces out along the whole length of the ward. And in their wisdom they had carpeted all the floors. And it was a sunday night and the cleaners weren't coming in until monday morning....

That was a fun shift. After a while people stopped asking why we had sheets along the floor. They could smell for themselves.

That is hilarious!

Specializes in Orhto, med/surg.

No, I don't work with him anymore but this icky MD was still at that hospital when I left. I've never encounered anything like that at the hospital I currently work at.

Specializes in LTC, AC, ER, Outpatient, Urgent Care.

Background: This was back in the days when we wore "whites". I worked in an LTC where the major nursing focus was size, shape and consistency of BMs. They were a bit obsessive, to say the least.

I was to assist an LPN in administering an enema. I was standing on the right side of the bed, the nurse on the left, and we rolled the patient to her left side, hence, facing the nurse. I got the "view". :uhoh3:

So we prep, and the hose goes in. Nurse begins the flow. It took about 30 seconds before I start stammering, "Cccccut! CCCCUT... CUT IT OFF!!!"

If we were in an L&D room, I'd swear the patient was crowning. The dialation of her (ahem) orifice was somewhere around 5-6 cm.

The next thing I know, something hit me in the chest, followed by a few hundred cc's of fluid... which was thankfully clear.

But there was no getting that child's-football sized brown spot off of the top part of my one-piece dress uniform with a couple of 4x4s and peroxide!

Notes on that patient for that night: "Patient had large, well formed, dense BM."

A few weeks ago we had a river liver (homeless person who lives along the river bank, something you can do year-round here in western AZ) who had some "issues. Not the least was her apparent lack of reasoning skills. She'd had problems making it to the bathroom before and this time was no different.

The aide was in there cleaning things up when she had an incontenant, formed BM right there at the bedside. The aide turned around just in time to see the patient bend over and pick out a bit of gelatin from the stool now laying on the floor (I don't even want to know how it managed to get mixed up with it) and pop it in her mouth.

Ayrman

Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

omg :barf02: :barf01: :nono:

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

The aide was in there cleaning things up when she had an incontenant, formed BM right there at the bedside. The aide turned around just in time to see the patient bend over and pick out a bit of gelatin from the stool now laying on the floor (I don't even want to know how it managed to get mixed up with it) and pop it in her mouth.

Ayrman

At first I thought the aide had the BM. D'oh!

Specializes in psych, cardiac, opthamology, general.

We had one of our peers admitted for observation after he hit his head whilst playing rugby, he was one of my friends. anyway he ws only in for a short time, he started to become cheeky and sarcastic so I thought I will get you mate. When he asked for a bottle we put a little mecuricrom and a small amount of effurence (sorry my spelling is shocking) and gave him the bottle, as he passed urine this in turn 5reacted with the substance we had added and frothed all over the place, he really freaked hehe serves him bloody well right for the cheek;)

Specializes in Emergency/ Critical Care.

I'm currently on page 12 of this thread... some of the grossest and funniest stuff I've ever heard... I'll be sure to add my own soon:)