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 LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
I once saw an intern shove a cold speculum into a "sedated" little old lady in candy cane stirrups. She clamped down on his head with her knees and peed all over his face. Even the attending surgeon was cracking up.
:rotfl: Hope he enjoyed his shower. I'll bet he thinks before inserting anything cold into a woman's lady parts now.:rotfl:
Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

I'm soooo glad I have lost my taste for chocolate anything. I now eat fruity hard candy or fruit instead. At least I know I'm not eating poop.

Specializes in NA, Stepdown, L&D, Trauma ICU, ER.

OMG! I can't believe I just spent 3 days reading 80 pages of some of the grossest (and, as only a nurse can think of them, funniest) stories I've ever heard! My husband laughed at some, and looked at me like I was absolutely insane for continuing to read this after some. :roll Gotta love nurses

Many years ago, on my first day as a 16 y.o. orderly in our small rural hospital a doctor asked me to go into a patients room, handed me a butter knife and told me to cut a plug out of the leg cast where he had marked it. I started to object, but he said not to worry just do it like I was plugging a watermellon. Well, when I lifted the plug out maggots started to pour out of the cast and the stench was awful. I started to head for the door when I realized I had been set up, so I slowly walked to the nurse's station with all eyes watching for my reaction. Which was "Do we have any room deodorizer?" Brought the house down, and I passed their test.

anyone who's worked on a ward doing abdo surgeries will appreciate this

had a patient with a new colostomy who was still a bit funny with it - he wouldn't look at it, even to change it, so he usually made a bit of a balls-up of it.

this one day he was changing it and making a mess, sticking his fingers into the stoma, smearing poo all over the place, only half fastening the bag in place, and the entire time i was standing there trying my hardest to just let him get on with it.

when he finally finished, i gave him a cloth to clean himself up, and as i was about to take it back, noticed he had a bit of poo on his fingers, so i said something along the lines of 'you missed a spot', and he shrugged and

:stone LICKED IT OFF :stone

anyone who's worked on a ward doing abdo surgeries will appreciate this

had a patient with a new colostomy who was still a bit funny with it - he wouldn't look at it, even to change it, so he usually made a bit of a balls-up of it.

this one day he was changing it and making a mess, sticking his fingers into the stoma, smearing poo all over the place, only half fastening the bag in place, and the entire time i was standing there trying my hardest to just let him get on with it.

when he finally finished, i gave him a cloth to clean himself up, and as i was about to take it back, noticed he had a bit of poo on his fingers, so i said something along the lines of 'you missed a spot', and he shrugged and

:stone LICKED IT OFF :stone

AND THE WINNER IS....:barf02: :barf02: that is definetly GROSS, I've had pts do gross things with it,, throw it at me, etc., but never eat it. :imbar :eek:

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
anyone who's worked on a ward doing abdo surgeries will appreciate this

had a patient with a new colostomy who was still a bit funny with it - he wouldn't look at it, even to change it, so he usually made a bit of a balls-up of it.

this one day he was changing it and making a mess, sticking his fingers into the stoma, smearing poo all over the place, only half fastening the bag in place, and the entire time i was standing there trying my hardest to just let him get on with it.

when he finally finished, i gave him a cloth to clean himself up, and as i was about to take it back, noticed he had a bit of poo on his fingers, so i said something along the lines of 'you missed a spot', and he shrugged and

:stone LICKED IT OFF :stone

A physician asked a very agitated patient who wasn't his to do that. In fact, he wiped his gloved finger on the guy's nose.:rolleyes: :uhoh3: :p
Specializes in Cardiac/Telemetry.
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...........

GROSS!!!!! :barf02: :barf01:

Way back when I was a CNA, My nurse told me to get a rectal temp to an old lady, I bent over to look, pt. let out a give puff and feces over my eyes and face. :barf01: Its a wonder why I'm still in this field.

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it's not really gross in comparrison to the others yet depends which end your on.

i was working outpatient clinic and the doc was doing a pap on a very obese woman. tipped the scale at 400. anyhow, one of the tricks of the trade with the speculum to hold some of the adipose in the lady partsl cavity is to put a condom on the speculum, cut off the tip in order to view the cervix. still with me? ok, so we are in doing the exam and the vag light quits working, the doc instructed me to hold the speculum in place while he went to get another light. somehow the patient repositioned and tipped the exam table over, so when the doc walks in, i am under the patient, my head resting nicely in her crotch. yuk!!!! guess i over responded to protect the patient.:uhoh3:

i want to know more about the condom trick a nurse practioner i worked for was needing a way to get the adipose tissue out of the way so she could see. if you describe in detail how this works maybe i can share this with her.

Specializes in NA, Stepdown, L&D, Trauma ICU, ER.