Ever get spooked on night shift?

[CloudySue]

Ugh, I do overnight duty, and I sometimes get so spooked around here! I spend the first two hours monitoring my ct. from the kitchen via baby monitor, before turning her and putting on the bipap (she gets weighted as part of her PT for the first two hours w/o bipap, so I don't have to be in there personally.) This house is huge, modern, with all hardwood floors. There are large windows without coverings everywhere, so it would be easy for people to peek in. This house has been making loud settling noises with the changing of the seasons, and sometimes it sounds like tables are slamming in the next room! I'm assuming the floor planks are doing that. I'm no believer in the supernatural, but sometimes it sure is creepy in the wee hours of the night!

[LadyinScrubs, ASN, RN]

I was on a case of a child with a very severe birth defect. When he was young, it was touch and go, and he had several reconstructive surgeries. His mother mentioned that she observed her son looking up at the corner and the child was smiling and laughing. By now, he had the rudimentary hand signs to communicate. Finally, mom asked him what he was looking at. He signed, "the angel." The child was too young to watch TV or otherwise be contaminated with info about the paranormal. Makes you think.....

[Adele_Michal7, ASN, RN]

I just started working noc about 3 weeks ago and its hard but whats creepy is my client father, who comes into the room at the wee wee hours and stands there without me even notice or hear him come in. i asked him not to do that because he startles me every time. it is creepy to me.[/quote']

That would scare the ever loving truck out of me.

When he continued to do this after you asked him to stop, that would have been the cue to find another case. He is trying to catch you sleeping so he can fire you from the case, or he is trying to catch you doing something else so he can fire you from the case, or he is just flat out some kind of sicko looking for a way to rock your world. My advice is to leave that case and be very clear to the agency why, in writing.

I agree!