What is the worst thing you see on your floor?

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What is the worst thing you see on your floor? I always hate when people think OB nurses don't see bad stuff. For me the things that freak me out the most are HELLP, DIC x1, and shoulder distocias. We had one patient with a liver rupture which i guess if very rare! If I remember right she didn't have any prenatal care. She actually lived.

Specializes in CVICU.

Dog hair and dust, and some muddy footprints. Oh, you meant the floor you work on?

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

As a supervisor......Prime Ip......amniotic fluid emboli who promptly seized and coded and an emergent C-section (and I mean emergent:eek:) as she went into DIC after we got her pulse back.......some 68+++++ blood and blood products later.............she and her baby lived:yeah:

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Specializes in geriatrics, IV, Nurse management.
Is RPN the same as LPN?

I believe so, but I'm only going by what "google" tells me LOL. Only a few provinces refer to LPNs are RPNs. Registered Practical Nursing. :nurse:

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I work in the ER so I see a lot of bad things ... the most recent sad thing was a 32 year old man come into the ER due to a stroke, no major history that would bring this on ... the other was elder abuse, an 80-something year old Alzheimer's female that was made to sit into her own feces, urine, etc ... never to be moved out of her wheelchair in months ... between the lice and stage 4 ulcer ... and a smell that could clear the ER ....

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Specializes in Psychiatric nursing.

Working in an oncology ward and having a client with a fungating anal tumour, and therefore had a colostomy, which swelled up so bad during radiation that it came out about 15cm and hung....poor patient was so distressed and was so depressed they refused to shower...whole place smelt so so bad...the type that clings to your clothes and hair...until we convinced them to let us take them for a shower in the really cool bath bed...theres some about hygiene that makes people a little happier...

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Specializes in L&D,Wound Care, SNC.

When working L&D several years ago I took care of a patient that was told by multiple specialists her baby had multiple anomalies incompatible with life, to include little to no lung tissue and heart defects (can't remember what they were). She really truly thought the specialists were wrong. She came to the hospital with a car seat in the car, she let people from her church throw her a baby shower. Well, the specialists were correct. It was a heart breaking delivery.

I now work in wound care, have only been there for 2 months, I don't really have any horror stories yet.

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Specializes in Progressive Care Unit.

Guys, since we are in the OB-GYN forum, I think the thread starter was talking about the worst thing seen in OB-GYN floor? (not absolutely sure though. :) )

Back on topic: on my previous job, I would say 'the Nurse Manager' :D

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Guys, since we are in the OB-GYN forum, I think the thread starter was talking about the worst thing seen in OB-GYN floor? (not absolutely sure though. :) )

Back on topic: on my previous job, I would say 'the Nurse Manager' :D

True, but posts get moved around to the gereral forum......so you What is the worst thing you've can get answers from many different specialties......and she posted "seen on YOUR floor". :)

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

It's still in OB/Gyn, but it gets viewed by everyone on allnurses.com's home page, so lots of people post to it. It's all good. :)

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Specializes in PERI OPERATIVE.

I was going to say a big spider I had to squish the other day...

Not on my floor but when I was working as a nurse extern in the ED after graduation two little boys came in DOA after they set their grandparents house on fire from playing with matches. The grandfather died as well.

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