Nastiest Things in the Hospital | Professionals Stories #74

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[pirobotbeta]

Biomedical repair tech here: a surgical table was stuck to the floor...a finger had gotten stuck between the tile floor and tables base-flange.
The table weighs around 800 pounds, so the finger had gotten squished quite thin.
A few days drying time and 'Bingo!', finger-glue!!
Hot water, a putty-knife and some colorful language later, the table was rolling again.

[WingsOfADream]

>Nastiest Things in the Hospital
>Being called a frontline hero one year and a subhuman with delusions of rights the next
:3

[floridasam]

A SHARPIE CAP!?!?!? IN HER URETHRA!?!?!? I honestly didn't think that something SO big even COULD fit in the urethra!!!! Unreal dude omg my whole body cringed hearing that one!! Just

[GhostBear]

The bar for altered mental status calls for me was set by the call where the only way to describe: arrived on scene to find patient losing argument with her bedsheets.

[caitlinmorris]

Comparatively mild most likely, but I used to be a nursing student before dropping out of university. Anyway, there's nothing like being on placement with your buddy nurse and helping them clean a defecating patient...while you hold the patient and the nurse wipes the patient down....who is defecating WHILE being wiped

[whatthree]

Was doing a progress note while some surgeons were looking at a CT scan next to me. Looked over, and the guy had a whole cucumber in his intestine. Couldn't unsee it.

[iwannaeatfood]

I'm a cleaner and still a newbie, 2/3 months in. Anyway, today I witnessed the aftermath of an alcholic downing a bottle of hand sanitizer in a desperate attempt to get the smallest amount of alchol.
I'm still processing it and if I'm being honest my brain has completely blacked that hour of the day out.
Ah the joys of working in A&E.

[Love_cake]

"He doesn't even like potatoes" got me🤣🤣

[falconaudiostudios]

I died laughing at the chest compression story. It sounds like straight out of a Carol Burnett skit.

[girlfromthevillage]

I worked in a care home and one evening a woman who was a fall risk ended up having her censor mat turned off by mistake and fell and cracked her head open really bad. We called the emergency bell and the first thing the nurse did when she arrived on the scene ( took her nearly 10 damn minutes when she was IN THE BUILDING) was yell at us for not turning off the emergency alarm ( we aren't allowed to turn the alarm off until a nurse is there ) she then preceeded to drag this poor woman off the floor, haphazardly wipe the blood off her head ( still leaving tones behind) and then PUT HER IN BED . EVERYONE knows not to put someone with a head injury to bed, you need to keep the awake for several hours to make sure you can catch anything amiss. We voiced out concerns with the nurse but she ignored us and unfortunately in care, nurse gets final say and if you go against what they say you can actually get fired. I wasn't willing to leave this poor woman alone ( she had severe dementia too so was very distressed) so we all agreed ( bar the nurse who we kept out of this group decision) that I should stay with her and wait for a night staff member to be able to sit with her. I ended up staying 3 hours after my 12 hour shift and went home covered in blood. I was barely 18 at the time and was and continue to be traumatised by the events I witnessed. I still sometimes wake up smelling blood. I smelt blood every moment I was awake for 5 months. I had regular panic attacks and still sometimes have them remembering the events. That woman ended up dying from a brain bleed due to the fall. The nurse was never fired or even got in trouble. I still carry the guilt with me every day

[LoveShaysloco]

as a former emt when people asked me how many i saved i just say i dont know never kept track. the only one i kept track of was how many i lost which was 3. when people asked why how many i lost. i go to make me better so i can save the next one. i also make deals with the ones who dont wana die. i tell them look i cant save everyone but the harder you fight to live the harder i fight to keep you alive

[scootwinch]

here’s me just patiently waiting for the swamps of dagobah story to show up…………………

[stevebird]

As a support worker for people with mental disabilities I have had the pleasure of finding out where the phrase shit eating grin comes from...

[fnafplayer]

16:37 "That guy was batshit crazy" 😂

[morticiaaddams]

Worked long term care for 30 yrs. Saw lots of strange stuff.

The incontinent man who liked to stash his folding money in his brief.
Person lit up a cigarette while wearing oxygen. 2nd and 3rd degree burns along his cheekbones.
400+lb woman needing a private room due to extensive equipment having lots of male 'friends' visit through the day. We found the ad. Was discharged for other reasons.
Male resident admitted with an astonishing collection of porn. Needed extensive care. Watched it all day. Had a short list of people to take care of him because he preferred young, small ladies so he just got big guys. Must have been over 300 DVD's.

[susanboyd]

i also worked with spinal cord patients who were paralyzed, i had to do bowel training, get them to poop after dinner, give them hot coffee, and/or suppository, laxatives. Or manually removed the poop with my fingers, i always had perfume in my locker, i would go get it and spray it inside my mask before i had to do that. Another thing for people who have surgery, injury, pain, etc.. if you take pain pills like codeine, vicodin, percocet etc... you need a laxative it will plug you up and you might need poop removed by hand, your hand or someone elses. TMI i know, but its life. Best thing, is milk of magnesia, soap sud enema, and lots of lube____Also in jail if inmates get constipated they put a small piece of bar hand soap in the rear and it works like an suppository.

[nellinightshade]

hoo-boi. i was a nurse for 36 years. takes me w-a-y back. and had a few units of blood myself this year. that was fun. don't get anaemia. or an immune system that goes boobs up. and remember a cyclist head-butting a bus.

[kendoruslink]

Oh my god that miscarriage story what the fuck

[Joanna-vdvf]

I don't know why I decided to grab a dessert before clicking on this video...

[bronykingamethystrain]

Stone County Hospital is the very definition of incompetent. 2 family members dead because of them. Not being able to figure out my mother was having a pulmonary embolism, and my great uncle getting bed sores after a stroke and being sent to a home to croak afterwards!