What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

[yazisizit]

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!

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

This is the very reason we are nurses. We are a unique bunch in that we become fixated on, talk about, and laugh at all the sick, yucky stuff, and we have such a sick sense of humor. I just looooove it. Gotta love a nurse. Lots of people would gag, pass out, or be revolted at the stuff we deal with on a daily basis.:rotfl:

[Adam D. RN2005]

My friend is an OR nurse, and she received an morbidly obese patient one day for surgery and found a grilled cheese sandwich under her breast!

That takes "saving it for later" way to seriously

I can't help but think that she was hiding it after the NPO order came through.

[xmaxiex]

My story sounds like a walk in the park after some of these! I was giving H20 and bolus feed via g-tube it was slow going and I didn't like the way the end of the dressing was curling up so I peered a little closer to make sure I had taped it , at the same time the man coughed and out flew all the contents of the g-tube into my face .Now I feel blessed after reading some of these !!!!

[celticqueen]

before i started my training, i was a care assistant in a nursing home. We had 1 old lady that the nightstaff were afraid of - she used to bite, scratch, punch...... Anyway, after a struggle i managed to get her in her chair for breakfast. During handover, the kitchen assistant - almost puking, and only able to say the lady's name and point. Of course, poor muggins here had to go and investigate. I went into her room only to be faced with this scene: Full cooked english breakfast.......large turd on top, which she was eating with a knife and fork. If that wasn't bad enough she asked me for a drink of water because ".....it's got stuck in my throat dear....."

[celticqueen]

that worm one was totally vile. eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!

[celticqueen]

I have an interesting one that my caregiver told me about this morning. She has a friend who's an ER nurse, and she had the following experience:

A young couple came into the ER. He with an injury to his member, and she had a head injury.

As the nurse was taking the patients history, she learned that they were at a restaurant having a wedding anniversary dinner. While they were waiting for their meals, he said to her, "I dare you to get under the table and service me." The loving wife did as was told, and during the process, she had a seizure. That was when she received the head injury. Her husband was stabbing her in the head with a fork to get her to loosen her grip.:roll :chuckle

HA HA, you can just imagine it can't you??? It's like something out of American Pie:rotfl: . I'm surprised she didn't bite it off!!!!

[nursebetty2]

I had a 80 + year old male patient, I put his foley catheter in, bathed him only to discover he ejaculated all over his clean covers!!!!!!!!! Lots of teasing after that, all the male nurses said if they ever come in they wanted me to put the foley in and bathe them. YUCK

i guess your girl women was u inbarrsed bout bathing him seeing him nude washing him

rong what he did verry

[JACALA_CL]

in nsg school i was assisting my girlfriend with a dressing change. the woman was morbidly obese and recently had abd surg (for what i cannot remember). "N" had to change the packing. when "N" took the old packing out and saw a pool of foul (x1000) green noxious liquid . . . . she threw up INTO the woman's open abdomen! then i had to run to b/r to vomit from her vomiting into the wound.

..... the patient? she just said "that's ok dearie, i know it isn't very pleasant"

[boulergirl, CNA]

in nsg school i was assisting my girlfriend with a dressing change. the woman was morbidly obese and recently had abd surg (for what i cannot remember). "N" had to change the packing. when "N" took the old packing out and saw a pool of foul (x1000) green noxious liquid . . . . she threw up INTO the woman's open abdomen! then i had to run to b/r to vomit from her vomiting into the wound.

..... the patient? she just said "that's ok dearie, i know it isn't very pleasant"

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

in nsg school i was assisting my girlfriend with a dressing change. the woman was morbidly obese and recently had abd surg (for what i cannot remember). "N" had to change the packing. when "N" took the old packing out and saw a pool of foul (x1000) green noxious liquid . . . . she threw up INTO the woman's open abdomen! then i had to run to b/r to vomit from her vomiting into the wound.

..... the patient? she just said "that's ok dearie, i know it isn't very pleasant"

What a kind person your patient was. A lot of them would have complained.

[Nemhain]

Eeeeew...these are all really gross. Hmm...I've had some gross ones, but so far the ones that always get me are the obese ladies who always seem to have a large quantity of vanilla pudding like lady partsl discharge that smells like rotting dead animal. Funny...that's the one spot they always "just can't reach" with their wash clothes. I feel as though I should get combat pay for cleaning that. ugh.

[gauge14iv, MSN, APRN, NP]

ER - county hospital....(not the one in Dallas)

Patient found after 4 to 5 days of laying in his own vomit and feces - DKA (Gluc was > 1200), semi to unconcious for I dont know how long. His trousers were FILLED and overflowing from both ends with diarrhea, much of which had become the equivalent of bright green concrete. His clothing was soaked in vomitus - also much of which was crusty. The poor guy...he would rouse just enough to say "Im sorry" and then pass back out. I felt so bad for him. Couple of our EMT/Tech/EMTP's called the local fire station down the street and had them bring over the fume helmets that firefighters wear when they have to go in someplace where there is poisonous fumes, then they took him in the Hazmat room and gave him a shower on the gurney with them all suited up in hazmat gear. They told me to stay out of there since I kept retching everytime I got within a foot of the poor fellow. Thankfully - the medics on the truck had started his IV already, so I didnt have to do too much with him until after he was cleaned up. They took his clothes straight down to the incinerator, I smelled that guy in my sleep for a month I swear. I had to buy the ER techs 4 cases of beer after work over that one!

I feel so sorry for the stinky nasty patients who can't help it - the ones who don't care - now thats another story!

...the Unit Clerk from hades who refuses to shower, wash her hair or wear deodarant, you can smell her 40 feet away!

...The lady who pulled out her foley and was happily sucking away on the balloon when we found her...

...The small carton of rancid milk and the twinkie beneath the breast of a 500 lb woman (Whom the doctor had written "weigh daily" orders for!!!!!!! ROFL!!!!!! :rotfl: Yeah THAT was happening!!!!!)...

...Or the little old man who gave "birth" to an 8 lb stool (Yes we actually WEIGHED that sucker!)...

...Or the woman who showed up in the ER complaining "My stuff stainks" -- rotten sprouting potato was removed from her lady parts with forceps...I kid you not...