Whats your best nursing ghost story?

We had an elderly, terminal woman in a room right next to the nurses station. One night we heard 2 distinct voices, it was around 3am & we all thought it was odd for a visitor to come at that hour. I went in to see what was going on & she was alone in her room.
When I asked her about the voices she said "oh, that was my husband, he just dropped by to see me. She passed the next night. I was breaking her chart down & something on her H&P caught my eye.
Her husband had been dead for 20 years.

Whatevs, they were probably just talking about her travel arrangements.

There is one room in the post partum unit of the hospital that always smells like men's cologne! When you enter the room, the door shuts without being touched, and the lights appear to be off from outside the building, when they are on on the inside!!! Creeepy! We have to warn the newbies from mentioning anything around patients!

I am currently taking CNA classes and our class's labs are split up between the nursing home the classes are in and another nursing home.

The other nursing home is where my mother was for a couple of months and where she died.

A fellow student and I were talking about where we would like to work after we are certified and he said, "I wouldn't want to work at 'DS'!" and he shuddered. "It's CREEPY!"

I told him I knew it was creepy. When my mom was in her last few weeks, my brother came to see her and she said to him, "Are you the angel of death, coming to take me away?" My poor brother was devasted.

"No, Mom, it's me, Tim."

And she told him there were people there for her -- often. She told me this also and mentioned dark and shadowy figures. As she was closer to death (liver failure from massive meds for congestive heart failure) she was foggy and confused and eventually had no idea what was going on. Of course that could have been much of it, but it made sense...

I don't know anyone that works there to ask just what goes on there at night, but I do know from spending many days and evenings there that her wing was very scary. When you'd walk down the hall away from the nurse's station, you could definitely feel "presences" and the air was very heavy and rather ominous. To leave the building at night, you'd have to take the elevator down to the first floor where there were a couple of offices and the cafeteria at the end of a VERY DARK hallway. The glow of the EXIT lights were enough to light the hall so you did NOT want to look! I would avoid looking down that hallway and walk so fast the other direction to the door that I practically ran!

*shivers*

I don't particularly want to work there either. Maybe that's why they pay so well and their pm/night differential is so great!!

My 1st job was 3-11 in LTC and we had a lady who would always ring a bell when she needed something instead of a regular call bell. After she died, once in while we would hear the bell, even though no one had a bell anymore. We would all tip toe down the hall together looking for a pt with a bell and could find none but we all heard it.

Had a patient wake up FURIOUS a couple monthes ago. She said the bus had been there to get her, but "that damn fat woman took up two seats" and I was told that there was no more room for me. The next day, she was a bit more subdued, a veteran was waiting and she let him go first. The next morning, she died.

freaky. When my grandfather was in his last days, he resided at a nursing home. He would point up at the ceiling and say there's Uncle Richard....I have an uncle named Richard who lives in texas and my dad's uncle was named Richard also. He died about 25 years before while cleaning his gun. I think my grandfather saw him.

Working inpt Hospice, I see this all the time. Some may call it hallucinations but it is ALWAYS someone who is dead. It isn't like grandpa sees John who is at home with his kids. Grandpa sees his brothers and sisters who are dead. They are sometimes able to tell us when they are going to die. Oh, my favorite? The guy who had a "healthy" brother die while he was a patient with us. His family told us we weren't allowed to tell him his brother died because then he would just "give up." He said to his nurse " I know what your not telling me, do you think you can hide that from me? He already came and told me he was dead and I know that I am next. So if you cannot be honest, get out of my room." We told his family that if they wouldn't tell him his brother died, we would because it was breaking down his trust in us, because HE ALREADY KNEW!

Creepy

thanks for sharing your stories