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| No. 1520 |
Jul 01, 2009, 04:18 AM
Re: Whats your best nursing ghost story?
This one pt I had had a broken leg and pneumonia. She was complaining to me about the leg injury one shift. She said that she only got it because of an accident the ambulance had bringing her to the hospital. It went off the road into a swampy area. It was in the middle of winter, so the water was extreamly cold. The pt said she just wanted to go to sleep, but a woman was calling her name and telling her not to. She didn't think anything of it until she was in a new abulance going to the ER. She said she wanted to thank the female EMT for keeping her awake, it most likely saved her life. But she was told that the EMT were both men, there was no woman there. I got a chill when I heard this.
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Jul 01, 2009, 05:09 AM
Re: Whats your best nursing ghost story?
The best way I can describe what has happened to me is that I have had several patients who were very near death give me "prophecies" about what would happen to me in the future and they have come true.
It was not general information like "you will have a good life."
It was very specific, and in sequence, "Such and such will happen, then such and such will happen." Fortunatly they have been good "prophecies" and not bad.
| | No. 1522 |
Jul 01, 2009, 05:25 AM
Re: Whats your best nursing ghost story?
Well I was ust talking to a co-worker about some of these stories, and she asked if I knew the story of out room 601. I have only been here 6 months, so I havn't. She says there was a young man who was in a ATV accident and dies in that room. Sometimes, if it is unoccupied, you can nudge the door open a little and vaguly see him around the privacy curtain. Also, there are darting shadows that have been seen at that end of the hall....I doubt I'll sleep well when I get home now.
| | No. 1523 |
Jul 01, 2009, 09:28 AM
Re: Whats your best nursing ghost story? Originally Posted by NuteRN ... there was a young man who was in a ATV accident and dies in that room. Sometimes, if it is unoccupied, you can nudge the door open a little and vaguly see him around the privacy curtain.
BLAAAAAH! Is he looking right back at you????
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
| | No. 1524 |
Jul 03, 2009, 01:26 PM
Re: Whats your best nursing ghost story?
I think for the people you feel are still lingering at the hospital. Just tell them you, have died. You need to go into the light.
It is ok. I have prayed for your soul. If you have sined just ask for forgiveness.
It is ok to cross over now.........
Or something like that.
No need to feel afraid of them. | | No. 1526 |
Jul 28, 2009, 10:01 PM
Re: Whats your best nursing ghost story?
I am not a nurse, but was directed to this forum about ghost stories, from my sister who is a nurse. Really enjoying the reading!
Not necessarily a ghost story, but my Mom passed away in 2006, and there have been a couple of strange incidents associated with that. - After my Mom had a massive stroke, she developed dementia during the last few months of her life. Probably the only good thing about her dementia was that she "forgot" that my Dad had passed away 18 months earlier, and she often talked of him as if he was there (who knows - maybe he was?). She needed 24 hour nursing care, so we reluctantly placed her in a nursing home. She was confused as to time and place most of the time, and was often angry and would act out (I think caused by frustration). I visited every day after work. She was basically holding her own for about 2 months, however, one morning I woke up around 5 AM with an overwhelming sense that I needed to see her earlier than normal, so I decided to visit before work. It was about a 10 minute drive to the nursing facility, and about 2 blocks from my home my cell phone rang - It was the home notifying me that she had taken a turn for the worst, and that I should come ASAP. I told them I was already on my way. She lasted about 20 more hours, never regaining consciousness, before passing away peacefully.
- My Mom had many grandchildren, but was closest to my daughter. My parents had watched my daughter every week day for 12 years while I worked, so they were really close. My daughter was 17 when my Mom had her stroke. Just prior to my Mom's death, my daughter had gone to a camp for several days. Unfortunately, my Mom passed away while my daughter was away. After leaving the nursing home, I came home and called the camp office and asked them to have her please call me. When my daughter called, her first words to me were "Nana died, didn't she?" I told her yes. My daughter told me that the night before she had a dream in which she saw my Dad's hand, and then my Mom reach out and take his hand, and she knew that meant that Nana had passed away.
- About 6 months after Mom's passing, I was sound asleep when I heard her calling me. I woke up, and looked at the alarm clock - it read 3:16 AM. I went back to sleep, assuming of course that I had been dreaming of her. I didn't mention the incident to anyone, really not even thinking about it the next day in my rush to get through my morning rituals and get to work. The next day my daughter told me she had dreamed of Nana the night before, and it was a disturbing dream. She said in her dream the entire family was at some picnic, and Nana was there. She said Nana was really agitated, and kept calling for me, and was highly upset that I wasn't there. My daughter said she woke up, and when she looked at the clock it was 3:16! I told her what happened to me and we both figured my Mom was trying to get my attention for something, although I haven't figured out what.
| | No. 1527 |
Jul 29, 2009, 12:51 PM
Re: Whats your best nursing ghost story? Originally Posted by magjentes I am not a nurse, but was directed to this forum about ghost stories, from my sister who is a nurse. Really enjoying the reading!
Not necessarily a ghost story, but my Mom passed away in 2006, and there have been a couple of strange incidents associated with that. - After my Mom had a massive stroke, she developed dementia during the last few months of her life. Probably the only good thing about her dementia was that she "forgot" that my Dad had passed away 18 months earlier, and she often talked of him as if he was there (who knows - maybe he was?). She needed 24 hour nursing care, so we reluctantly placed her in a nursing home. She was confused as to time and place most of the time, and was often angry and would act out (I think caused by frustration). I visited every day after work. She was basically holding her own for about 2 months, however, one morning I woke up around 5 AM with an overwhelming sense that I needed to see her earlier than normal, so I decided to visit before work. It was about a 10 minute drive to the nursing facility, and about 2 blocks from my home my cell phone rang - It was the home notifying me that she had taken a turn for the worst, and that I should come ASAP. I told them I was already on my way. She lasted about 20 more hours, never regaining consciousness, before passing away peacefully.
- My Mom had many grandchildren, but was closest to my daughter. My parents had watched my daughter every week day for 12 years while I worked, so they were really close. My daughter was 17 when my Mom had her stroke. Just prior to my Mom's death, my daughter had gone to a camp for several days. Unfortunately, my Mom passed away while my daughter was away. After leaving the nursing home, I came home and called the camp office and asked them to have her please call me. When my daughter called, her first words to me were "Nana died, didn't she?" I told her yes. My daughter told me that the night before she had a dream in which she saw my Dad's hand, and then my Mom reach out and take his hand, and she knew that meant that Nana had passed away.
- About 6 months after Mom's passing, I was sound asleep when I heard her calling me. I woke up, and looked at the alarm clock - it read 3:16 AM. I went back to sleep, assuming of course that I had been dreaming of her. I didn't mention the incident to anyone, really not even thinking about it the next day in my rush to get through my morning rituals and get to work. The next day my daughter told me she had dreamed of Nana the night before, and it was a disturbing dream. She said in her dream the entire family was at some picnic, and Nana was there. She said Nana was really agitated, and kept calling for me, and was highly upset that I wasn't there. My daughter said she woke up, and when she looked at the clock it was 3:16! I told her what happened to me and we both figured my Mom was trying to get my attention for something, although I haven't figured out what.
Interesting.
| | No. 1528 |
Jul 29, 2009, 07:25 PM
Re: Whats your best nursing ghost story? Originally Posted by magjentes I am not a nurse, but was directed to this forum about ghost stories, from my sister who is a nurse. Really enjoying the reading!
Not necessarily a ghost story, but my Mom passed away in 2006, and there have been a couple of strange incidents associated with that. - About 6 months after Mom's passing, I was sound asleep when I heard her calling me. I woke up, and looked at the alarm clock - it read 3:16 AM. I went back to sleep, assuming of course that I had been dreaming of her. I didn't mention the incident to anyone, really not even thinking about it the next day in my rush to get through my morning rituals and get to work. The next day my daughter told me she had dreamed of Nana the night before, and it was a disturbing dream. She said in her dream the entire family was at some picnic, and Nana was there. She said Nana was really agitated, and kept calling for me, and was highly upset that I wasn't there. My daughter said she woke up, and when she looked at the clock it was 3:16! I told her what happened to me and we both figured my Mom was trying to get my attention for something, although I haven't figured out what.
simply ask her.....
| | No. 1529 |
Jul 29, 2009, 09:20 PM
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Jul 29, 2009 at 09:26 PM by careteam70
Re: Whats your best nursing ghost story?
Not a ghost story per se but it does allways remind me of the infamous nurse gallows humor that seems to develop as a coping skill. Several years ago I was working a sub acute unit as a tech (non cna aide). I worked the 11p to 7am shift and spent most of my time answering call lights, taking vitals, getting linens, etc. The unit had one room designated as an emergency hospice room since most patients who were admited to that room passed within 12-24 hrs of admit. The room was almost never used while I was there but many of the night shift nurses would tell the techs "spooky" stories related to that room such as seeing people out of the corners of their eye, hearing voices talking to the patient with no one else in room, etc. Well one night I was working the hall, and a call light came up...from the hospice room. I got down there and there was no pt in room so i turned off the call, checked the bathroom, and even checked with the nurses station to make sure there was no pt in the room. I went back to my work and ten minutes later call light ring outs..same room..the nurses at the station are now looking at each other saying "thats weird". I go back down there..nothing again. back to work. 15 minutes later call light again...this time i tromp down there determined to disconect the call light call. I entered the room just in time to hear a small childlike voice rasp "help me"..I froze, felt the hair go up on my neck..and slowly entered the room to turn off the call light....as I approached the bed I got one of those 6th sense feelings i wasnt alone which added to my imagination even more..I kept looking in the window to see if i could see anyone else in the reflection..I just knew I was gonna see someone behind me...no one. I let out a sigh..turned off the call light..turned to leave...and a hand reaches out from personal articles/extra linen closet and grabs my arm....I shrieked like a little girl (I was 30 yrs old and a 200+lb male)..one of the nurses had snuck down the hall and hid in the closet..the nurses at the call station had been setting off the call light from the desk..the voice asking for help was a nurse muffling her voice over the room intercom. I didnt speak to any of them for the last 4 hours of my shift but at least I "livened up" what normally was a long tedious shift. I was angry for 2 weeks..until we got a new tech..who asked me about the "death room" and did I ever see anything in there? Well I told him all the stories i had heard...and when he went down the hall to start his rounds.. The nurses grinned at me and said "wait until he is on the next hall before you get in the closet"
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