Just wondering if anyone has seen some patients near death/in the process of dying, have something supernatural happen. I can't say I've ever seen anything with the deaths I've seen, in fact generally it hasn't been very pleasant at all, but within the last year, some spooky things began to happen when a new nurse joined our team, and the school bought an run down old people's home and renovated it, to use as our new health center.
Two things happened recently; the first was on the night shift, when the clinic was empty, with my new colleague. She was just about to go to sleep, when there was a loud bang, and her bed shook violently. She was pretty freaked out, and refused to sleep there, and every night shift stayed up all night with the light on, reading or on her laptop - unless of course students are in for observation, whereupon she's busy.
The second thing happened soon after this first event, which we were both discussing one evening, was she got a phone call saying a friend had died in an accident. She was naturally upset, and we were discussing whether we thought there was more beyond this life, when the door between the offices swung closed and clicked shut. Sent a shiver down my spine, and hers too. It's an enclosed space, with no breezes. We were quite freaked out.
Anyway, we find in a cupboard in the bedroom some salt, incense, candle and big crystal rock, with a hole cut out to put the candle in, and talk about this with the other nurses, and one admits to being a 'spiritualist' and the noises in the night are nothing to worry about.
Anyway, the new nurse is quite upset, and we agree to get the local minister in to have a look around. He blesses the place, and since then nothing has happened.
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced anything.
Working night shift, it's easy to get spooked sometimes. My unit uses tracker devices, all RNs and CNAs wear them. Several nights one week about 6 extra unidentified "people" would appear on the tracker board, and would move from a specific room to the dirty utility, and up and down the "back" hall (unit is a big square with patient rooms on the outside, nurses' station and clean utility/offices in the core). Scared the CNA who had the back to death and she sat in the main station all night, scared to go back there. Can't say I blame her! I actually went and check the rooms sometimes to see if anybody was in there, and they were empty. The mysterious trackers would never go in rooms that were occupied. I've been away from my unit for about 10 months, kind of curious to see if these things are still occurring once I go back in a few weeks!
I work in a Peds CVICU, we had one patient about a year ago who was 23 y/o and post-op conduit replacement. For about 3 days she kept telling her nurses she saw the angel of death standing in the corner, she would even talk to him sometimes. Everyday she told us she was going to die but clinically she looked great! We chalked it up to ICU psychosis, but one night she coughed and her chest literally split open. Turned out there was an infection brewing that was slowly eating away at her new conduit and her sternum. When she coughed it split and she died pretty instantly. After that we had a string of patients who ended up dying in that one room... still creeps me out!
Yeah it was for her. We lived in a a haunted house for 14 years and she saw people all time. She slept in the family room because my Dad snores and the coach faced a tv cabinet with glass doors. One night she saw the reflection of a lady in black coming down the stairs. The next day we got word that my Dad's brother had died.
One night I woke up and heard a woman sobbing. I thought it was my Mom because it was coming from downstairs so I went to see what the problem was. She and the dog were both sound asleep. I was more perplexed than scared so the next morning I asked if anyone else had heard it. My Mom and Dad said no but my sister said she had but was too afraid to get out of bed to see what was going on. I only heard it that one time in the whole 14 years we lived there.
Someone died in the next house we lived in. One night I heard someone walk up the stairs. But that was about all the supernatural things that happened in it.
I was working as a CNA, and it was close to 11:30pm when I had to go empty my linen cart. We had this long hallway that my unit was connected to. I took the bin back there, through the double doors that require a code to get in. I'm looking at the bag and tying it, when I saw something out of the corner of my eye.
I turn to look and there is a woman standing there in a nightgown. I sighed, and wondered what hall she came from, and told her I would take her up front. I walk to the doors, put in my code, and turn around to encourage her.
We had a patient in a room on our unit who was doing fairy well. He he kept saying, "Bob Jones is asking me to take a walk with him." Bob Jones was a patient who had been in that room for a long time nearly a year prior and died in that room. Obviously that wasn't really his name, that's the annoynimized version. The name was less common. The wife kept asking us who Bob Jones was and the husband/patient swore he was in the room and why couldn't we see him? The best we could figure, these patients never met. Predictably, this patient suddenly died.
Have had some weird things happen right after my grandmother died( she lived with us). One of the ORs in a former hospital was wonky too. Lights would turn on and off by themselves. Could be a scientific explanation for that, who knows. I try to keep an open mind.
A few asked what the children down the hall were giggling about (no peds and no visitor kids).
Funny you should say this, I worked in a few LTC facilities where Residents would talk about seeing a little boy running around in a sailor suit. Every time someone mention seeing this little boy, someone would pass away a short time later. It was very creepy!!!
On a night shift a couple of months ago, I was looking out of the window into the car park of the hospital, and I saw a man stood there, in the middle of the car park, in WW2 army uniform. Was pretty spooky.
While working at a LTC facility on a night shift I was alone and charting and felt a presence and saw an apparition sitting beside be . It vas very calm , not frightening and I could make out a woman's hands folded on the desk beside me watching me chart. As I said, I felt no fear what so ever . Actually, it felt safe somehow . That's the way I would describe her presence. I found out the next day when I mentioned this to colleagues who had been there much longer than I that there was indeed a spirit but no one knew whom. Thinking in might have been a nurse. ???
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Working night shift, it's easy to get spooked sometimes. My unit uses tracker devices, all RNs and CNAs wear them. Several nights one week about 6 extra unidentified "people" would appear on the tracker board, and would move from a specific room to the dirty utility, and up and down the "back" hall (unit is a big square with patient rooms on the outside, nurses' station and clean utility/offices in the core). Scared the CNA who had the back to death and she sat in the main station all night, scared to go back there. Can't say I blame her! I actually went and check the rooms sometimes to see if anybody was in there, and they were empty. The mysterious trackers would never go in rooms that were occupied. I've been away from my unit for about 10 months, kind of curious to see if these things are still occurring once I go back in a few weeks!