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 Nurses who are mentally sicked.
no honking way!!!!!!!!

that is the second scariest one i have read!!!!!!!!!

oh! my god!!!

this is so spooky!!!

Specializes in Nurses who are mentally sicked.
I heard this story from a friend of mine, who is also a fellow nursing student but from another university. One night, while they were on a night shift, a 9-year-old female child unfortunately died in the Pedia Ward. My friend was the one assigned to perform post-mortem care to the said patient. So there he was, cleaning the patient's body and all. He placed a red bracelet in the patient's right hand, as it was the policy of the hospital to place a red tag on the right hand of all patients who are pronounced dead. After performing his tasks, he was on his way to the elevator when suddenly, the little girl came running after him! Terrified, he quickly pushed the close button so that the elevator would close right away and bring him to safety down to the lower floor.

While inside the elevator, an old woman in hospital gown asked him why he closed the elevator door right away when a child wanted to board in. Still overwhelmed with fear, he explained to the old lady "That was the child that I just performed post-mortem care a while ago. She is already dead. Did you saw the red tag on her right arm? That is the mark for all dead patients here in this hospital..." The old woman raised her right arm and replied... "Similar to this?"

My friend was found unconcious inside the elevator a few moments later. He never stepped inside the said hospital again. Ever.

This is so spooky!

Oh! My God!

Specializes in NICU.

I am a new graduate and I did some clinicals in a nursing home near the college... Well all the nurses at that nursing home told me the same story. They said that the night before each patient dies they complain of not being able to sleep. They all say "I can't sleep, that child won't stop crawling all over my television." Then at some point the next day, the patient will die.

Going back to the topic of a dying person choosing the time of his/her death or "holding on" for a certain time or event to pass or occur before passing, I'm convinced that this is possible.

My family held a 4-day vigil at his hospital bedside before my dad's death four years ago. My sister had promised him that she wouldn't leave him, and she didn't, even sleeping on the chair in his room (I preferred the bench in the waiting area). Thursday was a busy day of non-stop visitors, relatives, friends, who were aware they were saying good-bye. My dad was never conscious the entire hospitalization, and I'm sure he hated the attention, but I know that it was important support for my mom, who was still living in denial. Friday was quiet; just my mom, sister, and myself. No apparent change in my dad's condition; nothing to indicate imminent death, so my sister and I wandered down to the hospital cafeteria to grab a tray to bring back to the room, leaving my mom at the bedside briefly. Wouldn't you know that's when my dad chose to pass, alone in the room with my mom (which freaked her out, of course). I'm convinced he wanted privacy, to be as alone as possible, with just my mom there and not my sister and me present.

My dad did the same thing! Weird.

Chad - Where are you in KY?

Specializes in ER.

:uhoh21: :uhoh21: SPOOOOOKY!!!!!!!!!

you all have nothing to worry about, ghosts are entirely made up in the mind. think about it, it almost always happens at night or when you are by yourself, and it goes against every physics law we know. all the people who have seen ghosts, yet there is absolutley no proof, It makes for good entertainment though and i'm not trying to spoil that.... i love ghost stories myself, but some people are mentioning they are frightened while reading these posts, and there just isn't anything to worry about.

I have a few stories to tell. The most recent one that sticks out in my mind isn't really a ghost story, but I'll tell it anyway. Right before Thanksgiving about 2 in the morning I had a patient I thought was nearing the end. I work in an Oncology unit at a medium sized hospital. Her family had gone home for the night and left us phone numbers to call in case anything happened. They were all exhausted, some weren't here yet, some were staying over at her house. I thought she was unresponsive, as she hadn't been awake all evening. At about 4 in the morning she sat up in bed, fully awake and told me to call her kids. I did and they came in right away. After they all got there, she told us that two guys in blue suits had been standing at her bedside earlier. They asked her to go with them and she told them she wasn't ready, so they left. I didn't realize there was a choice. She went to hospice on Thanksgiving Day, checked herself the first of the year and is in assisted living right now. She is doing quite well for someone who wasn't supossed to make it. Now we tease each other about the guys in the blue suits when someone is dying. By the way she was on no pain meds and there were no men working that night.....

Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.
you all have nothing to worry about, ghosts are entirely made up in the mind. think about it, it almost always happens at night or when you are by yourself, and it goes against every physics law we know. all the people who have seen ghosts, yet there is absolutley no proof, It makes for good entertainment though and i'm not trying to spoil that.... i love ghost stories myself, but some people are mentioning they are frightened while reading these posts, and there just isn't anything to worry about.

:roll

Thank you for sharing your stories.

I tolded a love one they did not have to fight anymore. It was ok to let go.....

I left the room for a little while. And, she had passed.

Sometimes they just need to know it is ok.........to quit fighting with the pain.

Another nurse and I cared for a dying patient on the night shift. Throughout the night the person had periods of confusion, some related to the large amounts of medications we were giving for comfort. Around 6am the patient was very lucid and was able to name several members of her family who were in the room with her and who had already died. She was telling them she was going to join them soon and to wait for her. She died before we left at 7:30

Gramps

last night my mom was caring for an elderly man. he said he could see angels, and told my mom he could see her black dog sitting beside her. he did not know that we had a very cherished black dog (half black lab, half irish setter) that was with us for fifteen years, from the time i was in kindergarten until i was a sophmore in college. :rolleyes:

that was a special share.

did he say anything else?

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