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

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
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.
:hhmth:At least the lady was a good sport about it.:hhmth:

Wow, that is gross. Poor woman! I thought some of the stage 4 pressure ulcers were bad. I've seen pressure ulcers so deep that bone is exposed. Not to mention the gangrene associated with it. That story takes the taco.

I was working in surgery as a scrub tech, and the anesthisist was extubating the paitent. I was still completly covered(goggles, mask, gown gloves) but the orderly that was standing at the foot of the bed, ready to assist with the moving of the paitent off the table was yaking away, the anesthesist extubated, the et tube had a nice big loogie on the end of it, that loogie flung off and flew right into that poor guy's mouth...it was so nasty it was funny, he went running out of that room so fast...So reminder to everyone-don't stand at the foot of the bed without having some sort of protection over your face...

oh yea...if you are ever working with nasty smelly stage 4 ulcers, don't let your collegues put bubble gum smelly stuff on your mask...every time I smell bubble gum, it remindes me of that lovely stage 4 ulcer.:barf02:..I can't chew bubble gum now....makes me sad :sniff:

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
I was working in surgery as a scrub tech, and the anesthisist was extubating the paitent. I was still completly covered(goggles, mask, gown gloves) but the orderly that was standing at the foot of the bed, ready to assist with the moving of the paitent off the table was yaking away, the anesthesist extubated, the et tube had a nice big loogie on the end of it, that loogie flung off and flew right into that poor guy's mouth...it was so nasty it was funny, he went running out of that room so fast...
:hhmth:I bet that orderly didn't or doesn't yak so much anymore if he's standing at the foot of a bed to assist in a surgical table transfer, and no doubt he wears a mask if asked to do another one.:lol2:

I just assisted in removing a 12 pound pus filled uterus from a 50 pound 8 year old dog. It was an open pyometria that could be smelled for miles. Green pus and blood dripping out of the vulva. Another reason to have your pets spayed.

Fuzzy

Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.
i just assisted in removing a 12 pound pus filled uterus from a 50 pound 8 year old dog. it was an open pyometria that could be smelled for miles. green pus and blood dripping out of the vulva. another reason to have your pets spayed.

fuzzy

poor baby! some humans are idiots! all of our kitties were rescues from some pretty awful situations.

while i do very very grudgingly admit that there's a difference in the intent of a pet owner who has a furkid without knowing anything about that species, someone who knows about what is involved but chooses to ignore that info and neglects to provide love, good food, nurturing, and still more love (quoting our wonderful vet here,) and/or michael vick, i firmly believe there's a special corner of h*ll waiting

for all these folks!

o.k.! off my soapbox for now. time to give our latest furkid rescue his bubble gum flavored antibiotic

which he would not need if he had been treated humanely. grrrr! and aarruuuuggghhh!!

give your recovering baby a special hug and kiss from me, please.

kathy

shar pei mom:paw::paw:

Specializes in Cardiology, Oncology, Hospice,IV Therapy.

This isn't as bad as some of the stuff I've read on here but it grossed me out. I'm a home hospice and palliative care nurse and I recently had a pt who died at home. I will spare you on the details of her condition, it was really awful. Her skin all over was really dry and scaly and leaking. When the funeral director got there I helped get her on the stretcher her foot went way deep into my pocket. There were pieces of scaly skin and drainage in my pocket. I took my jacket off and threw away everything in it and washed it in clorox when I got home:barf02:

I just assisted in removing a 12 pound pus filled uterus from a 50 pound 8 year old dog. It was an open pyometria that could be smelled for miles. Green pus and blood dripping out of the vulva. Another reason to have your pets spayed.

Fuzzy

A vet tech who posts on another site I frequent said she once assisted on a c-section on a pit bull that had probably mated with a littermate. All 16 puppies were cyclops. :eek:

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
A vet tech who posts on another site I frequent said she once assisted on a c-section on a pit bull that had probably mated with a littermate. All 16 puppies were cyclops. :eek:
How very sad. Those puppies didn't even have a chance at life.:crying2:
Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

may ask one of you vet techs a quick question?

we got two of our furkids from a no-kill shelter where they had been born. they're littermates. they were 14 weeks when we got them. that was almost 10 years ago. our vet was on medical leave and the sub who did their update vaccinations and rabies shots last week said they, in all likelihood, had different fathers.

huh? can the same litter of kittens really have multiple fathers? :confused:

a-n-d now

back to our regularly scheduled discussion... :cool: :D

kathy

shar pei mom:paw::paw:

Yes it's true a litter of kittens and puppies can have many diferent fathers. In fact this is quite common in aniamls that are allowed to roam and reprooduce at will. This happens because each puppy/kitten has its own egg and sperm (some people think that one sperm and egg are split much like what happens in twins. This is quite rare). The egg can be fertilized by many different sperm if the female is allowed to breed with many different males. The sperm usually lives from 3-5 days in the female reproductive tract, therefore insuring that as many eggs as possible are fertilized.

Fuzzy

Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.
yes it's true a litter of kittens and puppies can have many diferent fathers. in fact this is quite common in aniamls that are allowed to roam and reprooduce at will. this happens because each puppy/kitten has its own egg and sperm (some people think that one sperm and egg are split much like what happens in twins. this is quite rare). the egg can be fertilized by many different sperm if the female is allowed to breed with many different males. the sperm usually lives from 3-5 days in the female reproductive tract, therefore insuring that as many eggs as possible are fertilized.

fuzzy

thanks fuzzy!

i knew each critter had its own egg and sperm and that they were all singletons, but i guess i always

assumed that because the mother had mated with a male, all the resulting babies would be that males

offspring. oh well... you know what happens when you assume! eleanor and franklin's mom was a street kitty and i'm quite sure she mated more than once, now that i think it through. her babies were born the very same night she was rescued.

frankie and ellie are as different physiologically as two members of the same species could possibly be, with regard to size, coat, temperment etc., and both are sweeties.

kathy

shar pei mom:paw::paw:

and mama to frank, eleanor, ezra, david, ulysses, artie, spencer and mannie the wonderdog