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 had a male LTC res. once who would stick various objects in his rear when ever he was mad at the staff, the list includes but is def. not limited to: T-shirts, washclothes, the arm rest of a wheel chair, forks (after that he was only allowed spoons on his dinner tray), and the worst one was his roommates teeth. (sorta gives a whole new meaning to bite my ***.) BTW the facility had to buy new teeth for the roommate.

This one made me laugh until I cried!!

One of my nurse friends had one pt who was homeless. This middle-aged lady came in with c/o "a funny feeling in her lady parts". Pt states she was getting it on with another homeless gentleman and that they needed some kind of lube and the best solution they had found was old mayo found in a garbage dumpster. Turns out this mayo must have had maggot eggs residing in it....pt's "funny feeling" was her lady parts full of hatched maggots......

thank god i didn`t have to see that...im fine with any body fluids from any orifice....but insects residing in a human body in any means.....no thanks.:confused:

OK so at work last night I heard this little gem of a story;

Man has a Foley catheter, all well and good so far. When the nurse went to check the catheter, that it was draining properly and secured to the inner thigh with a device that keeps it from pulling she noticed that it was not in the securement device. The catheter was stuffed all the way into the bladder right up to the irrigation port near the end, pretty much about 14 + inches of catheter stuffed into the bladder. She asked him why he did that and he explained that he didn't want it to catch on anything. Then he was asked if it didn't hurt and if he used lube. "No, I didn't have anything so I reached down between my legs and got some "Ass Grease" © on my hands and used that as lube".

*Shudders*, now I need to take a long steaming hot bath with a few drops of bleach........

Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.
One of my nurse friends had one pt who was homeless. This middle-aged lady came in with c/o "a funny feeling in her lady parts". Pt states she was getting it on with another homeless gentleman and that they needed some kind of lube and the best solution they had found was old mayo found in a garbage dumpster. Turns out this mayo must have had maggot eggs residing in it....pt's "funny feeling" was her lady parts full of hatched maggots......

thank god i didn`t have to see that...im fine with any body fluids from any orifice....but insects residing in a human body in any means.....no thanks.:confused:

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You guys are great...here mine:

LTC resident s/p total hip replacement, almost totally healed, just a small 'pmple' at the inferior end. Charge nurse figures he would be smart and pop the pimple...did so left the room...next thing I know anothe nurse is yelling my name and the word hurry behind it. I hustled needless to say, get in the room and there is this mans 'pimple' playin Mount Vesuvius. Now understand this is not oozing, this is acttually erupting. So I tell her to get the doctor..the doctor says stay here and when it stops flowing see if any more can be 'milked' (didn't know they still did that on the floor). Needless to say the leg did not stop erupting its greenish/brown/bloddy, pseudomonas smell for well over and hour and it took every linnen, towell, pad and chux in that 2 bed ward to soak and keep that stuff off the floor. It did not bother me, what bothered me was the 3 doctors wretching evertime they walked in and the fact that my bladder which was full to start with(I was on my way to the facility) was now well extended past my natural abilities. Needless to say, he went to surgery for a 5 hour I&D, healed, went AMA.

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

:eek:I bet he never did anything like that again.

Specializes in PICU/Pedi.
One of my nurse friends had one pt who was homeless. This middle-aged lady came in with c/o "a funny feeling in her lady parts". Pt states she was getting it on with another homeless gentleman and that they needed some kind of lube and the best solution they had found was old mayo found in a garbage dumpster. Turns out this mayo must have had maggot eggs residing in it....pt's "funny feeling" was her lady parts full of hatched maggots......

thank god i didn`t have to see that...im fine with any body fluids from any orifice....but insects residing in a human body in any means.....no thanks.:confused:

So, what kind of nursing diagnosis do you think NANDA might come up with for this case?? :lol2:

:eek:I bet he never did anything like that again.

Hi. I just started reading this thread yesterday and I have been seeing you're post since 2002-2004 I think. I was on page 54 and have decided to look at the last posting and I saw ur latest post. I am glad that you are still responding to all these posts after all these years. I am not a nurse YET, but I will be one day. I won't be staring my prerequisites until fall of this year and I hope to one day share my story too to all of you. I am so jealous. I can't wait to be a nurse. It's going to be a long time but I will get there.

??? How hard did he pull exactly???

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
Hi. I just started reading this thread yesterday and I have been seeing you're post since 2002-2004 I think. I was on page 54 and have decided to look at the last posting and I saw ur latest post. I am glad that you are still responding to all these posts after all these years. I am not a nurse YET, but I will be one day. I won't be staring my prerequisites until fall of this year and I hope to one day share my story too to all of you. I am so jealous. I can't wait to be a nurse. It's going to be a long time but I will get there.
I wish you every bit of success you are able to achieve. I plan on staying on this website for as long as I am able to use a computer. So welcome my friend.
Specializes in PACU, OR.
??? How hard did he pull exactly???

When commenting on a post, rather hit the "quote" button; then we know which one you're referring to :)

I'm a second semester nursing student, so far the worst I saw was probably the bilateral leg amputation in the O.R.

it was gruesome but it made me stronger..lol