Celebrating Nurses’ Monumental Impact
There is a myriad of ways to participate in National Nurses Week, which is celebrated May 6-12, from honoring your staff RNs with a gift or event to taking steps to let...
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By: Paula Watkins
Published: 10/6/2015
Seasoned OR nurses say they've seen it all and there's nothing left to scare them. Well, I've been on the job a long time and I've seen plenty, but there are still a few things that can trigger my tachycardia.
HAUNTED HALLWAYS?
Spooky Hospital Enough to Make You Scream
An old hospital in Little Rock, Ark., where I'm from, was reportedly a hot spot for ghosts. It became a teaching facility when a replacement was built a few miles away. I went to nursing school there (so you know it was really old). We performed our clinical labs in what was once the ICU, and more than once noticed strange noises and rearranged, hidden or disappearing items.
One afternoon, while we were waiting for our instructor, some of us got to telling stories we'd heard about the hospital back when it was still in business, about the ghosts and spirits that even now wandered lost in the ICU where we waited. The instructor, who'd entered unnoticed and eagerly listened to one particular tale, stood quietly behind us for a full minute before speaking. That was the day that 20 nursing students were, just for a moment, Hollywood scream queens.
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