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 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...........

O.M.G

WHAT?

HOW????

:barf01:

it's funny, i work in theatres and i see a lot of stuff that most people would think is really gross, spanning a wide range from your run-of-the-mill 'where does all the poo come from?', though ridiculous random injuries, and finishing in bad smells, but there are two things today that have truly turned my stomach: footage of this round's AFL injuries which included a spectacular hyperextension of a knee and an absolutely vile ankle dislocation, and my brother-in-law (a jewelerry-store manager) talking about the dead skin he finds in the links of watch bands.

This is the most wonderful thing I have ever read!! I'm just looking into nursing schools and came across this site , love it! I have a story from when I volunteered at the hospital. My friend who worked there told me this story I had only left for a minute when it happened we were in an ortho clinic across from the mourge the ac had broken that month and they had brought in a body where the deceased had gangrene on his foot. Going into the hospital the gerney got stuck on the automatic door track.......well when they pushed it over somehow ( she couldnt quite explain and im still not sure how this happened) this foot was hit or bumped and it came off. Completely. It was the worst smell ever and having no ac only made it worse. Rotted Green and black foot pretty much disintegrated on impact.Can't wait till I have some of my own stories to tell :)

I love reading these when I'm in the mood for a laugh. I'm going into my first year and in a funny way I'm looking FORWARD to some of these crazy things happening!

I wish this thread could be bind into a book and sold in stores :D

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
i love reading these when i'm in the mood for a laugh. i'm going into my first year and in a funny way i'm looking forward to some of these crazy things happening! :D
then you have the personality to be a nurse. go for it.
Specializes in Emergency.

Love this thread.

A few years back we seemed to have a C. Diff epidemic in the town I worked in. All of the nursing home patients that came into my ED had it.

ONe day the medics dropped off a lady with dementia from the SNF who Had really been ravaged by diabetes. She was in a diaper that was just filled with urine. Her BP was sort of low, and she seemed a little tachy. So after getting an IV started...I went to clean her up and was told to put a foley in.

She was really ravaged by diabetes. She had bilateral BKA and actually an amputation of her left arm to the elbow. So I got her all nice and clean and got everything set out to do the cath. Her extremities were waving about, as she tried to move about. I get all ready, visualize the meatus...start to aim the cath...am about 0.5 in from the opening and she beigns to show that her real problem was C-diff. Because of her body or her movements....it created a fountain effect (think of those roman fountains...where the little boy either pees or spouts water! So I'm stuck there, with Cdiff spewing in a fountain. Yeah...I threw out my foley kit, went and got a yellow gown and recommenced....

^ Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!!!!!!

Couple nights ago I had something in my ER that I've never seen before and I've seen a lot. Guy on a motorcycle without a helmet somehow ripped his entire face off on gravel when he crashed. Eyeball hanging down on his cheek, no skin from forehead to bottom lip, BLOOD AND MUCUS EVERYWHERE. Not sure how long he'll live. He's in ICU all bandaged up.

Mucus is my weakness too. :X

(Edited to fix a typo)

Severe MRSA of the scrotum. Enough said.

fournier's gangrene debridement.

I will never forget those two sad, uncovered testicles.

Specializes in Trauma, ER, ICU, CCU, PACU, GI, Cardiology, OR.

i would have to agree with the severe mrsa of the scrotum and fournier's gangrene debridement of the member, plus extreme case of maggots infestation and all this prior lunch-break :cool:

I had a wretched experience while in my first semester clinicals in nursing school. I was also a few months pregnant, so the nausea was rather overwhelming...

I had an elderly patient who needed to be changed after defecating. She was at least 90. After securing her privacy, I buckled down to the task. The poor woman kept apologizing to me which tugged on my heart strings, so I started making conversation with her whilst down there to alleviate her embarrassment....

No joke, mid-sentence, entrenched in cleaning all that there is to geriatric southern scene, she passed flatus....in my mouth.

I quickly turned away, certain I would gag and throw up. I didn't even know it was POSSIBLE for that to occur..but, oh, it can. I somehow managed to collect myself quickly, return to the task, and acted like nothing had happened.

I still laugh about it with friends today. Now, I make sure to stay up wind, lol.

Dynamic, dynamic, dynamic...dream big, achieve all things!

Shortly after graduating nursing school I was thrilled to be working as a nurse. I wore my white uniform dress, white stockings and new white shoes with the pride that "I'm a nurse!" I entered a patients room to do a treatment to her backside. The patient had been in a vegetative state and non-verbal for quite some time. As the CNA rolled the patient over so I could do the treatment...the patient had a MASSIVE, explosive, liquid BM. My entire white attire was now dripping with runny poop from my neck to my toes! The non-verbal patient who was in a vegatetive state doubled over and burst into a gut busting laugh as she looked at me! The three of us stood there as poop dripped off of me laughing hysterically! Yes...now I was a nurse!:rotfl: