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 long term care.

I've worked in a nursing home for years and I've seen all kinds of demented little old people do the craziest stuff:

A confused little old man opened up the charting station door, takes out a staff member's soda can, spits a big loogey in it, replaces the soda can & shuts the door (be careful of where you put your drinks!)

One time as I'm walking up the long hallway towards the nurses station, I see an incontinent, confused lady wander up to the desk, pick up the telephone and proceed to stick the phone reciever down in her diaper, then hang the phone back up and walk away...

This one very demented lady is known to try to eat everything she can get her hands on; she will dig through the trash to eat things. (she gets plenty of food to eat; in fact, she's gained 75lb since she came into the nsg home 3 yrs ago). One time she apparently ate a discarded glove from the trash. Nobody saw her do this, but it was evidenced by the glove coming out the other side during perineal care one day!!!

This isnt something that happened to me, but was described by a colleague who worked GI for a while. She told me about this patient with a colostomy who kept being re-admitted because it would get infected and dehisced (spelling?)...After several interviews they figured out that it got that way because her husband decided it was an interesting alternative to usual sexual experiences...ugh...

I've heard of this as a sexual fetish, and it's usually nonconsensual.:mad:

Is it bad that this thread actually makes me even more excited to start NS? :uhoh21: :lol2:

Oh ditto. I notice that the more I read these stories, the more horrified I am and the more pumped I am to start NS :lol2:

Not mine but a good one: My friend Sue was working as a traveler for a small ER somewhere in Arizona. One day, they had an older woman come in complaining of green leaves growing out of her lady parts. So, naturally, they work her up as a psych consult. But after talking to the woman for a while, everyone decided that she seemed pretty lucid. Somebody goes, "Did we ever stop to look?" So they set her up for a pelvic examine, and lo, there are indeed green leaves growing between her legs! Apparently, the woman had a history of lady partsl prolapse and at some point, someone told her that she could remedy this by inserting a potato. It worked, but she forgot to take it out, leaving it to take root and grow. The roots were so tightly wound into the tissue of her uterus that she was forced to undergo an emergency hysterectomy.

HOW DO YOU FORGET A POTATO IN YOUR lady parts?!?!?!?!!?! HOW?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?!??!?!?!?!!

Sorry, but I probably think of my own lady parts at least once a damn day. HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY FORGET ABOUT IT FOR THAT LONG?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?

So,......She DID want fries with that!?!

Specializes in ED.

Sory told to me at a BBQ by another medic-- they had a female prisoner that had stuck mashed potatoes and corn in her lady parts to eat later. Yuck

Last night, walked into a room to give a pancreatitis pt some MSO4...the pt (rather large woman, covered in tattoos) was lying with her gown pulled up to her chest, with her leg hooked up over the side rail, showing me EVERYTHING. Everytime I walked into the room, that's just how she was...tried covering her up, and she went back to her exposed state every time...30-something, a/ox3... Blech!

She was just trying to "air it out".....LOL

I dont understand how people forget tampons and things in their lady partss and behinds. It makes me wonder what this world is coming to...

I was in a spinal cord injury unit, where a lot of patients cannot control their bowel/ urine. Every shift, we have to glove up, do digital stimulation. Basically insert with 2 fingers with a silver bullet up the there, wait... wait.. then go back and swirl your fingers for a LONG time until **** comes out. u get the picture. didn't help this guy was almost 200 lbs

may you remind you, this guy had explosive gassy diarrhea that exploded everywhere. Great i had to stand there wait till he passes the gas/ poop, then repeat again. i never looked at my fingers the same way..

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

:hhmth::hhmth:I definitely believe that.

Specializes in Quality Nurse Specialist, Health Coach.

I work in a prison and we were called to an inmate declared emergency. Now this guy had some abdominal surgery in the past and he has chronically dug in the wound and kept it open. We approach the cell and sh** and greenish stuff is coming out, oh yeah and the corn! He was flicking it at us!:barf02:

I cannot believe I just read every single post in this thread and only got grossed out twice. :lol2: