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!)
My friend told me this story (whose cousin is a Dr.) but it just sounds too unreal to me! Anyway, apparently this particular pt.'s orifice was completely covered with genital warts, so he had to get a colostomy. When he came back in for a follow-up, his stoma was covered with warts as well!! Eeeww!!! Do people really have sex with their stomas?! I'm sure some of you guys have seen it all....
Some very disgusting but typical stories there. My very first job was as a carer in a nursing home. There was one very old man named Bob who suffered from alzheimers among lots of other things. He was also not a very clean man, bless him! One morning at the start of a shift I proceeded to go into his room to help him get dressed. Before I even got to the room the smell was making me feel very ill. When I went in with one of my colleagues we realised that Bob had decided to urinate and poo in the sink in his room. He had also decided to smear the faeces on his bed and use his cup to drink the urine from his sink. We just manged to get the cup from his hands before he had another mouthful!! Needless to say I did not eat at all that day. It didn't put me off at all though because I am still going on to train as a nurse in the new year! I must be mad!!
I have two, but they pale in comparison to some of these.
The first is similar to another. This lol had gotten a suppository earlier in the evening and was well know for "playing" in her BM. Needless to say, I was checking on her quite often to try to be sure that she didn't make a mess. I go in about 3am and check on her again and you can smell the BM in the hall. Before I even go in I gather all of my washclothes and linens and then walk in to her. In the process of playing I guess she got hungry, because most of the BM was in her mouth!!! YUCK!!!!
The second one isn't quite as bad, but makes me queasy just the same. One of the men in the same NH gets a hs snack. The aids that put him to bed seem to always *forget* to take his dentures out, so the job is left for me. Usually I don't really mind to much, but this guy will take his dentures out of his mouth, lick off all the bits and peices of food, and then hand them to me. EWWWW. I cannot even watch this, I get the denture cup in my hand and turn my head to look at anything else.
NASTY!!!!!! I just gagged reading that last post.... yuck, yuck, yuck,
Jeez sometime I wonder How on earth I am going to get through some of these situations without throwing up! Is a cast iron stomach stomething you develop in time? please tell me it is!
Of all the maggots, warts and poop stories I think licking the dentures (good to the last drop) is the yuckiest! One of our residents threw poop over to anothers's bed and she was found eating it. We also had one resident who enjoyed an occasional chew of colostomy wafer.
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Some very disgusting but typical stories there. My very first job was as a carer in a nursing home. There was one very old man named Bob who suffered from alzheimers among lots of other things. He was also not a very clean man, bless him! One morning at the start of a shift I proceeded to go into his room to help him get dressed. Before I even got to the room the smell was making me feel very ill. When I went in with one of my colleagues we realised that Bob had decided to urinate and poo in the sink in his room. He had also decided to smear the faeces on his bed and use his cup to drink the urine from his sink. We just manged to get the cup from his hands before he had another mouthful!! Needless to say I did not eat at all that day. It didn't put me off at all though because I am still going on to train as a nurse in the new year! I must be mad!!
working in a ltc- came in at 7am to get a shocking report Seems that on 2am rounds the staff found a little demented lady covered in blood- all over hands and face. after a frantic assessment they discovered that she was missing the tip of her r index finger. they asked her what happened she told them she had chocolate on her fingers- so she ate off!!!! they found her fingernail in her mouth. Imagine explaining that to her family!!
Specializes in Mostly LTC, some acute and some ER,.
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working in a ltc- came in at 7am to get a shocking report Seems that on 2am rounds the staff found a little demented lady covered in blood- all over hands and face. after a frantic assessment they discovered that she was missing the tip of her r index finger. they asked her what happened she told them she had chocolate on her fingers- so she ate off!!!! they found her fingernail in her mouth. Imagine explaining that to her family!!
OHHHHHH I was just going to have some chocolate! Not anymore! Thats nasty! i hope that I dont spewk! SPewk is my new word.
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My friend told me this story (whose cousin is a Dr.) but it just sounds too unreal to me! Anyway, apparently this particular pt.'s orifice was completely covered with genital warts, so he had to get a colostomy. When he came back in for a follow-up, his stoma was covered with warts as well!! Eeeww!!! Do people really have sex with their stomas?! I'm sure some of you guys have seen it all....