Just a question for my colleages who've worked in this field a bit. I've had this happen to me a handful of times over many years when I worked as a PCN. I'll be sleeping soundly and just wake up and sit up "knowing' but not being able to tell anyone
how I know that a certain patient just died. It's almost like they swung by to say goodbye on their way home. The first time this happened, I sat up in bed and looked at my bedside clock. My husband, Joe, asked me if I was OK and I when I said, "I'm good....Ms. X just passed away" he just looked at me strangely and said, "I didn't hear the phone ring"? And I told him that no one called but I just
know. Ms. X just spiritually 'waved' to me on her way home. When the next morning, I told my husband that Ms. X did, in fact, pass around the time that I awoke, he looked at me with a bit of fear and said, "that is TOO weird...but a little wonderful too". The next several times, when I had a similar experience, he knows what it is when I wake up and look at the clock and will ask, "one of your patients just died, huh?" It hasn't happened to me since I've given up my PCN role (I work after hours and don't have my own patients).
Has anyone else ever had this happen? I feel so blessed and honored when it does.
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