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

my story was on first clinical placement as a student procedure was a last offices patient still had secretions pouring out of nose and mouth so when we rolled him to pass mourtary sheet under him there were greenish secretions pouring outta his mouth and nose eeew.

I was an LVN student, going in for my first female foley catheterization....

was ready to remove the old one, then realized that there was some really..really old poop stuck to her pubic hair, which in turn wrapped itself around the old cath tubing FIRMLY securing it into place. anytime that tubing was tugged she would holler ! so it was like 100 degrees in that room, im bending over drippin sweat trying to cut this poo dread with scissors from her vajay-jay, so i could pull this dang cath out.....

that was pretty stinkin nasty.....seriously, this thing was ANCHORED.

my instructor had never seen anything like it....

oh yeah, and all the soury cottage cheese you find under old dudes foreskins....

"I think i just puked in my mouth a little"......

Wow, from your story it makes me not wanna do a catherization... eeewwww... but u know what they say in Nursing, "not everything you're gonna see is pretty" ... srry u had to experience that.. :barf02::barf02:

Specializes in Acute,Subacute,Long-term Care.
i was a brand new grad working in the er when this 80 something little lady was brought in. she had a bka a few months ago and was being cared for by family members. they brought her in because she was running a high temp and had a foul odor coming from her stump. one of the residents examined her and ordered her stump to be soaked in ns and betadine solution. i placed her leg in the basin to soak and left the room for a minute. a few minutes later i heard her screaming down the hall. i rushed down to see what was wrong and she was crying and saying she was being eaten alive. i looked down at the basin and it was full of huge magots swimming around. i called the doctor in and he clipped away the flap from her stump and many more magots fell out into that basin. i felt so bad for her. she was so upset and apologizing to us. her family had not taken her to any of her follow-up appointments and didn't seek medical attention for her until her fever got out of control. needless to say, we reported the family for elder abuse.

its amazing what ya see in the er. didn't run me off though :)

that is awful! that poor woman. i don't understand how the family could not provide the care for her wound. if they didn't have the time or skill, they should have told the hospital before leaving so that other arrangements could have been arranged. treatment like that is so uncalled for, i hope they got the punishment that they deserved!:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire

Oh man, I've cracked up reading some of these stories on here, but there are some that are so sad too. I'm pre-nursing right now, but even after reading these, I still want to become a nurse. Can't wait until I get there, so I can finally share my gross experiences! :roll

Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.

Hmmm.... I don't think I shared my recent blood exposure story on here. Granted, it's not enough to make a maggot hurl, but it was icky nonetheless.

I worked on New Year's Eve, on my usual 7p-7a hours, and was sent to the tele floor. The first patient I checked on was a now-stable tranfused and cauterized GI bleeder. Her IV site was bad, and blood was backing up into her Protonix drip. I had gotten in report that "her IV was leaking bloody IV fluid" all day. :icon_roll All DAY!!! :idea:

So I went in, did the assessment thing, and tried to flush the site. Didn't take, wouldn't flush and the saline just backed up the IV more. I should have turned off the IV and yanked it at that point and started over with a new site. Instead, I found the connection it was leaking from and tried to tighten it. The bloody IV fluid squirted out the loose tubing connection and sprayed me square in the face and mouth. Yick!!!

Oh man, I've cracked up reading some of these stories on here, but there are some that are so sad too. I'm pre-nursing right now, but even after reading these, I still want to become a nurse. Can't wait until I get there, so I can finally share my gross experiences! :roll

to be sure, you will, Dottie. The baby one was too sad to be on this particular thread. Just remember, don't tell your tales at the dinner table. I have been censored, and you will be too!

Diahni

Bah! I ALWAYS tell my tales at the supper table....and now everyone has a VERY strong stomach!:innerconf

Specializes in ICU, CVICU.

OH MY GAWD....I made it to page 3 and then I had to stop for the night. I'm going to have nightmares about earwax blech!!!!

Specializes in onc, M/S, hospice, nursing informatics.

More stories about pus, abscesses, and stuff like that.... please! Keep 'em coming!

:lol_hitti

Oh, yes... don't forget the boils!

Bah! I ALWAYS tell my tales at the supper table....and now everyone has a VERY strong stomach!:innerconf

i'm not sure if I should say "lucky you"!

Specializes in Rehab, Med Surg, Home Care.
Oh man, I've cracked up reading some of these stories on here, but there are some that are so sad too. I'm pre-nursing right now, but even after reading these, I still want to become a nurse. Can't wait until I get there, so I can finally share my gross experiences! :roll

Yep. You might be just sick enough to go into nursing! (Said with PRIDE!)

I'd like to see a study of how many nurses read Mad Magazine as a kid.

Diahni