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!

[Adele_Michal7, ASN, RN]

Truly, it was awful... and I don't think the BB did anything to help. Worse than that, though, was trying to insert a suppository.....

[meintheUSA]

OMG This really maked me want to puk...:dzed:

This is why I went from LTC as a CNA to home-care. Less money, but more sanity..

:chair:

[sharpeimom]

this pales in comparison to many of the stories in this forum, but it shocked me, and several seasoned nurses (20+ years experience!) and aides.

i was working at my first job in an ltc and had just ended my orientation (6 weeks, excellent for a new grad.) i was working with another nurse on a floor that had 60 patients. 3-11 shift. lots of treatments. at one point, i saw that the other nurse had a tin of bagbalm on her med cart.

"for your hands?" i asked her.

"no. for *******, " she said, naming a patient on her side.

"we apply it to her butt. you have to see her butt... it's unreal, unlike anything you've ever seen before."

"well, what's the issue?" i said impatiently.

"you'll see. mere words can't describe," she said, looking green around the gills.

weeks passed and the lore of this patient continued to grow. cna's would come up to me and ask me if i had seen this woman's butt yet.

finally, one night i was working that wing and curiosity got the best of me- i followed in the two cna's assigned to her care as they got her ready for her shower.

oh.my.god.

they turned her to the side, and exposed her backside. the aide on the opposite side of her strained, lifted and pulled to pull her buttcheeks taut (she probably weighed upwards of 200 lbs.)

shooting from her orifice, were fingerlike projections, that waved and undulated. they extended in length to mid-thigh, and were about as thick as half a banana in some places.

i was told later that my face turned pale, and i dropped my clipboard. the smell, obviously, was horrendous and undoubtedly made worse by the fact that no air or circulation could get back there....

i slowly backed out of the room, went into the bathroom, and composed myself.

apparently it's a special strain of hpv... anyhow, i haven't seen anything like it since.

i think we have a winner here! aacckkkkkkkkkkkk! :chair:

kathy

shar pei mom:paw::paw:

[Coriander, BSN, RN]

Dear G*ds. Undulating anything would have me running for a bathroom.

[Angel@MyTable, RN]

Shooting from her orifice, were fingerlike projections, that waved and undulated. They extended in length to mid-thigh, and were about as thick as half a banana in some places.

:sofahider WOAH!

[amberdawn88]

I just started as an LPN in a nursing home that i had been a CNA in for 2 years. We were really short the second night of me being the only nurse on my floor. The 2 cnas on the floor were very busy. And a light had been going off for a few minutes. So i went in to see what the man needed. He was on the bedpan. So i took him off the pan and cleaned him up. I had set the bed pan ( that was FULL of BM ) on the floor until i got him all cleaned and covered up. as i was bending down to get the bed pan the man kicked me in the butt and i went face first into the bedpan. Needless to say i ran to the bathroom and vomited for 20 minutes. Then went to take a shower. Thank god i always have an extra pair of scrubs with me.

[Cindy_A]

"as i was bending down to get the bed pan the man kicked me in the butt and i went face first into the bedpan."

Did he kick you on purpose?!?!?

[sharpeimom]

i just started as an lpn in a nursing home that i had been a cna in for 2 years. we were really short the second night of me being the only nurse on my floor. the 2 cnas on the floor were very busy. and a light had been going off for a few minutes. so i went in to see what the man needed. he was on the bedpan. so i took him off the pan and cleaned him up. i had set the bed pan ( that was full of bm ) on the floor until i got him all cleaned and covered up. as i was bending down to get the bed pan the man kicked me in the butt and i went face first into the bedpan. needless to say i ran to the bathroom and vomited for 20 minutes. then went to take a shower. thank god i always have an extra pair of scrubs with me.

:chair::sofahider:barf02::barf02::barf02::eek::uhoh3:

kathy

shar pei mom:paw::paw:

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

I've been nursing for 16 years so I have the usual poop, pee and assortied liquid stories but the funnies thing happened when I was a patient. I had my ileostomy converted to a kpouch at cleveland clinic and got an ileus. About 5 days post-op I and still on liquid only diet I told the nurses I was nausiated. I only had that little bean shaped basin and put my call light on for something more usefull. No answer and when I started to projetile vomit green liquid over the foot of the bed my room mate started yelling "nurse, nurse!" The nice young lady who rushed into the room came to a stop at the end of my bed- and you guessed it- got splatted with about 500ml of green liquid spewing from my mouth. Sorry....but I told you I was nausious.

:rotfl:They should have paid attention. That little bean shaped emesis basin IMHO, is just good enough for spit. I have projectile vomited from my bed all the way into the bathroom entrance. Ya need a bucket, dang it!!:lol2:And once it was 2 1/2 litres of systemic blood. You should have seen the look on the poor x-ray tech's face. It was priceless.

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

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.

Poor lady.:heartbeat I hope they figured out how to fix her too. Can you imagine how humiliated she must have been? This is why I try to clean my own messes.

[Kwitty]

Once in nursing school I had a rotation at the local VA. My pt was a homeless man who was struck by a vehicle. Long story short, he would pee into an empty styrofoam cup and drink it.

[ShavonKirk]

Another CNA and I had the pleasure of giving a shower to a large sized woman who had been impacted for a few days and had been given a trail mix of stool softeners and colon cleansers. We get her in the shower chair, and the other CNA hands her a wash rag, while I started washing her hair. Something told me to back away from the lady, and no sooner than I had started to move, she power crapped! it bounced off the floor and splattered on the bottom part of the shower room wall. The other CNA got crap on her pants and shoes. The lady was in good humor over it, and was laughing. Since she was not embarrased, we started laughing too. A moment later, she power craps again, and I had to leave the room with the other CNA in there with her. I was laughing to hard I almost peed my pants. I walked up to her nurse and said "problem solved", and walked away still giggling.