Things that make Nurses Cringe!

** Cringeworthy Competition Winners **

Thanks so much to all who entered our ‘Cringeworthy’ competition! It was a close call with so many great entries.

Many of the entries featured faeces and/or maggot related stories, so I guess these rank quite high on the cringe-o-meter!

Winners!

The five winners are:

Di:
patient presented to emergency having a sausage stuck in his throat. After removing such sausage the doctor left it on the overway, patient re-ate it

Sascha:
When opening up a spigated NGT the gastric contents in the tube flicked up and hit me in the face and mouth. Yuck!!

Kim:
During a code blue, a male colleague of mine knelt on a suppository that had popped out of the collapsed patients bottom!

Julie:
Young bloke, Pilonidal sinus. Asked me out while I was pulling out packing from his a***. Then – said I was “stuck up” for saying NO.

Daina:
The removal of a tampon that had been in situ for just under one month. Still makes me shudder.

Congratulations winners! Prizes will be sent after confirmation of your details.

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Special mention should also go to the following great entries – maybe you can relate to one or two:

Feeding a resident in the communal dinning room, only to have their colostomy bag explode down the front of them while spoon feeding them and copping most of it on my shoes.

I could not draw up 1ml of heparin I felt like such a twit since all the staff were watching me.

Explaining to a patient’s wife that she should not be giving her husband soap enemas in hospital. She held a hot water bottle – hose insitu.

We were standing by a dying ladies bed and son asked if anyone knew of a cheap funeral home

Showering a homeless guy who replaced his colostomy bag with newspaper I discovered that hundreds of maggots had kept the site clean as a whistle.

Pt having a gynaecological check-up a couple days post labour, Dr turns to the husband, says ‘does this look the same to you as before!?’

In first week of postgrad was fooled into giving spounge bath to completely mobile patient after he told me he couldn’t move.

I had walked an elderly lady to the toilet and after a few minutes she buzzed for help where she then said to me..”I am having a little trouble sister…do you have a metal spoon”!!!!

While showering an old man years ago and when washing his bottom he said ‘that’s it, wash it good because it needs a good clean’.

Having a elderly gent (80’s) telling me i can help him wash his ‘old fella’ then giving me a wink.. VERY cring-worthy..

helping a new grad..she removed pan full of malaena, put it on the floor and yes…stepped in it. poo in shoes.cringe worthy

To read more cringeworthy stories, head over to the Cringeworthy Stories pages. The rest of the entries received will be added there shortly.