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

I'm a nursing student and I'm sure I'll have more stories to tell. But my "favorite" so far is a pt who had not gone bm in a month and they cleaned him out and he went- lots- on my shift. And he was disoriented and hallucinating and he smeared the poo all over himself. I had to get a mask/gown to help clean him up with the CNA.

Specializes in LTC.
OMG!!!!!!!!!! some of these stories made me want to puke my guts right out...some had me laughing so hard I had to go to the rest room! Yes, such a wonderful job we have. WE NEVER know whats behind door #1....

Behind my door number 1....I was a working as a CNA, had this patient, HIS WIFE would come in every night to assist us in putting her man to bed....She would insist on "cleaning his personal affects" we would leave the room when she did this, at least the others would. I stayed, he was my patient and I needed to make sure everything was ok as there were frequent complaints regarding how he was left...well the wife decided to give the husband oral..... until.....I left as soon as she started doing this, told her she could no do this, she said why not, He is my husband! Ok, so this went on for quite some time, then I was again assigned to this patient, this time I left them to their own device, curtain closed no need to worry right? well....we heard the man saying please please please at the top of his voice so I went in, I did not see "feet on the ground" I never thought anyone would do something like this...I opened the curtain and they were having sex...so I guess the "please" was for more?..not gross but was way to funny...the entire nursing staff was laughing.

The next night when the lady came in, we asked her if she wanted to be moved to a private room so her and her husband could spend some "quality time together" she said no, not tonight, once a month is all he gets, hes is a messy little fella! .....................

Did we need to hear that?

not gross, but................

She went down on him while you were standing right there???????

OMG!!!!!!!!!! some of these stories made me want to puke my guts right out...some had me laughing so hard I had to go to the rest room! Yes, such a wonderful job we have. WE NEVER know whats behind door #1....

Behind my door number 1....I was a working as a CNA, had this patient, HIS WIFE would come in every night to assist us in putting her man to bed....She would insist on "cleaning his personal affects" we would leave the room when she did this, at least the others would. I stayed, he was my patient and I needed to make sure everything was ok as there were frequent complaints regarding how he was left...well the wife decided to give the husband oral..... until.....I left as soon as she started doing this, told her she could no do this, she said why not, He is my husband! Ok, so this went on for quite some time, then I was again assigned to this patient, this time I left them to their own device, curtain closed no need to worry right? well....we heard the man saying please please please at the top of his voice so I went in, I did not see "feet on the ground" I never thought anyone would do something like this...I opened the curtain and they were having sex...so I guess the "please" was for more?..not gross but was way to funny...the entire nursing staff was laughing.

The next night when the lady came in, we asked her if she wanted to be moved to a private room so her and her husband could spend some "quality time together" she said no, not tonight, once a month is all he gets, hes is a messy little fella! .....................

Did we need to hear that?

not gross, but................

I used to have a male resident on my hall, and his wife would come in just about every day. He always kept his door shut, whether he was in there by himself, visiting with someone, or whatever.

All of the CNAs avoided that room like the plague, because whenever you would knock on the door for something, the wife would always say "Come in" -- even when they were in the middle of sex or she was giving him oral. Neither of them understood that nobody wants to see that.

The nursing staff gave both of them some pretty imaginative nicknames.

Incredible, absolutely incredible. I stumbled onto this site because I was considering studying to become a nurse, so I wanted to see what it was 'really' like, you know instead of the stuff you see on "scrubs" and "grey's anatomy". I have no medical training whatsoever yet I read through 140 pages so far, and plan on finishing, let me say you people blow my mind! I literally am apalled at how dedicated the nursing community is to people care, so shocked by this I had to sign up and say something. First off, although I read through all these stories without gagging or anything (actually quite entertaining), there is no way on earth I would ever want to be a nurse, cleaning people's bodily wastes, treating cancer patients, blood, gore, old people. Oh man, I'm thinking over half of the people that go to nursing school are in for a big surprise when they actually have to earn their fat paycheck lol. Do you naturally get accustomed to grossness or are you born with an iron stomach? I'm a clean freak kind of guy I swear cleaning my roommate's crap off the toilet is enough to make me dry heave. What makes a nurse want to be a nurse? I'm assuming a person with a compassionate heart as opposed to someone just wanting a secure job with guaranteed pay. To the user who posted the story about the grenade blowing the guy's head off and the body still running, I have actually read of this occurance in war related books, people who lose their head and their bodies just kind of flip out and run around for a few seconds. Also about the Christian family who thought their family member would be healed from advanced cancer, I am a devout Christian and I felt bad reading about how this family acted, I believe in praying for the sick, but I also believe God gave us science and medicine to heal sick people, America has the most advanced healthcare system in the world despite what President Obama likes to say. Anyway I think I'm gonna study computers instead, boring yet much more sanitary! Peace to you all and God bless.

I've discovered that even though nurses can deal with some of the grossest stuff you'll ever see, everybody has something that gets to them. I can deal with blood, guts, and every body fluid out there, but if I see my husband pull a hair clog out of the shower drain, I lose it. You really do get used to a lot in this job.

I've worked in surgery and endoscopy for many years. We can be up to our elbows in blood, guts, butts, stool, or whatever, and trying to figure out what we're having for lunch. If we have a student or new nurse in the room, they turn so green that it's comical. :D Of course, we'd NEVER make a newbie sick on purpose. :smokin:

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i'm a clean freak kind of guy i swear cleaning my roommate's crap off the toilet is enough to make me dry heave.

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charge your roommate $25/hr, two hour minimum. or, make him clean up.

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also about the christian family who thought their family member would be healed from advanced cancer, i am a devout christian and i felt bad reading about how this family acted, i believe in praying for the sick, but i also believe god gave us science and medicine to heal sick people

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amen.

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america has the most advanced healthcare system in the world despite what president obama likes to say.

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who?

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anyway i think i'm gonna study computers instead, boring yet much more sanitary!

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wanna bet? i have seen some nasty things growing in server farms, and even nastier things called users, with even nastier systems with nasty keyboards and mice. there was this one case i opened ages ago that was full of mold that released a nice room full of spores, i had respiratory problems for months over that one. i also know another guy that lost his face and eyes to mold. boogers, snot and viruses on top all those molds growing in the dirty skin, chips and cheetos all over and inside those keyboards...

oh.. n/m. dirt and filth are everywhere, just like danger.

have fun with whatever you decide to do.

Specializes in LTAC, Homehealth, Hospice Case Manager.
Once I had an HIV pos street druggie to care for of in an ER holding room.

He was violent and was in four point restraints. He was cursing us, spitting and just plain not very pleasant.

So I gowned, double gloved and face mask and eye shielded myself all up and went in...

...as I entered the room, the good gentlemen hacked up a large boggy and then spit at me in an arc ...

...which reached just over my eye visors and landed smack dead centre on my unprotected head!

One of the most amazing shots I have ever seen!

Needless to say, it was just a little gross cleaning the good gentleman's wad of phlegm out of my hair!

Ugh!

All I can say is...EEEWWWWWW!!!!!

Specializes in LTAC, Homehealth, Hospice Case Manager.

All these are just too funny! Mine's not quite as humorous, but I gotta throw it in anyway...

A couple of years ago I had this pleasantly confused little old lady with a colostomy. She didn't have a clue what it was & we had fussed back & forth all day over this ostomy bag. She was determined to pull it off & I was determined she wasn't gonna! Finally, on my last rounds, I walk in & my sweet little angel, with the biggest ear to ear grin I've ever seen, is covered from head to toe in poo & is waving her ostomy bag over her head like it was the American flag....through all her confusion just as plain as day she says, "I won"! :p

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...........

OMG That is soooo nasty! I wonder if she is still in nursing lol

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
All these are just too funny! Mine's not quite as humorous, but I gotta throw it in anyway...

A couple of years ago I had this pleasantly confused little old lady with a colostomy. She didn't have a clue what it was & we had fussed back & forth all day over this ostomy bag. She was determined to pull it off & I was determined she wasn't gonna! Finally, on my last rounds, I walk in & my sweet little angel, with the biggest ear to ear grin I've ever seen, is covered from head to toe in poo & is waving her ostomy bag over her head like it was the American flag....through all her confusion just as plain as day she says, "I won"! :p

:yeah::lol2: VICTORY WAS INDEED HERS!!!:D
Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
OMG That is soooo nasty! I wonder if she is still in nursing lol
When I first read about that nasty old man ejaculating in that poor student nurse's face or mouth or whatever it was I felt like puking, and I still do. I cant that that horrifying message out of my mind.:barf02:

One technique I have learned is breathing through my mouth, which has saved me countless times from noxious smells. Although I know some say you can still "taste" the smell, I have not found that to be the case.

My first semester in nursing school I had a patient who had C-diff. Myself and two other students went in to clean her up as you could smell her from down the hall. There was liquid poo pooled on the chuck pad and all the way up her back. One student had to leave as she was gagging and the other was having issues also. I got to work (mouth breathing) but every time I would wipe more poo would come out. It was like a poo fountain. Copious amounts of liquid poo! It just wouldn't stop! We finally got her cleaned up, but I was amazed at how much poo can come out of one human body...LOL! Poor woman was completely out of it on pain meds, thank goodness.

A week later, I went in to take the patient a lunch tray and she was much better. She was alert and oriented. When I came in she said, "Oh, I haven't seen you before!" I didn't have the heart to tell her that we had "met" a week earlier...:lol2:.