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

~LOL~....oh....I was just kidding about reconsidering nursing...but this sure does give one something to "look forward too"....YIKES!!!!

thanks for sharing everyone!

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Picture this 2200 late shift. Phone call from A & E (or ER if you are in the USA)

"We have an admission for you"

A& E is not supposed to admit to general wards after 2130 (they usually go to the "holding ward" until morning, so we knew this must be a doozy.

A & E - "She is mobile, continent, orientated and alert, she has a lower leg wound that the registrar wants a dermatologist to look at ASAP"

Me - "Why isn't she going to the holding ward?"

A & E - "There isn't any room"

Me - "OK send her up, we'll cope"

So we start to get ready for this admission, put the water jug next to the bed in a six bed bay and all the rest of it when we smell this most disgusting smell! We start to wander around the ward and this smell is getting stronger and stronger. Then we look up and here is a wardsman coming down the hallway with an obese woman in a wheelchair with an enormous number of bluies tied around both legs. He has a mask on but still looks a little worse for wear.

We realise this woman can't be put in a 6 bed bay and have to rearrange beds to get her into a single room.

We do this eventually and I get to take the admission as I was the fool to take this patient at this time anyway. I remove the blanket from around her shoulders and the corners of the blanket stay stiff it was that dirty.

I ask her why she has come to hospital.

She says; "Coz of my legs"

Me; Ok what's wrong with them?"

She says; "They're sore"

Me: "Do you treat them with anything?"

She says; "When they get bad I give them a spray"

Me; "What with?"

She says; "Mortein or something"

At this stage there is a foul smelling semi opaque serous-looking fluid oozing from under the bluies and I know that what I am going to find there is not going to be pretty.

I take the bluies off and the skin underneath is undulating! She had an entire ecosystem living there!! It was horrendous, like something out of a horror movie!

Eventually the derm diagnosed this disease with a long name that excapes me that made her lower legs have skin like a crocodile, it would split occasionally and that is when the bugs would get in. This disease was primarily caused by simple poor hygiene it seems.

Anyway the treatment was to put her in a warm bath and exfoliate her legs. I won't gross you out with those details. Needless to say she wasn't called the Cornflakes lady for nothing!

To top it all off this woman was discharged eventually because of her innappropriate sexual behaviour. She would moan and call us darling when we massaged her lower legs with moisturiser to soften the skin. She would touch us innapropriately and smirk at us.

An all round disgusting person!

We were glad to see the last of her!

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EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On all counts!!!! Gag me...

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Not again? This question gets asked so often I wonder if people aren't getting their cookies by reading this stuff. Yuck

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Specializes in Trauma and Pediatrics.

Yuk......EWWWWWWWW.. ughhhhh..That was soooooooooooo disgustingly gross......Hmmmmmmm

Must take a deep breath now....

Brenda

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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!!!!!

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Originally posted by andylane78

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!

OH man!! :eek:

Was he trying to start his own army of the undead?

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Well, I too have issues with sputum, so here is my story:

I began working this summer as a nurse extern on Telemetry. My nurse and I got report one night on a new CHF dx. On top of that, the guy was confused and therefore restrained. For the first few hours of the shift, this guy has an awful sounded non-productive cough....or so it appeared. At one point my nurse and I walk in to find one hand out of his restaints and down his throat, only to pull out the biggest, stickiest, darkest, loooongest loogie I have ever seen in my life and fling it against the wall.

Bout lost my cookies.

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

Isn't it funny how we all seem to be trying to out-gross each other on this thread??

As the saying goes: "You know you're a nurse when, in the process of cleaning up a patient who's just had an enormous liquid stool, you are reminded that you need to pick up brownie mix at the store tonight".

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Specializes in Oncology, Cardiology, ER, L/D.
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Originally posted by mjlrn97

Isn't it funny how we all seem to be trying to out-gross each other on this thread??

As the saying goes: "You know you're a nurse when, in the process of cleaning up a patient who's just had an enormous liquid stool, you are reminded that you need to pick up brownie mix at the store tonight".

:chuckle :rotfl: That is so nasty..........I love it!

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I've been an LPN for only 6 months and have already been in many disgusting situations. I will share one with you...

I was working a 24 hour shift with a post-cva patient in her home and had to monitor her throughout the night, at 0300 i heard what sounded like running bath water. Sure enough, i entered the washroom and this elderly patient was sitting in a tub half full of water in her nightgown......to make matters worse she had defecated in the tub.....all i could see was a big mess of soft formed stool floating around the tub. That was quite the clean up...

25 year old cystic fibrosis patient, end stage, decides to get a nipple ring. One day she asks me to look at it because its sore. There's green pus coming out of it with a smell that nearly knocked my socks off. Turns out she had pseudomonas in it. So nasty.

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