worst clinical story please??

[tcpmom]

Would anyone like to share their worst clinical story? I just survived my very first 3 days of med surg clinical (no nursing experience whatsoever!) and my patient on the second day was a 300 pound, dimented, confused, dependent, biligerant man. No pain meds b/c of the dimentia. Had to clean up a big messy bm (lots of digging!) while he yelled at us. It got to the point where I didn't want to go in the room...He would yell, "I need a bedpan" and then when two people came in to help him he would yell at us asking why we were trying to move him "I don't need to go!!"

Anyway, I survived with my ego intact but keep asking myself, "does it actually get worse?" I hope that was my worst patient and if I can deal with it, then I'll be okay going forward. Any thoughts??

[canoehead, BSN, RN]

So we (me & a tech) get her on the bedside comode and begin to bathe her. The whole time she's telling me I suck at bathing people, I'll never make a good nurse, etc, etc.

See in a year or two you'll hand her the washcloth and tell her to do it herself or keep her opinions to herself. If she has an idea as to how to make it easier on you or herself, that's fine, but just general free flowing abuse sure isn't.

Of course you may want to finish the bath anyway just to get it over with, and to cut the odor. If so, bring along a friend so you can share her cutting critique, and you'll have someone to laugh about it with later.

[KMS4]

I had been a CNA while in nursing school (I just graduated, but have yet to take the boards!) so it takes a lot to gross me out. Well I gave my first fleets in my med/surg clinical and then helped the pt onto the commode. I was walking behind him to get something when he leaned forward on the commode and had a BM... he sprayed everything all over me! I just kind of stood there for a moment, I didn't want to let the pt know he had done it, so when the nurse took over with him, I quickly left the room and changed my pants and washed up. Thank God I was in a setting that had hospital pants for the staff (the nursing home where I work doesn't). I wasn't as grossed out as other people were around me, but I felt like I smelled all day!

I threw those pants out!