Whats your best nursing ghost story?

I work NOC at a LTC facility. Recently I had a lady call me in her room at about 2 am. The first thing that I noticed was that her door was half open, which is very odd because she likes her room very dark. So, I thought that she just wanted me to close the door. When I went in her room she said that someone just opened the door, went in her bathroom, and used the sink. She wanted to know who was in her room. I told her I was the only one there, and that I didn't see anybody go in her room. This lady is completely lucid, and truely believed someone had been in her room. I just thought that was kinda creepy. Does anybody else have any creepy stories?

wow, that is kinda creepy. I can imagine creepy things happening in nursing homes, considering i'm sure many deaths may take place there. I'm going to be a cna too. I was considering the grave yard shift because i thought it would be a little easier because most of the patients would probabley be sleep. but I am a big scary cat! i dont want any bad experience to happen to me. I would totally freak the heck out!!!!

Hi Carebear,

I am sorry for your creepy experience. She probably just thought she heard something - the dark can play tricks on the best of us at different times!
I am a CNA student and intrested in nights 11-7 - can you tell what a typical night is like for you?

Thanks so much!

Sorry - I meant care_baer! See - the night is playing tricks on my eyes - lol

For your reading pleasure ...

Freaky Things
http://allnurses.com/emergency-nursi...gs-372095.html

Whats your best nursing ghost story?
http://allnurses.com/general-nursing...st-108202.html

For all of you new cna's that think going to the night shift is alot easier. It can be and then it can be a night that the devil himself conjured up. Night time is when all of the sundowners go crazy, when these people get some diff meds and people just genreally go nuts. People dont always sleep at night. Peple still are incontinent at night and they all need to go to the bathroom at some point through out the night. I have only worked in a hospital for my CNA job. People will die and you will walk in and see weird things that might startle you. It has happened to me so many times i cannot even count. You might walk into a room with a PT laing on the floor and thats a bit scary because falls are not good. But you just have to get your footing and you will be fine.

I was in an unoccupied pt's room getting it ready for an admission when I was slapped hard on the back. The room is small. There is no way someone could have snuck in w/o me knowing... besides, my back was to a wall. I froze and when I finally built up the courage to walk out, I turned to look and saw nothing.

Another night, I it looked like one of my co-workers was going into the supply room. I walked in after her to ask if I could do anything to help.... and there was no one. There was only one way in or out.

Close to that time, I was walking the hall making rounds. I walked by a room and saw my co-worker bent over a pt. I went to the nurse's station and there she was! There was only 2 of us, so when I asked her where she was the last 45 seconds, she said she had been there for the last 15 minutes charting. We 2 chickens walked back to that room but there was no one in the pt's room.

Other nurses began to complain of odd sightings so our supervisor called in the Hawaiian priest to have the floor blessed.

Hi RockinCNA8705,

Thanks for the info on nights - I appreciate it.

I am not interested in nights because I think it will be easier. It is the only shift that will work for me as I have someone to watch my daughter who is handicapped and I am in school during the day - just to that clarify point.

But thank you for your info - it was very helpful.

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Mrs.Doolittle,

Ghosts are fascinating to me but I would probably have a major Code Brown if something unseen slapped me on the back!!!!

I am curious about this part of your experience:
"Close to that time, I was walking the hall making rounds. I walked by a room and saw my co-worker bent over a pt. I went to the nurse's station and there she was!"

Did you get a good look at the figure in the room? I am wondering whether the ghost made itself look like your co-worker.

I remember hearing stories of nightwalkers or skinwalkers(cant remember which) when I visited Hawaii. People sometimes see the figures of the native Polynesian people, dressed in the old way,walking single file. Supposedly it is bad luck to look at them.