What is the grossest thing that's happened to you???

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I really want to know what is the grossest thing that has happened to you as a nurse. Has poo or vomit flung at you? I'm super curious. Thanks to all ^_^

It has to be a tie between when my cancer patient's biliary drainage bag spilled all over my thigh like 500cc of bile, or when my dialysis patient's legs gave out during a transfer from chair to bedside commode, P.S. she had been incontinent of stool that was a pudding consistency and I didn't know and had put my knee behind her bottom to keep her from falling, and her butt just slid down my leg, with an ample amount of poo. Later that day she was tested for CDiff and came back positive.

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Physical therapist decided it was a smart idea to get a 250 pound hemiparitic stroke patient OOB to chair by herself even after i insisted on helping her. Well, patient started going down mid transfer so I jumped in put my leg under her behind for support and before I knew it had poop all over my favorite scrub pants. PT walked out of the room after we got her back in the chair with no apology and guess who was left to clean up the mess!

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Haha just wrote about a similar story

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Specializes in med-surg.

Ha! Just yesterday stepped in a patients very soft yellow colored poo that got flung on the floor without my realizing as I was changing a patient and his fecal management system came out, and poo went all over the linens and as I put tossed them in the soiled something must have hit the floor. I stepped in it and tracked it all over the room before I realized. Bleached the crap out of them afterwards but will be retiring those shoes now. It was all in the crevices of them. Also yesterday (fairly eventful day) peg tube clogged as I was giving Prostat and you guessed it- splashed all over my face, neck and hair. Somehow didn't get on the patient at all. Working in respiratory step down I feel like there's nothing that hasn't happened to me. I've stepped in urine before (maybe I'm just a klutz) and also been splashed with sputum from a trach. Oh yeah and in my nursing home days I had to give the patients out their meds and ensure so we would pass them out together (40 patient med pass). I'll never forget this sweet seeming little demented lady who would always grit her teeth and smile. Took her pills, swigged down a large amount of strawberry ensure an then made a strange face and proceeded to vomit strawberry milky chunky puke all over me, good times

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Two come to mind.. the lovely but very confused older patient who poked my very pregnant belly with poop covered fingers asking "what are you hiding in there?" when I came to assist her off the toilet, and the Foley irrigation that shot urine up at a perfect 90 degree angle into my open mouth.

Last procedure I ever did without a mask 🤗

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Specializes in LongTerm Care, ICU, PCU, ER.

Several years ago, I had the cutest pair of MaryJane shoes by Nurse Mates. They were absolutely adorable until.........I was assisting an elderly patient onto her bedside commode. She missed he pot and peed right into my shoe! Ewwww. Even though I cleaned and dried both foot and shoe, it felt squishy for the rest of the shift!

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3 things:

1. Dumped an entire urinal full of nasty, bloody and pus filled urine down the front of me. The room was full of equipment. I forgot the IV pole was behind me. Turned around and bumped into it dumping the urine from waist down! I didn't even bother keeping the scrubs or shoes. Went straight to OB and dumped all my stuff, wore booties on my feet and wore hospital scrubs.

2. Confused patient digging in their C-Diff pooed keester then wiping on my face. 😩😳

3. Screaming patient yelling out "it hurts it's hurts, somebody help!"

I walk in the room and ask what's wrong and he whips the covers off and screams, "FIX IT!" All I call see is him massaging is stuff and he wanting me to "Fix It". I was mortified.

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Don't they always walk away?

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Physical therapist decided it was a smart idea to get a 250 pound hemiparitic stroke patient OOB to chair by herself even after i insisted on helping her. Well, patient started going down mid transfer so I jumped in put my leg under her behind for support and before I knew it had poop all over my favorite scrub pants. PT walked out of the room after we got her back in the chair with no apology and guess who was left to clean up the mess!

Don't they always walk away?

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
Screaming patient yelling out "it hurts it's hurts, somebody help!"

I walk in the room and ask what's wrong and he whips the covers off and screams, "FIX IT!" All I call see is him massaging is stuff and he wanting me to "Fix It". I was mortified.

Hahahahahahaha!
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My first job as an RN and I worked on a Liver Transplant unit (fresh liver txp and those awaiting txp). We gave very heavy doses of Lactulose then to combat hepatic encephalopathy. My pt got up to go to the bathroom for the millionth time that day, but didn't make it......poo literally sprayed ALL over the floors and walls....went EVERYWHERE!! Luckily, I had quick reflexes and was able to dodge it! Could have been WAY worse I guess! 💩💩💩

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Hahahahahahah!!!!! That reminds me! As a nursing student I had this old guy and he put a Cherrio cereal piece on his member and then told me he wanted ME to get it off!

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