What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

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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...

A while later she heard something and looked up, and in the glass of the room in front of her she saw the reflection of the body behind her, sitting up veeeeeeerrrry sloooooowwwlllly. Screamed bloody murder and ran out of the ICU before finding out it was the second transporter....they had decided to scare her!

That sounds great! Wonder if we could pull it off where I work....

i have a friend who doesn't believe in spirits/ghosts. she says that once you die, if you are intended for heaven you go straight there. she believes all spirits/shadows/ghosts are the devil. that he wants you on his side so bad that he will disguise himself as a grandson on a tricycle, a young girl, an infant, a beloved family member, etc.

i have always wondered...if you believe in angels and heavenly hosts, how can you not believe in ghosts? i am not arguing the point, just curious.

i have a friend who doesn't believe in spirits/ghosts. she says that once you die, if you are intended for heaven you go straight there. she believes all spirits/shadows/ghosts are the devil. that he wants you on his side so bad that he will disguise himself as a grandson on a tricycle, a young girl, an infant, a beloved family member, etc.

i have always wondered...if you believe in angels and heavenly hosts, how can you not believe in ghosts? i am not arguing the point, just curious.

people tend to fear anything they don't understand.

Every nurse has her own story to tell. Though others may try not to believe in ghost but in one way or the other they too have encountered some eeerrrie happenings during their tour of duty.

I too does not really believed in it. However, this experience is real. I am a Clinical Instructor and was on the night shift together with my students in LR/DR. The LR/DR is connected to the OR of the hospital. That time we don't have any patient and some of my students are staying in the labor room, while the others are with me in the delivery room together with 2 OB Resident physicians. The other staffs are in the operating room complex. When all of a sudden we heard somebody shout as if she is about to deliver a baby. The sound came from the area where the door is. Hearing it, all of us, including my students who were at the labor room, the staffs who were in the OR ran to the door. Thus, all of us from the three different areas of the OR-LR-DR complex ran to the door expecting to find a patient in a stretcher ready to deliver, but instead we found nothing. The door is tightly closed, not a single soul is present. Even those who are sleeping in the nurses' quarter woke up and also heard the shout.:uhoh21:

If you wanted some nursing ghost story, got several. These are personal experiences.

Several years back when I was just a senior student nurse and was assigned to the isolation room of the ICU to take care of a lone patient who was there for a long time. The patient is unconscious for several weeks. He was brought to the hospital by policemen not knowing his identity. He was found unconscious in a sidewalk. He was on a respirator via tracheostomy. The trache was not a finestrated trache. When all of a sudden, I heard somebody groan. At first I thought that it might just be a sound of the respirator or the monitor, and so I ignored it. Then after several minutes, there was another groan and this time its louder than the first one. So, I checked the monitor and the respiratory for any leaks. . . there was none. Every machine is intact and functioning well. My heart beats a little bit faster this time, however, still trying to keep a brave front, and so i tried to sing to calm myself down. Again for the third time, that groaning and moaning came back and this time, I could not fool myself. No one was in the room except the patient and myself and theres noway a patient in tracheostomy (with the kind of trache the patient had) could groan or moan. I did not think this time and I suddenly bolted out of the ICU door and founf myself in the corridor of the 2nd floor of the hospital in front of a surprised nursing supervisor who is about to visit me and see how I am doing. :idea:

This is not totally nursig related but there was hospice involved and is an amazing story of one's will to live and die.

Wanda is my best since 7th grade (24 years now). Her father had recently passed of lung cancer and shortly after her mother was dx with terminal liver cancer. Given 6 months to live, she should never have made it to Thanksgiving that year. Well, she wanted a granddaughter (wanda only had 2 sons) badly and a few months later on Thanksgiving, she said she was sticking around to see her granddaughter. Wanda had no idea she was even pregnant and on dec 6 of that year lost everything to house fire. Somehow all pics of parents had survived despite all else being lost (it was the only box to survive the fire). That weekend Wanda discovered she was indeed pregnant- HUGE surprise since they were not planning it and took precautions.

Her mom was deterioriating greatly but somehow managed to stay on and fight. Easter came early and we were literally at her mom's home on a death vigil thinking any time it would happen. Poor Wanda, who wanted her daughter to be born so badly KNEW that once she was here, that her mom would go and this tore her up so much! Well April 15 rolls around and Wanda goes into labor. Katrina was born and polaroids were taken and brought to her mom at home with hospice. Once her mom saw the pics she was finally at peace and expired very peacefully.

Wanda tells Kat (new 7) that the same angel that brought her here also brought her grandmother back to heaven.

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This is not totally nursig related but there was hospice involved and is an amazing story of one's will to live and die.

Wanda is my best since 7th grade (24 years now). Her father had recently passed of lung cancer and shortly after her mother was dx with terminal liver cancer. Given 6 months to live, she should never have made it to Thanksgiving that year. Well, she wanted a granddaughter (wanda only had 2 sons) badly and a few months later on Thanksgiving, she said she was sticking around to see her granddaughter. Wanda had no idea she was even pregnant and on dec 6 of that year lost everything to house fire. Somehow all pics of parents had survived despite all else being lost (it was the only box to survive the fire). That weekend Wanda discovered she was indeed pregnant- HUGE surprise since they were not planning it and took precautions.

Her mom was deterioriating greatly but somehow managed to stay on and fight. Easter came early and we were literally at her mom's home on a death vigil thinking any time it would happen. Poor Wanda, who wanted her daughter to be born so badly KNEW that once she was here, that her mom would go and this tore her up so much! Well April 15 rolls around and Wanda goes into labor. Katrina was born and polaroids were taken and brought to her mom at home with hospice. Once her mom saw the pics she was finally at peace and expired very peacefully.

Wanda tells Kat (new 7) that the same angel that brought her here also brought her grandmother back to heaven.

That is so sad.:crying2: I can't imagine having my dd's birthday on the anniversary of my mother's death. What a bittersweet day for your friend.

BTW, my dd's birthday is April 15th! She will be 7 this year:biggringi

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Here's mine.

I was working the Night shift in a very small hospital. The RNA (this was years ago, before they became RPNs) and I had just finished our 1:00 rounds and were doing our paperwork at the Nsg Station. We heard a loud scream that cut off short. We looked at each other and ran to the room where we heard the scream come from. A patient we had just turned, repostioned, etc was dead. She wasn't expected to die and was quite medically stable. She was a DNR so we did nothing, but that scream creeped us out for the rest of the shift.

All I can think of is that she didn't like who came for her!

This is not totally nursig related but there was hospice involved and is an amazing story of one's will to live and die.

Wanda is my best since 7th grade (24 years now). Her father had recently passed of lung cancer and shortly after her mother was dx with terminal liver cancer. Given 6 months to live, she should never have made it to Thanksgiving that year. Well, she wanted a granddaughter (wanda only had 2 sons) badly and a few months later on Thanksgiving, she said she was sticking around to see her granddaughter. Wanda had no idea she was even pregnant and on dec 6 of that year lost everything to house fire. Somehow all pics of parents had survived despite all else being lost (it was the only box to survive the fire). That weekend Wanda discovered she was indeed pregnant- HUGE surprise since they were not planning it and took precautions.

Her mom was deterioriating greatly but somehow managed to stay on and fight. Easter came early and we were literally at her mom's home on a death vigil thinking any time it would happen. Poor Wanda, who wanted her daughter to be born so badly KNEW that once she was here, that her mom would go and this tore her up so much! Well April 15 rolls around and Wanda goes into labor. Katrina was born and polaroids were taken and brought to her mom at home with hospice. Once her mom saw the pics she was finally at peace and expired very peacefully.

Wanda tells Kat (new 7) that the same angel that brought her here also brought her grandmother back to heaven.

That was really sad:crying2: but I guess she (grandmother) was happy that she has seen her little angel before she goes to heaven. She has this sense of fulfillment after seeing her granddaughter.:saint:

Ok you are all gonna say that I'm cruel as hell on this one and yea I guess I was. We had this one LPN that was scared of her own shadow but was constantly trying to scare us. The nursing home I worked in on 11-7 I was the nursing supervisor. (I still work there but now Restorative nurse) This home is infamous for being haunted even though it was a new building compared to the old home that a lot of the residents came from. (It had been the county poor house, infirmary, lunatic assylum etc since 1845) Well apparently they brought a few of their "old friends" with them when they came cause believe me there is wierd stuff happening there all the time.

Anyway, as the supervisor you had to go to the basement and check all the doors and make sure they were locked twice a night. Well it was Halloween time and they had an old casket down there for the haunted house they put on for the residents and families. Well I told one of the other nurses about it and she insisted we go down to see it. (I could already see the cogs turning lol) So I took her down and we pulled it down the hall so that it was right in front of the elevator. We got one of the aides to comes down and lay in the coffin and I went up and told this nurse that I had to go to the basement for supplies. (she should have known something was up cause I was the only one that would ever go down there alone). Well it was harder than hell to keep a straight face all the way. When the elevator doors opened, the aide pushed the lid of the coffin open and slowly sat up. I thought that nurse was going to go throught the back of the elevator and they could hear her scream clear upstairs. LOL. Needless to say she never tried to scare anyone else again. But me on the other hand, I'm bad it's just not so easy to do it when I work day shift now. HEHEHE

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:roll :yelclap: Ha ha ha that was neat, Rosie! We also do a lot of that jokes here. . . you're not cruel, you just wanted to have some fun in the right time!!!!!!. . . .

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