What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

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Members are sharing personal experiences and stories related to ghosts, spirits, and paranormal occurrences in healthcare settings. Some members discuss encounters with deceased loved ones or unexplained phenomena, while others share their interest in ghost stories and movies like "Doctor Sleep" and "The Shining." There is a mix of skepticism, curiosity, and belief in the supernatural among the forum participants.

Nursing is a profession that often involves long lonely night shifts in eerie hospital wards. It's a perfect breeding ground for ghost stories. These stories often involve sightings of apparitions, strange noises, and unexplained events that are said to have taken place in hospitals, hospices, and other healthcare settings. Some of these stories are believed to be based on true events, while others are purely fictional. Regardless, they continue to captivate and intrigue both nurses and non-nurses alike - providing a spooky glimpse into the world of healthcare after dark.

I know you have seen and heard freaky things. Share your nursing ghost stories...

Specializes in LTC, hospital, office.

I absolutely love all the stories. Ouija boards totally creep me out, have never touched one and never will!

Specializes in Breast Cancer, Arterial, General Surgery.

I want everyone to feel sorry for me :wink2:

I have no nursing ghost stories. All my colleagues have them, but not me - *sigh*

Specializes in telemetry, medsurg, homecare, psychiatry.

One night while working on a telemetry unit. We had noticed that one of our telemetry monitors began to spontaneously spit out strips of heart rhythm readings. The strange thing was,:eek: the actual telemetry device that attaches to a patient was sitting in the drawer with no batteries. It was the only one that correlated to the one on the monitor, and rhythm strips. It was the only one left without a patient hooked up to it. We never could figure out that mystery.

thank God it was a normal Sinus Rhythm:redbeathe

About a month after his death, I had a very vivid dream. On a bright, sunny day, with puffy white clouds in an azure sky, I find myself walking down a street. Obviously a new street, as only new construction is visible. Several houses are going up, with many busy workmen about, and I hear the sounds of their talking and hammering as they pound nails in the wall partitions going up. As I pass the first house, my brother jumps down from the open first floor where he is either working or supervising and steps out to greet me. He motions to the house and tells me that he is building this house and that, when it is finished, I will come and live with him there.

That's all I remember, but it is the ONLY dream I've ever had that I can remember for more than a day or two - and this is 33 years later (yep, I'm "mature"). I cannot share this with anyone, for it makes me cry to think of it, which it does now. A few years ago, I finally shared it with my sister, who says she has had the same dream. I am convinced (and comforted by the thought) that when it is my time to pass, my brother will be there to greet me.

Polly, your dream (all the more compelling that your sister had it as well) is actually in line with the Word of God ..... Jesus tells us that He has gone to prepare a place for us - and that there are 'many rooms/mansions' w/in His Father's house - and when it's finished, He will return for us.

What a blessing to be given that dream - such comfort!

Iam interested in any ideas on putting my career in medical field and experience with computers together as a new career start.Any thoughts or ideas besides billing?

How about working for medical software companies?

Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.
How about working for medical software companies?

Not to be too much of a beach:cool:, but could you guys take this outside, the OT discussion that is.

Gracey

Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.

We have an empty unit in our hospital currently. It still has supplies on it, so we go up there occasionally (actually daily) to snag some when we are out of something, especially on nights. One nurse went a-borrowing up there and saw a call-light on. :eek: It lit quite the fire under her tush, and she came right down again freaked out. I was tempted to go up there and cruise the halls but chickened out since no one wanted to accompany me. :no:

I was working in a nursing home that was having some "state" issues and one entire wing of the building was empty because we had temporarily lost Medicare patients. Anyway, we had to do rounds of every wing of the building every shift and I would not go to that wing alone because there was one room that the call light was always on. You could turn it off and get down the hall and it would come back on. It was so spooky!! When we got our accreditation back and got that wing filled with new patients, there was never a call light issue again.

My best ghost story doesn't involve a ghost but rather myself. I was working my usual wing on a graveyard shift. I was the only staff on the wing. I went to do rounds on a resident when i saw my own shadow on her door. My hart jumped about en feet in the air before i realized it was just my shadow.

Hello, I was working as a hospice nurse a few years back. I had a step mother that would not the dying patient see his daughters. He was unable to speak so could not make his need known. I ask the step mom to leave for a 2 hours so the daughters could say there goodbyes. She started yelling and cursing so much so I had security take her out of the buliding. While the daughters where there I was a the foot of the bed of the patient.With daughters at his bedside he passed away. This was in a closed room while I stood there I felt a strong breeze past my face and I had the most calming feeling. As if to say thank you. It is something I will never forget.:redbeathe

Specializes in GENERAL.

While working as a student nurse on a florence nightingale ward on night duty, I noticed the TV which was above the door beginning to flicker on and off, at first this startled me, but then I thought I would just go down and switch it off at the plug, I very bravely walked towards the TV in the darkness and reached down to the switch, only to find that it was never plugged in, I ran back to the nurses station NOT SO BRAVELY!!

I was working a night shift in a nursing home, there were 3 floors in the home, at 3.30am a call bell sounded, I made my way up in the lift and along the darkened corridor to the clients bedroom.

I asked him if he was OK, he asked me if I could go upstairs to the room directly above his and ask the gentleman who was walking back and forward for the past 20 minutes to get into bed,as the noise was keeping him awake.

I reassured him that I would do this, I left the room and ran down the corridor to the lift and quickly pushed the button to the ground floor.

The client that had rang the call bell was on the 3rd floor.:confused:

I love your stories.

And, look forward to more in 2009.

I think it is important to make the last moments as peaceful as possible.

Someday it will be our turn.....

Hugs to you all !:redpinkhe

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