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

Last year in my clinicals (brand new nurse here) I followed around the wound care team at a local hospital and spent a good deal of time in a sweet paraplegic gentleman's room dressing and treating his stage 4 decub that was a crater going from lower third of his back to the top of his legs and deep enough to hide a small child! It didn't even look like there was much flesh holding his trunk to his legs. The top of his femur was just kinda sticking out of his legs. Thank God he had no feeling! The smell in the whole room of rotting flesh was overwhelming. I hear that just a few weeks after we left he was transferred to be closer to his family and was referred to hospice. I still think about him quite a bit.

Is there any way to avoid sores like this with a paraplegic? This has got to be a worse fate than the paraplegia.

Diahni

Is there any way to avoid sores like this with a paraplegic? This has got to be a worse fate than the paraplegia.

Diahni

TAP Q 2 Hrs. Religiously!

Specializes in med/surg.

while i was in training for my cna license i was working in a nursing home. one of my favorite patients(or should i say use to be my fav)had a habit of taking his pants off and urinating on the plants in the sun room. on this particular morning "mr. moon" got caught in the act, i walked up to him and politely told him that nobody wanted to see him doing this and he turned around and proceeded to wiz all over me from abou the waist down. all the other staff thought it was great , at least everyone had a good laugh at my expense. also plenty of stories of elderly men trying to cop a feel pretending they couldn't see my name tag, i learned to pin it up on my shoulder after awhile. i love elderly patients they make for lots of laughs. anyone ever caught two eighty somethings naked in bed? lots of fun explaining why we couldn't allow them to "finish" lol.

Specializes in med/surg.

Speaking of MRSA--I was in the room as doc was lancing a large boil on a yound ladies hip, the nurse standing at the end of the bed was should I say a little bit OCD germaphobe dressed in her usual white scrubs , as soon as doc put slight pressure on it the purtulent discharge came shooting straight at the nurse all over her scrubs and I think in her hair, I had to finish for her by handing doc all the packing strips she took off screaming out of the room and nobody could find her for about an hour , she went to shower, we were questioning her career choice.LOL.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
anyone ever caught two eighty somethings naked in bed? lots of fun explaining why we couldn't allow them to "finish" lol.
caught a ninety yo in bed with the van driver once. they weren't losing any time either. she had a smile on her face, but he got fired.:yeah:
Specializes in midwifery, NICU.
[...... i love elderly patients they make for lots of laughs. anyone ever caught two eighty somethings naked in bed? lots of fun explaining why we couldn't allow them to "finish" lol.

ok, i know that sounds gross to you and i, who are not in our 80's, but for the two eighty year old adults, with the desire to go for it! wow! why would you interfere and tell them they couldn't "finish"?? they are not minors, they are elderly adults, and unless one of the pair was not of sound judgement, entering into the act willingly, then is it right to stop two adults getting it together, just cause we think they are past it? sounds like an invasion of their privcy and the human right of choice, (adult choice that is!). jmho! what an embarrasment for them, to be caught and chastised like two teenagers......:uhoh3:

when i'm 80 something...hope i have the energy to do the same!!!

Totally agreed!! Good for them!!! I hope i'm still gettin it on in my 80s and 90s!! :D

Specializes in med/surg.
Ok, I know that sounds gross to you and I, who are not in our 80's, but for the two eighty year old ADULTS, with the desire to go for it! WOW! Why would you interfere and tell them they couldn't "finish"?? They are not minors, they are elderly adults, and unless one of the pair was not of sound judgement, entering into the act willingly, then is it right to stop two adults getting it together, just cause we think they are past it? Sounds like an invasion of their privcy and the human right of choice, (adult choice that is!). JMHO! What an embarrasment for them, to be caught and chastised like two teenagers......:uhoh3:

When I'M 80 something...hope I have the energy to do the same!!!

I didn't want to ruin their fun but the lady involved was not of sound mind and we didn't feel it appropriate to allow it to continue and I too hope that I have the energy when I am that age.

Specializes in midwifery, NICU.

:) yankee..thanks for clarifying that!

Specializes in Critical Care.

I was a 21 year old tech working in a burn unit.

We had a new amputee and I was opening my pts drsg for the morning assessment. Being 21, I had no concept of time management and had not eaten breakfast.

I was taking the drsg off and noticed that they didn't leave any extra skin to flap the stump. I asked why when the surgical resident came in.

He says "oh that's not muscle, its a clot." Grabs the softball sized clot, and starts pulling it off as it strings along.

I promptly puked in the trash can, I barely had enough time to get my mask off.

I don't know why this grossed me out so much, you think after working in a burn unit I could stand just about anything. :barf02:

Specializes in Critical Care.

I have been reading these way too long, any of the poop eating ones get me every time

I was feeding an elderly man and when he finished I left the empty bowl in front of him as I was told to go check on another elderly patient and the care givers would pick up the plates. As I was in the next room I heard a vomiting sound so I went back into check on the elderly man.

He had vomited his dinner back into the empty bowl and was now eating his vomit with his fingers.

My friends all dry wretched when I told them that!! :lol2: I have a strong consititution!