What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

[yazisizit]

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!

[BEDPAN76]

Hey Coco and welcome to allnurses! What a story! Years ago I worked Thanksgiving Day. Dietary had placed some sort of leaves on a plate with fruit on top. The one patient ate everything on the tray including the damned leaves. Guess who ended up having to call the Poison Control Center on this otherwise quiet shift ! Ended up just observing her....

[dscrn]

In other words my allnurses sisters, PLEASE get your mammograms and yearly exams as well as self breast exams. I would hate to loose any of you in this way. And for our allnurses brothers...don't think you can get off easily. You get your prostate exams as ordered PLEASE!!!!

men canalso get breast dancer, although rare...

[CNA_Coco]

I've had the patients-eating-leaves quite a few times! Surprising how many dangerous plants people bring in unknowingly!

Family members once brought in a HUGE poinsettia plant and put it on the desk to brighten things up around Christmas-time. I think we sent out three or four of our patients that evening before someone finally decided to toss out the plant.

Several times, I've noticed things like foxglove in bouquets.

Just goes to show you, even a CNAs job isn't always as straightforward as people might think!

Okay, for another gross one (really isn't too bad, but still.)

On the rehab hall, we have a healthy-sized man (about 6', 220 lbs or so) who is recovering from multiple strokes. He just switched from the g-tube to solid food not long ago, with good results.

That is, until he had his flu shot. It floored him! We were cleaning vomit for hours on end, and struggling to keep him sitting up in the bed. In the end, we all decided that putting him in the chair would be the best bet, and while he was up about six feet in the air, swinging in the Vanderlift, the nurse decided to unfasten his brief and give him a suppository for nausea.

Good in theory, bad in practice.

He started heaving just as she was giving the suppository. He peed all over her, just bathed her from her lower back on down (as she was kind of kneeling/bending over beneath the sling of the lift). She hurried up and finished, and stood up quickly, trying to reassure him that we'd get him cleaned up and in the chair.

As she started talking, he turned his head toward her and vomited all down the front of her.

Needless to say, she went home to change. Sucks to be her! She was a good sport, laughing about it, but I can definitely say I'm more than a little relieved it was her and not me!

[stephaniej]

That is so disgusting. I'm starting EMT school next month and I'll eventually work my way up to being an RN, I knew that nursing was a hard job and Im completely ready to take that challenge, but WOW! I didn't know it was full of so many disgusting things! At least it gives a good laugh for the shift, right?! =p

[rph3664]

Hey Coco and welcome to allnurses! What a story! Years ago I worked Thanksgiving Day. Dietary had placed some sort of leaves on a plate with fruit on top. The one patient ate everything on the tray including the damned leaves. Guess who ended up having to call the Poison Control Center on this otherwise quiet shift ! Ended up just observing her....

I gather the leaves weren't lettuce or spinach or some other deep green leafy vegetable?

OT: When I was in college, I was a hotel banquet server and for a while, our main chef decorated the platters with kale and orange slices or candied apples, which got all dried up and were rarely eaten. We then hired a new chef, who in addition to using kale did things like slice up a tomato and make it look like a flower or a bird, and my fellow servers were surprised to see people taking the garnish and eating it. I replied, "It's food!"

[ellakate]

Saturday, I was working on call for HH, driving. When I was at a pt's home, a nurse friend of mine called me and asked for a special favor. She wanted me to give her an enema. No way. She was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor, so I know that she needs help. But we were never that close. It made me creepy uncomfortable. When I told her No, she whined and said, Well, you are a nurse. I still feel like barfing. She doesn't want a friend, she wants a slave.

[beachmom]

We had a woman with a colostomy and "short gut syndrome." After she would eat, her body would shove the food through her gut so fast, she couldnt' get nourishment, and they were trying various things to try to make her gut hold onto the food.

On the day I had her, she was eating humugous high calorie meals. About an hour later, she would put on her call light because her gut had finished "digesting" and sending out the food. She would empty her colostomy into two or three water pitchers. All I did was measure them and empty them into the toilet, but I had to fight not to gag. The colostomy contents included colorful bits of undigested food mixed with bits of soft brown, liquidy stool. The texture was that of vomit. The smell was a mixture of vomit and diarrhea.

I was truly thankful she emptied her own colostomy. I hope they figured out how to fix her as it was a horrible thing to live with.

[secretlovers]

Omg this is the grossest ever!

[secretlovers]

Omgosh i dont know which story is worse

[Marissa2619]

I was a new CNA in the nursing home and feeling very proud of my first step in my chosen career.

A nice littel old man in a wheel chair waved at one of my co-workers (a pretty littel 18 year-old, fresh out of high school sugar and spice type of girl). He said "honey come over here please" as she bent down to talk to him. He moved the blanket covering his legs and SPLAT! he ejaculated right in her face and mouth. I never saw her again and thus my nursing career beagn...........

EEWWWW....!!!!

[Cthebigguy]

We had an elderly (pushing 100) year old woman, who was blind, had some for of dementia and was HoH. Someone (who shall remain written in my book of shame) gave her a brown cow (prune juice, milk of mag. and fiber powder) d/t no BM prev. 5 days... it worked better than intended and she went (filling up briefs, pads, and soaking beds) in about 45 min and was going the rest of the night (5 bed changes, 7 briefs, 6 pads, and countless wet wipes and trash bags). She decided to finger paint and EAT this foamy, brown, fecal matter and paint her walls with it. It was mutually decided that one of us would stay in there at all times to make sure she didn't do it again, switching out every hour.

[jamieslovingmom]

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