Superstitious

[fcp4life]

I am fairly new to Nursing I'm a sophomore in a BSN program currently on winter break and spent most of my vacation working at an Acute Rehab Hospital in my town it's fairly new well brand new opened in 2014 it's all one floor rooms start at 101 but it goes from room 112 to room 114, do most hospitals skip room 13? I have heard of Hotels skipping an entire 13 floor

[FutureNurseInfo]

Haunted Hospital! Very thrilling!

[Rocknurse, MSN, APRN, NP]

Yes I've seen this often. In the hospital in which I trained we went from floor 12 to floor 14. There was a hidden floor between 5 and 6 that housed all the maintenance pipes etc which I thought was pretty cool, but floor 13 did not exist. We didn't have a room 13 either on any floor. It was also an unspoken rule back in the olden days that you shouldn't wear black scrubs in case a patient woke up in a drug-induced haze and thought you were the Grim Reaper. True story.

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

And let's not forget the very real and horrendous consequences of ever saying "it's a slow night"..... similar to theater folk talking about that Scottish play.

[brillohead, ADN, RN]

My hospital is built in "wings" with the single and teen room numbers in one wing, then the 20s and 30s in another wing, and the 40s and 50s in another wing. It's just a coincidence that the wing that would have room 13 only has eleven rooms in it, so I don't know how they would have handled it if there was cause for a room 13.

And our hospital isn't tall enough for a 13th floor.

[Pepper The Cat, BSN, RN]

We have room 13 on our units.

interestingly though, the city I live in is starting to skip using 4 in addresses of new subdivisions because the Chinese are superstitious about it and it was effecting housing prices.

[amoLucia]

I've seen the omission of 666 for room numbers. And that 2 digit number (ending in 9) also known as a particular sex act.

[Sour Lemon]

My hospital is built in "wings" with the single and teen room numbers in one wing, then the 20s and 30s in another wing, and the 40s and 50s in another wing. It's just a coincidence that the wing that would have room 13 only has eleven rooms in it, so I don't know how they would have handled it if there was cause for a room 13.

And our hospital isn't tall enough for a 13th floor.

I worked in a Chinese hospital and there was no fourth floor. It went straight from third to fifth. They also tried for quite a while to come up with a standard dress code, but had difficultly due to all the superstitions involving color.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

Local hospital does not have room numbers ending in '13'. My former PICU did have one but it was a crappy room we avoided using for anything but the occasional nap on the couch/ break.

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

No OR 13 (and we do have enough for there to be one), but all of our other units have a 13, including preop and PACU.

[Debilpn23]

A small nursing home I worked at in the 80's had no room 13 ,on either floor.

[TriciaJ, RN]

I've seen the omission of 666 for room numbers. And that 2 digit number (ending in 9) also known as a particular sex act.

I worked in a hospital where the room numbers ran from 1 to 66 on each floor. Then one day I was floated to the sixth floor and assigned room 667. I was a bit dumbfounded until someone clued me in that there isn't a 666. Probably helped that it was a Catholic hospital.