Whats your scariest hospital experience?

wishiwereanurse, BSN, RN · Aug 9, 2008

man, that's sad :crying2: ...

Ok mine happened last year in a DR of a government hospital. I was the assist and my friend was the handle nsg student. So the woman just delivered a healthy baby, the nurse was doing the episiorraphy (because somehow the doctor didn't show up) with no anesthesia:eek:. So the woman was screaming in pain until it was done, and then the nurse dropped the suture needle in the pail full of blood :eek: , and THEN she made my friend find the needle in the bucket because she didnt want it to go down the drain :eek: ... I looked at the other nurse who was with us and our clinical instructor and my other classmate in charge of cord care, and I felt like I was the only one seeing red flags:eek:...My friend looked at me like he was embarrased to object..but I mean come on, it's blood and sharps :eek: ...

thank God my friend found the needle without getting injured. I talked to my CI about the incident and she just shushed me :eek: like it was no big deal..

this is my short :eek: horror story...I have more, but this one I can't forget ever...

awfullysweetgal · Aug 10, 2008

one night duty shift, I went on to pass some meds around 4am. One patient said to me "that's odd, someone already gave me the same meds that you are about to give". So I went out to the nurse's station and asked my fellow nurses if they have given this patient his due meds but they didnt. So I went back to my patient and told him to describe the nurse who gave him his meds. Soooo I was freaked out when he said "HE was tall, wears white uniform and he even explained the purpose of the said drug...." We were all FEMALE STAFF on duty that night (nurses,aide,janitors) Later we learned that the same ghost guy nurse (who was a hospital staff) keeps on appearing on his death anniversary and makes his rounds. AWOOOOO!!!! :eek: In fairness, he gave the right meds at the right time :)

elajsh · Aug 10, 2008

episiorraphy without anesthesia?shiz thats painful. But eww to actually dig in a bucket full of blood,sharps and including poo (most of the time) is awful and really scary - who knows the woman might have hepB or something

a ghost that actually pass meds, scary but cool. I bet the nurses in that floor dont pass meds anymore on his death anniv. they just let him do all the work, haha.

khirbz · Aug 11, 2008

I have one. I had this one experience one of my duty as an ICU nurse. It was the season for dengue and most of the patients are pedia patients. During those months we had few patients who died because of very low platelet counts. This one night, there was this boy who kept on saying that he is seeing a tall black man who had suitcase with him. He kept on repeating it until he sleeps again. Beside him is her mother who kept on telling him to stay away from that man and don't ever follow him. That gave me the creeps. Maybe this kid has a third eye. Truly this is one of my scariest experience.

mheyflower · Aug 12, 2008

This one was told by my boyfriend.lol

As he was giving meds the morning shift (on the pedia ward) the mother of the child told him how nice the night shift nurse was, hope he could pass the thanks for her. She told him "she" was there the whole night at the bedside taking care of her child, "She" was at the edge of the bed and even told the mother "You should take care of your child". My boyfriend got confused, it was a public hospital and no nurse would ever stay at the bedside and to consider they are using pedia size beds for a nurse to be staying at the edge of the bed. The mother told him she was so sure, she was a bit small, long hair and stuff. He just ignored the story and went on the nurse's station and told the other nurses what happened and he was told that the nurses from the night shift were all tall and short haired. Turns out the description was much like the old head nurse who died years ago! :devil: (I find this weird not scary lol but I pretended to be scared when he told me)

elajsh · Aug 12, 2008

tall black man is prolly the grim ripper, maybe. Ive read stories where patients actually see a ghost of a dead relative or a black man/ shadow before they die. Do you know if the little boy died?

Keep the scary stories coming guys :chair:

berryblush · Aug 12, 2008

man, that's sad ...
Ok mine happened last year in a DR of a government hospital. I was the assist and my friend was the handle nsg student. So the woman just delivered a healthy baby, the nurse was doing the episiorraphy (because somehow the doctor didn't show up) with no anesthesia:eek:. So the woman was screaming in pain until it was done, and then the nurse dropped the suture needle in the pail full of blood , and THEN she made my friend find the needle in the bucket because she didnt want it to go down the drain ... I looked at the other nurse who was with us and our clinical instructor and my other classmate in charge of cord care, and I felt like I was the only one seeing red flags:eek:...My friend looked at me like he was embarrased to object..but I mean come on, it's blood and sharps ...
thank God my friend found the needle without getting injured. I talked to my CI about the incident and she just shushed me like it was no big deal..
this is my short horror story...I have more, but this one I can't forget ever...

Hi! i like reading everyones posts and i just want to say something about what u posted. :) well, i am a clinical instructor and i'd say, don't be afraid to say "NO" especially if you think what u're about to do will harm you. And besides, only your CI can actually ask you to do something. If the staff ask you to do something, tell them politely, in a nice way, that you have to tell your CI first, and i assure u u're not being rude but just being careful. Don't do what you're not supposed to do. :) I myself was asked by an anesthesiologist during emergency (critical, actually) operation to hook the next IV fluid but i refused. I asked the circulating nurse to do it because it's not in my work description as a clinical instructor :)