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..

My most recent one was produced by me. I vomited about 21/2 litres of partially digested blood all over the X Ray tech, her uniform, the machine, myself, and all over my bed. Then when my kidneys began to fail, black urine came out of me. The administrator of the place where I live said, "I don't want to hear one word about death, or what causes it. I'm still around.:D Gave me a whole new perspective about what can come out of our bodies though.

My most recent one was produced by me. I vomited about 21/2 litres of partially digested blood all over the X Ray tech, her uniform, the machine, myself, and all over my bed. Then when my kidneys began to fail, black urine came out of me. The administrator of the place where I live said, "I don't want to hear one word about death, or what causes it. I'm still around.:D Gave me a whole new perspective about what can come out of our bodies though.

I'm sorry that you had to go through that. But I never heard of black urine r/t kidney failure. The urine is actually black?? :barf01::barf01::barf01:

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
I'm sorry that you had to go through that. But I never heard of black urine r/t kidney failure. The urine is actually black?? :barf01::barf01::barf01:
Mine was. I watched the nurse empty it in the graduate. Maybe there was some partially digested blood in it to make it look like that. Anyway, my physician confirmed I definitely was going into kidney failure. (Can you imagine how that must have stunk?)And my bladder hurt a lot.

Poor you! Are you getting some relief? Has your doc managed to arrest the kidney failure? Feel better soon. I'm thinking of you.

Specializes in ltc.

okay i finally made it to the end of these post..... lol.... without throwing up here is my contribution though its not that good... i have only been a nurse for a month now and work LTC.....

the other day the wife of a resident brought his pants up to the nursing station to prove to us that he had diarrhea... it was like uhhhh you could have jsut told us and we would belive you... lol

This isn't a pt story, it happened to me.

After eating a lovely dinner of mixed fajitas...a thunderstorm rolled in, and I got a whopper of a migraine with violent n/v. Well, I could not get the smell of vomitus out of my nose, which was increasing the nausea, so I decided to try saline irrigation, like my husband does for his allergies. You tilt your head to the side and slowly pour the irrigant in the upper nare, and it drains out the lower nare into the sink. My L nare was completely blocked, but when I irrigated my R nare, the blockage moved. Afterwards, I blew my nose really well, and out came a small chewed up piece of shrimp.

I will say after that the smell of vomitus did go away, but I hate to think of what would have happened if I didn't irrigate my nose and sinuses. :barf01:

[ she was also pimping out her microcephalous daughter. (no regard to her or her daughter's health!)

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*jess*:monkeydance:

please tell me this woman was arrested and her daughter taken away.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
Poor you! Are you getting some relief? Has your doc managed to arrest the kidney failure? Feel better soon. I'm thinking of you.
Oh hon, I'm a lot better now. It took me a year to regain my strength, but I'm back. I have an excellent physician who knows what he's doing, and who believes me. I do have to take furosimide for the rest of my life though. Hey if it's going to keep the fluid off of me, I'm willing to take it.

Maybe It Was Peas He Was Saving For Later. Ha! Ha!

nasty... ok so i work on a tele floor and am just beginning my RN career (read RN

My pt, A/O x3, 70 y/o F, came in with CHF and was on a Lasix drip to pull off fluid- she had a foley in for an accurate I/Os. She presses the call button asking for her RN. So I come in and she says to me-- I think the foley is leaking b/c i feel kinda wet down there. So I take a look at the foley and noticed what looked like diarrhea- it was really foul smelling and brown/black. i told her it look like diarrhea but she denied having a BM. After she gets cleaned up it is apparent that she was right- no BM- the rectum is totally clean... Turns out the stuff is comming out of her lady parts- Nasty nasty Nasty. A sample was sent to /the lab as well as a U/A. The urine in the foley was clear yellow w/o any blck stuff.

lab calls back... sample is stool. Ends up she has a fistula btw her bowels and uterus and stool was comming out the WRONG hole. can u believe it.

So glad you're doing better, and lucky you to have a great doc!

Though I'm not a nurse, I'm pretty sure I can participate in this. I work as a direct care staff for individuals with mental disabilities...One night one of my clients was very ill and looked as if he was going to vomit at any moment. He rushed to the bathroom and when I followed him to make sure he was alright, he turned around and projectile vomited allllllllllll over me. I had just started the job and I just stood there, in shock. I didn't know how to react. My supervisor came running down the hall and looked at me and she was as white as a ghost... I felt so bad for the ind. that after I cleaned up and cleaned him up, we both went down to the clinic to get checked out because this particular ind. had hepatitis and I was ultra paranoid about that. Lukily my tests came back fine, though I did wind up with a stomach bug for a couple days... *sigh* but I guess that's not as bad as one of the ind. decided to see what his on feces tasted like and I had to brush his teeth afterwards.... not too fun either.