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!

[Angie O'Plasty]

I was working two-16 hour shifts @ a nursing home, as an agency nurse.

I had wound care to do on an elderly, bed-fast, non-responsive patient.

I walked into her room & greeted her, as usual..going on with ..."hi, I'm your nurse today..and I'll be changing your dressing...yadda-yadda"...and I noticed a buzzing sound as I neared the bed. My first thought was "there must be a hearing aid laying around somewhere".....No hearing aid. ---- I then looked @ the A/C unit, thinking it was about to fritz out (wanting to prevent any electrical problems)....Nothing there, either.

So--I proceeded to reposition the patient comfortably, so I could do my dressing change. Her mouth was slightly opened...revealing the source of the buzzing I had heard.

3 flies in her mouth.

I wanted to freak! Fortunately, the on-call doctor readily agreed to a course of prophylactic antibiotics. What a mess that would have been to explain to the family once she set in with a cough!

Ick! Sounds like she needed some mouth care too...

[TigerGalLE, BSN, RN]

Well I have experienced some digusting smells in my short time as a nurse but the other day I experienced the worst smell ever!! This wasn't my patient but another nurse called us into the room b/c her patient had become unresponsive. We checked vitals, BS, O2 sat ect those were all fine.. Called a rapid response... Ended up coding him/her. Well, all of a sudden the pt starts projectile vomiting. And I mean this is the nastiest smelling vomit I have ever smelled. The pt came in with possible bowel obstuction. So we suctioned and placed an NG... but vomit was everywhere and the pt continued to vomit. The doc says they must of had an ileus that ruptured. They had to bring everyone in the code nose plugs. The pt was literally vomiting necrotic bowel and stool... eww I couldn't even eat lunch that day...

So that is my number 1 nastiest smell

[t4llul4h]

ok so my stories dont even come close to all of these. but i thought i'd share my FIRST ever experience on a surgical ward (and it was my first day too) one of the nurses was going to take a patients drains out and asked if i would care to watch, well im not a squemish person so i was quite happy to watch. well the nurse removed the stitches holding the drains in place and begain removing the drain, he pulled and pulled and pulled etc and with every pull on the drain i could feel myself start to get warm the nurse looked at me and asked if i was alright so having never fainted before i said 'yeah im great' i then started to sway a little and all of a sudden i couldnt see very well. i had to grab hold of the curtaines to keep myself from toppling over. the nurse shouted for someone to come help him and the nurse that came in had to help me to the bathroom. the patient later asked me 'how are you feeling' lol im supposed to ask that.

im a lttle steadier on my feet these days

This isnt gross but i didnt know where to post it, another tale about another patient. we got a young man admited onto the ward, he came in with his friend and was capable of walking around by himself. All the staff where busy in hand over and half way through we hear the crash alarm go, all hell brakes lose as all the staff on both shifts start running (and i mean marathon running) to the source of the emergency. all the staff burst though the door of the six bedded room, with the nurse at the front of the stampead flying (seriously) through the door, everyone nearly landing in a heap. to find.... yes you can probably guess that young man sat on his bed looking at us all at the bottom of his bed, bemused as to what is wrong with him. when he replies 'you didnt come when i pushed the buzzer'. he had pulled the crash alarm because we didnt 'come quick enough'. needless to say he had about 2 house officers 8 RNs and a handfull of support staff wanting to kick his butt out the door.

gggrrrr some people, we did have a giggle after we all calmed down though lol

[TraumaGirl1018]

Saw maggots eating a tympanic membrane once. Pt c/o "crunching sound" in the ear.

oh my goodness! Im cuurious, what was the ordered treatment for that one?

[CRNI-ICU20]

I worked in an ER, west coast, and a freq. flyer with asthma and CHF came in with fluid overload, low sats, and shortness of breath. This woman was nearly 400 lbs. The usual treatment was foley, lasix, inhalation therapy, oxygen, and she was usually out of the woods.

Her belly was so huge, it hung down to her knee caps, and required three of us to cath her....two to hold up her belly, and keep her legs apart, and one to 'dive in' with a catheter. When we laid her flat and shoved up her belly, and I was all gloved and ready to insert the cath, a smashed still wrapped Hostess Twinkie fell out of her belly crease.....and her reply, "OMG! I wondered where that went!!" I am not sure what the shelf life is on a Twinkie.....but I don't think it includes belly shelf in the fine print....

ewwwwww!

[gauge14iv, MSN, APRN, NP]

a smashed still wrapped Hostess Twinkie fell out of her belly crease.....

Had a twinkie and a single serving carton of milk fall out from under a 500 plus pt's left breast once. eeeeeeeeeeew

[CRNI-ICU20]

Who needs a lunch box, when you have all those convenient places to tuck food??? I bet she's a riot at a grocery store.....tucking whole hams under her dress, etc....omg! I am going to be sick now....bleh.

[SmileyCNAII]

We had an OD pt last week. He drank down his charcoal (with sucrose) with no problem. An hour or two later he was out of it because of a shot of vitamin H and all was peaceful.....until he began what I though was flatulating.....oh my golly did I start to worry when I saw the brown stain on the TOP sheet as it began to appear. I picked up the edge of the top sheet and the liquidy poop was all over, it ran the length of his legs and then began dripping on the floor which of course then splashed up on the bed. What a mess..... The smell was incredible... it took 3 of us in full gown, gloves and mask to clean up that mess...... Yuk!!

[mom4josh]

Oh, my... some of these are really disgusting.

I was a fairly new nurse, had just arrived for my 7p shift. Found the day shift nurse that I was supposed to get report from. She was hurriedly rushing up and down the hall and said she'd give me report in a few minutes. Finally she came back and told me about her patient (soon to be my patient). This little old lady with dementia had wandered out in the hallway around supper time. Decided then and there that she needed to have a BM... on the carpet. (Wait, it gets worse!) Well, as older people do, she had to examine it. She then figures she should pick some of it up, carry it into the room across the hall, and "offer" some to the other patient - while she was eating dinner! EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

[TazziRN, RN]

Ohhhhhh, I just remembered one.......20+ years ago I worked as a home health CNA while in nursing school. Several of my clients lived in an assisted living facility, a REALLY nice apartment building/bungalow complex. All the units were fully functional apartments but there was a dining room for those who didn't want to cook. I went to see one client who knew I was also seeing one of her neighbors. She and the neighbor were in the dining room for one meal. My client, A, was sitting at a different table than the other client, B. A told me that B was drinking out of her water glass when she suddenly vomited her lunch into her glass. INTO her glass, mind you. Without batting an eye B proceeded to drink the water, added ingredient and all.

I remember skipping lunch that day.......

[Natkat, BSN, MSN, RN]

What happens to these dirty old men? I know that some of these men are so confused that they can't help but masturbate in public, but what about the men who are perfectly aware of their actions and if they were any other age, would be slapped with sexual harassment suits?

I don't think anything happened to them.....I think they've always been that way. It has only been the last 15 years or so (remember Anita Hill?) that sexual harassment was even acknowledge. Up until men said and did whatever they wanted to women and there was nothing stopping them. They are left over from a different era.

[ktwlpn, LPN]

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