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 ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

with their hot cereal

I will never look at oatmeal again

[i too had a LARGE patient -- weight was determined by weighing an empty squad, returning to the hosp, filling it w/ fuel, putting the pt in it and returning to the truck scale.... 750 ish. She was discharged from the hospitla and admitted to our home care rapidly -- hosp staff couldn't take care of her due to room size and number ofstaff required to do every thing for her, Three of us were sent to her home to bathe her, "walk" her to the BR and change bed linens. We drew straws to see who had to sit in the BR with her -- besides her daily "dump" she had one of many cigs then too. The second shortest strw got crothch wash duty -- one day we were scrubbing away and our 2nd strw paerson, kneeling on the floor with her arm between these GIGANTIC thighs starts laucghing... when we asked what was so funny -- she whispered ( while laughinguncontrolably) "I'm stuck" We oulled the thighs apart and she was saved!!! However, she then was nearly rolling on the foloor she was laughing so hard and gasped "You guys! I had a washcloth!" It was still in there -- somewhere! That was quite a day!!! Will have to share part 2 another time -- gotta go !

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

don't wait too long. We want to hear the rest of it.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
A friend and I volunteered at the local VA hospital years ago...called bingo...I remember a fella masturbating under the table....That does not tuen a hair on my head any longer...I have had residents in LTC masturbate with their hot cereal..

That's an excellent example of the imagination gone wild. :p

Low and behold the thoughts of mankind.

Where the mind goes the man follows.

:uhoh21: Lord help me to keep my mind intact. For only You know how far the human mind can make the body go when it comes to fanticies and imagination.

Specializes in midwifery, ophthalmics, general practice.

reading this lot......... its surprising we are as sane as we are!!! and not surprising that only a nurse understands another nurse.

how do we survive?? Must be the wicked SOH we all seem to develop!

Karen

Ya know,

My husband hates to go to dinner with our doc/nuse friends -- 'cause we talk about ANYTHING and EVRYTHING regardless of what's on the table. Particular favorite was when we were discussing wound care -- one gal had ordered pea soup, another had a mustard sauce dip and one a sweet/sour sauce that looked slightly serrous anguinous -- needless to say, the discriptions of whatever was oozing from the wounds we were discussing was .... very realistic and easily visualized. OOPS!! Didn't bother us, but we had a coupleof spouses that brought us back to the non-medical world quickly!:imbar

So hubby says NO DESCRIPTIVE DISCUSSIONS during meal!!! My kids are just as sick as I am -- they do it too!! POOR Hubby!!!:chuckle

My youngest says "It's boring when your mom's a nurse -- ya can't gross her out and she doesn't get excited when you get hurt unless the blood is spurting from somewhere!" (Overheard while talking to a chum):rolleyes:

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
reading this lot......... its surprising we are as sane as we are!!! and not surprising that only a nurse understands another nurse.

how do we survive?? Must be the wicked SOH we all seem to develop!

Karen

I do believe you've got it. But people other than nurses have the SOH humor too. For example, my oldest daughter in a geneticist, and she has come up with some rather sick and disgusting, but funny things at the supper table no less many times, and of course I always fed into it too. I was FUNNNNNNNNNN! :D

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

My husband hates to go to dinner with our doc/nuse friends -- 'cause we talk about ANYTHING and EVRYTHING regardless of what's on the table. Particular favorite was when we were discussing wound care -- one gal had ordered pea soup, another had a mustard sauce dip and one a sweet/sour sauce that looked slightly serrous anguinous -- needless to say, the discriptions of whatever was oozing from the wounds we were discussing was .... very realistic and easily visualized. OOPS!! Didn't bother us, but we had a coupleof spouses that brought us back to the non-medical world quickly!:imbar

So hubby says NO DESCRIPTIVE DISCUSSIONS during meal!!! My kids are just as sick as I am -- they do it too!! POOR Hubby!!!:chuckle

My youngest says "It's boring when your mom's a nurse -- ya can't gross her out and she doesn't get excited when you get hurt unless the blood is spurting from somewhere!" (Overheard while talking to a chum):rolleyes:

Ya got that right honey! The only thing is when we see it affects others in a not so nice way, we tend to do it even more. My wonderful caregiver Bethanne is just like me too. She's a girl after my own heart. When her kids ask her not to embarass them in front of her peers, it just turns her right on. I just absolutely love it. In fact, she and I cooked up an idea to surprise her hubby for Valentines Day only because we knew it would embarass them.

Picture it: I weigh a huge 300lbs. (and to think I used to wear a size 6. Ah well, I must let bygones be bygones. Them blankety blank med side-effects did a number on this here bod; BIG TIME.)Well anyway, getting back to our story. We decided to dress me in a fancy negligee type PJs. Then Bethanne gave me a flower to hold between my teeth, and I had my nose glasses on as well. Bethanne then covered me up. When hubby arrived, she told hubby I had a Valentines Day present for him, and then she revealed the present. His face turned crimson, and he just stood there and giggled.

But it's ever so much fun!!! I don't wanna grow up. I'm a second time kid. Da, de da, dum de dum.

My Husband would DIE!!! :rotfl:

He is a bit sheltered and conservative! Don't know how he puts up with me!!( and to think I have corrupted the kids too -- HMMMMM! OH WELL!) He will never be able to say that life w/ me is boring!:)

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
My Husband would DIE!!! :rotfl:

He is a bit sheltered and conservative! Don't know how he puts up with me!!( and to think I have corrupted the kids too -- HMMMMM! OH WELL!) He will never be able to say that life w/ me is boring!:)

Ain't that the truth now. He married it for better or for worse, and he went into it with his dear little ole eyes wide open. Mercy, mercy. Now he'll just have to deal with it as it comes. Because our sick ways give us the jollies. My daughter Laurel, says my son-in-law has now been thoroughly corrupted. Hee,hee. :rotfl:

Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

I dont have that prob.

My wife was a nurse

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The current idea in the nursing home industry is to keep the facility's Report Card out of the courts as evidence against them.

Thsi is just more of what their intentions are, to continue to

get away with killing off our elderly.

Stop them from killing our elderly!!!

The works of the nursing home owners is legal already and to add this in the picture will speed them on and into getting the job done faster.

Ila Swan, the National Spokeswoman on the nursing home industry has spent 30 years already claiming all that I am saying to you here.

Will you stand by and allow this to happen?

And if so, "Why?"

If not, then make your claim to stop this injustice.

Write, call and email the President on this issue.

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