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...

We once had a patient on our unit who ended up passing away. A few hours later, we got a call for a baby being born who was prenatally diagnosed with a cardiac defect. His last name was the same as the baby who died's middle name. When we admitted him, we asked the father what his first name was, and it turned out that he also had the same first name as the other baby who had passed. When the doctors performed his echo, they found a completely different defect than he was prenatally diagnosed with, the same diagnosis as the other baby. After this, we moved him to another room because we were all so freaked out about it.

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We were with a 100 yr old woman when she died. The respers stopped and it took ten minutes for the heart to stop. She had lots of wrinkles that were soft and we could see her become younger and there was a rosy appearance in her cheeks. With the last beat gone you could see a mist raising upward to the ceiling. As it rose it disipated. The Black nurse's aide opened the window for the spirit to leave the room. Now when I have a death the window is then opened. There was 6 of us and we all thought we were crazy. We didn't talk for awhile.

The "Black" nurses aide?:confused: :confused:

I am not sure, but I think she was pointing out a culture difference between herself and and African American aide. If you see, she has found that to be an important enough thing to do that she does it now whenever anyone dies.

I think you are right. Kind of makes us Californians cringe, but I'm sure she meant no harm by it. As for opening the window to let the spirit out, I'm thinking that if a spirit leaves our body, it can find it's own way to "the other side".

:rolleyes:

Specializes in Transplant, homecare, hospice.

I can't think of any right now. I used to work hospice and saw some strange things there, but most recently (2 years ago..) I was working as a PCT on our sister unit and we (other staff) would have strange things happen...like the call bells going off and on in one room. The lights would flash off and on and the phone would ring. This only happened on a couple of nights and then it stopped completely. Never happened again. It was very odd. Spooked all of us.:chair:

Specializes in Transplant, homecare, hospice.
We had a patient, chronic CHFer, always on the call button, hated being on fluid restrictions. you know the type: the nurses have to take turns during the shift answering the call button so the primary can actually do other work.

And this was a frequent flier cause he was very chronic, very borderline, and the hospital was the only place he wouldn't fluid overload.

I work 7p-7a. He died about 8pm. Oh the look on his face, like, "how could you let me die!" - Like it was our fault.

Anyway, family came and gone by 9pm, funeral home gone at 930pm.

About 10pm, the call button starts going off. I was there - call button going off every 5 minutes.

One of the nurses was a very spiritual girl. At about 2am, after like 4 HOURS OF THIS, nurse Mary snaps, 'Enough!'

She walks down to the room, and, practically screams into the empty room, "Mr X, you have died. You can't be in here bothering us anymore. Move along. In the name of Jesus, I'm exorcising you from this plane of existence. Go to the light and be happy!"

And I kid you not, the call button stopped going off then and there.

~faith,

Timothy.

:chuckle OMG! LOL! That's a good one! :chair:

Specializes in Telemetry/Cardiac/Neuro.

Just last night, one of the secretaries called me over to look at the telemetry monitor for 6B. She was questioning the odd, faint pattern, when it occured to us that there wasn't a patient in either bed in room 6, & that the monotor had been cleaned & put away. Thinking the battery had been left in it, another nurse checked the monitor - no battery. About 5 of us watched for several minutes as the waves got more & more faint & then disappeared. There were no codes last night, so we're thinking it was just someone stopping by to say 'Hi'.

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